The sermon title comes from the recurring lines in Leonard Cohen’s song Anthem: “Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There’s a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.” Quite often it is through the broken places in our lives that some light makes its way through to give us some deeper understandings of ourselves and our world. 

I’ll speak to this phenomenon both on the personal level, as well as on the cultural, societal, and political levels.  The past several years have revealed some terribly disturbing cracks in our socio-cultural life. Is there any light to be found that may shine through these cracks?

Rev. Steve Edington is the Minister Emeritus of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua, New Hampshire, a congregation he served for 24 years before his retirement.

Steve has been a previous guest speaker at UUCKV. He grew up in St. Albans and is a member of the graduating classes of St. Albans High School—1963, and Marshall University—1967.