What moves the heart? What occupies the mind? Where does the spirit live? We explore these questions through the work and voices of people with diverse lived experiences. Our search is for meaning, how it's made, and where it's found.
This was one of my first professional sermons preached at Unitarian Universalist Church of East Liberty in Michigan in 2019.
This was a talk I gave in 2022 at the Chautauqua Institution as the guest of the UU Fellowship of Chautauqua. It includes a poetic reading that was part of the service before the talk.
This was an interview I did back in 2020 with Abby Stein, the transgender activist, author, speaker, and scholar.
Pastor Joshua leads worship as the minister-in-residence at the UU Fellowship of Chautauqua. The entire service is 29min 50 sec. The homily called "From Fear to Freedom" starts 9 min 54 sec. The original title was "Freedom and Other 'F' Words."What moves the heart? What occupies the mind? Where does the spirit live? We explore these questions through the work and voices of people with diverse lived experiences. Our search is for meaning, how it's made, and where it's found. This is Joshua Lewis Berg. Thank you for joining me on Heart, Mind, Spirit | Exploration.
In a series of three sermons, I reimagined Reinhold Niebuhr's Serenity Prayer.The prayer is usually recited as "God, give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."Listen to a Jewish Humanist Unitarian Universalist consider these thoughts as I come up with my own interpretation I call the Fortitude Prayer.What moves the heart? What occupies the mind? Where does the spirit live? We explore these questions through the work and voices of people with diverse lived experiences. Our search is for meaning, how it's made, and where it's found. This is Joshua Lewis Berg. Thank you for joining me on Heart, Mind, Spirit | Exploration.
My colleague and fellow student Ebony C. Peace and I are both students at Meadville Lombard Unitarian Universalist Theological School. This podcast strays a bit from the usual HMS | Exploration format because it was recorded as the final project for our class, Spirituality and Social Justice Activism in African American Traditions taught by Dr. Pamela Lightsey. Our assignment was to create a podcast that discusses a current human rights crisis for Black people in America. We chose The right to democracy.
A discussion about how people of privilege can do ally work and bear witness to injustice.
In my capacity as intern minister at Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Southfield, Michigan, I spoke on Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's book, How to Be an Antiracist.
Interview with Abby Chava Stein, author of Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman
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