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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