I once received a strange piece of mail from an organization I support. The content of the letter was not strange. It was the usual appeal for financial contributions to aid them in their organizational efforts to provide needed services to their constituency. What was strange about the letter was not its contents, but its address. It was addressed to: "Unknown Unitarian", P.O. Box 152, Norwell, Mass. That's was my box number all right, but I thought I was better known than t

Not so many years ago when I was granted fellowship as a Unitarian Universalist minister, I was given a homework assignment of sorts. I was in good company along with other middle-aged, white, affluent women answering this call. It turns out the whole of Unitarian Universalism and our Minister’s Association as well, have taken up the assignment which has been long overdue in our movement. The task was to explore my white privilege, something I had been doing over my lifeti

For my sermon of this morning I would like to reflect on the well-known Serenity Prayer of Alcoholics Anonymous, which was originally written by the late American theologian from Union Seminary in New York, Reinhold Niebuhr. A.A. adopted it as an official prayer sometime after the close of World War II. Who was Reinhold Niebuhr and how did he come to write that prayer? Reinhold Niebuhr was the product of the German Evangelical Church in America. His father, Gustav Niebuhr, wa