113 sermons transcribed, indexed & archived · 2020–2025 · permalink: https://divining.app/church/east-shore-unitarian-sermons-bellevue-wa.html
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May 19, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Identity & Worth
May 12, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Unitarian Universalist IdentityThe Woman at the WellFriendship & Belonging
“What if, when we hate ourselves, we support the very worldview that has led to global climate change in the, the one that says we human beings are se…”
May 5, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityService & Spiritual GiftsImmigration & Refuge
“Lives have been transformed and we have an opportunity to reflect on our generosity, on our work, to reflect on the systems of relationships and char…”
Apr 28, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Church Life & MembershipImmigration & RefugeFriendship & Belonging
“I'm your director of membership development.”
Apr 7, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Grief & LamentJoy & GratitudeRacial Justice
Mar 31, 2024 · connected common experience
Gender & Sexuality / Inclusion
Mar 17, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Grief & LamentSuffering & PerseveranceThanksgiving & Harvest
“And you, the vast, the beauty of the mountains, world and universe that we are, whether you build with dreams and prayers from your, I would encourag…”
Mar 3, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeShame & GuiltFaith & Doubt
“Do people new to Unitarian universal to learn about what is important for us as a a search for truth: the ongoing creation and reimagining of our int…”
Feb 25, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Divorce & Broken RelationshipsPrison & Restorative Justice
“I know a little bit about the pain of losing home because I'm an immigrant.”
Feb 18, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionRacial JusticeParenting & Children
Feb 11, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Grief & LamentFriendship & Belonging
Feb 4, 2024 · families and relationships
Service & Spiritual GiftsImmigration & Refuge
Jan 28, 2024 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Creation CareChurch Life & Membership
Jan 14, 2024 · racism race justice black lives matter
Racial JusticeIdentity & Worth
“I can recognize always and I wonder what was bayard's dream Beyond race and desegregation, 1912, raised by his Quaker grandmother and grew up surroun…”
Jan 7, 2024 · families and relationships
Jan 7, 2024 · families and relationships
New Year & Watch NightJoy & GratitudeEpiphany
“Do we have the courage to change now that we know and we can do division, blame or shame, recalling the power of community, changing our course, choo…”
Dec 25, 2023 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Joy & GratitudeSalvation & GraceEvangelism & Mission
“No wise men or women see a star to show where to find the call Save.”
Dec 3, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Church Life & MembershipAdvent & ChristmasImmigration & Refuge
“Written by a Catholic priest, Father Joseph Moore, who was born in extreme poverty in a city in Ruins, he developed a passion for play the guitar, th…”
Nov 19, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Baptism & CommunionSuffering & PerseveranceAbraham & Isaac
“Come sit at the table, wobbly legs and all, and tell us your story.”
Nov 5, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Worship & PraiseMarriageGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
Oct 29, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Grief & LamentBaptism & CommunionFriendship & Belonging
Oct 15, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionUnitarian Universalist IdentitySpiritual Growth
“Your pledge supports the church's programming Services, Ministry, social justice efforts.”
Oct 8, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Faith & DoubtEvangelism & MissionUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Indigenous Native Americans, for example, are members of sovereign Nations that predate Colonial settler.”
Oct 1, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Fear & AnxietyEvangelism & MissionJoy & Gratitude
Sep 24, 2023 · connected common experience
Salvation & GracePeace & NonviolenceSin & Repentance
“For when the vote is not unanimous, or when we feel so that it can be unanimous but we are dis, what do we do with our dissenting opinion?”
Sep 10, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Fear & AnxietyCreation CareThanksgiving & Harvest
Sep 3, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionEconomic Justice & WealthRacial Justice
“There are pieces of kente cloth to reaffirm that black lives matter in an honor of the African-American members of this congregation who no longer at…”
Aug 27, 2023 · families and relationships
Creation CareThanksgiving & HarvestChurch Life & Membership
“She's currently the president of Justice Washington a you use State Action Network and she's able to convener of justice for first American Indian Na…”
Aug 20, 2023 · more than it appears
Poverty & CompassionFriendship & BelongingFaith & Civic Life
“10 median poverty line according to 2017, Fox Farm and about 250 million people, which represents 21% of India's.”
