This is a version of the sermon I delivered to our Partner Church in Felsőrákos, Romania during my visit there last August. Eastern European Unitarianism remains a Christian denomination, minus a belief in the Trinity, of course.

Ordinary individuals today have the power to transform the world in unprecedented ways. Each one of us has the power to accomplish dreams that were unimaginable just a short time ago. But old paradigms about the way things once were, are still holding us back … read more.

Sunday Services are held at 9:15 and 11:00 a.m.
In her book, Don’t Label Me, Irshad Manji distinguishes between “honest diversity” and “dishonest diversity.” One promotes our common ground, the other labels and segregates us. A big part of our mission at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane is to promote diversity. Let’s be honest about it.

Some have asked why I’m taking my brief sabbatical in the dead of winter, rather than waiting for summer.

Sunday Services are held at 9:15 and 11:00 a.m.
It would be tragic, with all our creativeness and extraordinary technological advances in modern times, if humanity itself remained stagnant in its ways, if, that is, all our advances only help us perpetuate the same old bad habits. Pondering our own meaning and purpose, and empowering others to do the same, is necessary for a healthy, living society.

If love, as Fromm says, includes a “sense of responsibility, care, respect, knowledge” of those we love, and if, it is not possible to love others without also loving ourselves, then it is necessary to take responsibility for our own well-being and unfolding. In this … read more.

Sunday Services are held at 9:15 and 11:00 a.m.
At the start of another new year, many of us imagine what we might make better for ourselves in the coming months. But a longer look ahead, into the far future, requires us to imagine how to make things better for our descendants: to think about our moral obligations to people we may never know.

Our annual candlelight service using traditional Christmas hymns, readings from a variety of religions, and short homilies to help us celebrate the miracle of every birth and the birth of the Universe itself.

Services are held at 9:15 & 11:00 a.m. each Sunday. Grandma doesn’t have to get run over by a reindeer to prove the existence of Santa Claus. Science provides all the clues we need to believe it possible for a man to travel round the … read more.

Services are held at 9:15 & 11:00 a.m. each Sunday. In this final sermon of the series, I’ll wrap it up by imagining what the world might look like if human society were to adopt the humanistic ethic, and wonder if we will have an … read more.