Speeches & Sermons

Speeches

• Perpetual Perishings, Perpetuating Life

  Opening Keynote Address at British Columbia’s Women’s Hospital and Health Centre’s Ethical Issues in Reproductive Health Care Conference, September 2011.   Watch The Keynote Address

• Resurrecting Our Moral Center

  Closing Plenary Speech at the National Abortion Federation’s 2011 Annual Meeting and workshop presentation at the NAF’s Annual Meeting 2010.

• Addressing Stigma with Languages of Reverence and Morality

  Workshop presentation delivered at the Abortion Care Network’s 2011 Annual Meeting

• They Did Not Die Unlived Lives
  

  Reflection offered at a DC Abortion Fund gathering in June 2009, in the wake of Dr. George Tiller’s assassination.

A Few of My Sermons

• Reproductive Compassion

  Mother’s Day sermon and my goodbye sermon to the congregation.

•  Vulnerability and Strength

  Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

• Getting Lost, Asking for Directions

  How do we make it “through the woods” of human violence?

• Being With

  Sometimes the best thing we can do is simply be with. (sermon after the rescue of the Chilean miners, who were trapped alive for 70 days)