Hello to all of our family and friends,
Our sermon this week on February 21st is 'Good Religion, Bad Religion'. Our guest minister is Rev David Horst.
As with power and authority, religion can be used for good or ill. The rise of Christian nationalism compels us to ask, Are some religious beliefs good and others bad? Perhaps there should be a religious code of ethics: Do particular religious beliefs encourage the feeling or intuitive dimension of life? An acceptance of reality and intellectual honesty? Freedom and responsibility? Mature ideas and beliefs? A sense of trust and relatedness to God and the universe? Rev. David Horst dares to judge what constitutes healthy, ethical religious beliefs in his sermon "Good Religion, Bad Religion."
Rev. David Horst is a Community Minister at the New London Homeless Hospitality Center in Connecticut and founder of The Open Circle, a spiritual guidance practice for individuals and groups. He is the Affiliate Minister at All Souls New London, Unitarian Universalist, and associated with the Spiritual Life Center in West Hartford, Spiritual Directors International, and Unitarian Universalist Society of Community Ministries. He blogs at the-open-circle.com/blog.
Rev. Horst served five Unitarian Universalist congregations in Boston, Nantucket, and northern New Jersey in his 20-year church ministry. He is a 1999 graduate of the Harvard Divinity School and was ordained the same year by the Cambridge, Mass., congregation. He holds a Certificate in Spiritual Guidance at the Unitarian Universalist Rowe Center in Massachusetts.
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