READING ~ from “The Embers and the Stars” by Czech philosopher Erazim Kohak “...Certainly, humans can become wholly absorbed in the preoccupations of time. As there are humans who are…
Sermons
OPENING WORDS: The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something…
READING by Jean Shinoda Bolen “To be vulnerable and fallible, to have a shadow and a soul, to make our way in (and) through life determining who we become by…
OPENING WORDS: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the…
We admire the beauty and splendor of a glorious sunset, rainbow or vast view of the coastline, but can we as easily discover the spirit of the universe on a…
Description: International Women's Day has been observed since 1908. About 40 years earlier, Julia Ward Howe, tried to speak at peace meetings in London and Paris, but was told:…
Description: What can Grace mean in the shadow of fear and destruction? What can Grace mean within a liberal religious community where reason and science temper our understanding of…
OPENING WORDS: “The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around: brooded thereon; gave it the new arrangement of his own…
FIRST READING: “As I Grew Older” by Langston Hughes It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me,…
In writing about life and death and being here for “The Time Being,” Annie Dillard wrote, “Ours is a planet sown in beings. Our generations overlap like shingles. We don’t…
