Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate....
Awake People Be Awake: The Risks of UU Exceptionalism and Spiritual Manifest Destiny
You may not know it, or even agree with it, but you may very well be a Christian. Anonymously. It does not matter if you identify as Pagan or Jewish, Muslim or atheist – if you do good works in the world, you are, according to a respected 20th....
Paying Attention to the Voice of that Woman: President Obama and a Spiritual Act of Witness
"Can you tell the Muslim people that their lives are as precious as our....
Meditations on Grave Digging
I am not known to shy away from death (not yet, at least). Lest you forget....
What is Worth Saving? (sermon)
Village Church, Cummington, MA May 19, 2013 Karen G. Johnston Candidate for the Unitarian Universalist Ministry Readings A Stone Jug A bulldozer digging a pond on my mother’s family’s land unearths two stoneware jugs buried four feet in the....
Suicide by The Big Cop: Jonah and His Death Wish
I have no interest in blaming victims and will take every measure not to do....
Holy Envy: A Window in Interfaith Dialogue (sermon)
May 12, 2013 West Cummington Church, West Cummington, MA Karen G.....
Veering Towards Our Own Vulnerability: Depression Illuminated
When tragedy strikes, there seems to be a human impulse to not only measure our proximity, but to claim it. Sometimes perhaps a bit more than is fair or accurate. It’s kind of like the rubber-necking that happens along our highways when someone is....
Long Live Sensus Fidelium: Workshop Facilitation and Spiritual Intelligence
In my Early Christian History class, we talked about how creeds came into....