127 sermons transcribed, indexed & archived · 2023–2026 · permalink: https://divining.app/church/all-souls-unitarian-church.html
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Apr 20, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Crucifixion & AtonementJoy & Gratitude
Apr 13, 2026 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Faith & DoubtRacial JusticeThe Fall
“I think it rings true not only for my beliefs but for every person across.”
Apr 13, 2026 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Faith & DoubtFear & AnxietyRacial Justice
Apr 7, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Crucifixion & AtonementSalvation & GraceGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
Apr 7, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Crucifixion & AtonementGender & Sexuality / InclusionSalvation & Grace
Mar 23, 2026 · unitarian universalism
Evangelism & Mission
“Each word, each prayer, each sign, each gift, each we bear witness to some who we knew in life, who will be with us in truth and beauty, and dignity…”
Mar 16, 2026 · hope and light, the beloved community
Racial JusticeIdentity & WorthRevelation / End Vision
Mar 16, 2026 · hope and light, the beloved community
Racial JusticeIdentity & WorthRevelation / End Vision
Feb 16, 2026 · families and relationships
GenesisRacial JusticeUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Bend had tried to register, to vote, had tried so many times.”
Feb 2, 2026 · unitarian universalism
Grief & LamentHope & Encouragement
“Member today, congregation through pastoral care, online services and adult All Souls where we loved beyond belief.”
Feb 2, 2026 · unitarian universalism
Grief & LamentHope & Encouragement
“If you're wondering what you're holding on to, what you've been trying to hold on to its, your Humanity, is that breath the ability to just let it ou…”
Jan 28, 2026 · families and relationships
God the Father / CreatorCreation CareFriendship & Belonging
Jan 19, 2026 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
“Then, in the Night by bits, other airports came online radio, radio in support and encouragement.”
Jan 19, 2026 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingUnitarian Universalist IdentityHope & Encouragement
“Then, in the Night by bits, other airports came online radio, radio in support and encouragement.”
Jan 12, 2026 · unitarian universalism
HumanismGrief & LamentSuffering & Perseverance
Jan 12, 2026 · unitarian universalism
HumanismGrief & LamentFriendship & Belonging
Jan 5, 2026 · families and relationships
Sin & RepentanceHope & Encouragement
“You are allowed to change your mind without erasing your past, and you are allowed to sit in rooms like this one without including.”
Jan 5, 2026 · families and relationships
Sin & RepentanceHope & Encouragement
“You are allowed to change your mind without erasing your past, and you are allowed to sit in rooms like this one without including.”
Jan 5, 2026 · families and relationships
Faith & Civic LifeAbraham & IsaacGod the Father / Creator
“In the midst of the Civil War, which threatened to tear our nation apart, something that many of us are feeling right now, is our nation going to be…”
Jan 5, 2026 · families and relationships
Faith & Civic LifeGod the Father / CreatorPrayer & Devotion
“It's not of hawk versus dove, red versus blue or north versus when.”
Dec 22, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Earth-Centered SpiritualityFaith & DoubtSuffering & Perseverance
“Imagine that you've been walking through the valley of the Shadow for so winter solstice.”
Dec 22, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Faith & DoubtSuffering & PerseveranceEarth-Centered Spirituality
“Imagine that you've been walking through the valley of the Shadow for so winter.”
Dec 15, 2025 · families and relationships
Advent & ChristmasThe NativityJesus: Life & Teachings
“A retelling of the story that we sing but don't really listen to when we miss the original story, is raw and strange and beautiful, a young woman and…”
Dec 15, 2025 · families and relationships
Advent & ChristmasLukeJesus: Life & Teachings
“A retelling of the story that we sing, but don't really listen to when we miss the original story is raw and strange and beautiful, a young woman and…”
Dec 8, 2025 · church god jesus gospel spirit
GenesisCreation & EdenBeloved Community
“How's that working, I had to admit, but I realized, instead of continuing down the path that I was on, which said to humanity: I'm the most powerful…”
Dec 8, 2025 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Creation & EdenFriendship & BelongingFear & Anxiety
“The moral and spiritual roots of covenants involved individuals committing their lives together with certain rights and obligations in order to suppo…”
Oct 27, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Grief & LamentSuffering & PerseveranceCreation & Eden
“In fact, George Lucas consulted with Joseph Campbell when he was creating the Monument of announce.”
Oct 13, 2025 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Bible & ExpositionGod the Father / Creator
Oct 13, 2025 · church god jesus gospel spirit
God the Father / CreatorBible & Exposition
Oct 6, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityPoverty & Compassion
Sep 21, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Creation CareThanksgiving & Harvest
Sep 8, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Loneliness & IsolationFriendship & Belonging
Sep 8, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Loneliness & IsolationFriendship & Belonging
Sep 2, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifePoverty & CompassionSin & Repentance
“My friends is knocking today, but somebody, somebody has to reclaim the moral Clarity.”
