George Floyd

Reflections on the Recent Gun Violence

May 26, 2022

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

American Dream, Buffalo, George Floyd, gun safety, gun violence, Heather Cox Richardson, helplessness, Perfectionism, Protestant Work Ethic, Second Amendment, Uvalde

We gather together today as the song says: as a gentle, angry people. As people in grief. As people perhaps in despair. Because there are so many issues at play. So many. As Unitarian Universalist Association President Susan Frederick-Gray says, there are “all the many layers of devastating grief and anger that are present, that…
The Fire This Time

Jun 14, 2020

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

Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, George Floyd, James Baldwin, Mitch Landrieu, Police Violence, Race, Racial Justice

I’m reading James Baldwin these days. James Baldwin was an essayist, playwright, novelist and a voice of the American civil rights movement known for works including Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, and The Fire Next Time. Let’s spend a moment with that last work—The Fire Next Time. It was published in…
The Bigger the Break, the Bigger the Opening

May 31, 2020

Beloved Community, Love and Justice, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Social Events, Stewardship

Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, George Floyd, Intercultural Development Continuum, Jeremy Dowsett, racism, riots, whiteness

We are seeing things break in the horrific death of George Floyd from police violence and the sick way this same sort of thing keeps on happening over and over again in America. We are seeing the break in the protest fires of Minneapolis and smashed windows of Atlanta and the torched police cruisers of…

George Floyd

Reflections on the Recent Gun Violence

The Fire This Time

The Bigger the Break, the Bigger the Opening