Most Sunday mornings, I only get to hear sermons by me. But over the years, I have gotten to hear others preach, even on the theme of Thanksgiving.
I was thinking recently of one such sermon, and of one person’s reaction to that sermon. The message of the sermon was this: We have a tendency to [...]
When the church year began, I had not planned to preach about Akhenaten, onetime pharaoh of Egypt. In fact, none of the pharaohs was on my list of likely sermon subjects.
I did make reference to Akhenaten in a sermon earlier this fall, though not here. I gave a homily one Sunday afternoon at our church [...]
I have had Elizabeth Tarbox on my mind a lot this week. Elizabeth
was the author of two meditation manuals published by the UUA, the first in
1993, when she was minister of our church in Middleboro, Mass., and the
other five years later, by which time she had become minister of our church
in Cohasset.
For the few decades [...]