Thursday, 09 September 2010, 03:11 am PDT
Featured Ministers
Evil, Evil, Evil
Scott Reoder, who murdered one of the few U. S. doctors who performed late-term abortions, used his sentencing hearing as a forum to espouse his views in an effort to justify his crime, arguing tha... [read more]
Faith Talk
Disabled?
Disability researcher and health writer, Marsha Saxton, wrote an article called “Born and Unborn,” objecting to pre-natal testing that might lead to aborting fetuses for detected disabilities. ... [read more]
Faith Talk
I am back!
Well, I haven't posted in a while, but I intend on getting back to it now that summer has arrived. I watched a movie last night with the line "I want this hardened arm to stop dragging a c... [read more]
Faith Talk
Who Am I?
Who am I? Are we our souls, our character, our personality? Is who we are determined by biology or by the songs sung by our mothers before we were even conceived, or by some divine being? Is who... [read more]
Faith Talk
How Shall I live Knowing I will Die?
Preached on 10/04/2009 at Peoples Church Unitarian Universalist Reverend Forrest Church, acclaimed author, theologian, and Unitarian Universalist parish minister died September 24, 2009. He had se... [read more]
Faith Talk
Sex as a Spiritual Path
"A psychotherapist has a client who canceled his appointment three times before he shows up for his first visit. His is shy and obviously nervous—while the clinician is explaining about p... [read more]
Faith Talk
A Spiritual Practice
I think it is important to hold onto one spiritual practice or discipline for at least 3 months before deciding whether this practice is useful to your life journey or not. In the three months, yo... [read more]
Faith Talk
Carbon Footprints and Faith
According to the United Kingdom’s Carbon Trust, a company created by the British government “to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy by working with organizations to reduce carbon emissi... [read more]
Faith Talk
What can we do?
What are religious issues that I can become involved in? This question has two parts. First, what are religious issues, and second, what can I become involved in? As we look at what are religiou... [read more]
Faith Talk
Men and Faith
There is much literature/studies out there that suggest that men and women think differently. If we think differently, perhaps we work through out emotional and spiritual issues differently as wel... [read more]
Faith Talk
A Little About Prayer
I think of prayer as a time when I reach out and in to something greater than myself and speak from my heart. Sometimes, I hear that still small voice, speak to me in response. Sometimes I don’... [read more]
Faith Talk
Helping the Oppressed
A few years ago, Rev. Matt Tittle of Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church announced that he and his congregation were going to protest a program called “Focus on the Family "Love Won Out... [read more]
Faith Talk
Stages of Faith
Yesterday, I preached the following sermon. There was a lot of discussion about it, and many questions; so I thought I would put it out there for others to read, consider, talk about. Also the pr... [read more]
Faith Talk
An Unexpected Path to Spirit
We look with uncertainty Beyond the old choices for Clear-cut answers To a softer, more permeable aliveness Which is every moment At the brink of death; For something new is be... [read more]
Faith Talk
What will I commit to?
We can all choose to enrich our lives by choosing to be more involved in an issues that we consider to be central to our faith—whether we are Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Hinduism, Humanist,... [read more]
Faith Talk
Ministry and Woundedness
…Wherever there is a meeting that summons us to our better selves, wherever our lostness is found, our fragments reunited, our wounds begin healing, our spines stiffen, and our muscles grow stron... [read more]
Faith Talk
A Human Faith
Ram Dass, spirituality author and human consciousness researcher wrote, “‘I’m only human’ is a response I recall using many times in my youth to explain why I couldn’t fulfill all the exp... [read more]