“Flower Communion Sunday” – This Sunday’s service – “In the springing of the year” (Robert Frost) – will center around a flower communion ritual. This is a ritual introduced 100…
What is religion and how may one speak of it? In this sermon a retired Unitarian Universalist minister will take a look at the current attempt in Unitarian Universalist circles…
This service will, Janus-like, look both ways. Following a sermon message engaging Denise Levertov’s poem “Once Only” as its text, it will include a “Composting Communion,” then, in community, both…
In his song “Holy Now,” Peter Mayer, reflecting his Catholic upbringing, writes: “Wine from water is not so small/ But an even better magic trick/ Is that anything is here…
This sermon will explore (at least) three things: 1) Why it’s so difficult to find common ground on the issue of abortion. 2) Is there more common ground in this…
One of the functions of mythology and religion is what mythologist Joseph Campbell calls the “pedagogical function” – teaching and guiding the individual through the normal stages of life in…
For many religious liberals the joy and triumph of Easter is diminished – or even blocked completely – by past literalistic understandings. This sermon will – oh, so quickly –…
In Nature, death is not a factor of special importance; it’s simply part of the turning wheel of Being as it rolls onward through time. But to us in our…
Scholar of mythology Joseph Campbell writes, “The first function of a mythology is to waken and maintain in the individual a sense of wonder and participation in the mystery of…
The sermon on this Sunday prior to our nation's Thanksgiving Day celebration will address the origin and occasions of gratitude, the nature and necessity of gratitude, and the key to…