Read the Order of Service January 31, 2016 – There were a lot of folks from here who were at the Open House of the Islamic Society yesterday.  [How many of you were there?]  One of the things we were told was that if a Muslim lives her or his daily life with an awareness of Allah, then everything they […]

This week’s Sermon was scheduled to be Resistance to Temptation.  Due to the weather, Sunday services were cancelled.    

Read the Order of Service. January 17, 2016 – You’ve probably never heard the name Ephraim Nute.  (But it is a pretty cool name, isn’t it?)  You’ve also probably never heard about the 2011 book that Skinner House published about him:  The Incredible Story of Ephraim Nute: Scandal, Bloodshed, and Unitarianism on the American Frontier.  (And how’s that […]

Read the Order of Service January 10, 2016 – People often think of the Unitarian Universalist faith as a champion of the individual. And in the early to mid-1800s, our Transcendentalist forebears did indeed elevate the importance of the individual, yet some today argue that their true legacy to us is their commitment to challenging the […]

Read the Order of Service This is the sermon I preached on Sunday, January 3rd, 2016.  It is not the sermon that had been advertised, nor the one I’d worked on with the lay worship weavers.  Instead, as I said in the introduction, “this sermon simply appeared unbidden.  But if you want to keep the Muses happy, you […]