Yesterday, I delivered my first sermon in an actual house of worship.

It was an exciting and bizarre moment for me, and turned out to be quite beautiful.

Exciting because I see myself as a priest, and giving a sermon is a very priestly honor.

Bizarre because I never thought I’d ever write a sentence like that last one!

I’ve been marrying people for the last eighteen years. My first chaplaincy assignment was fifteen years ago. I’ve done plenty of conflict and relationship coaching over the past twenty years. I’ve even given away around 10,000 loaves of bread over the past decade. And yet, it’s only recently that I’ve come to see myself as a priest.

(growing up, it was always wizard!)

One of my projects is to rescue the community-oriented elements of religion from the trash heap where they ended up, with the rest of the religious junk we discarded. To pick up the “baby” of caring and food and togetherness from the “bathwater” of dogma, rigidity, and us vs. them.
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My other project is to preach the gospel of ahimsa (unconditional love) at every scale, and explain both the pragmatic and spiritual benefits of doing so.
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Today’s sermon represents a major milestone in my own understanding of that journey, and therefore, my ability to conspire with my fellow humans to make it happen.

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