{"id":15380,"date":"2017-02-14T07:19:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=15380"},"modified":"2017-02-14T11:23:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T19:23:38","slug":"james-ishmael-fords-unitarian-universalist-buddhist-sermons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2017\/02\/james-ishmael-fords-unitarian-universalist-buddhist-sermons.html","title":{"rendered":"James Ishmael Ford&#8217;s Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Sermons"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2017\/02\/hogarth-preacher-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15381\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15381\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2017\/02\/hogarth-preacher-1-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"hogarth preacher 1\" width=\"455\" height=\"500\"><\/a><br>\nAs it happens it was on this day in 2005 that a group of college students launched YouTube. For me as with so many of these advances of our computer age that have become ubiquitous, I find it hard to conceive that it was a mere eleven years ago. I was serving at the <a href=\"http:\/\/fusn.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">First Unitarian Society in Newton<\/a>, Massachusetts, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boundlesswayzen.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Boundless Way Zen<\/a> network was just taking shape, this blog was still not even something I was thinking about, and wouldn\u2019t begin for another year. Today, anyone can go there and find postings where my reflections have been captured by someone or other.<\/p>\n<p>Today I thought it could be helpful to bring together those video clips of my preaching from various UU pulpits. I think they are diverse enough to capture a bit of my Unitarian Universalist <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhism<\/a> and with that perhaps of interest to some.<\/p>\n<p>The first four are from my years at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstunitarianprov.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">First Unitarian Society in Providence<\/a>, in Rhode Island. Why these and not others, frankly, I cannot say. Although what I like in that is that in their randomness they are representative, rather than my \u201cbest of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Preacher Casey, Ma Joad, &amp; the Great Way<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w0tXoVXPvys\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>In Search of the Wild Fox<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gp4APSJexCc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Humanism as a Spiritual Way<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5y13QqZ39DY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>The Mind of Easter, the Heart of Easter: A <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist<\/a> Appreciation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l5W6S1x4hS0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Videotaping sermons has become more common and since I\u2019ve retired and moved back home to California I\u2019ve occupied several pulpits as a guest and so far two have been recorded.<\/p>\n<p>This one I preached at Tapestry, a Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Mission Viejo.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dreams of the Heart: A Meditation on Martin Luther King, Jr<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MtItGwqJbvI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And this I preached at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emersonuuc.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church<\/a> in Los Angeles\u2019 San Fernando Valley.<\/p>\n<p><em>What Happens When the Prophet is a Jerk?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QsMl0wKcvPM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it happens it was on this day in 2005 that a group of college students launched YouTube. 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