Historically, the little word "God" has been the primary word in the English language directing us toward the largest that the human mind can conceive and the deepest that the…
Is forgiveness always called for? How should we understand the well-worn phrase “forgive and forget?” Is there a place for hate? What is the relationship between forgiveness and reconciliation? What…
The Christmas season is the season of the heart – the season of the heart’s deepest longings and highest hopes. These longings and hopes are expressed in the two main…
“Spirit” and “soul” are often used interchangeably. This sermon, the second in a two-part series, will distinguish and contrast the meanings and values of these two words.
The theme for Sunday's sermon is a complicated one. With so many ideas and ways of looking at a single word "Spirit" you almost need a roadmap. The sermon outline…
Where to start in the face of strongly opposing and intractable positions? This sermon will explore how the image of tectonic plates might be a helpful image in relation to…
In this time of turmoil as our nation struggles to determine its “soul,” this sermon will explore the overlap of the core principles, values, and ideals of our American society…
Two of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s most well-known poems, “Ulysses” and “Crossing the Bar,” assist us in exploring one of the great polarities of human life: doing and being, striving and…
This companion sermon to “Deeper Than Our Separateness,” given on November 17, will explore the “heart of religion” – both its basis and goal – with the aid of Unitarian…
In his incomparable essay “The Over-Soul,” Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, “Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains…