The US book launch for The Political Theologies of Populism: the Garveyites, the Klan, and the Wobblies, 1905-1930 is today at 7:00 p.m. The Rothko Chapel is hosting it and I will be in conversation with the Rothko’s President Imam Abdullah Antepli. If you are in Houston there are still some tickets available so I hope you will consider attending. The Rothko event starts off a...
The text of my homily for the 2026 flower communion of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston.
The next in my series on the forms of populism I discuss in The Political Theologies of Populism.
The second of my series of posts about the nature and kinds of populism.
as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, May 17, 2026 This sermon is structured a bit different than most of mine. It is split in two parts. In between them we placed a reading, a hymn, and a guided meditation. I’ve put the second reading in today’s post. If you can find the first reading, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Brahma,” here. First Reflection A couple of weeks ago...
My Spanish language homily for Mother's Day.
The first in a series of reflection about the nature of populism.
Some reflections on how resistance to the current government of the United States might be more effective.
Information about my calendar while I am in England.
Trump congratulates Pope Leo XVI after he is named first American pontiff. 5/8/25 (Image via Fox News created using Getty Images) The feud between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV has been the subject of a fair amount of commentary. Some of the President’s allies have warned the Pope not to talk about theology or claimed that he doesn’t understand the Bible. Critics of the...