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Category Archives: Sermons
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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On Not Waiting to Be the Hummingbird (redux)
The Life and Death of Lee Hawkins First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque July 14, 2019 A quarter century ago, I asked the coordinator of my grandmother’s hospice care, how my grandmother was doing – not medically, but spiritually. She said … Continue reading
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
I Want You to Panic: An Earth Day Sermon
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
Posted in Earth, grief, Sermons
Tagged climate change, climate constriction, climate strike, Greta Thunberg, islands of sanity, sermon
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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
Failure is Our Only Option (sermon)
The Unitarian Society East Brunswick, NJ March 11, 2018 In the 1960s, the Unilever corporation, in their quest to make and sell laundry detergent, encountered a problem. Now, remember, this is more than fifty years ago, so the ubiquitous form … Continue reading
Torda 450: Our Roots in Unexpected Ground (sermon)
The Unitarian Society East Brunswick, NJ February 4, 2018 It is essential to read between the lines. I had already learned this, but when I was in seminary, I had the chance to learn it again. For instance, in Christian … Continue reading
Posted in Interfaith, Sermons, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged Edict of Torda, Francis David, interfaith, Islamophobia, Ottoman Empire, Susan Ritchie, Torda450
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