Almost twenty years ago, our Associate Minister at the time, the Reverend Barbara Fast, started our Small Group Ministry program. The SGM has been a regular part of our congregational life for these many years, often led by faithful facilitators on topics meant to encourage deep spiritual conversations. Some of these groups have been together […]
From Your Senior Minister: Of Cathedrals and Dreams – Spring 2019
There is an old tale told of three of the workers building Notre Dame Cathedral. A passerby asks the first one what he was doing. He replied “I am putting in my time laying stones so that I might earn my daily bread”. The passerby walked farther down the wall and asked a second worker […]
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 […]