December 2019

Dear Mary: A Letter to the Mother of Jesus

Dec 22, 2019

Holidays and Holy Days, Sermon, Spiritual Biography, Unitarian Universalism, World Religions

Ayat Allah, broken dreams, Fatima, Mary, miracles, Water into wine

One of the best-known images of this season is that of the Manger. The figures tell the story of a mythic scene from 2000 years ago, and they are perfectly silent. A wall of silence separates THEN from NOW. But what if we could break the wall? That’s what I will do now. Here is…
Live to the Point of Tears

Dec 1, 2019

Beloved Community, Holidays and Holy Days, Love and Justice, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, World Religions

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., emotional crying, memorial services, Michael Trimble, Second Advent

Are there tears in your eyes? What we all just saw was Dr. King preaching his very last sermon. We all heard him say he wasn’t afraid of any man and that he had been to the mountaintop. We also saw his eyes and how he was tired. The death threats over all the years…