In an age of TED Talks and Podcasts, do we need sermons? If our churches are only organized for social justice, are we something different than a political group? What form should our churches take that will best do what our world still needs churches to do?

Rev. Rick Hoyt-McDaniels graduated from the Claremont School of Theology in 1998 and has served churches in the Los Angeles area ever since. He was our minister at UU of SCV from 2001 through 2010. Currently he serves as the Interim Minister for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach. He and his husband live in downtown Los Angeles.