_Canis familiaris_ First Universalist Society Central Square NY David R. Weissbard February 4, 2018 (Dogs?) This sermon emerged at this time because of the recent tragic death of our one…
Sermon Looking for a Wizard for Sunday, January 14, 2017 Just before Christmas, a number of us from the church went to see the stage production of The Wizard of…
Happy Trails or Safe Parking Lot 12/31/17 This sermon is the result of an email exchange I had with a church member who shall remain nameless about the possibility of…
Sturdy Indefensibles My old copy of Joy of Cooking has a rolled cookie recipe. It was my go-to recipe for years when we made and decorated Christmas cookies. They were…
Enough is as good as a feast December 10, 2017 We were buying food for the Thanksgiving feast at the regional market and wanted to get dinner rolls. But when…
Wisdom Dave Weissbard First Universalist Society Central Square NY December 3, 2017 THE READING THE CRACKED POT by Amy Friedman and Meredith Johnson Once upon a time a woman named…
Thanks to a book Chuck Lochner loaned me recently, I’ve been reading about gratitude. So it’s only fitting that I should begin with a word of thanks. This time of…
“Surviving Fantasyland” Dave Weissbard First Universalist Society Central Square NY 11/05/2017 THE READING from Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen [The ideas in this book] really started crystallizing in 2004…
Sermon: Debts and Debtors October 15, 2017 The title of this sermon, Debts and Debtors, was determined more by practicality than by theology. I used the words ‘debts’ and…
“Hear this, O you who swallow up the needy, ravaging the poor of the land — Saying, We must swiftly reduce the wages that we pay and break the…