CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. The Principles that guide our faith are not creeds. They are not faith statements that we must adhere to. But they are aspirations. When we covenant to value and promote such things as the inherent worth and dignity of […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. My first foray into the American Baptist church came as an invitation from a good friend of mine. I was 28, in the middle of a messy divorce and I was spending more nights than I should at the […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. You all know the story, don’t you? Or do you? On the sixth day God created man and woman; he created them, except it didn’t happen that way so fast did it. There are actually two stories of the […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. I have been in the community building business for over three decades. Early on in my ministry I had spent some time with a few monks at an abbey where I had gone to retreat. The oldest abbot there […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon Like so many of you I spent most of Wednesday transfixed by the inauguration. There was such dignity to the affair, largely bereft of spectators, and yet somehow even more inclusive. Beginning with the Memorial President Biden and Vice President Harris led us in at the reflecting pool […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon I met Moses Godfry as my daughter’s elementary school music teacher. He was African American and one of the most gifted musicians I had ever known. He was magic with the girls, encouraging one of them to go onto to a much deeper study in music as an […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Every Unitarian Universalist minister must go before the Ministerial Fellowship Committee, which is the equivalent of a licensing body within our faith. The MFC is comprised of other ministers and active lay people who gather several times a year […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon I knew Bob, Dr. Bob as he like to be called for eight years. As an active member of my last congregation, Bob had just retired from a Family Medicine practice of over six decades at the age of 86. He was Chinese American, tall and elegant. His […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon When I was eight years old my mother took me into NYC at Christmas time to enjoy the sights, Rockefeller Plaza, Fifth Avenue and maybe do some shopping. As we debarked the train at Grand Central she told me that if we get separated just go to the […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon If this pandemic and election has taught us anything useful, it is this:  We cannot survive alone. The Individualism that made America Great, has also been our downfall. Look at the pandemic surge we are in right now: people are dying and some people still refuse to wear […]