On Tuesday I announced that I was accepting preaching invitations for June, September and beyond. I have received three. I’ll be preaching in Needham, MA (August 28), Rockport, MA (October 9), and Andover, MA (March 26, 2017). I still have plenty of availability in the coming months. It is also exciting that my calendar is starting to fill-up. 

I am currently accepting invitations to preach at congregations for June in the Boston and New York metro areas.* I am also accepting invitations for the 2016-2017 program year. Starting in September I will be available to preach in the Boston, New York, and Washington, DC metro areas. I will be traveling to New York and DC a few times over the next several months for research and would happily add some preaching engagements to my agenda.

I am generally available to provide worship services on the following topics: democracy as a religious practice, the case for reparations for slavery, racial justice, the theology of friendship, and challenges facing Unitarian Universalism. I can prepare sermons on a multitude of other topics by special arrangement.

Since this is a bit of an advertisement, let me sum up my qualifications as a preacher. I have been preaching since 2000 and have led worship services in over 100 congregations throughout the United States and Canada. I served for the parish minister of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland for five years. During my time there the congregation’s membership increased by over 50% and the Sunday morning attendance more than doubled. I have won three awards for my sermons.

*I am only available for June 12 in the New York metro area.

This blog recently hit the very modest signpost of 10,000 visitors. I thought I would mark the occasion by putting together a list of the ten most popular of my blog posts:

1. We Need to Talk About Lynching
2. A More Beautiful World: The Challenges of Unitarian Universalist Military Chaplaincy (Guest Post by Ian White-Maher)
3. Sermon: Through Eyes That Have Cried
4. Responding to Dan Harper’s Open Letter to the UUMA Board
5. The Current and Future State of Unitarian Universalist Scholarship
6. Marketa’s Czech Fruit Dumplings
7. To Stop Chemical Weapons, Go After the Arms Dealers
8. The Going Rate for Itinerant Ministers
9. Sermon: Present to Each Other
10. Sermon: Over My Head

I am delighted to announce that I will be preaching at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Upton and Grafton on April 24, 2016. Services start at 10:00 a.m. 

I’ve add another preaching date in Hopedale, MA. I’ll be at the Hopedale Unitarian Parish this coming Sunday (February 7, 2016). 

My review of Matthew Avery Sutton’s American Apocalypse has just been published on H-Net. Read it here.

I’m please to announce that I’ll be preaching at St. Paul’s Unitarian Universalist Church in Palmer, MA on May 22, 2016. 

I am pleased to announce two new preaching dates. On January 30, 2016 I will be at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading and on April 3, 2016 I will be at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford. More dates will be announced soon, including at least one in the New York metro area and another in Arlington, VA.

I have accepted an invitation to preach three times next spring at the Hopedale Unitarian Parish. I’ll be there March 20, April 17, and May 15. I’m particularly excited about this gig since I recently published an article on the history of Hopedale’s utopian community in the Journal of Unitarian Universalist History, “Recovering Abby Price: Hopedale’s Advocate for Women’s Rights.” 

I will be returning to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Marlborough and Hudson on November 29, 2015 to lead worship there.