Bryan, I am touched you are listening to my sermons in Washington DC.  For those readers who, like Brian, might want to hear what I am saying on Sundays in Dallas, please go to www.dallasuu.org .  Also, my book Reaching Deeper: Selected Sermons has just been published and will soon be available on the www.dallasuu.org  website as well as on my campaign website, www.laurelhallman.com .  The book contains a wonderful Introduction by the Rev. Dr. Kendyl Gibbons who describes my preaching in ways that both surprise and delight me! 

The issue you are asking about is whether I will continue to preach to the heart of things while serving as UUA President. My duties, as well as the possibilities for my voice to be heard, would naturally increase when I am elected. I believe you are asking if I will be able to continue to preach in the midst of all the other responsibilities of the Presidential Office?  It is a good question.

I do plan to preach at least once a month at the chapel services at “25 Beacon Street.” I believe it will be an important way to provide worship-centered leadership for our staff and visitors. I also expect to continue the UUA Presidential practice of preaching at worship services within and outside our tradition as one way to claim our place in the religious world. I plan to make sermons, as well as other pastoral letters, available on the web. So, yes, I will to continue to speak to the heart, the purpose and the hope of our Association of Congregations through regular messages on the Internet. 

It is also my dream that in the next eight years, not only will my voice be accessible on the internet, but so will the voices of the best preachers in our tradition. Many of our ministers already have sermons streamed from their own church’s web sites. I want to further lift up their voices, their wisdom and their power for all to hear. 

I will lead with my own voice and vision in the Presidency.  And I will find ways for even our smallest congregations and fellowships to gain access to streamed sermons on the Internet in the same way A. Powell Davies used the telephone to preach beyond the walls of his church in the last century.  

Brian, I believe you will hear more from me, not less, after the election.