In this sermon on the dissenting tradition I reflect upon lessons from Václav Havel's text The Power of the Powerless and the importance of the free pulpit.
Paradise Lost: Religious Dissent in Times of Defeat
The November installment of the series "A Dissenting Tradition" focuses on how we might continue to dissent when the politics of cruelty are ascendent.
Is there no Holy Land?
A sermon reflecting on the two year anniversary of the conflict in Gaza.
Widening Love’s Circle: Spirit Vision 2050
The sermon I preached before the members of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston voted to call me with a 97% yes vote.
The Dawn of Everything
The second sermon in the series "Future Visions, Future Selves" explores relationship between religious freedom and Unitarian Universalism.
I Ask No Monument: The Legacy of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Santa Barbara)
A sermon calling for a reimagining of the Unitarian Universalist canon.
Divine Pathos: Abraham Joshua Heschel
The second sermon in the series "Lives of the Spirit" focuses on the life and teaching of Abraham Joshua Heschel.
Lives of the Spirit
The first sermon in the 11 part series, lives of the spirit.
How to form a Labor Union
A Labor Sunday sermon devoted to that ever important subject, "how to form a labor union."
Being, Becoming
A sermon on the tension between Unitarian and Universalist visions of salvation.