The promise I would like to make and remake to the world is that I will witness and I will testify, that I will not cower before judgment - others or my own. This gets me into trouble. Sometimes it is 'good trouble.'
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Sermons
Walking The Talk by Dismantling the Mess: The 8th Principle and Our Pledge to End White Supremacy
Everything in our culture has emerged in a milieu that includes America's original sin - White Supremacy. We are discovering together that dismantling White Supremacy is an imperative of any faith worthy of our membership.
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Beloved Stories
Everything in our culture has emerged in a milieu that includes America's original sin - White Supremacy. We are discovering together that dismantling White Supremacy is an imperative of any faith worthy of our membership.
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What a Piece of Work Are We
The Unitarian Universalist hymn “Oh, What a Piece of Work Are We” celebrates the capacity of humanity. It also opens the door to a contemporary chuckle… what a piece of work, indeed! Both responses are revelatory.
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Summoning Better Angels: An Inauguration Elegy
An exploration of the American Creed, those values our nation holds high and hopes to live into even though we have, and will again, fall short of their grandeur.
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Love and Power
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.