My credential here is that I had the wisdom to predict the big tidal shift in congressional representation toward a higher percentage of women. But that credential is not going…
Sermons
The affront to our sensitivities, and we are only beginning to endure and suffer this, is an assault on what we know to be one of our highest values—personal life.…
So here’s a joke, since Lincoln is our subplot today and Lincoln knew there was wisdom and humanity in humor. And it’s a joke Lincoln told on himself. I used…
“On what is the spiritual response to darkness, and what is darkness?” The three purposes of a spiritual life are to shine out in the midst of surrounding darkness, to…
King James Bible Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there…
Abraham Lincoln was a people person. God is a people person. The relationship between those two sentences is this: being a people person was Lincoln’s way of coming to know…
As our days here dwindle down to a precious few, I continue to want to give you my best shot because I want you to have your best shot. What…
This may go down in history as The Angry Spring, 2016. Not unlike the Arab Spring, this spring of 2016 has the early blooms of summer angers. We have lived…
Abraham Lincoln was a religious man, and he was a spiritual man, and he was a secular man. He was essentially a very paradoxical man. How can you be religious,…
The fulcrum for today’s sermon is a book by the former Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth, Lord Jonathan Sachs. The title of the book is, “Not in God’s Name:…