Jul 30, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Thanksgiving & HarvestCreation Care
Jul 9, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeUnitarian Universalist IdentityService & Spiritual Gifts
“Flower communion and water communion in the Unitarian Universalist Community are beautiful rituals that bring a lot of joy to people, and I just hear…”
Jun 11, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Service & Spiritual GiftsFriendship & Belonging
“I encourage you to become a youth advisor at East Shore.”
Jun 4, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionFaith & Civic Life
“Rev Maria Cristina brasilis burgoa.”
May 14, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Joy & GratitudeGrief & LamentUnitarian Universalist Identity
“So I've shared with you before that when Nelson Mandela was released from prison, he was invited to come to New York City, and he came to Har, and I…”
May 7, 2023 · families and relationships
Service & Spiritual GiftsRacial JusticeImmigration & Refuge
“Famous speech: we are all bound up together: urge her fellow attendees to include African-American women in their fight.”
Apr 23, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Interdependence & NatureUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
“Unitarian universalism is a dynamic and life-affirming faith that seeks to tell and Retail stories of what it means to be human.”
Apr 16, 2023 · power between ideas
Disability & BelongingCreation CareFear & Anxiety
“And in 2005, Patricia Byrne co-founded an organization called sins, invalid sins and valid is a disability Justice Bass Performance project.”
Apr 9, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Resurrection & EasterEvangelism & MissionCreation Care
Mar 26, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Worship & PraiseUnitarian Universalist IdentityGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“On July 1st 1972, the uua issued the following resolution: be it resolved that the 1972 general assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association as…”
Mar 19, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Creation Care
Mar 12, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Church Life & MembershipLent & Holy Week
“The membership play pledge is to renew our promise, to renew our vows as Unitarian universalists, to collectively recommit to social justice, to rene…”
Mar 5, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionUnitarian Universalist IdentitySalvation & Grace
“Fortunately, we are certainly not the only ones holding these core values are progressive.”
Feb 26, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingChurch Life & Membership
“This Covenant circle is a tremendous asset to East Shore, welcoming and providing support to families as they join our church thank.”
Feb 19, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Evangelism & MissionBible & ExpositionJoy & Gratitude
“But when our world is turned upside down by, there is always music, prayer and the courage to face adversity, to Bear witness and to find the treasur…”
Feb 12, 2023 · families and relationships
Parenting & ChildrenImmigration & RefugeSpiritual Growth
“I am grateful to all of the to our wonderful religious education staff, our director Amanda Alice, to Leanne struble, to all the RV volunteers, all t…”
Jan 22, 2023 · families and relationships
MarriageHumanismParenting & Children
“My name is Martin Cox- I use him pronouns- and my family includes my wife, Elaine, and our three kids, Milo, Ethan and Logan, also co-leader of the f…”
Jan 15, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Peace & NonviolenceImmigration & Refuge
“As the author himself declares in the intro, this book contains nothing- no, know you, no new wisdom to perhaps not the best words to begin a but it'…”
Jan 8, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
New Year & Watch NightThanksgiving & HarvestGrief & Lament
Dec 25, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Poverty & CompassionSalvation & GraceJoy & Gratitude
“No wise men or women see a star to show where to find the call Save.”
Dec 25, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Advent & ChristmasThanksgiving & HarvestThe Nativity
Dec 4, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Advent & ChristmasThe NativityIdentity & Worth
Nov 27, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Church Life & MembershipFear & AnxietyService & Spiritual Gifts
Nov 20, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Thanksgiving & HarvestFaith & Civic LifeJoy & Gratitude
“Let me tell you a story of Mama Lily and I: first Thanksgiving in America, North America, that is, we arrived in the United States in the winter time.”
Nov 13, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeUnitarian Universalist Identity
“So much anti-racism to be understood, so many aspects of white supremacy culture to be unpacked and limit the congregations way of tell us.”
