In her second sermon in the Seven Deadly Sins series, our minister looks at perhaps the most truly emotionally non-productive of the 7, Envy.

And Pride Can Also Cometh After a Fall

On the anniversary of the founding of our congregation in 1642, we reflect on spiritual friendship and the inspiration and challenge we get from each other. I will share some passages written between two very dear Unitarian friends, James Freeman Clarke and Margaret Fuller.

Commentary on the Sermon: Faithful Friends: Founders Sunday

I have heard recently that loneliness is contagious, and I read an alarming study last year that claimed that obesity is contagious. My goodness. What with the H1N1 virus and all these warnings about catching loneliness and corpulence from each other, maybe we should all find a separate mountaintop and live there alone. My friends, the human condition is contagious, and thank God for that.

The season of Advent is all about finding the spirit of the child within. Philosopher Paul Ricouer coined the phrase "second naivete" to describe the religious faith we can develop after we have passed through the critical dismissal of literal beliefs.

Commentary on the Sermon: Second Naivete: The Mystical Way of Faith

On this All Soul’s Sunday we will share thoughts about what it means to say that final goodbye, and how we can say goodbye even if we were not able to say it to the deceased when they were alive.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. We’ll explore what happens when our "little minds" expand, and we change in ways that surprise, or even contradict, our idea of ourselves.

It has been a tradition for centuries for New England preachers to give a sermon on the pertinent issues facing the nation on the eve of Election Day. This sermon assumes that you already know the issues and have probably already made a commitment to one of the candidates. So today, I’ll be reflecting on Adlai Stevenson’s quote, "Who leads us is less important than what leads us."