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Category Archives: Sermons
There Are More of Us Than There Are of Them (sermon)
There are more of us than there are of them. There are more of us walking with the wind. In November 2019, I raised to you these prayerful words from Sikh community activitist and author, Valerie Kaur What if this … Continue reading
We’ll Muddle Through Somehow: Christmas 2020 (sermon)
December 24, 2020 The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ Timothy Egan published an opinion piece in the New York Times a week ago, comparing the next three pandemic months to the 1805 winter that Lewis and Clark, and their crew, … Continue reading
Keep Going On (sermon)
Thanksgiving is not as we imagined or hoped it would be. This will likely be true for Christmas and New Year’s. So much loss, sacrifice, change. And still, we keep going on. Some of us have lost loved ones – … Continue reading
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Tagged Bengsons, Keep Going Song, Megan Visser, pandemic fatigue, UU Somatics
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Choose Democracy
November 1, 2020 The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ Reverend Karen G Johnston Choose democracy. That’s the title of this service. I want to be clear from the outset, I am not advocating a particular vote for a particular candidate. … Continue reading
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
Beyond the Apocalypse: Cultivating Eco-Resilience (sermon)
February 23, 2020 The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ Reverend Karen G. Johnston “…we are, indeed, facing the end of the world. Not the literal end of civilization or the human species, but a transition so profound that on the … Continue reading
Mission: POSSIBLE (sermon)
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ January 26 2020 To not let go of the thread, we have to find the thread, know the feel of the thread, make it ours, and hold it in our fingers. That thread – … Continue reading
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Tagged mission, missional statement, Unitarian Universalism
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Growing Equanimity: Via Rumi’s Guest House (sermon)
Do you know that old, and perhaps tired, and perhaps true, cartoon about Unitarian Universalists? There are two doors. Each has a sign over it. The first door says, “Heaven.” No one is going through that door. The second door … Continue reading
Awestruck (sermon)
It is said that in each of his pockets, Rabbi Simcha Bunim carried a slip of paper. On one was written: f or my sake the world was created… How awesome is that?!? On the other was written: I am … Continue reading
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Tagged art, awe, awe-filled, awe-ism, awful, creation, Joy Harjo, Lawrence Kushner, mandala, Melanie Rudd, Phil Zuckerman
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