Here I am giving the Charge to the Minister at the Installation of the Rev. Jude Geiger at the Unitarian Univeralist Fellowship of Huntington in New York. My remark about being Alfred the Butler is a reference to the speaker who went before me who gave the congregation a charge that involved being like Batman.
The things I said to Jude are the things I say to you all the time: be yourself and do not contort yourself trying to live into some false, outmoded clergy persona, pray and be faithful, do not fall into the trap of believing that your work is more important than what God is doing through the church, and have a ministry worth loving.
Enjoy!