My 2026 Easter sermon.
Charles Sumner: The True Greatness of the Nation
A sermon honoring the legacy of the great Unitarian, abolitionist, and Senator Charles Sumner and the recent martyr to human rights, Renee Nicole Good.
Paradise, Now or in the Next World
The third sermon on the dissenting tradition focuses on dissenting from the politics of cruelty.
Being, Becoming
A sermon on the tension between Unitarian and Universalist visions of salvation.
Suffering for Blasphemous Libel
A sermon on the significance of the Rev. Robert Wedderburn, the first Unitarian minister of African descent.
Ordinary/Extraordinary; an ordination sermon for J Sylvan
as preached February 26, 2023 at Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church, Houston, Texas There is much in the ordinary life of a religious professional that more secular people find extraordinary. A friend recently reminded of this over dinner. A word about my friend, he is a well-known writer and war correspondent. Most of us would probably describe his life as extraordinary. He has reported from...
Books read in 2022
A list of the books I read in 2022.