Acceptance

Reflections on Love and Loss

Reflections from an experienced chaplain going through the loss of his own father. My father died April 2018. In October I traveled back to Colebrook, CN to help my family celebrate his life in the church across the street from the house where he grew up. When I returned from…

Reflections on Worth and Dignity

This sermon was delivered on July 7, 2013 at South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society during our summer of our seven principles.  This was the first in a series of worship services centered around the seven principles of Unitarian Universalism.  Our first principle is really one of the foundations of our…

I Stand with Them

http://www.pnwumc.org/gc2012/what-does-a-statement-of-gospel-obedience-mean-for-the-church/ Read it.  I have a fellow seminarian who’s Methodist jurisdiction has been bold enough to stand up for their LGBTQ members by declaring that paragraph 161F in their Book of Discipline is immoral and unjust. This is a bold, brave and courageous move.  I am deeply inspired and impressed…