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Sunday, February 28, 2010

My theme today is humanism, a humanism that holds up under scrutiny, a humanism worthy of universal respect. Humanism concerns what is truly human; and it is truly human to judge what concerns us all. We wonder at not only what we are, but we wonder about what we ought to be. We are a species only recently rising to a consciousness of our common humanity,

Being OF This World

Sunday, January 3, 2010

See "Grasshopper Dreaming" by UU and Scientist Jeffrey Lockwood, available at Skinner House Books

Public and Private

Sunday, December 13, 2009

READING: Rainer Maria Rilke You, darkness, that I come from I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything- shapes and fires, animals and myself, how easily it gathers them! - powers and people- and

Dragged Kicking and Screaming into Heaven

Sunday, November 8, 2009

The Apostle Paul experienced his conversion on the road to Damascus, mine came after arriving late in Buffalo, N.Y. Conversion: a definitive, sometimes overpowering, moment that brings you to embrace a religious faith. What does 'conversion' bring to your mind? Does it seem as out of place in a UU environment as an altar call? Have you ever heard a

What's With Judas?

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Lessons from the Gospel of Judas and the great gift of all the world's Religions (see the TED speech by Karen Armstrong)

In a Child's Eyes

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Kindesses and forgivenesses for churches and their crying babies.......

Talking Health

Sunday, September 20, 2009

CALL TO WORSHIP Morris Dees is a Southerner and a lawyer who has courageously worked for civil rights and against those who promote racism and hatred. He writes of a day he met a Ku Klux Klansman in a courthouse during a trial: I offered my hand to Bennie. He did not take it, but he wasn't hostile. "Mr. Hayes," I said, "I'm sorry about your son being

Father's Day Ambivalence

Sunday, June 21, 2009

SERMON: FATHER'S DAY These are words from a poem, "Forgiving Our Fathers", by Dick Lourie, which also are the closing words at the end of the movie Smoke Signals: How do we forgive our fathers? Maybe in a dream . . . Do we forgive our fathers in our age or in theirs . . . If we forgive our fathers, what is left? I did an extensive search

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