If I’m not cultivating an open heart and watching for the helpers, the teachers, and the angels, I may miss them when I need them the most.

You have given us a day unique from any other.

We gather to honor our covenant and engage in congregational life.

Out of mystery we are born, and mystery receives us when we die.

Taking what we need and leaving the rest behind isn’t only a one time thing. We can do it anytime.

We already have everything we need within us to meet the life that is before us.

May I speak from my learning and not from my habit.

Why do we so readily hand over what's priceless for a meager sum of money—or a major sum, for that matter?

At the core of American racism is the belief that the things we the Blacks desire, the fact that we the Blacks desire, are perversions.

We teach girls to be likeable, to be nice, to be false. And we do not teach boys the same. This is dangerous.

Black men are not a species. They, you, belong to humanity.

It is now, when we are called to act on our values, not to hide, not to fear, but to be bold and loud.

The wellspring of decency is loving this life in which people die, people suffer, there are limits, and we make mistakes. The wellspring, then, of moral action is not utopia, not a counterfactual vision, not a declaration that the world could and should be otherwise....

Spirit of Life and Love, Justice and Peace, The spectacle of foolish pride is ever before us in these times. Indeed, pride has seldom looked so foolish in our lifetimes. So many people in positions of public trust and responsibility have lost their authority and our confidence spectacularly. And...

One: On Labor Day we honor our work, physical and mental, paid and unpaid, joyous and heartbreaking. Many: We give thanks for work’s gifts, suffer its difficulties, and strive to make labor just and joyous for all. One: Our work can build our society, provide for our material needs, and give our...

If a friend were in my situation, I would have seen their failings as human. So why hold someone to an unforgiving standard just because that someone is me?

We seekers are on a quest: A quest to discover truth and meaning. Sometimes we think we’ve found it— Wrapped up, glimmering with newness Straight off the intellectual assembly line. All the answers right here for us And others, if they’d only listen. But truth has a way of coming in disguise,...

Mystery of the Universe – Ground of our very Being, Truly it is said that you make the sun rise, and the life giving rains fall, on both the just and the unjust And in that way, yours is an abounding grace, and we give our thanks. But it is also true that none of us are ever really spared –...

Liking somebody, even loving somebody, is not enough to protect them from shade that you cannot even see, much less understand.