181 sermons transcribed, indexed & archived · 2020–2025 · permalink: https://divining.app/church/peoria-uu-church.html
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Nov 24, 2024 · connected common experience
Racial JusticeCreation CareAdvent & Christmas
“There were people on Deck who valued competence and education and information, and people that could be pushed to address the powerful concerns of ou…”
Nov 3, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Noah & the FloodRacial JusticeSpiritual Growth
“Establishing just an equitable taxation policies and ensuring there is an economic safety net for our disadvantaged and historically marginalized.”
Oct 27, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Baptism & CommunionGrief & LamentHope & Encouragement
“And then there is a prayer from my particular tradition: that which Spirits, beloved Spirits, loved ones who have gone before, parted from us but sti…”
Sep 29, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Creation CarePrayer & DevotionBeloved Community
“And the reality of the climate change has the same roots in the extractive systems of harm and systemic oppression as all of the other injustices we…”
Sep 22, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Advent & ChristmasHope & Encouragement
Sep 8, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Baptism & CommunionWorship & PraisePoverty & Compassion
“It is so good in this moment, and all because we know, we know that all water is really one water continuously flowing around our biosphere, even if…”
Aug 4, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareParenting & Children
Jul 21, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Church Life & Membership
Jun 9, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Fear & AnxietyThe Woman at the WellWorship & Praise
Jun 2, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Baptism & CommunionFaith & Civic LifeFriendship & Belonging
“Being free is not a license, but a recognition and our practice of the flower communion is, in part, our response to that promise, our response to th…”
May 26, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Work & VocationIdentity & WorthGun Violence & Safety
“Now it was another 11 years before marriage equality was decided nationally, but it was there.”
Apr 21, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Church Life & MembershipGender & Sexuality / InclusionFaith & Doubt
“My heart shattered, not because my son was gay, but because my beliefs had caused him to, and in that moment I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that t…”
Mar 17, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Parenting & ChildrenBible & ExpositionRacial Justice
“Sometimes it's just a slow drifting away from a theology that no longer seems to fit or a gradual realization that someone who is not part of a relig…”
Mar 10, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Evangelism & MissionPluralism & InterfaithGrief & Lament
“Freedom and reason and tolerance, and by tolerance, I know sometimes that gets a bad name, but by the tolerance I mean the ability to exist with many…”
Feb 18, 2024 · connected common experience
Grief & LamentPeace & NonviolenceRacial Justice
“There is the leadership and there is the people, and there's a lot in the disagreements about Israel.”
Feb 11, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeHumanismGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“The Legacy and the repetition of addiction, how that affects the lives and then how that passes on in, results in birth defects, the loss of worth in…”
Nov 5, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Addiction & RecoveryThanksgiving & HarvestFriendship & Belonging
Oct 29, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Thanksgiving & Harvest
Oct 22, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeUnitarian Universalist IdentityBaptism & Communion
“I grew up believing that the United States is the best nation that ever exist and that pinion came from my white immigrant family, grateful largely f…”
Oct 8, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionUnitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & Civic Life
“Some of the history of same gender unions in the United States and the earliest, some of the earliest documented Services of Union for same-gender co…”
Oct 1, 2023 · human moral beliefs
Identity & WorthPrayer & DevotionLoneliness & Isolation
“Generational cycles of continue to affirm inherent worth of every person, because no one is disposable.”
Sep 24, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
DanielCreation CarePluralism & Interfaith
Sep 17, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Joy & GratitudePluralism & InterfaithFriendship & Belonging
“You may have seen this image from our article to proposed re.”
Sep 10, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityEvangelism & MissionChurch Life & Membership
Sep 3, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityJoy & GratitudeChurch Life & Membership
“I will also offer in our, in our Unitarian universalism, if we're going to believe that we are part of an interdependent web of existence of which we…”
Aug 20, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
HumanismBaptism & CommunionPluralism & Interfaith
Aug 13, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareImmigration & RefugePeace & Nonviolence
“They did provide us with a few wonderful car trips to other parts of the United States, and I'm really thankful for those beautiful memories and grat…”
Aug 6, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeCreation CareGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“We needed to stop that carbon pollution going up there.”
