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Wrestling With Privilege

January 30, 2011 | Filed under: Sermons

Understanding race and class privilege is an important part of resisting oppressive systems in our culture, but it’s also important spiritual work. Come consider how understanding privilege and marginalization enhances your own healing and wholeness. Click here to listen (file length is 24:17): Sermon 2011 January 30

Remembering Dr. King

January 16, 2011 | Filed under: Sermons

Martin Luther King, Jr. is celebrated as the pivotal leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. But now it is more than 40 years since his assassination, and it is easy to forget—or not know!—that Dr. King’s teachings still have relevance for us today. Let us gather …

Sharing the Good News

October 10, 2010 | Filed under: Sermons

Many of us would never consider talking to our friends or family about Unitarian Universalism. We might be afraid of seeming pushy or fanatically religious. But Unitarian Universalism can also be a haven for those who have been searching for a spiritual home. Let’s discuss ways that we can share …

Tiptoeing Into God Talk

August 22, 2010 | Filed under: Sermons

Sometimes it seems that Unitarian Universalists are able to talk about anything and everything but God. We have so many varying beliefs, it can feel safer not to share our ideas about God with each other (including the idea that there is no God). But we are not people to …

Putting Down Roots

July 18, 2010 | Filed under: Sermons

Being in community sounds good but isn’t easy. Being in church community can be especially challenging because we have high hopes and expectations of what our shared church life should be like. Let’s reflect on the challenges and rewards of putting down roots together. Click here to listen (file length …

In Praise of the Goddess

July 11, 2010 | Filed under: Sermons

Neopagan traditions recognize the cycles of the moon as visible expressions of how the Goddess works in our lives. Let’s honor tonight’s new moon with reflections on the visibility and invisibility of the Divine Feminine. Click here to listen (file length is 22:46): Sermon 2010 July 11

Faith of the Free

July 4, 2010 | Filed under: Sermons

The history of Unitarian Universalism is full of stubborn, opinionated people who died fighting for the right to practice freedom of religion. This Independence Day, let’s savor our own freedom to believe as we choose and remember our forebears who helped make this freedom possible. The audio begins with the …

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