CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. My mother, God rest her soul, was one to extol the benefits of wash and wear clothing, sadly mostly polyesters. For women of her age, wrinkle guard fabrics and treatments released her from the toils of ironing all those shirts. She thought it a great liberation from the […]
“Out of Many One” – September 27, 2015 (audio available)
CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. “So you’re a preacher” he said. It was late about 9:30 in Chicago and it was cold, the January wind tearing at my jacket. I was standing on a train platform waiting for my two hour commute back to northern Indiana where I lived. I told him that […]
The Promise of Forgiveness – September 20, 2015 (audio available)
CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. On October 2, 2006, Charles Roberts IV, a milk tanker driver, distraught over the death of his infant daughter, pulled up to the West Nickel Mines Amish school house in Southern Lancaster County, walked through the door carrying a semi-automatic pistol and ordered the teachers out and the […]
Ministers All – A Homily for Homecoming – September 13, 2015 (audio available)
CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. There was a time I was considering becoming the minister of the Edmonds WA UU Church. The story was told during my time with them that their previous minister, Robert Fulghum (who wrote “Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”) decided after asking his congregation, that […]
Good Work – September 6, 2015
I began my career cutting lawns. As a boy I had quite a little business cutting grass. I was so successful in fact that I hired my friends to work under me, neither of which was very good for the money or our friendships. In college, I mopped floors at night. When I finally graduated […]
Anybody Got a Match – May 3, 2015 (audio available)
CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of the service. CLICK HERE for photo gallery. A while ago while the congregation of the First Unitarian Church of New Orleans was in worship, during that most sacred time of prayer and meditation, visitors who had come in wearing jackets and button up […]
Facing Grace – April 26, 2015 (video available)
CLICK HERE for video of the service. There wasn’t much to say. It had been six months since his daughter had died. He stared up at the night sky, “Do you think there is a God out there?” he asked me. I started to formulate my answer, thinking instead of the Hebrew God within but […]
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