The virtue of impatience
I’ll admit it; I am not a patient person. Many times I’ve been told that patience is something I need to work on. I’m compulsively on-time (very, very compulsively) and I think everyone else should be, too. I sometimes get frustrated at the glacial pace of some things in my life. It’s true. But here’s … Read more
Some UUA pride
I have never been more proud of the UUA, or more disappointed in the rest of America’s faith groups. It’s all about a case the Supreme Court heard a couple months ago involving a teacher at a Lutheran school. In short, she was fired, claimed it was because of a disability, and threatened to sue … Read more
What We Don’t Talk About
I was sexually abused, and I won’t be silent about it any longer. It happened only once, it was by a much older man who I knew but wasn’t close to, and in the terrible realm in which these things happen, it could have been much, much worse. Thank God, he stopped when I protested. … Read more
Sermon: Like the Stars: Growing, Imploding, Shining On
Around this community and in much of the world, some of our Christian friends are celebrating All Saints Day today [this sermon was delivered Nov. 6, 2011]. We Unitarian Universalists are leery of saints, I think. We worry about what having saints might mean. Does that mean we think some people are better than most … Read more
