I have confession to make. I love Supergirl. I watched it last year as it aired, and recently my seven-year-old daughter asked to watch it. So I’ve been watching it again, knowing what’s coming, and experiencing it through her eyes for the first time. Like most freshman shows, it takes an episode or few to … [Read more…]
Listen to the sermon here: Jeanne D’Arc Or, watch and listen to the sermon on Facebook Joan of Arc. The name has passed into legend around the world, the Maid lifted up into sainthood. Her story has been re-imagined, retold, and adapted over and over again, from Mark Twain’s novelization of the historical records in … [Read more…]
Watch and listen to the sermon on Facebook The Book of Revelation. It’s a letter written by a person who called themselves John, meant for seven communities in Asia that had gathered around a belief in Jesus Christ. Unlike today, when Christian identity is linked with power and empire, Christian communities (even before they were … [Read more…]
Listen to the sermon here: We Ask the Church Or, watch and listen to the sermon on Facebook I used to be a screenwriter. Almost ten years ago, the Writers Guild of America went on strike, right when my career was about to take off. I’d sold a project to a big studio AND it … [Read more…]
These prayers were written to go with the verses of hymn #100 in Singing the Living Tradition, “I’ve Got Peace Like a River”. The choir sang each verse in response to the spoken prayer. In this sanctuary and beyond its walls are people working for peace in many different ways” peace within in themselves, their … [Read more…]
This was originally posted on the Patheos blog Nature’s Path, August 17th, 2016. Last month I wrote about the holidays of Lammas and Lughnasadh, waxing both poetic and academic about their ancient origins and relevance to us in modern times. But this month, I’m writing about how I actually celebrated the holiday, possibly for the … [Read more…]
from whence do I come, and how, and whither? I come from the sea. stretching tall and wide I could touch both the ground below and the sky above rolling with the waves held in the embrace of undertow one day I was released onto your shore tumbled onto coarse sand thick of limb soft … [Read more…]
On July 10th, 2016, in response to a devastating week in the news cycle, the shared leadership of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville decided to change the worship service the day before it happened. Watch and listen to Jason’s sermon interspersed with the readings he asked me to do.
This was originally posted to the CUUPS Patheos blog, Nature’s Path, on June 14th, 2016. You for whom the house of love Has become the house of death– I Who am the Goddess of love and death open My arms to embrace you (Excerpt from “Inanna’s Prayer”, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying, Starhawk … [Read more…]
This was originally posted on the Patheos blog Nature’s Path, May 11th, 2016. One of the many blessings I’ve experienced during my internship at First UU Nashville is participating in our CUUPS chapter events, especially our monthly full moon ritual and drum circle. Shared ministry is deeply embedded into the culture in this congregation, and … [Read more…]