William Ellery Channing

Voice Still and Small Within: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and the Work of Unfolding the Soul (Transcendentalism, Part 3)

Nov 16, 2025

Aging and Staging, Beloved Community, Sermon, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, Wellness

Amos Bronson Alcott, egotheism, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Jones Very, kindergarten, philosophy, self-culture, Transcendentalism, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarian Universalist history, William Ellery Channing

How many of you went to kindergarten? How many of you have children or grandchildren who go now? Part of the story of my life is that I never went. I started Grade 1 when I was midway between four and five years old. Kindergarten to my parents seemed a distraction from the journey of…
What the Bible REALLY Says About Homosexuality

Jun 4, 2023

Beloved Community, Love and Justice, Sermon, Unitarian Universalism, Wellness, World Religions

Brian Murphy, Clobber passages, Daniel Halminiak, David and Jonathan, homophobia, homosexuality, Ruth and Naomi, The centurion and his lover, William Ellery Channing

For each child that’s born,a morning star rises andsings to the universewho we are. We are our grandmothers’ prayersand we are our grandfathers’ dreamings,we are the breath of our ancestors,we are the spirit of God. That’s a song we Unitarian Universalists sing, and it reminds us about who we are fundamentally, down deep, at the…