Jul 30, 2023 · spirit soul within us
Friendship & BelongingThanksgiving & HarvestGrief & Lament
Jul 16, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareThe Prodigal Son
Jul 9, 2023 · families and relationships
Prison & Restorative JusticeAdvent & ChristmasBaptism & Communion
Jul 2, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
MarriageFaith & Doubt
Jun 18, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Church Life & MembershipHumanismCrucifixion & Atonement
“Perhaps you find wisdom in humanism or in Christianity, or in Buddhism, taoism, paganism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism or some other Faith tradition.”
Jun 11, 2023 · power between ideas
Grief & LamentGender & Sexuality / InclusionChurch Life & Membership
“All of these activities are signs of so much more, and the annual campaign responded to this by creating a theme of set the table and grow the joy.”
May 28, 2023 · connected common experience
Jesus: Life & TeachingsFriendship & BelongingIdentity & Worth
“Today's gentleman, Henry Nelson Wyman, was born in 1884 in Rock Hill, Missouri.”
May 14, 2023 · power between ideas
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionHumanismPoverty & Compassion
May 7, 2023 · uu spiritual principles
Faith & DoubtDavid & GoliathEvangelism & Mission
“And this coming week, Friday, in case you hadn't heard, there is the protest being organized to respond to the presence of the governor of Florida, w…”
Apr 30, 2023 · connected common experience
Racial JusticeCrucifixion & AtonementParenting & Children
Apr 23, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeCreation CareFriendship & Belonging
Apr 16, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Unitarian Universalist IdentityRacial JusticePeace & Nonviolence
“But we are encountering the full range of how our human minds work, those of us who have illness or disability and those of us who do a diagnosis.”
Apr 9, 2023 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Lent & Holy WeekResurrection & EasterFear & Anxiety
“I want to begin, about a week ago, with Palm Sunday and which is known as Jesus's entrance into Jerusalem, as the Christian scriptures tell us from t…”
Apr 2, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Faith & DoubtGender & Sexuality / InclusionJoy & Gratitude
“It is within any possibility of Faith or Community: Christian, Buddhist, Jewish Islam, indigenous Traditions, Pagan Traditions, humanism, ethical cul…”
Mar 26, 2023 · power between ideas
Faith & Mental HealthService & Spiritual GiftsSalvation & Grace
Mar 19, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifePeace & NonviolenceJesus: Life & Teachings
“So in particular, the United States was recovering from the Civil War, including the death of an enormous number, a high percentage of the young men…”
Mar 12, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Loneliness & IsolationImmigration & RefugeThanksgiving & Harvest
“Where did- and that was the meat cute that now ended up, you know, getting married which, but that's the on the grinders.”
Mar 5, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingIdentity & Worth
Feb 26, 2023 · families and relationships
Faith & Civic LifeFriendship & BelongingGrief & Lament
“Let me go tomorrow morning and take my seat in one of your street cars in New York and the conductor will put up his hand and stop the car rather tha…”
Feb 19, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Racial JusticePrayer & DevotionWork & Vocation
Feb 12, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Advent & ChristmasUnitarian Universalist IdentityBible & Exposition
“So what I offer today, in addition to the pieces already shared, are some contacts and a few notes on the great tradition of Islam.”
Feb 5, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingRacial JusticeChurch Life & Membership
“The key words from my youth were freedom and reason and tolerance, and I'll just say the tolerance by which is meant that really broad recognition of…”
Jan 29, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Immigration & RefugeUnitarian Universalist IdentityFear & Anxiety
Jan 15, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Racial JusticeSpiritual GrowthJoy & Gratitude
“And I could read and reread simply the passage from rosemary Bray McNatt again and again and again, and that could be enough, frankly, and enter into…”
Jan 8, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingStewardship & GivingChurch Life & Membership
“She just started with us on Christmas Eve, and today is probably the first Sunday that we had, like the children's recessional, and we should have ta…”
Jan 1, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
New Year & Watch NightUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Kathleen mcteague reminds us that the 1st of January is Another Day Dawning.”
