Topical Sermon Archive
This page is an archive of Rev. Carl's sermons at UUCF, categorized by topic. For the sake of simplicity, each sermon has been placed in only one topic. Our chronological sermon archive includes a full list of all sermons preached at UUCF in recent years, as well as audio (and more recently video) versions of sermons.
Artificial Intelligence (Big Data)
- “A Brief History of Tomorrow” (July 9, 2017)
- Immigrants Aren't Coming for Your Job, Robots Are (March 25, 2018)
Bioethics
- Bioethics, CRISPR, & Our Children Redesigned (September 10, 2017)
- “Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Navigating the Bioethics of the Near Future” (November 19, 2017)
Broadway
- Pippin: The Search for Truth and Meaning (May 3, 2015)
- Listening to "Les Mis" as a Spiritual Practice (March 13, 2016)
- The Wiz (April 2, 2017)
Caregiving
- Addiction and Grace (August 5, 2012)
- After Trauma & Loss: What (Not) To Say (November 3, 2013)
- “None of Us Are Getting Out of This Alive”: How & Why to Make End-of-Life Choices (October 23, 2016)
Conflict Resolution/Transformation
- “What You Say Next Will Change Your World”: Practicing Nonviolent Communication (December 7, 2014)
- How to Maintain UU Principles When You Can't Agree on the Facts (October 8, 2017)
Constitutional Law/Interpretation
- "We the Corporations?!" (January 27, 2019)
Creativity
- Celebrating the Spirit of Creativity (August 18, 2013)
- Where Does Creativity Come From? David Lynch, Twin Peaks, & Transcendental Meditation (November 12, 2017)
- The Spirituality of Shakespeare (April 10, 2016)
December Holidays
- Chrismukah, IllUUmination, and Chalica: Navigating the Holidays (December 2, 2012)
(December 23, 2012)
- Slowing Down for the Holidays (December 22, 2013)
Democracy
("UU 5th Principle: The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large")
- Reclaiming Prophetic Witness: Liberal Religion in the Public Square (May 31, 2015)
- Pluralistic Ethics & Political Polarization: Struggling to “Speaking the Truth in Love” in Election Season (May 1, 2016)
- Reactions to the End of White Christian America: Building a Democracy with Economic, Gender, and Racial Justice for All (October 9, 2016)
- What Liberal Fundamentalism Is--and What It Isn't (October 28, 2018)
- How Democracies Die & An Education in Hope (3 November 2019)
Pre-Election Sermon
- Change We Can Believe In? (October 21, 2012)
- “The Righteous Mind” and the Democratic Process (November 4, 2012)
- Can You Be Both a Religious Liberal and a Political Conservative? (November 2, 2014)
- “How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible”: Liberal Religion, Shifting Interpretations, and the Democratic Process (November 1, 2015)
- "Daring Democracy": For Such a Time as This (November 5, 2017)
- "The People vs. Democracy (November 5, 2018)
Post-Election Sermon
- In the Wake of an Election (November 11, 2012)
- "History Teaches Us to Resist" (November 11, 2018)
- How Change Happens: Why do some social movements succeed & others fail? (10 November 2019)
Discernment
- Not All Resolutions Are Created Equal: Future Me and Fire Communion (December 30, 2012)
- What Is Yours (Not) to Do? (January 5, 2014)
- "Thrive": Choosing Well-being in the New Year (January 4, 2015)
- “Are You Living the Life You Chose?”: How To Discern Your Call (August 2, 2015)
- “Are You Fully Charged?” How to Make and Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions: Reflections on Tom Rath (January 3, 2016)
- How to Excel at One Hard Thing: Grit, Passion, & Peak Performance (January 1, 2017)
- How to Find Meaning in Life (January 3, 2021)
Forgiveness
- "Practicing Forgiveness" (June 7, 2015)
Gratitude
- Savoring the Small Stuff: Ordinary Gratitude as Spiritual Practice (November 18, 2012)
- Brené Brown and the Gifts of Imperfection (April 27, 2014)
Happiness
- How to Be Happy — for a Moment, Day, or Lifetime (December 4, 2016)
