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Category Archives: Unitarian Universalism
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
A Lamentation for Violence (in Two Voices)
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
Posted in grief, Prayers, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged ritual, Tree of Life synagogue, violence
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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
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
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
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