Directory of Articles

I started writing pieces on the theme of Roots & Wings in June 2025. Here are posts, by topic and date (each title hotlinks to the article):

Introducing Roots & Wings. Core questions that prompted me to start this blog. What is it about, and who is it for?  6-11-25.

Ten Reasons I Love Congregational Ministry: A Love Letter to the Parish, for Those in Discernment.  7-18-25

Circles of Intimacy and Ultimacy: Why does small group ministry matter, and what works today?  8-22-25

Civil Disobedience: A May Day Message  Drawing on Unitarian ancestor Henry David Thoreau (May Day Rally speech). 5-1-26

Worship Innovation

• Worship Innovation in Perspective: What kinds of new things should we try, and why?  11-16-25
• Wake Now, My Senses: Participatory, Multi-Sensory Worship   12-5-25
• Spiritual Nourishment: Music- and Food-Centered Worship Formats  3-16-26
• Quality Worship in Less Time? The Quandary & Why It Matters   7-17-26
• The Sermon Co-op Experiment... Coming Soon​​

Our Midwest / UU Heritage  (sermon series)

• Introduction to the series exploring the civic, moral, and religious heritage we share as Midwesterners and Unitarian Universalists.  1-25-26
• Stewardship & the Salt of the Earth brings in more Midwest / UU history, including inspiration from Mary Safford of the Iowa Sisterhood.  3-1-26
• Convicted draws inspiration from three stories:  Jesus and his followers around Easter; Ephraim Nute and his Unitarian flock, fighting for Kansas to become a free, not slave, state; and Indiana-born labor leader Eugene V. Debs, championing workers in the age of robber barons. 4-5-26
• From Mild to Meddlesome explores what we can learn from our history of racial failures and advances, with special attention to colonization and indigenous peoples, as well as African Americans.  7-26-26

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