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Sermon given at Pocatello UU Fellowship, this sermon reflects on hierarchical and flat leadership models. Draws from examples of the Civil Rights Era, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter, considering how leadership can embrace both models for a hybrid that values all voices.

Today’s sermon was given at Pocatello UU Fellowship, where Rev. Jenny Peek serves as Consulting Minister. Based on our November theme of Vision and Mission, the message today explains those terms and also suggests that we examine our actions for their alignment with our vision, to be a community that promotes spiritual inquiry over dogma, and builds justice for every person.

At Pocatello UU Fellowship, annual service of remembering our loved ones who have died. Reflection on the human practice of seeking to understand life and death.

Given July 7, 2019, at Magic Valley UU Fellowship. Political Correctness in the US had humble noncontroversial roots. In Europe, Stalinism and Naziism made PC a matter of life or death. This haunting history shows up again in modern US culture, slowing our pursuit of a just and humane society for all.

Both an interesting topic and an experiment in extemporaneous speaking, presented at Pocatello UU Fellowship on June 7, 2019.

Empathy, conscious and unconscious, in evolution. Magic Valley UU Fellowship, Twin Falls, Idaho. August 24, 2019.