The jargon of business has its way of making it into religious life. The buzz words of corporate America are sometimes found in sermons, meetings and coffee hour conversations. However,…
In the Southern United States in the buckle of the Bible Belt we hear a lot of hellfire and damnation sermons about sin and the sinners who commit them. However,…
During military conflicts armies employ saboteurs to do damage to the other side. So what do we do during peacetime when the main saboteur in our lives is ourselves? This…
A fellow minister recently said to me, “Love is a trigger word in my congregation.” Apparently there had been some reactivity to the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Article II Commission inviting…
This Sunday we will be celebrating our congregation’s birthday by listening to stories of people who grew up in our church. We will hear from Kate Benson, Ted Jones, Lauren…
Recently our minister was one of only three men in a room full of women for a workshop on “Reclaiming the Divine Feminine” held at our church led by the…
Alex Haley used to live by the maxim “Find the good and praise it.” However, there is a theme among the mystics of a variety of faiths that suggests we…
The Zen tradition teaches that we must look at life through a beginner's mind. Both Jesus and Sri Ramakrishna urged us to become like little children. At the beginning of…
As we reach the end of one year and the beginning of another, let us be like Janus, the Roman god for whom January was named. Janus was depicted looking…
This Christmas Eve we will celebrate a traditional Lessons and Carols service (with some non-traditional and distinctly Unitarian Universalist elements.) There will be a Story for All Ages, readings from…