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…
Sermons
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mother's Day When I was in my twenties and thirties, starting out as a father, no one ever told me that parenting would be easy. Still, never in my wildest…
Opening Words: “For a New Beginning” by John O’Donohue. In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly forming, Waiting until you…
Responsive Reading In celebrating life, we must celebrate the earth. This essential element provides the foundation from which all things grow. It provides the bedrock for our very being. We…
Easter Sunday Opening Words: by retired UU minister Dick Gilbert, A tomb is no place to stay, Be it a cave in the Judean hills Or the dark cave of…