Sep 2, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Sin & RepentanceCreation CareFaith & Civic Life
“But somebody, somebody has to reclaim the moral Clarity.”
Aug 18, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Identity & Worth
“And when I started coming to this church, when I started coming to All Souls- both Services, by the way I love- I started to hear that you had a simi…”
Aug 18, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Identity & Worth
“And when I started coming to this church, when I started coming to All Souls- both Services, by the way I love- I started to hear that you had a simi…”
Aug 11, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityCreation CareGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“However, I said that, regardless of whether the congregation decided to go through a formal process of welcoming or not, that it was very important t…”
Aug 4, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Grief & LamentFriendship & BelongingFear & Anxiety
“I have nearly finished my own to this place and we'll lay off the mush in a moment, but what I want to tell you, dear All Souls, is that I carry you…”
Aug 4, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Grief & LamentImmigration & RefugeSuffering & Perseverance
“I have nearly finished my own to this place and we'll lay off the mush in a moment, but what I want to tell you, dear All Souls, is that I carry you…”
Jul 28, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
The FallForgiving YourselfFaith & Civic Life
Jul 21, 2025 · uu spiritual principles
Faith & DoubtDavid & GoliathParenting & Children
Jun 30, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingFaith & DoubtIdentity & Worth
Jun 23, 2025 · power between ideas
Shame & GuiltCreation CareLuke
“And if you're curious, if there's a religious trauma in you that says: oh, dear lord, and you're hanging on to the Pew in front of you and you're cur…”
Jun 23, 2025 · power between ideas
Shame & GuiltCreation CareLoneliness & Isolation
“But if you're curious, the story about the man who named himself Legion is actually in Luke 8, and so we're going to begin with a bit of a Town's, wo…”
Jun 16, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Grief & LamentBaptism & CommunionLent & Holy Week
“Who asked Abraham to sacrifice his own son?”
Jun 5, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Grief & LamentCreation & EdenUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Some of us will be sitting with the grief and the promises that we have broken in our own lives and our own marriages and our own families and our ow…”
May 27, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeSuffering & PerseverancePoverty & Compassion
Apr 28, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Fear & AnxietyImmigration & RefugeLent & Holy Week
Apr 14, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Reason & Free InquiryFaith & DoubtLent & Holy Week
“I have never been fishing on the Susquehanna, or on any River for that matter.”
Apr 9, 2025 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Pluralism & InterfaithFriendship & BelongingCrucifixion & Atonement
“All in all, we need to see each other's views and it's imperative that we understand our beliefs and love our, no matter if they're Muslim, Christian…”
Mar 31, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Identity & WorthHumanismFriendship & Belonging
“Do you ever wonder why you're in Tulsa Oklahoma, why you stay in Tulsa Oklahoma and how being here has shaped who you are and what you do, and what i…”
Mar 25, 2025 · families and relationships
Friendship & BelongingMarriageFear & Anxiety
Mar 18, 2025 · families and relationships
Grief & LamentBible & Exposition
Mar 18, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Bible & ExpositionPeace & Nonviolence
“My heart aches for Israelis grieving unbearable loss and for Palestinians who have endured Decades of displacement, violence and suffering.”
Mar 11, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Racial JusticeDisability & Belonging
“For her, she rest is more than sleeping, spiritual practice that seeks to combat what she calls grind culture, which is a deadly combination of capit…”
Mar 3, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Spiritual GrowthBible & ExpositionHope & Encouragement
Feb 24, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeHumanismService & Spiritual Gifts
“Any others gravitated towards this theological perspective and by 1941 the American humanist Association had begun not from the prospects of becoming…”
Feb 24, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeHumanismReason & Free Inquiry
“A reform movement and a number of reform movements throughout the Abraham Lincoln was created as an extension of All Souls churches.”
Feb 17, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Immigration & RefugeUnitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & Civic Life
“From its very beginning to, USC has worked in support of people who are Asylum Seekers and internally displaced people in Hungary, in Mexico and Ukra…”
Feb 17, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Immigration & RefugeFaith & Civic LifeUnitarian Universalist Identity
“From its very beginning to, USC has worked in support of people who are Asylum Seekers and internally displaced people in Hungary, in Mexico and Ukra…”
Feb 10, 2025 · families and relationships
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionRacial JusticeJoy & Gratitude
Dec 17, 2024 · uu spiritual principles
Salvation & GraceBaptism & CommunionGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“In his book The Next Generation leadership, he writes, you will be tempted to believe.”
