Do all the world religions speak of the same summit,
or different summits entirely?
I have come to the conclusion
that is must be the climbing that does it,
and not the particular real estate.
We make promises, and we break the promises. It is community that we can learn to renew promises broken, again and again. The secret of covenant community isn't the promises made, it is the capacity of the community to sustain the covenant, and renew it in the face of adversity, diversity, and even the natural apathy bred by success.
I explore the "time of our lives" in this sermon. How is clock time different from the quality of time? What about the moments that we experience that transform our lives, those moments we do not forget.
People live lives divided from one another, sometimes a crisis brings people together. I remember my childhood in Dallas.
The experience had a profound influence on my theology.
America has a civil religion. That religion includes belief in values and practices that transcend sectarian division. Perhaps Unitarian Universalists don't recognize this as a religion, and persist in the notion of a secular state, because the values that Jefferson, Adams and Franklin articulated are so close to their own.
