holier-than-thou

Calling All Braver Angels

Sep 7, 2025

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

authoritarianism, echo chamber, grace, holier-than-thou, hypocrisy, illiberalism, lgbtq, liberalism, maximalism, politics, Sarah McBride, social media, the multiracial right, trans, trans rights, transgender

Braver Angels is leading the nation’s largest cross-partisan, volunteer-led movement to bridge the partisan divide and strengthen our democratic republic. See https://braverangels.org/. Today’s message was shared with West Shore congregant Joan Clark, who spoke about this organization and our critical need today to have constructive congregations across our social and political differences and disagreements. The…
What to Do With Our Fears

Dec 1, 2024

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

2024 presidential election, 23rd Psalm, Anne Lamott, Donald Trump, fear, holier-than-thou, Kamala Harris, marital mortal combat, politics in the church, psalm-23, psalms, the economy, W. Phillip Keller

How many of you can relate to Anne Lamott when she says that she is “a jello mold of uncertainty right now, with horrible shredded carrots in it”? (She posted this to Facebook the day after the 2024 presidential election.) I was that way, honestly, a month before the election. One morning while journaling I…