Jungian Spirituality
Masculinity
- The Sacred Masculine (June 16, 2013)
- "Feminist Masculinity and Father’s Day" #YesAllWomen #AllMenCan (June 15, 2014)
- Toxic Masculinity, Many Masculinities: Reflections on the 15th Anniversary of 9/11 (September 11, 2016)
Mother’s Day
- Mothers Day for All (May 12, 2013)
Music
- The Sacred in Music (June 1, 2014)
Ordination
- To Bless, to Hope, to Ordain: For the Ordination of Megan Mathieson (June 30 2019)
- The Love of Wisdom & the Wisdom of Love: For the Ordination of Scot Hull (February 2, 2020)
Poetry
- “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”: The Life-saving, Ecstatic Poetry of Mary Oliver (April 26, 2020)
Philosophy: The Love of Wisdom
Religious Freedom
- Religious Freedom, Corporate America, & Christian America (January 8, 2017)
- "One Nation, Under God(s)": Why “Freedom of Religion” Doesn’t Protect the Right to Discriminate in Public #Torda450 (January 7, 2018)
- Sacred Liberty & Desolating Sacrilege: On the Storming of the United States Capitol (January 10, 2021)
Resilience
- Falling Down & Rising Strong: Learning from Brené Brown (July 31, 2016)
- Brené Brown, True Belonging, & the Courage to Stand Alone (September 23, 2018)
- Spiritual Practices for a Pandemic: Connection, Meaning, & Hope in the Time of Coronavirus (March 15, 2020)
- Kindness, Courage, Connection, & Creativity amidst Coronavirus (March 22, 2020)
- Meaning, Purpose, & Love: How to Reimagine Your Life during a Pandemic (March 29, 2020)
Six Sources of Unitarian Universalism
("UU 3rd Principle: Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations.")
("UU 4th Principle: A free and responsible search for truth and meaning.")
1st Source: “Direct Experience”
- The First Source: Direct Experience (August 12, 2012)
- Interspirituality: Experiencing the Heart of the Six Sources (September 22, 2013)
- Religious Mystic & Rational Humanist: from Ramakrishna to the Mystical Humanism of Jeffrey Kripal (March 30, 2014)
- "A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses" (June 22, 2014)
- Comparing Religions: Reflexive Re-readings (August 31, 2014)
- Spirituality of Embodiment: The Science of Yoga and Befriending Your Body (July 19, 2015)
- What Happens When You Immerse Yourself in the Sound of Silence? (August 23, 2015)
- Rewatching “Groundhog Day” as a Spiritual Practice (January 31, 2016)
- Gnosticism, Then & Now: Firsthand Spiritual Experience vs. Secondhand Theology (May 7, 2017)
2nd Source: “Words and deeds of prophetic women and men"
- Protesting as Prayer & Life as a Work of Art: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 19, 2014)
- Cesar Chavez & Why David Sometimes Wins (September 14, 2014)
- "In the Face of Despair — Choosing Hope, Community, and Meaning: Reflections on Richard Rorty" (January 10, 2016)
- Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom (February 19, 2016)
- George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, & Octavia Butler: Reading for Resistance & Resilience (August 27, 2017)
- Martin Luther & the Law of Unintended Consequences: Reflections on the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation #Reformation500 (October 29, 2017)
3rd Source: “Wisdom from the world's religions"
- How Ordinary Spirituality Can Transform Your Life (September 28, 2014)
- How Do You Define Religion? (Who Benefits? Who Decides?) (December 11, 2016)
Animism
- Marie Kondo, Animism, & Changing Your Life (5 January 2019)
Buddhism
- Pragmatic Buddhism, Westernized Dharma, 21st century Sangha (May 5, 2013)
- Becoming a Buddha, not a Buddhist (March 9, 2014)
- “The Fourth Turning of Buddhism” (May 24, 2015)
- From Baby Boomer Buddhism to Lodro Rinzler’s Millennial Hipster Buddhism: Insights for Modern Life (November 22, 2015)
- Beyond “McMindfulness”: How Not To Get Stuck in the Early Stages of Buddhist Meditation (May 15, 2016)
