Question. My great friend Dr. Mike Sperber always asks huge questions. “So where did we come from?” he calmly asks as we speed down Rt. 128 – he’s taking me to a doctor’s appointment. Do you have a friend like that?   It stirred thoughts that had been forming in my...

One Monday morning some years ago, I was with a group of people from my home church, preparing to leave our sleeping quarters in New Orleans to head out to work on a flooded home.  “Don’t make lunch,” we were told.  “Some friends of the owners are planning to bring...

We are a nation in a time of great division – of starkly different visions.  When I see news reports of all the conflict we are experiencing these days, I am struck by a sense that America is living in a place of deep fear.  [download id="264"]  

When I was first setting out along my path into the ministry, I came upon an essay written by a UU minister, whose name I cannot recall, who was reflecting on the art and craft of preaching.  She said something that has stayed with me for years now:  that ultimately...