Nov 6, 2022 · power between ideas
Forgiveness & ReconciliationGender & Sexuality / InclusionSin & Repentance
“Forgive the entire Congregation of the children of Israel and the stranger among them for the entire people saying unintentionally: please pardon the…”
Oct 30, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Racial JusticeGrief & LamentStewardship & Giving
Oct 16, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
“I understanding of family, my relationship to social justice, the ways I build community, my spiritual practices, my spiritual needs, my spiritual gi…”
Oct 2, 2022 · families and relationships
Friendship & BelongingIndigenous Justice & LandFaith & Doubt
Sep 25, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeWorship & PraiseEvangelism & Mission
Sep 18, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingJoy & GratitudeAll Saints
“But to do something when there are no guarantees, it takes courage and self-compassion to look inside ourselves and see ourselves as beautifully and…”
Sep 11, 2022 · families and relationships
Joy & GratitudeRacial JusticeImmigration & Refuge
Sep 4, 2022 · families and relationships
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionDivorce & Broken RelationshipsInterdependence & Nature
Aug 21, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Earth-Centered SpiritualityGrief & LamentThanksgiving & Harvest
“You know the fish can't the wolf, so that's our main focus is trying to protect Mother Earth, the species that live there with a salmon or wolves, an…”
Aug 14, 2022 · power between ideas
Immigration & RefugeCreation & EdenReason & Free Inquiry
“Unitarian universalists, we are committed to Reproductive Rights and to defend our bodily, whether we identify as a straight and cisgender woman by n…”
Jul 31, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeUnitarian Universalist IdentityFear & Anxiety
“I too came from a background of limited economic means.”
Jul 24, 2022 · families and relationships
Fear & AnxietyFaith & Mental HealthCreation Care
“According to the National Alliance for mental illness, which I hope will be renamed to mental health, one in five us adults experience mental health…”
Jul 17, 2022 · families and relationships
Poverty & CompassionFaith & Mental HealthParenting & Children
Jul 10, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Baptism & CommunionCreation CareFear & Anxiety
“As someone who is neurodivergent, with a hidden disability due to a childhood brain injury, I have learned to navigate my way between the seen and un…”
Jul 3, 2022 · power between ideas
Racial JusticeFear & AnxietyFaith & Civic Life
“In exchange for their support, lower class Europeans won new rights, entitlements and opportunities from the planter.”
Jun 19, 2022 · families and relationships
Service & Spiritual GiftsDating & Godly RelationshipsWorship & Praise
“Any families who were here at that time- some of you may not be aware that at one point in the 1960s, East Shore had one of the largest religious edu…”
Jun 12, 2022 · families and relationships
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionJoy & Gratitude
“I have four great and two of them were assigned female at, and both of them identify, as that means that both of these do.”
Jun 5, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityJoy & GratitudeBaptism & Communion
“She introduced the flower communion to the First Parish Church in in 1940 and it's grown in popularity among uu congregations, been incorporated into…”
May 29, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionMarriageJoy & Gratitude
May 22, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Crucifixion & AtonementGrief & LamentImmigration & Refuge
“My divorce from my first wife in 1982.”
May 1, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Faith & Civic LifePoverty & CompassionWorship & Praise
“The people who activate hope after Collective resistance, who practice hope while in bondage and who celebrate when we together bend the Ark of the u…”
Apr 24, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityIdentity & Worth4th Principle: Free & Responsible Search
“It's practice: explore spirituality, build community and promote.”
Apr 17, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Bible & ExpositionCrucifixion & AtonementCreation Care
“But it clearly incurred the hostility of the sad you see in Temple at this point, Pontius Pilate, the Roman military Governor, possibly fearing that…”
Apr 10, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Creation CareAdvent & ChristmasGrief & Lament
“Instead, I propose reframing the question in these words: what do you pay attention to?”
