The Naked Guy, The Old Maid, and the Danger of Presentism

January 7, 2007

The Perfect Life

November 5, 2006

Ignaz Semmelweis, Hand-Washing and States of Denial

October 15, 2006

My Spiritual Story and Ours

October 1, 2006

Punctuated Disequilibrium

September 17, 2006

Homecoming Homily on the Common

September 10, 2006

Assisted Living

May 14, 2006

Why the Victory of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl

is Good for the First Parish in Bedford

April 2, 2006

Not All Who Wander Are Lost; Not All Who Wonder Are Damned

December 11, 2005

The Results of My DNA Test

November 6, 2005

Ethics in the Pulpit

October 23, 2005

Sermons or Of Brevity, Bloody Shirts and Pears

October 2, 2005

The Post-New Orleans World

September 18, 2005

How to Get Lucky

May 8, 2005

On Getting Out of the Box

March 6, 2005

Why Evolution Still Matters

February 6, 2005

A Passionate New Year’s Call for the Revival of Freethought, Secularism,
Unbelief, and Religious Infidelity

January 2, 2005

Day of the Dead

October 31, 2004

The Holy Spirit, Privatization, and Life in the Citizen’s Bank Fast Lane

October 17, 2004

The Art of Creative Trouble Making: Bayard Rustin

March 21, 2004

Ecclesiology, Doctrine and You

February 22, 2004

The Serenity Prayer

January 4, 2004

So Great A Cloud of Witnesses

November 2, 2003

Heresy and Other Burning Issues

October 5, 2003

Better Together

September 14, 2003

Sermon Without a Title

March 30, 2003

The Boy Scouts and First Parish: 

An Ethical Dilemma for Religious Liberals

May 19, 2002

Simpsons Family Values

October 28, 2001

A Guide to Choosing One's Enemies

October 14, 2001

When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!

September 30, 2001

Kangaroo Theology

September 16, 2001

Easter Service

April 15, 2001

The Distinguished Spiritual Legacy of

W. Epaminondas Adastrus Blab

April 1, 2001

Why We Expect A Lot But, Meanwhile, Get Nervous

March 18 2001

Zindabad! Long Live the Struggle

March 4, 2001

Ours Is Not A Caravan of Despair

Dec. 13, 2000

Painters of the Undersides of Boats

Oct. 22, 2000

Names We Should Know

Oct. 8, 2000

The Tipping Point: How Change Happens

May 21, 2000

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

April. 23, 2000

Generosity

April 9, 2000

Drinking At the Fire Hose of the Millennium

Jan. 9, 2000

Soothing, Challenging, Beginning

Sept. 19, 1999

Comments on Coming of Age

May. 12, 1999

Ground Breaking at First Parish

Feb. 21, 1999

Speaking and Listening: the Radical Acceptance of One Another

Oct. 18, 1998

Between A Rock and A Fungible Place

Sept. 27, 1998

Scapegoats, Prejudice, and Respect

March 22, 1998

The Examined Life Is Not Worth Reliving

Feb. 22, 1998

He's Back!

Feb. 15, 1998

Ambiguity

Jan. 28, 1996

The Lost Virtues of Community

Nov. 5, 1995

What Fresh Hell Is This?
The Uses of Disappointment
Brother Simpson, Brother Sharpton, and Us

Oct. 29, 1995

Six Ways to Herd Cats:
A Sermon for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Oct. 1, 1995

From the Nightmare to the Dream

June 4, 1995

Reveille For Radicals:
Lessons From the Life of Saul Alinsky

Feb. 26, 1995

Five Smooth Stones of Religious Liberalism:
The Legacy of James Luther Adams (incomplete)

Oct. 23, 1994

Kellogg's Silly Girls,
Sissy Men, and the God of Work

Oct. 2, 1994

Always, Rachel