Archive for October, 2006

It Matters That We’re Here

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

Weekend before last, my wife Carol and I were back in New Jersey, where we’re from. The occasion was the fiftieth anniversary of the UU Church of Monmouth County, which is in the town of Lincroft. There was a dinner on Saturday evening, and then at both celebratory services on Sunday morning the [...]

Homily for Partaker’s Sunday

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

I want to celebrate the many ways that many of you take our religious values out into your lives beyond these walls - in your relations with family and friends, at your places of work, and in voluntary efforts to promote peace, justice, and what I recently heard a colleague describe as the gentling of [...]

Happiness

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Here is how it began: I got an email from one of you, who often goes under the name of Roger Horine, with an article attached, one about a new book by Darrin McMahon called Happiness: A History. He commended it to my attention because, he wrote, “it brings up so many angles [...]