Dec 17, 2024 · uu spiritual principles
Parenting & ChildrenSalvation & GraceBaptism & Communion
“In his book The Next Generation leadership, he writes, you will be tempted to believe.”
Dec 9, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Gun Violence & SafetyBaptism & CommunionCreation Care
“And still, in order to maintain their sanity, a lot of people say they're not listening to the news, they're not reading the paper, they're off of so…”
Dec 9, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Grief & LamentCrucifixion & AtonementGun Violence & Safety
“And still, in order to maintain their sanity, a lot of people say they're not listening to the news, they're not reading the paper, they're off of so…”
Nov 27, 2024 · unitarian universalism
All SaintsGender & Sexuality / InclusionFriendship & Belonging
“I believe that the song that is Freedom, the song that is democracy, the song that is America- and it doesn't change because of one election, it does…”
Nov 27, 2024 · unitarian universalism
All SaintsBaptism & CommunionFriendship & Belonging
“They are our ancestors and we stand on their tell us always: honor those who have gone before us paved the way that we could have the freedoms that w…”
Nov 12, 2024 · unitarian universalism
MarriageReason & Free InquiryFear & Anxiety
“Sacrifices to end slavery and attain women's suffrage and defeat Jim Crow, and to win marriage equality, to break up monopolies, to end child labor a…”
Nov 4, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Fear & AnxietyRacial JusticeFriendship & Belonging
“People have been coming to this community to keep each other warm through the depression after Pearl Harbor, during World War II, Vietnam, the fight…”
Nov 4, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Fear & AnxietyMarriageRacial Justice
“People have been coming to this community to keep each other warm through the depression after Pearl Harbor, during World War II, Vietnam, the fight…”
Oct 23, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Forgiveness & ReconciliationAddiction & RecoveryFriendship & Belonging
“But there's another important point of this story that I think is lost on many, certainly many Christians and and those who read the Bible literally…”
Oct 1, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFriendship & BelongingGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“He did more to advance the credentialing of religious Educators like Shannon Boston, who told our story earlier than any other ordained in our tradit…”
Oct 1, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityGender & Sexuality / InclusionFriendship & Belonging
“He created the senior Ministers of large Unitarian Universalist churches group.”
Sep 25, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionLoneliness & IsolationFear & Anxiety
“For those of you who are already part of a small group in our community where there's one of our choirs, the supper club or a support group or any cl…”
Sep 17, 2024 · power between ideas
Racial JusticeLoneliness & IsolationParenting & Children
“Share that many years ago, when she was still working as a teacher in California, she had lost her temper with the children in her classroom more tha…”
Sep 3, 2024 · connected common experience
Work & VocationFriendship & BelongingSin & Repentance
“Some believe that that calling comes from an external Source, like the goddess or God or the others interpret vocation is a goal to work.”
Aug 27, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
“But I will tell you that the first woman ordained by a denomination in the United States of America was Olympia Brown, who was ordained by the Univer…”
Aug 27, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionUnitarian Universalist IdentityPluralism & Interfaith
“We have that going for us and today we have more female ministers than male ministers in the Unitarian Universalist clergy.”
Aug 20, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeGender & Sexuality / InclusionNoah & the Flood
“First, mention of religion is in the body of the Constitution and article which says: no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to…”
Aug 20, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeGender & Sexuality / InclusionRacial Justice
“Buy some reports: Oklahoma schools are 49th in the nation.”
Aug 6, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Fear & AnxietyWork & VocationImmigration & Refuge
“Cuz he was too busy, turns out that Bill had been so focused on success that he didn't pay attention to the most important people in.”
Jul 23, 2024 · unitarian universalism
HumanismReason & Free InquiryCreation Care
“American Unitarianism was born of the old congregational churches of New England, the successor to the pureit, when a congregationalist Minister, Wil…”
Jul 16, 2024 · human moral beliefs
Fear & Anxiety
“We've heard about the epidemic of loneliness and depression and the lack of Mental Health.”
Jul 9, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Forgiveness & ReconciliationBeloved CommunityFaith & Civic Life
“The center is the Desmond Tutu Center for reconciliation and piece of reconciliation.”
Jul 9, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Fear & AnxietyFaith & Civic LifeForgiveness & Reconciliation
“The center is the Desmond Tutu Center for reconciliation and piece of reconciliation.”
