August 2020

Because Somebody Loved Me

Aug 23, 2020

Beloved Community, Love and Justice, Sermon, Social Events, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism

activism, Cornel West, giving grace, Michelle Obama, Rosa Parks, Unitarian Universalism

Fifteen years ago, I opened up my newspaper to read that the great civil rights hero Rosa Parks had died. “Until December 1955,” went the tribute in that newspaper, “a soft-spoken department store seamstress could not have imagined being placed at the forefront of any movement. Rosa Parks, who died Monday at age 92, was…
The Eclectic Church of the Future

Aug 16, 2020

Beloved Community, Sermon, Social Events, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, World Religions

cultural misappropriation, Henry David Thoreau, Heresy, Joseph Priestley, Spiritual eclecticism, spiritual fusion, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Unitarianism, Universalism

We begin today at the very beginning of our Unitarian Universalist faith, 2000 years ago, with certain Jesus-followers who did not believe Jesus was equal to God. Jesus was very special in some sense, but not equal to God. Call these Jesus followers Unitarians. There were also those who did not believe that God would…