- "Hardwiring Happiness”: How to Have More Positive Experiences in Your Life (August 28, 2016)
- What Comes "After Buddhism"? (February 25, 2017)
- Chögyam Trungpa, Freedom, and Meditation (June 11, 2017)
- Contemplative-Curious: What Happens on an 8-Day Meditation Retreat? (December 10, 2017)
- How to be "10% Happier” (September 8, 2019)
- Love, Rage, & Radical Dharma (January 31, 2021)
Daoism
- The iChing (Yijing), Jung, and Chinese New Year (January 26, 2014)
- "Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: The Meaning of the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) for Today (October 20, 2014)
Hindu Tradition
- Living the Bhagavad Gita (June 9, 2013)
- Krishna and the Hindu Tradition (March 2, 2014)
Interfaith
- Embracing Pluralism, Building Bridges, and "Common Action for the Common Good” (July 28, 2013)
- Celebrating Mixed Religion: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Syncretism (August 30, 2015)
Islam
- The Future of Islam (October 5, 2014)
- Practicing Safe Texts: Misquoting Moses, Misquoting Jesus, Misquoting Muhammad (October 4, 2015)
- Islamophobia & Democracy (September 25, 2016)
- American Muslims & Islam in America (September 17, 2017)
“Mormonism”
- Mitt Romney, Mormonism, and Latter Day Saints (October 14, 2012)
“New Religious Movements”
- Star Wars: Jediism, Invented Religions, & the Spirituality of the Force (December 10, 2017)
4th Source: “Jewish and Christian teachings”
- Reading the Same Text Differently with Jews & Christians (September 21, 2014)
- Jewish Readings of Christian Scripture: Parables as Deeds Not Creeds (October 12, 2014)
Christmas
- Blue Christmas: The Longest Night of the Year
- Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Christmas Sermon on Peace” (December 24, 2017)
- A Unitarian “O Holy Night” (24 December 2020)
Jewish Tradition
- When to Not Tolerate Intolerance? Insights from the Jewish Tradition (September 24, 2017)
- The Kabbalah for Today: Deeper into the Life You Already Have (September 16, 2018)
- Open, Direct, Mutual, Present, Spontaneous—without judgement or agenda: Martin Buber’s Life of Dialogue (September 29, 2019)
Hebrew Bible
- Eve Was Framed, the Serpent Was Right: Jeffrey Kripal and Gnostic Reflections on Religion (August 24, 2014)
- Aronofsky’s Noah: from Hope in Heaven” to “Hope in Grandchildren” (April 6, 2014)
- Did the Exodus Happen? And What It Means Today (December 14, 2014)
- ”Did God Have a Wife?”: Asherah, Heavenly Mother, & Mother Earth (December 13, 2015)
Easter
- Practicing Resurrection (March 31, 2013)
- The Life Tradition vs. the Death Tradition in Christianity (March 16, 2014)
- "Easter, Earth Day, and Flower Communion: How Did Jesus Become God, and What Does Resurrection Mean Today?" (April 20, 2014)
- The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene (April 6, 2015)
- Remembering, Changing, Inventing: How Stories About Jesus Were Told (March 27, 2016)
- Easter: History Remembered or Prophecy Historicized? (April 16, 2017)
- The Exponential Growth of a Forbidden Religion: How Did Christianity Grow from 20 people to 30 million in 370 years? (April 1, 2018)
- What's Next?: A History of the Afterlife & What Happens If Everyone Matters? (April 12, 2020)
Non-canonical
- Lost Christianities and Banned Books of the Bible (November 10, 2013)
5th Source: “Humanist teachings (Reason and Science)”
- Why Is There Something Instead of Nothing? (March 3, 2013)
- Poetically Dwelling on the Earth as a Mortal (April 28, 2013)
- Atheism for Lent: The Spiritual Practice of Doubt (February 16, 2014)
- “Do You Really Want to Know?” Copernicus, Darwin, and Marx (September 27, 2015)
- Are You A Faitheist? (December 6, 2015)
- The Spirituality of Doubt (February 7, 2016)
- Why We Should Choose both Religion and Science (June 12, 2016)
- Modern Uncertainty: “Meeting the Universe Halfway” (August 14, 2016)
