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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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On the 150th Anniversary of Juneteenth: In the Shadow of Mother Emmanuel AME
Today marks the 150th anniversary of Junteenth – 150 years ago, and two and a half years after it should have – word of the Emancipation Proclamation made it to the enslaved African and African Americans of Texas. Reaction included … Continue reading
Mother's Day Proclamation in the Shadow of #BaltimoreUprising
Mother’s Day is upon us. In Unitarian Universalist congregations, Mother’s Day is often spent invoking the words of Unitarian Julia Ward Howe and her Mother’s Day Proclamation. She wrote it in 1870 as an international anti-war cry, having witnessed the … Continue reading
Out of the Mouths of Babes
It was a Sunday of worship when those gathered were paying homage to the efforts and sacrifices of the civil rights movement. It could have been the Sunday before the MLK Jr. holiday. It could have been the fiftieth anniversary … Continue reading
Posted in Standing on the Side of Love, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged #BlackLivesMatter, #ferguson, anti-racism, civil rights, Edmund Pettus bridge, implicit bias, microaggressions, mindfulness, non-violence, racism, Satyagraha, Selma, Unitarian Universalist, we shall over come, white privilege
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Choosing Open Eyes (sermon)
This sermon was delivered on February 22, 2015 at First Parish Church of Groton, MA. audio version here Somewhere in Asia – Japan or Malaysia or some other country – there is a picture on a Buddhist monk’s smart phone. … Continue reading
Posted in Hope, Justice, Prayers, Sermons, Standing on the Side of Love, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged accountability, anti-racism, apology, arc of universe, awake, Burma, ethnicity, foot in mouth, Joseph Cherry Prayer for Living in Tension, meditation, Myanmar, open eyes, racism, Tagore Rabindrinath, Theodore Parker, Unitarian Universalist, Victoria Safford
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Eric and Jesus Can't Breathe: Another Non-Indictment (Part I)
Seeringly poignant, this point. We can advocate for bodycams on police, sign every petition, the national ones, the local ones. We can write to the governor, to our state reps and senators. We can call our local police stations. We … Continue reading
Returning to Langston: Poems of Our Times
When I preached on the Sunday a week after Mike Brown was murdered in Ferguson, Missouri, like many ministers that week, I changed the topic I was going to preach on — like many ministers are choosing to do this … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Poetry, Standing on the Side of Love, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged #BlackLivesMatter, #ferguson, anti-racism, Dream deferred, grand jury decision, Langston Hughest, poetry, preaching, prophetic preaching, racial justice, racism, Unitarian Universalism, we who believe in freedom
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A Game of Chess: The New Jim Crow Over & Over (Part II)
As I have written about in Part I, I am currently “reading” (listening as I drive) to Michelle Alexander’s amazing book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. This book was chosen several years ago as … Continue reading
Posted in Hope, Justice, Standing on the Side of Love, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged #ferguson, anti-racism, black liberation theology, chess, Commonread, Emmett Till, feminist liberation theology, Michelle Alexander, New Jim Crow, racism, reconstruction era, Unitarian Universalism, vagrancy laws
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Furtive Movements: The New Jim Crow Over & Over (part I)
Maybe you were like me when the George Zimmerman trial was going on, shocked (not necessarily surprised) that the defense would come up with something so totally messed up as to say that Trayvon Martin was not unarmed because he … Continue reading
Notice Who Matters: The Sermon (Part 2 of 2)
August 17, 2014 Unitarian Society of Northampton & Florence By Langston Hughes: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– And then run? Does it stink like … Continue reading