Dec 24, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Advent & ChristmasEarth-Centered Spirituality
Dec 18, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
The NativityFaith & Civic LifeAdvent & Christmas
Dec 4, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareReason & Free Inquiry
“We talked about this with our own, this time with how we've described our Unitarian, Universalist principles: that we affirm and promote the inherent…”
Nov 27, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareBaptism & CommunionMarriage
“This could be a serious operation, could be our context, such as poverty or having minimal resources in our lives, or whether we feel personally- say…”
Nov 20, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeUnitarian Universalist IdentitySalvation & Grace
“Talks about the principles, talk about inherent worth and dignity, Justice, equity and compassion, human relations, acceptance of one another, search…”
Nov 13, 2022 · connected common experience
Friendship & BelongingFaith & DoubtStewardship & Giving
“We have to live with that knowledge, in the knowledge of so many people who have died in the great experiment of we, the people, or who have lost the…”
Nov 6, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Grief & LamentRacial JusticeFear & Anxiety
“I invite you to take an order of service I. One of the pencils in the pews were something, one of the scratchpad papers, one of the joys and Sorrows…”
Nov 6, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Oct 30, 2022 · more than it appears
“Remember the and one day it will be our turn as well to be a memory, to be another part of the mystery that lives, gives us our life and also is the…”
Oct 30, 2022 · more than it appears
Thanksgiving & HarvestCreation CareAll Saints
Oct 23, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionCreation CareFriendship & Belonging
“Actually, it's the work of religious Educators from Unitarian Universalist institutions such as our larger Association, liberal religious Educators A…”
Oct 16, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Baptism & CommunionService & Spiritual GiftsRacial Justice
Oct 9, 2022 · connected common experience
Faith & Civic LifeIndigenous Justice & LandIdentity & Worth
“There's all these ways in which, throughout our lives, we are aspiring, wanting, seek and, and we do so in so many forms and so many ways that we are…”
Oct 2, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Faith & DoubtFear & AnxietyPeace & Nonviolence
“We have our own concerns about mental health, emotional health, physical state of being, Financial.”
Sep 25, 2022 · power between ideas
MarriageFaith & Civic LifeWorship & Praise
Sep 18, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionStewardship & GivingIdentity & Worth
“I think it also recognizes that each of us is also entirely fully human, so fabulous and flawed, and doubtful and wondering and not sure of who we ar…”
Sep 11, 2022 · power between ideas
Evangelism & MissionUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
Sep 5, 2022 · power between ideas
Church Life & MembershipUnitarian Universalist IdentityPluralism & Interfaith
“All of this, the work that we're doing with welcoming, with being prepared to have our new year begin talking about belonging this month, all of that…”
Aug 28, 2022 · power between ideas
Creation CareEconomic Justice & Wealth
“By 2035 we impose a six-hour per day run time on private owned plants and by 2045 all-electric production plants using fossil fuels, whether private…”
Aug 21, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityChurch Life & MembershipFaith & Civic Life
“Faith is also working on more reflection around racial Justice and oppression, and we're apart of that conversation as we.”
