One thing I was really looking forward to the most on this trip was to visit Joe Minter’s folk art installation in Birmingham, which is his home, which is his life, which has been his life for decades. He has been making art ~ this evolving art of place and space ~ since the early …
How might we surrender to our place in the vast cosmos, the strange mix that does not reveal the depths and breadths of its true nature to mere mortals such as we are, yet begs us choose to see angels and generosity, beloveds in the midst of the unknown, and life singing its song of …
Part I I have some challenging questions for us, which I pose with love for you, for us, and for this aching world. I cannot promise you hope in this sermon, but as a good modern Universalist, I can promise you love. If this morning is a morning when you just cannot bear a heavy …
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ August 11, 2019 Perhaps you know in your body. Perhaps you know in your head. Perhaps you know in what Buddhists call your heartmind, that deep place of coherence beyond the binary, beyond the either/or, beyond the one or the other. We have moved past climate change… …to climate …
(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 at least 5,000 members. The worship and theology there are, shall I say, a little …
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 of them as well. This is how Bryan Stevenson often begins his talks: with the …
November 19, 2017 The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ A refrain that has been in my mind, over and over. Safety. And wholeness. And a deep yearning for it. I have finally noticed it this past week, but really it has been insisting itself into most of my sermons these past few months, perhaps …
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ Remembering to breathe and to breathe deeply and then once more, to take the breath in and let the breath out, we pause, poised as we are, at a point of risking, at a possibility of courage: #metoo. Risking vulnerability Risking pain Risking being known Risking being not believed …
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, New Jersey And the table will be wide. And the welcome will be wide. And the arms will open wide to gather us in. We are fortunate that here in New Jersey: more protections for the rights and safety of transgender folks have been enacted. In fact, just a few months ago, …
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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, and the Teachings of Plants.” Kimmerer is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, a …