Sermons beginning with: T

Any honest look back at my personal history with taking steps would render me utterly unqualified to be up here evangelizing about their benefits, indeed […]

Don’t talk to strangers, it would seem, is a global warning. But as adults we may need to relook at this message, keeping what still is true about it, but opening ourselves to the possibility that there is something to lose in keeping silent in our casual public lives so much of the time.

My daughter-in-law has been with us for the past few days, and, like mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law everywhere, I imagine, we have had a few opportunities […]

Is there anyone here that had a birthday this past week? Or maybe is having a birthday this week? Are you looking forward to your […]

I have never been one for venerating the Goddess, or God for that matter. Though I have had the privilege and responsibility of acting as […]

Why is Passover (night) different from all other nights, Safran Foer asks? Because it is the night that copyright laws don’t apply…

Delivered at Ellijay, Georgia Yesterday afternoon I did a memorial service for a man, a barely middle aged man, who succumbed to a nine year […]

Last Tuesday I made a cross-town pilgrimage to the Woodruff Physical Education Center to what was called The Visit 2010, the Dalai Lama’s scheduled events on his very periodic public teaching schedule as a scholar in residence there.

This is a story about what in Christian Tradition is known as the Last Supper and in the Jewish tradition as the final Passover meal […]

When I was first raising small children, now nearly 30 years ago, was when I first realized that solitude does, indeed, have at least a […]

A new and revealing poll by the Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life tells the story of the God Gap between Canadians and Europeans and the United States.

As Gayle White, a reporter for the Atlanta Journal Constitution wrote recently, forty years ago, the country was on the edge. In 1966, American presence […]

Roots and wings. That is a common way of describing what our religious community offers. Roots, hold me close, one of our most beloved contemporary […]

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There was suddenly this previously obscure disease, which was cropping up in a country South of our borders. How prepared would we be — in the face of such a threat?

Howard Zinn was a world-renowned historian, author, playwright, and social activist best known for A People’s History of the United States.

As hard as it is to change “bad” or at least compulsive habits, it has also been hard to intentionally establish new ones…

This sermon is available in audio format only.

This sermon is available in audio format only.

I have never been inside an adult jail or prison. I visited a juvenile correctional facility once as part of an educational tour for social […]

I had every intention yesterday of helping to celebrate the inaugural World Fitness Day with Jane Fonda, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and Ludacris (among others).

Everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid…

You have already been forewarned that what I said I was going to talk about this morning has been changed. That’s the challenge, as I […]

Canon, Georgia If we didn’t learn it already from reading the Ecclesiastes section of the Hebrew Bible, or what Christians call the Old Testament, many […]