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Dear President Obama
Dear President Obama, At one point in your speech to the United Nations General Assembly from this past September, you quoted your predecessor Franklin Roosevelt, saying: “The structure of world peace… more →
Thousand Voices
Dear President Obama
Anthony David wrote 1 week ago: Dear President Obama, At one point in your speech to the United Nations General Assembly from this p … more →
Planting Seeds of Soul: The Seed of Clear Thinking
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Anthony David wrote 2 weeks ago: I want to start out this morning by introducing you to a tongue-in-cheek syndrome called Age Activat … more →
Spending Our Lives
Anthony David wrote 3 weeks ago: “Near the end of March, 1845,” says Henry David Thoreau in Walden, “I borrowed an axe and went down … more →
Planting Seeds of Soul: The Seed of Self-Knowledge
Anthony David wrote 1 month ago: How many of you remember the 1984 movie hit The Karate Kid? It’s a story about a high-schooler named … more →
Only That Day Dawns to Which We Are Awake
Anthony David wrote 1 month ago: “From the east comes the sun, bringing a new and unspoiled day.” So begins our responsive reading fr … more →
Chart sermons
mjes1 wrote 2 months ago: Back in the day – well, back when I was in the basement Sunday School classes, I loved the fl … more →
The Cathedral of the World
Anthony David wrote 2 months ago: “The world has need of your theology,” said prominent Harvard theologian Diana Eck last year to one … more →
Rosh Hashanah Homily: Giving Birth To Isaac
Anthony David wrote 2 months ago: Today is the birthday of the world! Earlier I was scanning my facebook page, and I noticed one post … more →
Cutting Through Abstractification
Anthony David wrote 2 months ago: I begin with a story about one of my cats, who was originally named Xena (as in “The Warrior Princes … more →
New Morning, New Man: Poetry of the Male Spirit
Anthony David wrote 5 months ago: Listen to this story from Paul Kivel, from his book Men’s Work: How to Stop the Violence That Tears … more →
Something to Live For, Something to Die For
Anthony David wrote 5 months ago: I love this Jerry Seinfeld quote: “Life is truly a ride,” he says. “As you make each passage from yo … more →
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time
Anthony David wrote 5 months ago: There’s a story I go to in the Hebrew Bible when I’m in the midst of adversity, and I’m fighting for … more →
Parents Coming of Age
Anthony David wrote 6 months ago: It was Abraham Lincoln who once said, “You have to do your own growing, no matter how tall your gran … more →
Gifts of the Goddess
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Anthony David wrote 6 months ago: Listen to this poem by Pem Kremer, called “Epiphany”: Lynn Schmidt says she once saw you as prairie … more →
Building Our Audacious Future
Anthony David wrote 7 months ago: One day a mother mouse was out taking her babies for a walk, and a cat came out of nowhere to surpri … more →
The Work of This Holy Season
Anthony David wrote 7 months ago: My Easter homily draws from the picture book by Jane Cutler entitled, The Cello of Mr. O. Publisher’ … more →
Feel-Good Evangelism: Faith-Sharing for Liberal Religionists
Anthony David wrote 8 months ago: About the good news of our shared faith, the Rev. Clinton Lee Scott once wrote a “Parish Parable” wh … more →
Comic Spirituality
Anthony David wrote 8 months ago: Coyote is a key trickster figure in Native American mythology. He’s a shape shifter, part human and … more →
The Uses of Adversity
Anthony David wrote 9 months ago: This morning I want to talk about the uses of adversity, and in doing so, I am mindful of a piece of … more →
