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Sermon: What I Know About Grief

September 29, 2017 | Filed under: Pastoral Care, Sermons

The following sermon was shared at the July 30, 2017 worship service at Chalice Unitarian Universalist Congregation. To be a parish minister is to bear witness to loss and grief in their many forms and permutations. To be a parish minister is to companion…YOU…through your many losses, through your grief. It …

Sermon: Addicted to the Sensational

July 8, 2017 | Filed under: Self Care, Sermons

The following sermon was shared at the July 9, 2017 worship service at Chalice Unitarian Universalist Congregation. Human beings. We’re capable of great good and capable of great evil. In so many ways, we are amazing: inventors, problem-solvers, compassionate, and generous. In so many ways, we are absolutely flawed: destroyers, fear-mongers, …

Sermon: Do Unto Others

December 6, 2016 | Filed under: Sermons

The following sermon was shared at the December 4, 2016 worship service at Chalice Unitarian Universalist Congregation. “We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.” Does this idea sound a little idealistic? …

Pre-Sabbatical Sermon: All the Things

July 3, 2016 | Filed under: Self Care, Sermons

The following sermon was shared at the July 3, 2016 worship service at Chalice Unitarian Universalist Congregation. In October 2007, I was living in San Diego (where I was born and raised), and I had been attending First Church, the big UU church in Hillcrest, for three years. I came home …

Sermon: Do we tolerate intolerance?

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Ministry, Sermons, Spiritual Practice

The following sermon was shared at the August 2, 2015 worship service at Chalice Unitarian Universalist Congregation. Thought for the day: “As Unitarian Universalists, we believe there is no ‘one right way’ for everyone. We also believe that everyone should believe there is no ‘one right way’ for everyone. This …

Our Jobs Aren’t Everything

June 1, 2015 | Filed under: Ministry, Sermons, Teaching

Our culture right now is steeped in messages that encourage us to do what we love, and the money will follow. There’s a book by that name–Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow–written in 1989 by Marsha Sinetar, and I don’t know if she and that book started our preoccupation …

Christmas Eve Homily: Let Christmas Come

December 24, 2014 | Filed under: Sermons

I had an electrician at my house Monday morning for a repair. He knows what I do for a living, and he asked me if I was ready for Christmas Eve service. “It’s only Monday,” I replied. “I still have a couple of days to get ready.” People always imagine …

Sermon: Maybe We’re Not All the Same

December 7, 2014 | Filed under: Ministry, Prophetic Outreach, Sermons

The following sermon was shared at the December 7, 2014 worship service at Chalice Unitarian Universalist Congregation. In Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921, an angry mob of white people numbering in the thousands burned down the Greenwood District, the African American part of town. More than one thousand homes and businesses …

It’s Okay to Pray

June 2, 2013 | Filed under: Ministry, Sermons, Spiritual Practice

I want us to talk this morning about the spiritual practice of prayer. I want us to think about what it might mean to us to pray. And I want to invite us to pray together. When it comes to spiritual practice, prayer and meditation are the two big ones, …

Sermon: Being a White Ally: Lessons from the Movie “42”

May 5, 2013 | Filed under: Ministry, Prophetic Outreach, Sermons

My sermon this morning is inspired by a movie I’ve seen recently. It’s still out in theatres: the movie is called “42,” and it’s based on the story of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play for a major league baseball team in the United States. His jersey number was …

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