Reflections from an experienced chaplain going through the loss of his own father. My father died April 2018. In October I traveled back to Colebrook, CN to help my family celebrate his life in the church across the street from the house where he grew up. When I returned from…
Dear America, How Ya Been?
Dear America, How Ya Been? is a sermon delivered at South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society December 2018 about my love for the dream of liberty, welcome and respect of individuality that I find at the heart of America and having the hard political conversations to cross the divides we have…
The Risk of Caring
The Risk of Caring is a sermon delivered in March of 2017 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden where I was invited to preach as a guest speaker. This sermon shares stories from chaplaincy and talks about the holy ground we walk upon when caring for others. I do…
Once there was a dream called America…
July 4…Independence Day…for me today is a day when I remember the dream of America, take stock of where we are in realizing that dream, mourn our shortcomings and hope that in the years to come, we will do more to realize the dream. Once there was a dream…
Cupcakes and Our First Source
Another Patheos Blog sharing a story about mysticism, revelation, one of our Six Sources in Unitarian Universalism…and cupcakes. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/naturespath/2017/06/cupcakes-first-source/
Blogging on Patheos
Every once in a while I get to share a blog reflection in the Nature’s Path, the UU Paganism blog on Patheos at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/naturespath The recent post is the beginning of reflection for a sermon about weathering earthquakes and renewal that I will be delivering this coming Sunday at South Valley…
Encountering Change: A Chaplain’s Perspective
How do we encounter the Other? Can we adapt and bridge in this time of challenging political division and change? What happens when a Chaplain encounters something different, strange or challenging? Watch this sermon online at the South Valley Unitarian Universalist YouTube Download a PDF of Encountering Change: A Chaplain’s…
“Fiercely Protect our Diversity”
I was sitting in flower communion (a UU ceremony started in 1923 by Rev. Norbert Capek in Prague) listening to Rev. Patty Willis talk about the diversity of the flowers, and how they are made more beautiful by their differences. It is the bright, luminous, array of colors of flowers that make…
Reflection from 1936
We UU’s, as a faith, have something to offer national politics and governance. For those who like social reflection out there…and find it fascinating when the past is relevant today…I was just re-reading the 1936 Commission on Appraisal Report “Unitarians Face a New Age” and Chapter 13, on page 307-308…
Which God?
Which God do you mean when you say “God?” I realize some of you reading this may think “well, THE GOD, of course” still, do you know which one you mean? What does the God you envision look like? Feel like? Smell like? Watch the video on YouTube Download the…