Apr 3, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingService & Spiritual GiftsIdentity & Worth
Mar 27, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionFaith & Civic Life
“Pleasure and privilege for me to introduce our guest speaker and our guest music, Clemson University, numerous conferences in the United States and C…”
Mar 13, 2022 · uu spiritual principles
Creation CareParenting & ChildrenFaith & Civic Life
“However, what is happening now is end, a direct result of the Industrial Revolution, and the rising standards that ushered in was made possible by th…”
Mar 6, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Sin & RepentanceImmigration & RefugeMarriage
“Mardi Gras was all around known by many, while not celebrated throughout the United States.”
Feb 20, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Poverty & CompassionUnitarian Universalist Identity
Feb 13, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Sin & RepentanceFriendship & BelongingBible & Exposition
Feb 6, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Attributes of GodHumanismStewardship & Giving
“Modern theologians have, for instance, suggested that God may not be omniscient or always holy good or holy perfect, or always paying.”
Jan 23, 2022 · families and relationships
Advent & ChristmasImmigration & RefugeGrief & Lament
Jan 16, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticePeace & NonviolenceChurch Life & Membership
“But the mature life, filling Joy of covenantal relationship, built through the hard work of conflict resolution and being accountable to one, it fill…”
Jan 9, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityCreation CareAdvent & Christmas
“First and briefly, the Orthodox- nowadays most of us think of the Christmas season through December, even through New Year's activity, got tacked ont…”
Jan 2, 2022 · readings books learning
Fear & AnxietyHeaven & HellCreation Care
“Anthropologists have noted basic continuities among apocalyptic belief systems across cultures and through Paradise Lost leaves, after much displacem…”
Dec 19, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
Crucifixion & AtonementForgiveness & ReconciliationPoverty & Compassion
“His stories all describe the social and economic upheaval of mid-19th century England.”
Dec 5, 2021 · families and relationships
Poverty & CompassionAdvent & Christmas
“I have met with the youth in our church and are religious education director- safeguards their Tender Hearts with all her strength and all her care a…”
Nov 28, 2021 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityRacial JusticePeace & Nonviolence
Nov 21, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & DoubtHumanismPrayer & Devotion
“In more recently, it was 19 months ago, 20/20, when this church, along with the rest of the country, started going.”
Nov 7, 2021 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeAbraham & IsaacSin & Repentance
“In 1997 and 98 we passed the most comprehensive social and economic Justice resolution since the 1917 Universalist Declaration on over the two decade…”
Oct 24, 2021 · power between ideas
Friendship & BelongingPrayer & DevotionWork & Vocation
Oct 17, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Psalms
Oct 10, 2021 · uu spiritual principles
Suffering & PerseveranceForgiveness & ReconciliationFaith & Doubt
Oct 3, 2021 · families and relationships
Evangelism & MissionUnitarian Universalist IdentityGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“A New Year's Eve, 2000, I came out to a former roommate and College, and for the next year she would introduce me.”
Sep 12, 2021 · unitarian universalism
God the Father / CreatorUnitarian Universalist IdentityFriendship & Belonging
Aug 29, 2021 · unitarian universalism
4th Principle: Free & Responsible SearchThe Creed (Apostles'/Nicene)Church Life & Membership
“In last June, when your minister of the Reverend, Steve, invited me to return here, I asked him whether there was any pertinent theme or topic that I…”
Aug 15, 2021 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifeNoah & the Flood
“Community Church had a good representation and All Souls in DC was almost 50% black when I served.”
Aug 8, 2021 · power between ideas
Thanksgiving & HarvestFriendship & BelongingRacial Justice
“Of course, they have grief around the pandemic, what it has taken from them, what it has cost them.”
Jul 11, 2021 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeFriendship & Belonging
“Louise went on to reflect that while many white, straight, cisgender, able-bodied people may be tiring of the current uu focus on racism and oppressi…”
Jan 12, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentitySpiritual GrowthReformation Sunday
“And what I'm trying to do there, when I want to try to do, is Center the seven principles in a fundamental question: how can these principles help us?”
Jan 5, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Immigration & RefugeGun Violence & SafetyRacial Justice
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