CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. In Susan Monk Kid’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees, the heroine, a girl named Lily, loses her mother and attempts to escape the brutality of her father. Lily is raised by Rosaleen, her proud and outspoken African-American nanny. […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Perhaps it’s a bit ironic that I want to talk about crossing a threshold when we are mostly sequestered in our homes, decidedly on just one side of the threshold. When I tell people I am the Senior Minister […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. In the small East Texas Town of Slone, Travis Boyete, abducted, raped and murdered a popular cheerleader. He buried her body so deep no one would find it. He watched in amazement as police prosecuted and convicted Donte Drumm, […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. It has been hard to see the possibility of a resurrection in the midst of this pandemic. Many of us ache for the chance to be freed this Easter, free to go to church, free to see family and […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. It seems hard to believe that this is Holy Week and that today is Palm Sunday. Equally hard to believe that this is Passover, with its promise that God’s chosen people would be saved from the plagues set upon […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Welcome friends to our virtual community. I think of the very real community of people, young and old, of many gender identities, of different ethnicities and passions now all across our country who are tuning in today. So much […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. It is good to connect with you all virtually today. A lot happens in a week, much less 24 hours. Just two weeks ago we were together as a congregation although avoiding physical contact as much as possible. Now […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. As a teenager I was lovingly referred to by some of my friends as “Mr. Worry.” I worried about almost anything: the weather, politics, family fights, schools. I lived by the motto, “expect the worst and if the worst […]

CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Martin […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Like so many of us, I grew up with the literature of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Emerson’s essay on Self-Reliance moved me deeply in my late high school years, colluding as it did with my own […]