I am a Unitarian Universalist Buddhist with a deep appreciation for all of the Source Traditions of our Faith. Practice and presence, rather than belief, are the most important aspects of my personal faith. That said, I do experience God regularly. I listen for God's voice in the world and try to attune my life to that voice.  

At time, the word God feels like inadequate shorthand, laden with millennia of associations and projections. I appreciate the chosen language of the poet Dylan Thomas, who wrote about "the force that through the green fuse drives the flower [and] drives my green age," which points to the miracle and mystery of life itself.

I embrace our tradition’s focus on covenant rather than creed. Unitarian Universalists make promises about how we will proceed together as people of faith, rather than forming our spiritual lives around prescribed beliefs. Our faith's covenantal orientation creates space in religious communities for people with a wide range of beliefs, if they are oriented toward love, justice, equity and transformation.

To achieve depth in my preaching and teaching, I turn regularly to the source traditions of our faith. In sacred texts, there is excellent counsel about how people of faith can grow in wisdom and love. In direct experience of the world around us, there is fresh insight that enlightens and beauty that can heal.