Sunday Second Service: Conversations with Todd

The Art of Self Deception: If, By Chance, You Care to Know

Sigmund Freud, the father of Psychoanalysis and modern psychology helped us understand that our actions and beliefs are often (perhaps more often than not) driven by unconscious forces. Today, almost everyone applies this awareness to their interpretation of events, although mostly to presume (often wrongly) the underlying motivations of others (seldom of themselves). In this sermon we’ll consider the unconscious process through which we frequently deceive ourselves and why we should care. Listen to the audio only of this sermon.

Born is Not Enough: What it Really Means to be Prolife

It’s already been four years since the extremely partisan US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, giving those claiming to be “pro” life what they’ve claimed to have wanted for decades. But when it comes to the care and concern of the living, they remain as mute as always. In this sermon we’ll expose this hypocrisy and consider what it truly means to be a lover of the living. Listen to the audio only of this sermon.

The Decalogue According to Todd

During a recent sermon, I rephrased Judaism’s Ten Commandments to better reflect their original meaning. In this sermon, I discuss my versions in more depth and explain why I believe it’s a more accurate translation than most. Listen to the audio only of this sermon.

Is Nationalism Synonymous with Racism?

Nowadays, most of us condemn the idea of racism, but how does it differ from nationalism when it is used as an excuse to terrorize, extort, bomb, displace, and kill people who live across the imaginary borders we’ve use to segregate the human race, the only race there is? Listen to the audio only of this sermon.

To Crush Superstition: Whatever Happened to the Dream?

It’s 2026 and the U.S. President is fighting with the Pope and displaying pictures of himself dressed as Jesus. The Secretary of Defense (or is “of War”), recently asked every American to pray to Jesus on bended knee. What happened to the optimistic vision of a future without superstition that was envisioned by our forebears toward the end of the 19th century? In this sermon we’ll be honest about this goal and ask if remains part of what our liberal religion is still about. Listen to the audio only of this sermon.