Category: Soul
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Found this recently while dredging through some Google Docs folders. It’s from a church service I collaborated on during January 2009, the theme of which was “peace and quiet.” Somehow I ended up talking about the need to occasionally punch another person. If you’re interested, read on … When Yvon and I started wrestling with…
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Arabian horses have been bred in the deserts of the Middle East since the time of Muhammed. In fact, there is an “Al Khamsa” designation that attempts to draw a direct lineage to the Prophet’s own herd. Arabians were the mounts of Genghis Khan, of Napoleon, of George Washington. So it’s a little strange to…
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“Being agnostic about the afterlife, I look for salvation here—not to be saved from life, but to be saved by life, in life, for life.” -Rev. Forrest Church I was reminded of this while looking for some old documents, and found my response to attending General Assembly in 2008: This was my first General Assembly…
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I’m not much of a nap person, never have been. But if you wanted to put money on a fairly good proposition, bet that I will take a nap on the afternoon of Martin Luther King Day. For the last several years, I have co-chaired the service projects at the Unitarian Society of Germantown with…
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Little churches are always hungry for volunteer leaders. Because they’re desperate, they’re not very discriminating. And they don’t have a mechanism to remove ineffective or problematic leaders. Their inability to respond or remove poor leadership means that small problems become big ones—bigger maybe than lacking a stable of strong leaders. Better to stick to your guns…
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Delivered Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010, at Thomas Paine UU Fellowship, Collegeville, Pa. I was at a cousin’s wedding four months ago. Fun time. Saw all my cousins, and many of my nieces and nephews. If you have a family flung over even a few states, you’re familiar with the fact that family only gathers for…
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Stephen Prothero wrote this really interesting book, God Is Not One, where he argues what seems in retrospect to be an obvious point—that Hindus, Muslims, Christians and Buddhists don’t share the same beliefs and by extension don’t worship the same god(s). The question, I guess, is whether each worships a different god, or the same one…
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A talk delivered in 2010 at Thomas Paine Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, in Collegeville, Pa. ººº Credo. The goal of each child in our Coming of Age class this year is to craft a credo by the end of the school year, around May. But what in the world does that mean? Well, credo is most…
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This Sunday talk was shared on April 10, 2010, at Thomas Paine Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. It’s good to be with you all this morning. This talk started a couple months ago, at work, where I’m an editor for Men’s Health magazine. I was back-reading an article “Why Men Fail,” by Mike Zimmerman. In it, he…
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This is a Sunday morning talk I gave at Thomas Paine Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on Sunday, April 26, 2009. Good morning—a gloriously warm morning here in Collegeville. I like warm and sunny, but sometimes, I admit, I fear we’ll soon have far more warm, dry days than I can stomach. And that’s how we’ll segue…
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This was presented at Thomas Paine Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in February 2009 after returning from a trip to New Orleans. It is good to be back here in Collegeville. Good to be back in my bed. Good to be back with my boys. Good to be back among friends. And yet, I must tell you,…
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Almost forty years ago, Martin Luther King was in Memphis, Tenn., to support a strike by African-American sanitation workers. King was at this point the most targeted man in America—a point driven home by his flight to Memphis, which was delayed by a bomb threat against King. On the night of April 3, he gave a speech,…
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