This Pride: A Reflection Pride Month (sermon)

(I didn't actually give this sermon this morning. I had planned to do so, but....


Beauty as Companion to Bitter (sermon)

Drew Lanham I cannot in good conscience ignore the bitter for the....


A Visit to Joe Minter’s Place

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....


1 + 3 Mothers You Need to Meet

By Browder Family - Original publication: Learning for Justice Immediate....


Paying Homage in Selma: Unitarian Universalist Civil Rights Martyrs

Speechless (or wordless) doesn’t work particularly well for poets or....


They Are All Honored Here: Nothing Is Lost

Better poets and theologians have made their offerings. Who am I to attempt to join them? Yet, because Universalism tells us we are all loved and since Universalism tells us we all have a role in collective liberation: who am I not to? So, I humbly....


Beyond Apocalypse: Cultivating Eco-Resilience

Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham April 10, 2022 Reverend....


Visiting Morganza

(this post is the second of a two-part report on my visit to Morganza; the....


A Trip to Avery Island

When I was a kid, I had such a hankering for salt that I would steal my dog’s salt lick. I know: that sounds if not disgusting, super unhygienic. Even to me.  I’m not sure why my dog had a salt lick – maybe that was a thing in the....


Angels In Our Midst

How might we surrender to our place in the vast cosmos, the strange mix....