Jul 2, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Peace & NonviolenceRacial JusticeUnitarian Universalist Identity
“One of the most profound callings of a Unitarian Universalist is: can you offer kindness and dignity to the person who, to you, has the wrong color h…”
Jul 2, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityChurch Life & MembershipPeace & Nonviolence
“We're bound together by a promise to dwell together in peace, to seek the truth and love and to help one another, and anyone who is willing to agree…”
Jun 25, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Gender & Sexuality / Inclusion
Jun 25, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionShame & GuiltImmigration & Refuge
Jun 18, 2024 · families and relationships
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionImmigration & RefugeFaith & Civic Life
“You know that's not the first go to for most people when we think about loneliness, but there are a lot of young men right now in the United States w…”
Jun 18, 2024 · families and relationships
Faith & Civic LifeImmigration & RefugeGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“But there are a lot of young men right now in the United States who are lonely and unhappy, and in many who don't even see a positive future for them…”
Jun 13, 2024 · families and relationships
Faith & Civic LifeService & Spiritual GiftsRacial Justice
“There was not going to be segregation when the children were able to come into that space to see the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence,…”
Jun 13, 2024 · families and relationships
Faith & Civic LifeService & Spiritual GiftsRacial Justice
“In that Highlander school, we were being trained on how to how to resist- we had never heard of a civil rights movement or a movement at all their in…”
Jun 12, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeDating & Godly RelationshipsUnitarian Universalist Identity
“I was their training as a concert for his PhD in systemic theology through a mutual friend, and I want to say that I put for you see, when our friend…”
Jun 5, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Church Life & MembershipMarriageThanksgiving & Harvest
“In your is a senior minister, I'm going to especially be sitting with the collective grief and the confession of this congregation's historic breach…”
Jun 5, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Church Life & MembershipFriendship & BelongingGrief & Lament
“You've received some kind of negative impact from some of the ways that All Souls has broken faithfulness in the past.”
May 29, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Reason & Free InquiryGender & Sexuality / InclusionActs
May 17, 2024 · connected common experience
Faith & Civic LifeFriendship & Belonging
May 17, 2024 · connected common experience
Faith & Civic LifeFriendship & Belonging
May 17, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic Life
Apr 11, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeGrief & LamentFaith & Mental Health
“Every time Nelson Mandela came to New York to the United Nations to speak, he also came and spoke at the Community Church Unitarian Church of New Yor…”
Apr 11, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeGrief & LamentFaith & Mental Health
“I have to wonder if he the Unitarian Church on prison reform and mental health care in the 19th century, when it was somewhat barbaric, how he treate…”
Apr 8, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifeBeloved CommunityIdentity & Worth
Apr 4, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Resurrection & EasterAdvent & Christmas
“She remembered the Christmas Pageant every year, the candlelight services on Christmas Eve, the Church Easter egg hunts and summer camps.”
Apr 3, 2024 · families and relationships
Creation CareThanksgiving & HarvestFaith & Doubt
“In this community and this community we Covenant with one another to seek the truth in.”
Mar 14, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Shame & GuiltGender & Sexuality / InclusionLoneliness & Isolation
Mar 5, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
HumanismImmigration & RefugeBeloved Community
Feb 14, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Bible & ExpositionUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
“Back in Boston, back in his Harvard, you started something called Soulful Sundown and he changed the Unitarian Universalist movement.”
Feb 5, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Sin & Repentance
Jan 30, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Forgiveness & ReconciliationCreation & EdenHumanism
“If we want to get back into that Garden of original cre and in, we must choose to eat of that tree of life that sees all good and personally, in prag…”
Jan 22, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Joy & GratitudeChurch Life & Membership
“Somebody who's connected to our congregation, who died a few years ago, who his family are very involved in our church and our partners in education…”
Jan 7, 2024 · connected common experience
Faith & Civic LifeThe ExodusWork & Vocation
“Protestant reformer, Martin Luther was a historic German auntie who, in 1543, wrote the book the Jews and their lies, in which he called for the burn…”
Dec 25, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Reason & Free InquiryAdvent & ChristmasJesus: Life & Teachings
“Buddhism, humanism and so on contribute as valid sources and and legitimate paths and the search for truth and meaning in the area of expanded cons,…”
Dec 14, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Faith & DoubtUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
“Did we fail to notice to recognize a small minority groups in our nation mobilizing to take over school boards, local elections, governorships and ev…”
Nov 22, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Immigration & RefugeBaptism & CommunionFaith & Civic Life
“And speaking of Hearts, the next object are two hearts that sit on the table.”
Nov 14, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingSpiritual GrowthLoneliness & Isolation
“They believe that God gave North America as a gift to European Christians, as a New Jerusalem.”
Nov 7, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeGrief & LamentIndigenous Justice & Land
“The Muskogee tribes were confined chiefly to the Gulf States, east of almost all of Mississippi and Alabama and parts of Tennessee, Georgia, Florida…”
Oct 30, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyChurch Life & Membership
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