- A Clock on the Floor Runs Slower than One on a Table—& Other Wild Truths about Time (March 3, 2019)
- This Life: Secular Faith & Spiritual Freedom (September 22, 2019)
- Earthrise, Big History, & Deep Time (October 20, 2019)
Darwin Day
- Evolutionary Religion (February 9, 2014)
- Celebrating Darwin Day: “Perpetual Curiosity, Scientific Thinking, & Hunger for Truth” (February 14, 2016)
- What Does It Mean that We Are Sapiens? Reflections on Darwin Day (February 12, 2017)
- How Darwin's Book Changed America--& how Unitiarians first read Darwin (February 10, 2019)
- The Tangled Tree of Life: Evolutionary Insights after Darwin (9 February 2020)
6th Source: “Earth-centered traditions”
Native American Spirituality
- Native American Spirituality: Appreciating Diversity or Appropriation without Reciprocity? (September 23, 2012)
Neo-Paganism
- Coming Out of the Broom Closet” #PaganPride (September 6, 2015)
Spring
- The Spirituality of Spring: Creativity as Spiritual Practice (April 14, 2013)
Winter
- Can You Feel the Wheel of the Year Turning? The Spirituality of Winter (December 9, 2012)
- Winter Solstice Spirituality: “Learning to Walk in the Dark" (December 21, 2014)
- Why You Should See 2,700 (Not 12) Stars at Night: Reclaiming a Spirituality of Dark Skies (December 20, 2015)
Halloween/Samhain
- Scarred, Scared, Sacred: Celebrating Samhain (October 27, 2013)
- Vampires, Witches, and NPR: The Legacy of Margot Adler (October 25, 2015)
- "Witches of America" (October 30, 2016)
Stewardship
- A Spirituality of Stability (September 29, 2013)
- The Generosity Path (March 1, 2015)
Social, Economic and Environmental Justice
("UU 1st Principle: The inherent worth and dignity of every person")
("UU 2nd Principle: Justice, equity and compassion in human relations")
("UU 7th Principle: Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.")
- The Hunger Games, the Zombie Apocalypse, and the Meaning of Myths, Then and Now (December 1, 2013)
- Selma, Seneca Falls, Stonewall: Claiming Our Social Justice Story (February 2, 2014)
- Building Your Own Ethics (January 11, 2015)
- Letting Go of Fear and Celebrating Differences: Insights from Intersectionality for Collective Liberation (August 9, 2015)
- Dissent (July 16, 2017)
- Defense Against the Dark Arts: Harry Potter for Such a Time as This (October 27, 2019)
- "If You’re Not at the Table, You May Be on the Menu”: Principles of Social Justice (6 October 2019)
Animal Rights & Tree of Life
- “Unsanctifying Human Life”: Wrestling with Peter Singer’s Ethics (September 13, 2015)
- What Animals Think & Feel: The Deep Origins of Consciousness (August 12, 2017)
- The Hidden Life of Trees (December 23, 2018)
- Living the Entangled Life: World-Changing Insights from Mushrooms & Mycelium (13 December 2020)
Bullying
- We Are All Weird: What You Can Do To Stop Bullying (June 2, 2013)
Civil Resistance, Civl Disobedience, Nonviolent Activism
- Conscience, Civil Disobedience, and Holy Obedience (July 14, 2013)
- Resistance & Resilience: What Does (and Doesn’t) Work in Movements for Social Change (April 9, 2017)
Classism
- You May Be Rich and Not Know It: A Jeffersonian Spirituality for Today (November 25, 2012)
Climate Justice
- Wendell Berry, Climate Change, and Earth Breathing (April 21, 2013)
- Betting on Earth's Future (April 19, 2015)
- “Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice” (April 17, 2016)
- Earth Day, the Earth Challenge, & the People’s #ClimateMarch (April 23, 2017)
- “If the Climate Was a Bank, They Would Have Already Rescued It”: Recent History, the Human Game, & Eco-dharma (April 19, 2020)
Criminal Justice Reform
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness (February 10, 2013)
- Just Mercy: "Each of Us Is More Than the Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done" (April 3, 2016)
- Another World Is Possible: What Does Prison Abolition Really Mean? (24 January 2021)
Death Penalty
