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:…
Sermons
Hymn 1: Just as Long As I Have Breath #6 Hymn 2: Winds Be Still #83 Hymn 3: Wake, Now, My Senses #298 Opening Words: From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius…
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…
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,…
On this Martin Luther King Sunday, I have chosen to link the life of Dr. King with that of the great Frederick Douglass, who in many ways commanded the same…
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:…
“Mr. Fulghum, is it true that you’re a minister?” “Yes.” “Where’s your church?” “We’re standing in it.” “But this is a bookstore and it’s a Friday.” “Yes, but you might…
“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…
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…
