“Speech gives rise to speech” that’s what a famous German philosopher from the last century wrote: “Speech gives rise to speech.” What could he have meant? Now the philosophy of…
Sermons
Sermon on Patriotism for Unitarian service, 11/1 In Castine and 11/15 in Belfast. America is a big adolescent boy. Glory, like war, is a boy’s thing and America has had…
When I was first in Seminary in New York City in the 1960’s we were all excitedly reading a book by a Harvard theologian called “The Secular City.” It celebrated…
When the center cannot hold—and we do feel it—we need new ways to hold ourselves together. In the cycles of history new religions are born out of the disintegration of…
As we look around the world today we see religious forces moving front and center as the driving forces in the evolution of civilization. We see religion play a role…
