The Funeral Sermon I Hope I Never Have to Preach Again
On Saturday, September 3rd, I officiated the memorial service of Taylor Williams. He was an Army Medic who had been murdered in Georgia, stabbed in the back eleven times. He was 26. The morning of the service, I posted in Westfield’s Facebook group: I mentioned...
Voting Faithfully: Immigration
For the last three weeks at Westfield, we’ve been in a sermon series entitled Voting Faithfully. The idea was this: so often we relegate our political conversations to traditional media, social media, and the kitchen table. But it’s clear to us that the...
Getting (Gay) Married
The Park Tavern, at the corner of 10th and Monroe in midtown Atlanta, was my go-to place for first dates for years I lived in Georgia’s capital (before Greg, of course!). Usually, my first date location choices were between there and the Thinking Man Tavern in...
How Westfield Found Their Pulse
When I first moved to Connecticut, my congregation wasn’t officially Open and Affirming. For the uninitiated, Open and Affirming (ONA) is an official designation within our denomination, the United Church of Christ, for congregations that welcome and affirm...01. WELCOME
