“Four Metaphors for Our Times” | 2021/02/07 | 2021-02-07 13:33:23 |
“Daring to Envision” | 2021/01/31 | 2021-01-31 13:29:12 |
“The Art of Creative Trouble Making: Bayard Rustin” | 2021/01/17 | 2021-01-17 09:18:50 |
“Where Do You Find Hope in a Time of Pandemic?” | 2020/12/24 | 2020-12-24 13:38:23 |
“Pandora’s Box” or “What, If Anything, Have We Learned?” | 2020/11/15 | 2020-11-15 15:40:54 |
“Now What” Part 1 | 2020/11/08 | 2020-11-08 15:33:38 |
“The Lawn Chair Liberation Front: Thoughts Toward a Suburban Contextual Theology” | 2020/10/04 | 2020-10-04 15:57:44 |
“Choose Something Like A Star” | 2020/09/20 | 2020-09-20 13:15:37 |
Ingathering Comments | 2020/09/13 | 2020-09-13 15:47:37 |
“Cosmology, Geology, Anthropology, Science, Discovery, & Faith” | 2020/03/15 | 2020-03-15 16:35:32 |
“Slavery Is Not an Indefinable Mass of Flesh: Nanne’s Life Matters” | 2020/02/02 | 2020-02-02 11:28:31 |
“Defiant Hope – Our Faithful Response to the Climate Crisis” | 2020/01/26 | 2020-01-26 12:28:44 |
“People Get Ready” | 2020/01/19 | 2020-01-19 13:01:57 |
“Janus, God of Thresholds: Looking Back, Looking Forward” | 2020/01/12 | 2020-01-12 12:57:32 |
“Loving Our Enemies: Nobody Said It Would Be Easy” | 2020/01/08 | 2020-01-08 11:06:45 |
“Spiritual Friendship” | 2020/01/05 | 2020-01-05 13:18:38 |
“What Moral Debt, If Any, Do We Owe Our Ancestors?” | 2019/11/03 | 2019-11-03 13:12:52 |
“(Not) Famous (Not) Last Words” | 2019/09/29 | 2019-09-29 13:39:10 |
“Slippery Words and Sticky Words: Teflon and Velcro in the Month of Elul” | 2019/09/15 | 2019-09-15 12:28:13 |
Ingathering 2019 | 2019/09/08 | 2019-09-08 12:29:43 |
“Hope in the Dark” Easter Sunday Homilies | 2019/04/21 | 2019-04-21 12:16:00 |
“Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Preface” | 2019/04/07 | 2019-04-07 15:21:10 |
“My Pastoral First Aid Kit” | 2019/03/24 | 2019-03-24 13:40:00 |
“My Pastoral First Aid Kit” | 2019/03/24 | 2019-03-24 13:12:17 |
“Many Ways to Kiss the Ground” | 2019/03/17 | 2019-03-17 16:30:10 |
“Getting the Hell Out of Paradise” | 2019/02/24 | 2019-02-24 13:32:00 |
“What’s Amazing About Grace?” | 2019/01/27 | 2019-01-27 13:40:01 |
“Paradoxical Interventions: With Reference to Rev. Billy, Universalism, and Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 Silent Film ‘The Circus” | 2019/01/06 | 2019-01-06 13:52:42 |
Christmas Eve 2018 (8pm) | 2018/12/24 | 2018-12-24 11:32:38 |
“The Anvil Sermon: Thoughts About Resistance, Persistence and Imperfection” | 2018/12/09 | 2018-12-09 12:10:01 |
“The Old Rugged Cross-Fit”, or “How Are Things with Your Soul-Cycle? or “Prepare to Meet Your Maker-Space” | 2018/12/02 | 2018-12-02 13:25:00 |
“When We Are Called to Bring Nothing but Our Presence” | 2018/11/25 | 2018-11-25 12:14:23 |
