Delighted to be the guest speaker at the Kearsarge Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship on May 6, 2018, at 11:00 AM. Topic? LYTENUP and HUGACAT. Is the New Yorker cartoon caption contest a spiritual discipline? What are the messages of vanity license plates? Sometimes goofy little things help us keep on truckin’. The service is at the beautiful Stone Chapel on Rte 11/4 in Andover, NH. All are welcome.

Pop culture, history, and religious traditions give us conflicting images of fathers: heroes, visionaries, tyrants, cowards, over-protective worriers, and would-be child murderers. What to make of all this on Father's Very Day (as my dad used to call it), Sunday, June 17? I'll be speaking at the  Kearsarge Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship at 11:00 AM. The service is at the beautiful Stone Chapel on Rte 11/4 in Andover, NH.  All are welcome.

I'm delighted to be returning as guest speaker to the KUUF on October 21, 2018, 11:00 AM. The service is at the Stone Chapel on the Proctor Academy campus, Rte 11/4 in Andover, NH. All are welcome. The topic is: Youth: The Arrows in our Collective Quiver. The cover of the September issue ofEntrepreneur magazine featured a thirteen-year-old girl in a pink dress, sucking on a lollipop. She’s the founder and CEO of a multimillion-dollar company. The same month, Mother Jones ...Read More

Crime and Punishment in a Himalayan Boarding School: Scripture class three times a week. Dinner table arguments about salvation and damnation. Life at an American missionary boarding school in India in the 1960s provided quite a religious education. The lessons, however, weren't always what the teachers intended. Woodstock School, Mussoorie, India

Thank you to KUUF for inviting me to speak on April 14, 2019, at 11:00 AM.  The service is at the Stone Chapel on the Proctor Academy campus, Rte 11/4 in Andover, NH. All are welcome. Topic:  "Hi, My Victim. Funny and Unfunny Scams" Most of us get a flood of scam emails and phone calls, some of them so absurd they’re hilarious. They issue impossible promises and sinister threats, preying on greed, fear, guilt--and also on some ...Read More