Unitarian Universalism
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PART 1 When I am frightened, will you reassure me? When I’m uncertain, will you hold my hand? Will you be strong for me, sing to me quietly? Will you share some of your stories with me? Because: When a parent or spouse or partner is soon to die, or has died…. When it…
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Dear Robert Fulghum, You don’t know me, but I’m a big fan. You’re a Unitarian Universalist minister, like me, and years ago I had the chance to meet you at one of the annual business meetings of our Association, held in June. I was walking down a wide hallway, and the crowd I was in…
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I bring you greetings from this church’s partner in America, West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in Cleveland, Ohio. All the love of West Shore, all its prayers, all its congratulations and blessings on this joyous occasion which I am capable of conveying, I convey with all my heart. And, in these next few moments, I…
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The End of Roe vs. Wade?
This was not the sermon I had planned to preach this Sunday. This is a sermon I had hoped to never preach. But here we are. Yet another shellshocking moment in our time of explosions: The COVID-19 pandemic, the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and more. And now…
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Egy Az Isten
Late last July and early August, I had the great honor of bringing greetings from West Shore to our partner church in the little village of Bagyon, in the Transylvania region of Romania. The minister there, Rev. Bela Fekete, invited me to lead a Sunday service. Since the Unitarianism there is primarily Christian Unitarianism, my…
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Journey Towards Wholeness: Exploring the 8th Principle
If you’ve been following our “Reading the Bible Again for the First Time” sermon series this year, you know that we’ve spent significant time with the story of the ancient Israelites and how they became enslaved in the land of Egypt. Through God’s might, and with the leadership of Moses, they escaped and, after 40…
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On this Easter Sunday, our year-long journey through the world’s great religious traditions, appropriately enough, stops at Christianity. But it would be an important stop for us at any time of the year, since Christianity is our direct spiritual ancestor; its very specific spiritual DNA is ours. Judaism is our grandparent tradition, and we have…
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March 28, 2021 Dear Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I wear this lace jabot in honor of you this morning, as I pen these words to your spirit which I heartily believe continues on, even as your body has ceased functioning. For 87 years, it was your dwelling place and focus for all your energies. Until the…
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The Story of Unitarian Universalist Faith
You know how it is when you’ve taken a thing for granted, and then something shifts and all of a sudden you’re seeing it as if for the first time? That happened for me not too long ago, with something that is printed in every one of our church hymnals, right at the beginning and…
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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…
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