Sermons beginning with: S

My oldest child turned 30 this week. Another milestone for both of us in our history together. He is, without a doubt, all grown up […]

I grew up in what has come to be known as the Silicon Valley, at one time a magnificent agricultural area called the Santa Clara […]

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There’s a daily natural disaster list on the World Wide Web that keeps a record of all felt earthquakes, active volcanoes, flash floods, active cyclones, tornadoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, mud flows, and solar flashes, along with major storms.

Give me that old time religion. Give me that old time religion. It was good enough for little David…

In the beginning, some of us learned the story of creation from the first story of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. How in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

A puppeteer, a Shaman, a priest, a Crone. They stand in the circle of bonfire, or upon the altar of worship, and tell their stories.

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Macon, Georgia I can’t help but note, ironically, that I deliver this particular sermon the first weekend of Lent in the Christian calendar, a time […]

This sermon is based on the book by the same name by religious feminist and process theologian Carol P. Christ. God has been a part […]

Regardless of gender, we receive persistent messages about the folly of, the downside of anger. An online scroll through quotes and sayings on anger reveals the dominant message: anger is not beneficial, in fact just the opposite, and must be curbed if not eliminated.

An ancient proverb: Silence is also speech. Or, “It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”

Delivered for the ordination of the Rev. Julianne Lepp, at Eau Claire Unitarian Universalist Congregation

Why all this focus on and fuss about clutter? New York Times columnist Pamela Druckerman says that “clutter is having its moment because we have accumulated a critical mass of it.”

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I felt that I was prepared for whatever the day would bring, whatever I would bring to the day. No matter how captive I actually was, I felt amazed. Which rabbis tell us is what it means to be spiritual.

In all the years I have lived in Georgia, lived in Atlanta, I had never visited the King Center. I had driven by it, seen […]

A look at the emerging Sunday Assembly movement after attending the opening service in Atlanta.

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Believe me when I tell you that for the past few days, I have been sweating the small stuff. Literally. I have been down on […]