Category Archives: grief

I Want You to Panic: An Earth Day Sermon

Posted on April 22, 2019 by KGJ

When it comes to climate change, climate changeD, climate chaos, climate constriction, climate collapse…whatever you call it — preaching hope is not a straight-forward thing. Continue reading →

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A Lamentation for Violence (in Two Voices)

Posted on October 29, 2018 by KGJ

October 28, 2018 Spirit of Life and Love, Possibility of Mercy and Peace, Impulse towards Compassion, Yearning for Comfort in times of Fear, our hearts echo these words from the poet Warsan Shire: We lament the very fact of this … Continue reading →

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#metoo prayer ritual

Posted on November 5, 2017 by KGJ

The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ Remembering to breathe and to breathe deeply and then once more, to take the breath in and let the breath out, we pause, poised as we are, at a point of risking, at a … Continue reading →

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And the Welcome Will Be Wide: It’s Not About the Bathrooms (sermon)

Posted on June 11, 2017 by KGJ

The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, New Jersey And the table will be wide. And the welcome will be wide. And the arms will open wide to gather us in. We are fortunate that here in New Jersey: more protections for the rights … Continue reading →

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Made for These Times (sermon)

Posted on September 18, 2016 by KGJ

The Unitarian Society, A Unitarian Universalist Congregation East Brunswick, NJ Audio version here. Not that long ago, a journalist suggested a parlor game to a group of historians. It was mid-summer: after the massacre in Orlando, after the attacks in … Continue reading →

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Fear of Fueling Islamophobia: A Few Days Out From the Orlando

Posted on June 15, 2016 by KGJ

My grief — at the Orlando massacre and the barely imaginable loss of life, and its intentional targeting of the gay community — is not separate from my fear. I fear that in the aftermath of this intentional act of … Continue reading →

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Weeping & Walking & Welcoming My Inner Turtle

Posted on June 15, 2016 by KGJ

At dusk, an unscheduled detour and stop at the Peace Pagoda in Leverett, a place of calm for a very long time in my life. It is up a steep trail in a clearing in the woods on a hillside. … Continue reading →

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A Prayer for Those Lost in the Orlando Massacre

Posted on June 14, 2016 by KGJ

June 14, 2016 Shriver Job Corps Devens, Massachusetts I am sad. I am mad. I am afraid. These small words keep repeating in my head and heart. We are here to give voice to our grief because of the lives … Continue reading →

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When the World Is Sick: Grief at the Pulse

Posted on June 14, 2016 by KGJ

I mourn these beautiful dead. In my head and out loud, I cannot stop singing this song, with my voice much louder on for the second line. When the world is sick, can’t no one be well But I dreamt … Continue reading →

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