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Category Archives: Justice
Widening the Circle of Concern
Reverend Karen G. Johnston October 4, 2020 The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, New Jersey What is at stake is nothing less than our future. So says Widening the Circle of Concern, the highly anticipated report from the UUA’s Commission on … Continue reading
Healing the Heart of Democracy (sermon)
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick November 10, 2019 What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb, but the darkness of the womb? What if our America is not dead but a country still waiting to be born? … Continue reading
Race & Power: Then & Now (sermon)
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ October 27, 2019 Fisticuffs.[i] Violent shoving. Spitting in the face. Name calling. In June, I preached on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, what is commonly understood as the start of the gay … Continue reading
This is Not a Drill: A Global Call to Strike for the Climate (sermon)
September 15, 2019 The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ Reverend Karen G. Johnston We refuse to bequeath a dying planet to future generations by failing to act now. We act in peace, with ferocious love of these lands in our … Continue reading
Posted in Earth, Justice, Resistance, Sermons, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged climate collapse, climate strike, Extinction Rebellion, Jem Bendell, XR
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All Good Intentions: A Sermon on White Fragility
The Unitarian Society East Brunswick, NJ May 5, 2019 Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout is the Director of Music and Worship at the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor. A Black, gay man, he wrote, not all that long ago, … Continue reading
Little People Living Love Out Loud (sermon)
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick Reverend Karen G. Johnston Our reading: The sermon: Little people living love out loud. That’s what Kid President told us is ours to do. That’s what the Lost Souls Public Memorial Project is … Continue reading
Seeking Safety in an Unsafe World (sermon)
October 28, 2018 The Unitarian Society East Brunswick, NJ Here is what I have been learning as we face the new normal of increased violence in our midst. First: Of the emergencies that happen at houses of worship – … Continue reading
What We Lost Fifty Years Ago: Dr. King (sermon)
(A heads up: last Sunday, when I was not here, I was actually attending the 9am service at First Baptist of Lincoln Gardens, in Somerset. If you are not familiar with First Baptist, it is a Black Baptist church with … Continue reading
Four Essential Things
The Unitarian Society East Brunswick, NJ January 7, 2018 READING: God Gave Me a Word by Amy Petrie Shaw A grandmother — who was not only the end of all arguments in his large extended family, but often the start … Continue reading
Be Not Afraid: The Message of the Angels (sermon)
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ Long ago, in a Galilee far, far away…[nah, just kidding…] (the actual sermon…) With the story of the birth of baby Jesus, numerous angels make an appearance. An angel informs Mary she will … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged An Angel Like Me, angels, be not afraid, centering blackness, Christmas story, Mary Hoffman, messengers, POC, racism
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