This is the recording, transcript, and manuscript from a sermon I recently offered at Starr King Unitarian Universalist Church in Hayward, California.

Given that I approached the setting as something of an outsider with a particular affection for the Bible, I preached with the question,

“what, if anything, does the Bible have to offer, on the journey toward world peace?”

and considered that question through Durkheim and Foucault (and in an earlier draft, Michael Cavanaugh’s Migrations of the Holy), landing on an argument that the Christian Scripture’s polycultural nature is part of its gift to humanity.

I recently had the opportunity to preach on the topic of Jesus’s teachings at Buena Vista United Methodist Church in Alameda.

Drawing from the last Bishop Mortimer Arias, the sermon focused on the question of what Jesus taught about, and the congregation’s distinctively faithful “Buena Vista way”.

This sermon considers the question, “what does justice work have to do with following Jesus?”