- Another World Is Possible: Repealing the Death Penalty (February 24, 2013)
Disability Rights (Ableism)
- Equal Access: The Ongoing Struggle for Disability Rights (August 16, 2015)
Economic Justice
- The Market as God (March 5, 2017)
Eugenics
- Eugenics, Then & Now: Liberal Religion & Illiberal Progressives (March 26, 2017)
Gun Violence
- Politics of the Broken Hearted: Gun Rights and Gun Responsibilities (December 16, 2012)
- Preventing Gun Violence (March 10, 2013)
Immigration
- En la Lucha: (Dis)covery, (Im)migration, and Social Justice (September 2, 2012)
- "Take Down These Walls": Immigrants Make America Great (October 15, 2017)
Income Inequality / Wealth Gap
- Sharpening Our Pitchforks: How to Decrease the Income Inequality Gap (September 9, 2018)
Indigenous People's Rights: Decolonization
- “An Indigenous People’s History of the United States”; or Why "Columbus Day" Should Be "Indigenous People's Day" (October 11, 2015)
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, & the Teachings of Plants (13 October 2019)
Labor Rights
- Why a 40-Hour Work Week? (It’s Decreased Before. It Could Again.) (June 14, 2015)
- People, Planet, Profit: Revitalizing the Labor Movement (September 4, 2016)
- Beyond $15: The Study Floor of a Universal Basic Income #21stCenturyUniversalism (September 3, 2017)
- Alienated Labor, Bullshit Jobs, & the Dream of a 15-Hour Work Week (September 1, 2019)
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender / Gender-Nonconforming Rights (LGBTAIQ+)
- A Single Garment of Destiny: MLK and Savoring the Victories for the DREAM Act and Marriage Equality (January 20, 2013)
- Cisgender and Transgender (October 13, 2013)
- Identity and Inclusion: Transgender Liberation (August 21, 2016)
- “Being Gendered in the 21st Century” (30 September 2018)
- The 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising:Riots, Rebellion, Liberation, & Pride (June 2, 2019)
Poverty (Global Poverty, Extreme Poverty)
- Why Peter Singer Hates on Guide Dogs & the Make-a-Wish Foundation: Reflections on “The Most Good You Can Do” (November 15, 2015)
Dismantling Racism (Racial Justice)
- Building the Beloved Community: Anti-Racism and Multiculturalism in a Local Congregation (October 6, 2013)
- "The Selma Awakening: How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Changed Unitarian Universalism" (March 8, 2015)
- What Ta-Nehisi Coates Taught Me About “People Who Believe They Are White” (September 20, 2015)
- "Whose Side Are You On?" The Legacy of Anne Braden for Today (September 18, 2016)
- Spiritual Practices of Curiosity & Commitment #UUWhiteSupremacyTeachIn (April 30, 2017)
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery & the Making of American Capitalism (November 26, 2017)
- “The Opposite of ‘Racist’ Isn’t ‘Not Racist.” It's ‘Antiracist” (November 17, 2019)
- "Forgotten History & the Origins of Our Discontents" (1 November 2020)
Dismantling Racism (Centering Black Voices)
- Developing Double Consciousness: Beyoncé, Black Panthers, & W.E.B. Du Bois (February 21, 2016)
- The Radiant & Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry (February 2, 2020)
- The Stories We Tell Matter: “An African-American and Latinx History of the United States” (23 February 2020)
Dismantling Racism (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
- Rosa Parks: The Rest of the Story (January 18, 2015)
- “The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr.”: Why We Need a Third Reconstruction in America (January 17, 2016)
- Dangerous Friendships, Golden Shadows, & the Legacy of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr (January 14, 2018)
- “Martin & Malcolm & America” (10 January 2021)
Reproductive Justice
- Reproductive Justice: Did You Just Send That Woman to a Church to Get Help with An Abortion? (April 7, 2013)
Restaurant Worker Justice
- If You Eat at Restaurants, Look “Behind the Kitchen Door" (January 12, 2014)
