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Category Archives: Resistance
The Impossibility of Universalism
Reverend Karen G. Johnston The Unitarian Society East Brunswick, NJ September 27, 2020 While Buddhism asserts that we all have Buddhanature – that at our core can be found a golden goodness – the roots of Unitarianism or Universalism does … 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
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Tagged climate collapse, climate strike, Extinction Rebellion, Jem Bendell, XR
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No Hell Below Us: A Sermon for John Murray Day 2018 (sermon)
The Unitarian Society East Brunswick September 30, 2018 (This sermon was preceded by the poem, Monet Refuses the Operation.) Are there Star Wars fans in the house? Can I get a sense with a show of hands: … 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
Rise Up: Reflections on Patriotism (sermon)
I am the A-L-E-X-A-N-D-E-R we are meant to be A colony that runs independently Meanwhile, Britain keeps shittin’ on us endlessly Essentially, they tax us relentlessly Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree He ain’t ever gonna set … Continue reading
Here We Are, All in One Place (sermon)
New Member Sunday The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ Not long after the presidential election, Yale history professor Timothy Snyder published an article that has been republished all over the internet and was turned into a little book. This little … Continue reading
What’s Going On?: Message for the White Supremacy Teach In (sermon)
May 14, 2017 The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ Time For All Ages story: Message An uncomfortable journey. We have been asked to take one: talking and listening about something that is abhorrent, something that lingers, something that has … Continue reading
A Compass, Not a Map (sermon)
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ March 19, 2017 A compass, rather than a map. Last week I told you that I have been reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Its subtitle is “Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, … Continue reading
be * LOVE * d (sermon)
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ February 5, 2017 (written text does not match delivered sermon exactly) Our Time For All Ages story: click here. Our reading: click here. We all want to be loved. We — likely all people … Continue reading