Featured Ministers

Being Different About Indifference

We talked long into the humid summer evening about what was so different about Unitarianism. He reminded me that we have led the way on immigrant rights in opposing the new law in Arizona, which we... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

A Tale of Two Forests

I just left the Maine coast where our family has a summer cabin. The trip was elegantly restful. The mornings were spent reading, writing and, after breakfast, repairing the old cabin... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

At Least We Can Try

I just finished an intensive course in public theology at Meadville/Lombard Theological School at the University of Chicago. Other than the blistering heat, the ideas and energy expresse... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

The Grace of Neighbors

While I was serving as the Chair of the Human Relations Commission in Frederick, MD we heard from one woman, an African American who had moved into a very white neighborhood. She had just lost her ... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Out of Control? Act on What Matters Most!

As we were preparing to cross the bridge over the Columbia River on our way to my daughter Courteny’s winery in Washington State, we had motioned for an older gentleman to merge in front of ... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

There is More Than Enough

I have never been a big fan of the fourth of July. The loud noises scare dogs and little children. I am also a bit ambivalent celebrating what our country has become; an imperial powe... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Blessing the World

There is an old joke about what you get when you cross a Jehovah Witness and a UU: someone who knocks on your door and asks you what you believe. Well, that is not so far from the truth. We need to... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Holidays and Holy Days

Holidays and Holy Days Unlike many other Western Democracies, America has always had a fluid relationship between the sacred and the secular. Despite the so called separation of church and state, r... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Taking Stock

Taking Stock I was almost amused at how much panic the stock market dip of this week caused people with money. Just when they thought it was safe to wade in the capital along comes some crisis in G... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Out of an Empty Tomb

What would it take for any of us to experience a resurrection, to come down off the cross and emerge from the tombs of our lives? “Life” observed an old friend of mine “is the tomb”. We are... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Great Expectations

Palm Sunday. What were the people expecting that fateful day in Jerusalem? The messiah. Since the time of the great Kings of Israel and Judah, Saul and David and Solomon, the Jews had fallen into... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Desperately Seeking Satan

Why must we hate? To answer that question I want to look at the nature of evil itself. Evil has been called many things; the devil, temptation, hatred, even the absence of good. I can remember in... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Love, Life and Death: A Valentine's Meditation

Love lives at the junction of life and death. Death is the reminder that our time is too precious to waste it on what and whom we don’t love. Life is the permission we have to keep loving until... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Lost and Found

I was once interviewed by the children and I asked them what they think I do. They thought about this, and one boy said, “You talk to people on Sunday…" pausing for a moment and then ad... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Making Paradise

Of course, our hearts and our money must go out to the people of Haiti. They are living now in a hell far removed from paradise. I wonder what the early Christians, who suffered their own kind of ... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Leading Human Indicators

Daily, it seems, we hear reports of how the economy is improving; the Dow Jones Industrials have crossed the ten thousand mark, the banks are returning the government bailout money and are earning ... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Staying Through the Storm

Of all the tests in our lives, of all the struggles wherein our destiny is determined, our relationships, especially during the holiday season, are the hardest to judge. How do we know when to stay... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Inner Harvest

Time is the one commodity that has no way of repeating again. Its harvest comes instantly at every moment we experience and then it is gone. This moment will never be repeated. This is the essen... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Monkey Law

I ran across the idea of monkey law the other day. When certain monkeys go from tree to tree, they have a firm hand or tail on the next branch before they let the old one go. How many of us live ... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

The Other Economies

As I ponder the rapid rise of the stock market juxtaposed as it is to the even more rapid rise in unemployment, I have to ask myself, which economy are we measuring? The GDP has started growing bu... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Lights Out

She died last week, All Saints day, just before church. Into her eighties, hers was a life well lived. I am still humbled by death. Two days earlier I had sat by her side and w... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

What's in a name?

Welcome to my new blog! I chose to name this "Facing Grace" because I believe we need to boldly come face to face with the grace of the Cosmos. Grace is a word too lightly used in our... [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse

Welcome to Facing Grace

Welcome to new blog by Rev. John Morehouse. Read my latest musings. [read more]

Rev. John Morehouse