So many links!
Videos from General Assembly:
General Assembly 2017 online (all the recordings)
The three co-presidents being interviewed at the second plenary session by Jesse King, an organizational consultant and chair of our UU Ministerial Fellowship Committee. This replaced the traditional “Presidents Report”
The co-presidents gave the “President and […]
I’m so grateful for all of you who listened to a sermon on a difficult topic–human trafficking–and appreciated the opportunity for us to learn about this as a religious community.
Here are some of the resources I mentioned.
Data / Information:
San Diego County District Attorney’s office
Study of Human Trafficking in San […]
This is the prayer of confession shared during this morning’s service. It originates from First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, where it was written by Rev. Terry Burke. It has been subsequently revised by Rev. Elizabeth Bukey, and revised again by Rev. Sharon Wylie.
Prayer of Confession
Let us confess our brokenness, our lack of wholeness, our […]
At our service this morning, I described two opportunities to gather with interfaith friends this week. Here are links to more detailed information:
Martin Luther King Day event
Monday, January 16 from 5:30-7 pm
More information here
Inauguration Day Vigil
Friday, January 20 at 5:30 pm
More information here
And the two passages we […]
Apologies that it took a while to get this blog post up; we’ve had website problems this week…
In my November 13 sermon (listen to it here), I invited congregants to take on three tasks in the immediate future:
Maintain your connections with people who disagree with you politically. Don’t “unfriend” people on Facebook, and […]
I preached today about self-compassion and drew a lot on the work of Dr. Kristen Neff. Check out her website here for a lot of resources on understanding and practicing self-compassion.
I preached about the power of music last Sunday, and had fun leading you in singing “if you’re happy and you know it, sing a song!” and “if your neighbor sings badly, that’s ok!” I truly believe making music is an important part of being human. I wanted to share a number of things I […]
My March 13 sermon drew both on my experience as a facilitator of the “Our Whole Lives” curriculum and on a seminary class on the Song of Songs, specifically the work of David M. Carr. If you were intrigued by what I had to say about the “sexy poetry” hiding in the […]
Thoughts
This morning’s sermon was challenging, I know. I’m grateful to serve a congregation where the minister can offer a challenging sermon and be thanked. Several congregants told me I gave them a lot to think about, which is all I hope for from a sermon.
References
This morning I encouraged congregants to read a recent New York […]
Several of you asked me to post the prayer I shared at this morning’s service on forgiveness and Yom Kippur. It is:
I hereby forgive all who have hurt me, all who have done me wrong, deliberately or by accident, whether by word or by deed. May no one be punished on my account. As I […]
