July 2016

  • To Love Life: Dancing between Order and Chaos

    To Love Life: Dancing between Order and Chaos

    A sermon I gave at the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church (Oak Ridge, TN), an overview of Matthew Fox’s Creation Spirituality

  • Songs against Hate

    Songs against Hate

    Last week, we heard about yet another black man killed by police. And immediately after that, we heard about another. As if that wasn’t enough, less than 24 hours later, a sniper killed five police officers who were working a Black Lives Matter rally in Dallas. A few weeks ago, it was a mass shooting…

  • For Justice and Reconciliation

    In perfect love and perfect trust, we ask for the blessings of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth to help us dispel darkness and hate with the power of light and love. Spirits of the East, Spirits of Air, grant us wisdom and inspiration as we work toward truly understanding and truly knowing each other. Spirits…

  • For Justice and Reconciliation

    For Justice and Reconciliation

    In perfect love and perfect trust, we ask for the blessings of Air, Fire,Water, and Earth to help us dispel darkness and hate with the power oflight and love. Spirits of the East, Spirits of Air, grant us wisdom and inspiration as we work toward truly understanding and truly knowing each other. Spirits of the…

loaf of bread, cup of wine, and candle

I Am the Bread of Life

David Ensley Oct 6, 2026

This is a celebration of the beginning of the harvest…

manuscript illustration of Jesus feeding the multitude

A Tale of Two Feasts

David Ensley Aug 2, 2026

A person sowing seeds, weeds, wheat, a mustard seed, yeast,…

As Winter’s Darkness Closes In

As Winter’s Darkness Closes In

David Ensley Jul 17, 2025

As winter’s darkness closes inWe gather here withinTo hear a…

stone circles in Scotland

Circle Us, O God

David Ensley Mar 11, 2025

A caim prayer is an ancient Celtic prayer form asking…

collage of icons of Irish saints

Daily Prayer – All Saints

David Ensley Feb 25, 2025

Approach and Invocation Brothers and sisters, + our help is…

Wheat field

Lammas, the Feast of Bread

David Ensley Aug 4, 2024

Happy Lughnasadh, y’all! Also called “Lammas,” this is the feast…