Voice Still and Small (09/28/08)
This summer, I met with a group of First Parish women to teach them a Quaker process called...
On Liberals and Labels(09/21/08)
Danish philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard observed, “Once you label me, you negate me.”...
Commentary on the Sermon "On Liberals and Labels" (09/21/08)
Commentary on the Sermon "On Liberals and Labels"
For the Eaarth Forever Turning(04/22/12)
Environmentalist Bill McKibbon's latest book, Eaarth, suggests that our planet has changed so...
How do we want to be known? What commitments do we need to make individually and institutionally...
Old Man Joseph: In Praise of Co-Stars(12/11/11)
Joseph of Nazareth is definitely a supporting player in the story of Jesus’ birth, but a...
The Peace That Passeth Understanding: The Joys and Consequences of Living With Integrity (03/06/11)
The religious search is a search for integrity. It is a search for that peace which the world can...
A Distortion of Desire: On Envy (02/28/10)
In her second sermon in the Seven Deadly Sins series, our minister looks at perhaps the most...
And Pride Can Also Cometh After a Fall (02/21/10)
In the first of a series on contemporary takes on the Seven Deadly Sins, we look at pride, the...
Faithful Friends: Founders Sunday (02/07/10)
On the anniversary of the founding of our congregation in 1642, we reflect on spiritual...
Commentary on the Sermon: Faithful Friends: Founders Sunday (02/07/10)
Commentary on the Sermon: Faithful Friends: Founders Sunday
On this All Soul’s Sunday we will share thoughts about what it means to say that final goodbye,...
Shift Happens: On Metanoia (10/19/08)
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. We’ll...
The Election Sermon: What Leads Us? (10/26/08)
It has been a tradition for centuries for New England preachers to give a sermon on the pertinent...
What's the Sense of Humor: The Power of Irreverent Reverence (10/05/08)
The death of comics George Carlin and Bernie Mac this summer deprived us of great irreverent...
The heart and soul of ministry is presence, or is it? Self importance is an illusion and it traps...
The Free, Responsible (and Sometimes Shocking) Search For Truth and Meaning(12/02/07)
Our fourth Unitarian Universalist Principle offers us total freedom to pursue the quest for truth...
Justice, Equity and Compassion in Human Relations (11/11/07)
In the context of Veterans Day, we will look at our second Unitarian Universalist Principle, "we...
Sacred Work: On the Slow, Hard Turning (9/23/07)
Yom Kippur, the high holy day of the Jewish year, invites the faithful to tshuvah, turning the...
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