Reading You might remember that in January, I quoted Nelba Marquez-Greene, the mother of Ana Grace Marquez-Greene, killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the tragedy of the Newtown massacre. A month after her daughter was murdered, she wrote Many want the “real” story. Here is the real story: Evil visited Newtown. Now it’s our …
Love Wins: The Reluctant Prophet in Us All (sermon) Read More »
The press conference of official leaders – governor, police, U.S. attorney — rooted itself gratitude, not grievance or vengeance. It could have been otherwise. So many more who lost limb, could have lost life, were it not for those who ran toward ash and chaos. It could have been otherwise. The Twitter feeds and Facebook …
For those folks who read my post about Rev. Chris Antal, UU military chaplain, and his brave, prophetic actions, his blogs are back online here.
This sermon was preached at First Parish Unitarian Universalist of Chelmsford in Chelmsford, MA, on April 14, 2013. What I like about how their flow of worship is that they choose one “ancient” and one “modern” reading. Supposedly there is a recording of the sermon that has yet to be posted — once it is, I …
Yes, this one might be a little boring. Yes, the topic is not particularly sexy. You could still read it though… As part of my ministerial formation, I have thrown myself at far too many opportunities to preach from a variety of pulpits, broadening my exposure not only to different UU congregations, but also to …
Spiritually-Sound Impulses: Pulpit Exchanges & Congregational Polity Read More »
I am praying and wishing and hoping for… what? It is so hard in times like these to know what it is to ask for, what it is to wish for, what it is to do. Of course, there is the wish that we have that it didn’t happen, that we could take it all …
Later this morning, I will be preaching at First Parish Unitarian Universalist in Chelmsford. I will post the sermon later. This is, however, the Conversation with the Children, that I will be having before the younger ones leave worship service for religious education. I LOVE interacting with the little ones as part of worship. The …
Explaining a Segregated Playground: Dr. Howard Thurman's Love for His Daughters Read More »
Me: [I post one of about a thousand pro-immigrant rights/justice items on my profile] FB Friend: Illegal is illegal // Call thieves Robin Hoods? // Murderers, life exchangers // Rapists, can’t even say it…// Karen, why is it wrong to say what is true? Me: Are we talking “illegal” related to the immigration debate? Because …
This semester at Hartford Seminary, I am taking a course entitled, “Suffering, Theodicy, and Repentance: Interreligious Readings of Job and Jonah,” taught by Yehezkel Landau. Interreligious, in this case, means that we are looking at these two characters in scripture officially from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic perspectives, and incidentally with a bit of Buddhism on …
Repentance and (no) Reluctance: A Confession for America Read More »
Can you see me there in the back with the striped sweater? I did not make a new best friend. I did meet scads of nice people, scads of interesting people, and some Venn diagram of nice and interesting people. I began the groove of getting to know a few people – some are seminarians, …
So Many Kind Faces: UU Buddhist Fellowship Convocation Read More »