Sunday Services are at 9:15 & 11:00 am
Attempting to define the historical Jesus is almost like describing the shape of playdough, and usually ends up sounding more autobiographical than biographical. Nevertheless, there’s a strong case to be made that Jesus embraced humanistic principles. In this sermon I’ll discuss why I claim this is so.

Sunday Services are at 9:15 & 11:00 am
Like the first sea creatures to crawl out of the primordial oceans onto land, life on Earth is now crawling into outer space. In this sermon I’ll consider what this means for our species and for life itself in the near and distant future.

Sunday Services are at 9:15 & 11:00 am
When reducing our concept of economics to money, we reduce the solutions to society’s biggest challenges to having more money. In this sermon I’ll challenge this presumption by exploring a broader definition of economics, the limitations of money, and better ways to tackle our problems and fashion a society that works for everyone.

Sunday Services are at 9:15 & 11:00 am
Humanism is the opposite of the Doctrine of Original Sin because it doesn’t believe in human depravity, the notion that human nature is inherently evil. Yet this doctrine has been with us so long that many who may no longer believe in it still accept there’s something innately wrong with human nature. In this sermon I’ll argue that human nature, like that of all animals, is an expression of nature and we are no less a part of our Earth than any of our fellow creatures.

Sunday Services are at 9:15 am & 11 am

Sunday Services are at 9:15 & 11 am
Sometimes we hear individual’s preface what kind of Unitarian Universalist they are by adding yet another religion or philosophy into the mix – a Christian UU, a Pagan UU, a Buddhist UU, a Humanist UU, and so on. This often makes me wonder why Unitarian Universalism alone isn’t enough for them, why there remains a spiritual or theological void to be filled.

As we celebrate Pride Weekend and continue our commitment to creating a world that values and protects the rights of all people, especially those of us who are LGBTQ, we do so with a bigger, brighter vision of what human society can be.

Some are predicting the advances made in the next five years will make those in the past few decades look like we’ve been standing still.

Today we take the fact of our own identity as “self” evident, if you’ll pardon the pun. But sociology and psychology consider identity as a relatively modern development, suggesting there was a time when individuals saw themselves only as part of a larger collective

When virtual reality technology becomes almost indistinguishable from non-virtual reality, I predict many of us will start questioning the meaning and nature of reality, which is a good thing to do.

People have always lived in fear, whether of hungry predators or other humans posing a threat to our family-troops and tribes, or the angry gods expressing themselves through natural disasters and plagues, or the horror of oppressive governments, foreign invaders, and warfare