The Basic Human Covenant - A Sermon

Given at First Parish Unitarian Church in Norwell, MA
September 14, 2008
READING from “Our Covenant” Alice Blair Wesley
We human beings are promising creatures, in the sense that we can only do great and worth things – indeed we can only survive – when we make and keep promises of loyalty and faithfulness to the ways of love with others. For distinct and different as we are as individuals, we are also thoroughly social creatures. The options and choices we have as individuals are effected and affected by those of others; our decisions and actions and inactions effect and affect many others. None of us can fulfill our promise as individuals without the faithfulness and loyalty of many others. Therefore, the aim of our worship services is a renewal of our sense of gratitude for and loyalty to the spirit of love which summons and creates and re-creates right […]