Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The Spirituality of Star Trek

Aug 11, 2024

Interdependent Web of All Existence, Love and Justice, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Social Events, Unitarian Universalism

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., filk song, Gene Roddenberry, Humanism, NASA, spiritual intelligence, Stacey Abrams, Star Trek, Thomas Wentworth Higginson

A sermon on Star Trek perhaps ought to begin with these fictional characters: But not this sermon. This sermon begins with this real life person: Thomas Wentworth Higginson: 19th century soldier, politician, abolitionist, author, mentor to poet Emily Dickinson, and Unitarian minister. Listen to something he once said about the human spirit: “Our true religious…
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…