Sunday Sermons & Services
Good worship speaks to our hearts, souls, minds, and bodies, offering us comfort, challenge, inspiration, transformation, and peace. Each Sunday, worship should resonate with those who have just stumbled into church for the first time as much as with thirty-year members of the church. Each Sunday, worship should lovingly hold the full emotional range of the congregation – those devastated by the death of a parent, giddy with new love, furious at an injustice, and anxious about their ability to make ends meet this week.
Each Sunday, worship should draw Spirit down into the Sanctuary and leave each congregant with a deeper sense of life’s meaning and a renewed presence to their internal life, their relationships and senses, and to that transcendent Love that permeates all being.
This is the kind of worship I strive to create each week in collaboration with lay worship associates, musicians, and religious educators.
Each Sunday, worship should draw Spirit down into the Sanctuary and leave each congregant with a deeper sense of life’s meaning and a renewed presence to their internal life, their relationships and senses, and to that transcendent Love that permeates all being.
This is the kind of worship I strive to create each week in collaboration with lay worship associates, musicians, and religious educators.
Sermons
Footprints on the Sands of Time
Delivered August 18th, 2013 All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington DC The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote “Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.” We each hope to leave behind something meaningful when our short time on earth is over. How do we measure the impact of our lives? What kind of legacy will we leave behind? Sermon Text Sermon Audio |
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Embracing Home
Delivered July 21st, 2013 All Souls Church, Unitarian Washington, DC Nearly eight years after the decimation of Hurricane Katrina, those who call New Orleans home are still struggling to recapture a normal life—a task made harder by institutional racism and classism. Why does home matter? How do we face devastating loss and systemic injustice? Where can we look for support, healing, and transformation? Sermon Text Sermon Audio |