THE DARK LOVER'S CALL:
A Sermon on Fugitive Joy and Divine Play

A worship service at South Nassau Unitarian Universalist Congregation (SNUUC)

February 22, 2026 · 10:30 am ET

What are you willing to risk to answer a call you can barely hear? This sermon explores the Hindu god Krishna as trickster and lover—calling from the margins, inviting us not to fight empire on its terms but to become so joyfully alive that its power becomes meaningless.

Drawing from the Santhals dancing with Madol drums and Mohua liquor, to Rabindranath Tagore—Nobel laureate who chose to learn from indigenous people at the margins rather than claim his place at the center—to the mystic Mirabai who wore a poisonous snake as a garland, this sermon paints a vivid picture of what fugitive hope looks like when it becomes illegible to systems of power. What happens when we drop the knife, refuse to play the rigged game, and play Lila—divine play—instead?