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since April 29, 2024
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If you had asked me when I was going to preach a sermon on sin, I would have guessed never. This is the first of what I expect to become a series: taking a word we've developed an allergy to and asking whether there's something honorable and recoverable in it. I start with a parable about two Habit…

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"You have access to the deepest wisdom you need within you." This episode explores the life journey through the metaphor of origami. An artist starts with a single square. They fold and fold — never cutting, never tearing — until a flat sheet becomes something complex and organic. And the…
"Your contribution to the work does not define your worth." A shorter episode than usual — homily length. Before the service we held a teams fair, where congregants could visit every team that makes this church function internally and do justice work in the wider community. This is the me…
"When you shed a tear, it is likely that some of the water in your tears has been cried before. Maybe many times. Maybe countless times." This is a recording of our Water Communion service. I've left the voices of congregants sharing their blessings in the episode, so that those blessings…
"We are not free from triggers, but we can develop the skills to recognize those triggers when they happen." In this episode I work line by line through a dense passage from Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed — the one about the oppressed having internalized the image of the oppress…
"Your body is neither an inconvenience nor tertiary to your existence." This episode is an invitation into embodied practice — and a correction to something the summer sermon series may have implied. Over July, the four-part Social Change series read Deepa Iyer's ecosystem through gut, he…
"It is possible to be free. Not free from anger, or shame, or fear — but free among them: transparent to the light, a window the light shines through." The final service in the four-part series reading Deepa Iyer's social change ecosystem through a developmental lens arrives at spirit — n…
The third sermon in The Pulpiteer's four-part series reading Deepa Iyer's social change ecosystem — from her book Social Change Now, the 2025–26 Unitarian Universalist Association common read — through a developmental lens drawn from the Enneagram's centers: gut, heart, head, and spirit. This week:…
The season two finale of The Pulpiteer is a love letter — to a congregation, to podcast listeners, and to a word that has been weaponized for too many people: faith. Preached on Flag Day, the service begins with the Great World House reframing the flag not as a banner of war but as a covenant — lif…
The second sermon in The Pulpiteer's four-part series reading Deepa Iyer's social change ecosystem — from her book Social Change Now, the 2025–26 Unitarian Universalist Association common read — through a developmental lens drawn from the Enneagram's centers: gut, heart, and head; plus spirit. This…
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