“For the Children’s Children” | 2018/10/14 | 2018-10-14 12:48:15 |
“The Measure of a Mother’s Love” | 2018/05/13 | 2018-05-13 13:45:14 |
“Awkward Thoughts” | 2018/04/15 | 2018-04-15 21:48:11 |
“On the Opioid Crisis” | 2018/04/08 | 2018-04-08 16:26:24 |
“Pomegranates in Heaven” | 2018/04/01 | 2018-04-01 00:40:57 |
Make It Real | 2018/03/18 | 2018-03-18 00:42:53 |
This I Believe | 2018/02/18 | 2018-02-18 14:07:24 |
“A Revolution of Tenderness” | 2018/02/11 | 2018-02-11 00:04:08 |
“#MeToo, A Hashtag Inspires a Movement” | 2018/01/28 | 2018-01-28 00:06:29 |
“Reflections on the 450th Anniversary of the Edict of Torda” | 2018/01/21 | 2018-01-21 01:02:52 |
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” | 2018/01/14 | 2018-01-14 02:28:17 |
“Christmas Eve 2017 Reflections” | 2017/12/24 | 2017-12-24 21:59:49 |
“Joy to the World! You Gotta Be Kidding Me!!!” | 2017/12/10 | 2017-12-10 22:02:24 |
“Gratitude, Grief and Goodbyes” | 2017/12/03 | 2017-12-03 21:20:01 |
“Try To See It My Way” | 2017/11/05 | 2017-11-05 21:15:26 |
“Fear Is the Mind-Killer” | 2017/10/29 | 2017-10-29 21:11:00 |
“Who The Meek Are Not” | 2017/10/15 | 2017-10-15 20:47:49 |
“Three Strings, Trapezes, Shattered Goblets, Really Terrible Orchestras, and Other Attempts at Equipoise” | 2017/10/08 | 2017-10-08 20:42:27 |
“Balance, Yes, But Pry Me Off Dead Center” | 2017/09/17 | 2017-09-17 20:34:15 |
Flower Communion Sunday | 2017/06/11 | 2017-06-11 15:40:51 |
“Josh’s Swan Song” | 2017/05/28 | 2017-05-28 13:15:03 |
“To See What Is in Front of One’s Nose is a Constant Struggle” | 2017/04/30 | 2017-04-30 11:49:25 |
“Strict Parents and Line-cutters” | 2017/04/23 | 2017-04-23 13:46:20 |
“Hallelujah Anyway” | 2017/04/16 | 2017-04-16 11:37:39 |
Palm Sunday: “The King’s Parade” | 2017/04/09 | 2017-04-09 13:20:02 |
Stewardship Sunday Reflections | 2017/03/26 | 2017-03-26 13:50:41 |
“How To Survive the Next Four Years, Lessons I Learned the Hard Way in Chicago, 1968” | 2017/03/05 | 2017-03-05 13:38:03 |
“The Joys of Sorrows” | 2017/02/19 | 2017-02-19 13:08:54 |
“Kind Regards, Take Two” | 2017/02/12 | 2017-02-12 12:57:11 |
“Loving Our Enemies: Nobody Said It Would Be Easy” | 2017/01/15 | 2017-01-15 13:13:29 |
“The Preacher Preaches About Preaching” | 2017/01/08 | 2017-01-08 13:19:12 |
Christmas Eve 2016 (8:00PM) | 2016/12/24 | 2016-12-24 11:28:18 |
“A Season for Solidarity: Reflections from Standing” | 2016/12/11 | 2016-12-11 11:06:38 |
“Try to Praise the Mutilated World: A Call to Resistance” | 2016/12/04 | 2016-12-04 10:59:58 |
“A Texas Homecoming” | 2016/11/27 | 2016-11-27 13:46:13 |
“Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging” | 2016/11/06 | 2016-11-06 13:39:03 |
