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Reparations: A Sermon
Introduction The opening skit for Saturday Night Live back on April 11, was a morning news show in Minneapolis with four anchors, two Black and two white. This was days before the Derek Chauvin verdict for murdering George Floyd. Banter … Continue reading
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Tagged BLUU, HR40, reparations, S322, Ta-nehisi Coates, Unitarian Universalism
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Choose Democracy
November 1, 2020 The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ Reverend Karen G Johnston Choose democracy. That’s the title of this service. I want to be clear from the outset, I am not advocating a particular vote for a particular candidate. … Continue reading
Widening the Circle of Concern
Reverend Karen G. Johnston October 4, 2020 The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, New Jersey What is at stake is nothing less than our future. So says Widening the Circle of Concern, the highly anticipated report from the UUA’s Commission on … Continue reading
Mission: POSSIBLE (sermon)
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ January 26 2020 To not let go of the thread, we have to find the thread, know the feel of the thread, make it ours, and hold it in our fingers. That thread – … Continue reading
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Three Gates: A Sermon on Right Speech (sermon)
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ January 12, 2020 John Woolman, a New Jersey Quaker from before the Revolution, is most-known for seeing abolitionist values among the Quakers. It is also from him that the concept of “right relationship” comes, … Continue reading
Race & Power: Then & Now (sermon)
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ October 27, 2019 Fisticuffs.[i] Violent shoving. Spitting in the face. Name calling. In June, I preached on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, what is commonly understood as the start of the gay … Continue reading
All Good Intentions: A Sermon on White Fragility
The Unitarian Society East Brunswick, NJ May 5, 2019 Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout is the Director of Music and Worship at the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor. A Black, gay man, he wrote, not all that long ago, … Continue reading
From Phone Booth to Cell Phone: Building the Next RE Program (sermon)
I borrow this series of questions from my colleague, Rev. Peter Boullata. You might also remember that I asked you these same questions about a year and a half ago when I preached about change and generational shifts. The need … Continue reading
No Hell Below Us: A Sermon for John Murray Day 2018 (sermon)
The Unitarian Society East Brunswick September 30, 2018 (This sermon was preceded by the poem, Monet Refuses the Operation.) Are there Star Wars fans in the house? Can I get a sense with a show of hands: … Continue reading