Torture
- Zero Dark Thirty: Torture, Disavowal, and the Oscars (February 17, 2013)
Waging War and Waging Peace
- Becoming a Congregation Where All Bodies Count: Memorial Day, Fallen Soldiers, and Civilian Casualties (May 26, 2013)
- The Right of Conscience and the Crystallization of Conscience (May 4, 2014)
- Memory, Memorial Day, and Monument Wars (May 18, 2014)
- How to Love Your Enemies...In Buddhism, in Christianity, and in Real Life (June 8, 2014)
- The Secret Six: Violence and Nonviolence in Unitarian Universalism (August 3, 2014)
- Tectonic Shifts in the Global Religious Landscape: Looking Back on the 100th Anniversary of the Beginning of World War I (August 17, 2014)
- “God Bless America (and No Place Else?!)": The Uses & Abuses of Civil Religion (May 29, 2016)
- “You Say You Want a Revolution”: What Have We Learned on the 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution? (October 22, 2017)
Women's Rights
- “Grandma Was a Suffragette”: Justice Across Generations (On the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote) (August 16, 2020)
Transitions
- "How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World" (May 18, 2014)
- Seventh-Generation Thinking (May 17, 2015)
Unitarianism
- Why Unitarianism? (July 20, 2014)
Unitarian Universalism
- Pluralism, Pragmatism, Progressivism: My Journey to Unitarian Universalism (July 22, 2012)
- What Is Our Conveyor Belt? Building the Beloved Community (March 17, 2013)
- Who's In Charge Here? The Dance between Shared Ministry and Authority (July 7, 2013)
- ‘Spiritual & Religious’ Is More Radical Than ‘Spiritual But Not Religious (August 25, 2013)
- Unitarian Universalism in 30 Seconds: Developing Your UU Elevator Speech (September 1, 2013)
- "Why Does Unitarian Universalism Have Such a Long Name?" (August 10, 2014)
- Deeds Not Creeds, Behavior Is Believable (September 7, 2014)
- The Religion of Tomorrow: Waking up, Growing up, Cleaning up, Showing up (August 6, 2017)
Universalism
- Why Universalism? (July 27, 2014)
- Cultivating Empathy: The Worth and Dignity of Every Person — Without Exception (October 2, 2016)
- Lessons from the Life of Orestes Brownson, “An American Religious Weathervane” (October 1, 2017)
- The Greatest Showman: “P. T. Barnum, The Legend & the Man” (October 7, 2018)
General Assembly
- What Would 3,500 Unitarian Universalists Do? (June 30, 2013)
- "Find Out How Much Love the World Can Hold": Reflections on General Assembly" (July 6, 2014)
- Building a New Way (July 12, 2015)
- “Becoming Wise”: The Practice of Generous Listening (July 10, 2016)
History
- The Stories We Choose to Tell Matter: Highlights from Unitarian Universalist History (January 13, 2013)
- An Honest Heretic: Religion, Science, & Dr. Joseph Priestley (January 25, 2015)
- The Transient and the Permanent: Theodore Parker & Transcendentalism (March 15, 2015)
- Give Yourself Permission for Self-Care: Cautionary Tales from UU History (July 26, 2015)
- Thoreau in Today's America (January 22, 2017)
- The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. — for Today (March 29, 2017)
Founding Mothers of Unitarian Universalism
- Margaret Fuller (May 11, 2014)
- The Peabody Sisters (May 10, 2015)
- Julia Ward Howe (May 8, 2016)
- Mary Moody Emerson: Ralph Waldo’s “First & Best Teacher” (May 14, 2017)
Theology
- Do We Need a Moratorium on the Word 'God'? (October 7, 2012)
- Building Your Own Theology (September 8, 2013)
- Living the Questions: Further Reflections on Building Your Own Theology (November 17, 2013)
- “Evil: A Liberal Religious Investigation" (April 24, 2016)
Utopia
- What Do We Mean We When Say, "Building the Beloved Community?" (March 29, 2015)
- "We Are Already Saved from Perfection" (June 3, 2018)
Water Communion
- A River Runs through It (September 9, 2012)
- This Is Water (September 15, 2013)
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