UUCA – Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta

I was a gang member when I was a teenager. A serious gangmember. Our
gang — we called it a “club” — was divided into companies
of six. The proud owner of a 1938 Oldsmobile sedan, built like a tank,
I was the driver for my company of six. We had corporals and
lieutenants and captains and — somewhere [...]

Some may recall a sermon last spring in which I mentioned that,
calling for information about Unitarian Universalism, a woman had once
asked me if we are a cult. I [...]

"Zorba, have you ever been married?”

Zorba answers, “Am I not a man? Of course I've been married.
Wife, house, Kids, everything … the full catastrophe!”

This really was not a lament on Zorba's part. He didn't
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Sammy Davis Junior notwithstanding, most of you have probably guessed
that I am not Jewish. All the more reason for me to feel honored to
have been asked to participate [...]

As a male in this culture, one of the most embarrassing confessions I
have ever had to make is that I'm not into sports. I am quite
seriously not into [...]

There's a new fad abroad in the land, mostly among teenagers.
Teenagers around the country are wearing jewelry– rings (a few
actually worn on fingers), bracelets, necklaces– which bear the
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Someone asked me recently when I became a minister. Ordinarily, I
would have simply said, “Oh, about thirty-five years ago, I
guess. I was ordained about thirty-five years ago.” But, this
time, my mind chose to make a big deal out of the question, complicate
it, mess with it, analyze and philosophize with it. In short, make a
sermon out [...]

During the holidays, I overheard our youngest daughter, Jennifer, say
to her older brother-in-law that the ice cream they were eating was
“awesome.” Brother-in-law said, “No, Jennifer. The
Grand Canyon is awesome. This ice cream is merely very good.”
Well, he got the kind of unrepeatable response for that that one might
expect. Then, shortly afterward, I read something in [...]

This is a portion of Martin Luther
King's Letter from Birmingham City Jail. King was a
Christian, and used Christian symbolism to make powerful statements.
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Ministering at the time of death is never, of course, a routine,
simple task. There are those deaths that are called "good
deaths." The "good death" comes at the end [...]