November 6: Source of Suffering (All Souls Day) Rev. Paul You don’t have to be religious to ask the question, “why me?”. That’s part of the human condition, and every culture and religion has offered some take on this topic. Paul will compare, for example, the Christian notion of original sin with the Hindu concept [...]

October 23, 2011 © 2011 by Paul Britner October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and it has become my practice to offer a sermon during this month on this topic. This year, I will reflect on a statistic that’s well known among people who work in this field and that is that the average woman [...]

October 16, 2011 Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Montgomery © 2011 by Paul Britner My mother, bless her heart as they say down here, was a firm believer in the proposition that high hopes inevitably lead to disappointment, and, therefore, if you don’t want to be disappointed in life, you shouldn’t hope for much. When I [...]

October 9, 2011 Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Montgomery © 2011 by Paul Britner Judging from the signs in front of other churches and the websites of my Unitarian Universalist colleagues, I think every minister has given at least one sermon with the exact title, “The Art of the Apology”. Perhaps it is because of the [...]

September 25, 2011 Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Montgomery © 2011 by Paul Britner A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Naomi Tutu speak. She is the daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu from South Africa. She talked about a gardener who spent years carefully arranging flowers by colors, size, type, and so [...]

September 18, 2011 Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Montgomery © 2011 by Paul Britner This morning, I begin a 5-part series on hope that I will present about once a month for the next several months. I hope you enjoy it. That would be an example of hope as wishful thinking. Wishful thinking is to hope [...]