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September 10, 2010 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

Being Real Together – February 6, 2000

I’ve been thinking about the first sermon I delivered from this pulpit. It was our introduction to one another, at the beginning of candidating week, March 25, 1984. Candidating week involves two sermons; one at the start of the week, and one at the other end, after meeting with committees and as many people as […]

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September 10, 2010 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

Basic Buddhism – January 9, 2000

 When I was in graduate school I had a course in Social Foundations of Education, and was assigned to write a paper and give an oral report on the basics of Buddhism. That was 35 years ago. At the end of my comments to the class I said, “I think I’m a Buddhist.” I’ve never […]

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September 10, 2010 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

Shame, Exposure and Privacy – May 23, 1999

Reading: The Madman; Kahlil Gibran “You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen, the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives. I ran maskless through the streets shouting, […]

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September 10, 2010 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

The Unsolvable Equation – May 16, 1999

 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went to school with guns and bombs and a plan to kill as many kids as they could. Their killing spree ended with 15 dead and dozens wounded. We were witnesses to this horrendous event. A witness is one who has a firsthand account-one who is present and takes note […]

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September 10, 2010 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

Miseducation at the School of the Americas – January 17, 1999

Where is the School of the Americas and what is its purpose, and why talk about it from this pulpit? Let me answer the last question first: why talk about a military training camp from a pulpit? Isn’t this about politics, and shouldn’t we keep politics and religion or ‘spirituality’ separate? I’ve taken this question […]

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September 10, 2010 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

Jesus: the Man, the Myth, the Master – january 10, 1999

A GOOD MAN In the Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy’s little dog Todo pulls open the screen behind which the so-called Wizard is pulling the levers to razzle dazzle them, Dorothy says in disgust, “Oh, you’re a very bad man.” To which the Wizard replies, “No, I’m a good man. I’m just a bad Wizard!” […]

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September 10, 2010 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

The Long, Dark Shadow Part II “Naming the Demons” – December 6, 1998

OPENING WORDS “The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! Great God! I’d rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this […]

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September 10, 2010 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

Faults, Failures and Faith – November 15, 1998

We human beings are flawed. Imperfect. Theologians, struggling to explain how a perfect God could create an imperfect creature ‘in his own image,’ came up with the interesting idea of ‘original sin.’ Adam, they said, was disobedient. God put him in paradise–a perfect world, where he could, according to the theologians, live forever; as long […]

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September 10, 2010 by Rev. Frank Hall - Minister Emeritus

Take Me Out To The Ballgame – October 11, 1998

I am not a big baseball fan. The word fan is the short of the word fanatic. A fan is a patron, a partisan, an aficionado. “A person markedor motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.” Churchill said: “A fanatic is someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” […]

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