“The Cheese and the Worms: Reflections on the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation” | 2016/10/30 | 2016-10-30 13:31:35 |
UN Sunday: “Celebrating the Day of the Girl” | 2016/10/23 | 2016-10-23 12:36:19 |
“Acceptance and Action” | 2016/10/09 | 2016-10-09 12:30:28 |
“Tikkun Olam” | 2016/09/25 | 2016-09-25 12:22:29 |
“Put On Your Marching Shoes” | 2016/09/18 | 2016-09-18 12:09:12 |
“Class Stories” | 2016/08/07 | 2016-08-07 11:56:10 |
“Shower the People” | 2016/05/22 | 2016-05-22 12:56:49 |
“Childhood Homes and Grown-Up People” | 2016/05/08 | 2016-05-08 12:35:05 |
“Farewell to Alms and Other Worrisome Obligations” | 2016/04/24 | 2016-04-24 12:30:18 |
“Does Your Stuff Spark Joy?” | 2016/04/17 | 2016-04-17 12:19:44 |
Easter Sunday: “Glimpses of Resurrection” | 2016/03/27 | 2016-03-27 12:12:51 |
“Mary Poppins Ministry” | 2016/03/13 | 2016-03-13 11:47:32 |
Easter Sunday: “Glimpses of Resurrection” | 2016/03/13 | 2016-03-13 11:36:41 |
“A State of the Parish Address” | 2016/02/21 | 2016-02-21 12:41:27 |
“Close Calls and Second Chances” | 2016/01/31 | 2016-01-31 12:30:58 |
“Twixt Cup and the Lip: Intent, Impact, and Stuff I Learned at the Recent Police Training” | 2016/01/24 | 2016-01-24 12:26:08 |
Christmas Eve Homily 2015 | 2015/12/24 | 2015-12-24 12:48:19 |
“Report from the Front Lines of the Immigration Crisis” | 2015/12/06 | 2015-12-06 12:39:50 |
“After Terror: Recovering the Moral Self” | 2015/11/29 | 2015-11-29 12:27:18 |
“Some Things Should Not Go Unsaid” | 2015/11/15 | 2015-11-15 12:09:25 |
“Barring the Golden Door” | 2015/11/08 | 2015-11-08 13:44:25 |
“December 9, 1988: I Witnessed a Homicide. Or Was It a Murder?” | 2015/10/25 | 2015-10-25 16:13:18 |
“Inside Out: The Curious Wonder of Being Alive” | 2015/09/27 | 2015-09-27 13:26:07 |
“Things” | 2015/09/13 | 2015-09-13 13:20:12 |
Easter Sunday: “Good Soil, Good Seeds, Good News!” | 2015/04/05 | 2015-04-05 13:01:22 |
“The Sermon on the Amount” or “When Hope and History Rhyme” | 2015/03/22 | 2015-03-22 12:40:35 |
“Getting in the Way” or “He Decided to Go” or “Reeb, Racism and Risk” | 2015/03/01 | 2015-03-01 12:19:23 |
“Build Your Dream Congregation” | 2015/02/22 | 2015-02-22 12:35:01 |
“How to Fail Better (2.0)” | 2015/02/01 | 2015-02-01 12:12:21 |
“How to Fail Better” | 2015/01/25 | 2015-01-25 12:02:47 |
“The Terrible Sermon” and/or “Getting in the Way of Beauty” | 2015/01/04 | 2015-01-04 13:28:01 |
“Follow Your Arrow” | 2014/09/14 | 2014-09-14 13:44:26 |
Ingathering Service | 2014/09/07 | 2014-09-07 13:05:24 |
“Those Who Mothered Us” | 2014/05/11 | 2014-05-11 13:09:11 |
“Always, Rachel” II | 2014/04/27 | 2014-04-27 12:55:39 |
“In the Presence of Absence” | 2013/12/15 | 2013-12-15 12:53:08 |
“Perfecting Thanks” | 2013/11/24 | 2013-11-24 12:46:36 |
“Why I Am A UU Pagan” | 2013/11/03 | 2013-11-03 12:37:31 |
“The Dog Said Meow: Growing Intercultural Competency” | 2013/10/20 | 2013-10-20 12:03:53 |
“A Space Built for Mortal Communion and Prayer” | 2013/09/22 | 2013-09-22 11:55:41 |
“Finding God, Sometimes” | 2013/09/15 | 2013-09-15 11:50:02 |
Ingathering Service | 2013/09/09 | 2013-09-09 11:46:42 |
“And See Our Chores Done by the Gods Themselves” | 2013/04/28 | 2013-04-28 11:24:30 |
“Hitch Your Wagon to a Star” | 2013/04/07 | 2013-04-07 11:14:42 |
“WOW!” – Easter Sunday Homily & Easter Prayer | 2013/03/31 | 2013-03-31 11:02:56 |
“Thanks!” | 2013/03/17 | 2013-03-17 10:45:30 |
“Help!” | 2013/03/10 | 2013-03-10 13:35:13 |
“Hope? Hell, Yes! Part II” | 2013/03/03 | 2013-03-03 13:57:42 |
“Can Climate Change Change Us?” | 2013/02/24 | 2013-02-24 13:46:39 |
“Gratitude” | 2013/02/10 | 2013-02-10 13:43:31 |
“The Sermon I Will Preach in India” | 2013/01/27 | 2013-01-27 13:25:35 |
“Dimensions of Time” | 2013/01/13 | 2013-01-13 13:45:12 |
“Scars, Redux” | 2013/01/06 | 2013-01-06 13:17:15 |
Thanksgiving Reflections | 2012/11/18 | 2012-11-18 13:03:19 |
“An Appreciation of Jack Mendelsohn” | 2012/10/28 | 2012-10-28 12:52:37 |
“A Broken Hallelujah: Letting the Light Shine Through” | 2012/10/21 | 2012-10-21 12:46:22 |
“Do You See the Girl with the Telescope? A Consideration of Ambiguity” | 2012/10/14 | 2012-10-14 13:41:50 |
“I Am Somebody” | 2012/09/23 | 2012-09-23 13:34:57 |
“What Is Your Final Destination?” | 2012/09/16 | 2012-09-16 13:37:04 |
Ingathering Homily | 2012/09/09 | 2012-09-09 13:33:27 |
“Remembering to Remember” | 2012/05/27 | 2012-05-27 13:50:02 |
“It All Depends on What the Meaning of the Word ‘It’ Is” | 2012/05/13 | 2012-05-13 13:09:08 |
“The Future of Memory” – Hannah Papanek: “From Blossoms” – Rev. John Gibbons | 2012/04/22 | 2012-04-22 13:12:52 |
Easter – “Apparitions & Visitations” | 2012/04/08 | 2012-04-08 13:54:52 |
“Hope? Hell, Yes! (No Fooling)” | 2012/04/01 | 2012-04-01 13:36:20 |
“The Sermon on the Amount” – Stewardship Sunday | 2012/03/25 | 2012-03-25 13:32:41 |
“Why Belong” | 2012/03/11 | 2012-03-11 13:28:31 |
“Steampunk Ecclesiology” | 2012/03/04 | 2012-03-04 11:18:21 |
“Church Is For Losers” | 2012/02/26 | 2012-02-26 13:13:45 |
“Art Shaping the World” | 2012/02/05 | 2012-02-05 13:05:54 |
“A State of the Parish Address” | 2012/01/29 | 2012-01-29 12:59:09 |
“Thinking Our Thoughts, Hearing Others’ Stories” | 2012/01/15 | 2012-01-15 13:07:25 |
“Balance” | 2012/01/08 | 2012-01-08 13:03:00 |
“Possibility” | 2011/01/23 | 2011-01-23 13:25:02 |
“More Ponderings about Our Theological Good News” | 2011/01/09 | 2011-01-09 10:53:49 |
“Our Great Gifts, Fit for a King” | 2011/01/02 | 2011-01-02 12:56:24 |