Spiritually-Sound Impulses: Pulpit Exchanges & Congregational Polity

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 …

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Explaining a Segregated Playground: Dr. Howard Thurman's Love for His Daughters

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 …

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Repentance and (no) Reluctance: A Confession for America

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 …

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