This week I'm heading out to the States. Next Sunday (6th July) I'll be preaching at First Church Boston if I have any Boston-area readers that want to come and say hi. The weekend after I'll be in New York City, and was wondering where to worship. Any recommendations from anyone about good churches, UU or otherwise?
"They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Isaiah 2:4 Palestine Action are doing just this: beating swords into ploughshares i.e. putting weapons out of use. In doing so they are fulfilling this biblical mandate. They are expressing God's peace as expressed in the Jewish tradition and the Christian tradition. God desires that our swords shall be beaten into ploughshares, that we should unlearn war. That the government wants to make this action illegal has to be confronted in the strongest terms. To rush to condemn attacks on weapons but not attacks on children is perverse. To call attacks on weapons terrorism but not attacks on children is perverse. When government comes to such an extreme position - legislating that peace is war, that weapons need more protection than children - then they have fundamentally gone wrong. This is the definitio...
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All Souls, is the city’s largest congregation and has the highest public profile. This is the Church served so long by the great Forrest Church, who is still listed as “Public Minister” and continues to write and speak while gracefully facing terminal cancer. Of course neither Forrest nor new Senior Minister Galen Guengerich will be preaching the Sunday morning you will be in the city. According to their web site http://www.allsoulsnyc.org/ David Robb, Minsiter of Adult Education, will be in the pulpit.
On the more intimate level is Fourth Universalist Church, now led by another remarkable minister, Rosemary Bray McNatt. The congregation is about a tenth the size of All Souls. It still retains a distinctly Universalist tone within a Unitarian Universalist context. July 13 Associate Minister Beth Putnam will be preaching according to their web site http://www.4thu.net/