in Acting for an Equitable

Troubled Waters

Presented February 10th, 2019 Many years ago I visited my cousin in Cornwall, England. She lived with her family in a farmhouse beside a main road, surrounded by fields and cows. One...

in Spiritual Growth

Diving In

Presented February 3rd, 2019 Many winters ago in Hungary, a young man sits at his desk with a small rock he bought at the morning market. The man inspects the rock under...

in Spiritual Growth

The Flamingo and the Star

Presented December 23rd, 2018 A Unitarian minister, Clarke Dewey Wells, has a story about his young son and a star. Shortly after twilight, our 3 ½ year old tried to gain our...

in Seventh Principle, UU Theology

Kith and Kin

Presented December 16th, 2018 This month you have probably seen a nativity scene somewhere – the one with the baby Jesus lying in a manager, with Mary and Joseph adoring him, with...

in Relationship

The Gift of Compassion

Presented December 9th, 2018 We are just over two weeks out from Christmas Day, and like most years, I have not yet mailed Christmas gifts to my aunt and cousins in the...

in UU History

Memory Maps

Presented November 18th, 2018 “Memory is the most elemental thread of which the tapestry of experience we call reality is woven.” (Maria Popova) Memory is an elemental thread in the tapestry of reality....

in Community

Money and Memory

Presented November 11th, 2018 In the story this morning (Wilfrid Gordon Mcdonald Partridge by Mem Fox), Wilfrid asks what memory is. His father gives the easy answer, “something you remember.” But perhaps...

in Relationship, Spiritual Growth

In the Shelter of Each Other

Presented October 14, 2018.    “There’s a river of my people and its flow is swift and strong.” Pete Seeger It is in the shelter of each other that we live. This...

in Relationship

Leaves Falling

Presented October 7, 2018 These words come from mid-century American poet Margaret Walker, from a  poem titled October Journey. “I want to tell you what hills are like in October when colors...

in New Ways of Being, Seventh Principle

Greening Hearts

Presented September 30th, 2018 “It’s in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.” Van Jones Several years ago I was...