Aug 14, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Baptism & CommunionPoverty & CompassionCreation Care
Aug 7, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityIdentity & WorthRacial Justice
“And I also, I always like to remind ourselves of who we are as Unitarian Universalist, that there are those of us in the pews and in our kinship time…”
Jul 31, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Joy & GratitudeEvangelism & MissionShame & Guilt
Jul 24, 2022 · families and relationships
Thanksgiving & HarvestIdentity & WorthGrief & Lament
“Hookah was kind of running wild and I reached out to a close friend who introduced me to Pastor Riley, who happens to be the pastor at the church, an…”
Jul 17, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Interdependence & NatureUnitarian Universalist IdentityChurch Life & Membership
Jul 10, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Poverty & CompassionLoneliness & IsolationRacial Justice
Jul 3, 2022 · power between ideas
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifeGod the Father / Creator
“What this shows is something that also became quite apparent again in recent years: that in many parts of America a white life counts more than the l…”
Jun 26, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFriendship & BelongingFaith & Civic Life
Jun 19, 2022 · families and relationships
Fear & AnxietyChurch Life & MembershipHumanism
Jun 12, 2022 · connected common experience
Joy & GratitudeStewardship & GivingEntire Sanctification
Jun 5, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Baptism & CommunionFaith & Civic LifeIdentity & Worth
“It's an intentional choice on our part as a face as well as we celebrate the approaching end of the church here with this ritual, unique and Unitaria…”
May 22, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Church Life & MembershipIdentity & WorthFaith & Doubt
May 15, 2022 · connected common experience
Advent & ChristmasEvangelism & MissionSpiritual Growth
May 15, 2022 · connected common experience
“And, of course, I couldn't be talking about such things as ritual without mentioning Christmas Eve, when I think Georgia for this beautiful Christmas…”
May 1, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Hope & EncouragementFaith & DoubtRacial Justice
“Don't you bring me down today and everyday, that bucket, every load of water, that bucket singing to itself, Don't Bring Me Down today, but that fina…”
May 1, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Apr 24, 2022 · power between ideas
Creation Care
Apr 17, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Resurrection & EasterPoverty & CompassionGrief & Lament
“Can you imagine a hope like: think their times and getting to Easter, it can be easy to forget about Palm Sunday, not just the glory and the celebrat…”
Apr 10, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeCreation CareHumanism
Apr 3, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Gender & Sexuality / Inclusion
Mar 28, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Work & VocationAdvent & ChristmasImmigration & Refuge
“How to conduct Church in a way, unless it's ever been done before, under the burden of a global Health crisis, the world that had been passed in so m…”
Mar 20, 2022 · power between ideas
Grief & LamentMarriageReason & Free Inquiry
“In contrast to the rigidity of the the Calvin is system that was a such a strong religious Elam appetite, Channing said that God intended us to activ…”
Feb 27, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Feb 27, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Baptism & CommunionHumanismUnitarian Universalist Identity
Feb 20, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Reason & Free InquiryFaith & DoubtHope & Encouragement
“And here is still committed to Freedom, reason, tolerance, love, Justice in the world and the worth of being a Beloved Community, raising children, s…”
Feb 13, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Creation CarePeace & NonviolenceMarriage
Jan 30, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Grief & LamentPeace & NonviolenceRacial Justice
“It is possible to pray as we work, and in Vietnam we invented engaged food so we could continue the contemplatively life, helping the victims of war.”
Jan 23, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeParenting & ChildrenEvangelism & Mission
“January 22nd marked the 49th anniversary of Roe versus Wade, the legal decision by the United States Supreme Court that women had the right to decide…”
Jan 16, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Faith & Civic LifePeace & NonviolenceAll Saints
“They offer programs that affirma students sense of belonging and sell campus and in the world.”
Jan 9, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Advent & ChristmasChurch Life & MembershipCreation Care
“There is a certain irony I will offer in trying to be aspirational at this moment, when we are online yet again, we are apart yet again and we are ye…”
Jan 2, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Thanksgiving & HarvestJoy & GratitudeGrief & Lament
“As we enter this season of holidays and holy days, we have an opportunity to draw our attention to what sustains us, to draw our attention to the sou…”
Dec 26, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifeThanksgiving & HarvestSuffering & Perseverance
“And so when we went to Brazil and we had good times, good times talking about African culture and how it has survived.”
Dec 12, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeFear & AnxietyDaniel
“Expectacion of Joy was more than I want to do with this this month or this year and, of course, in our immediate context, immediate moment to put tog…”
Dec 5, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Pluralism & InterfaithCreation CareUnitarian Universalist Identity
“But every know she offered in Buddhism, she offered in Islam and Christianity offered in Judaism in her annual pluralism address in 2018, naming all…”
Nov 21, 2021 · unitarian universalism
Immigration & RefugeFaith & Civic LifeCreation & Eden
Nov 14, 2021 · unitarian universalism
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionCreation Care1st Principle: Inherent Worth & Dignity
“And there's they talk about being in accordance and dedicated to the principles of a free face.”
Nov 7, 2021 · unitarian universalism
Worship & PraiseBible & ExpositionReason & Free Inquiry
“But looking at the formation of our sense of seven principles in Unitarian universalism, every moment in our principles, when return to beginning to…”
Oct 24, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
Faith & Civic LifeRacial JusticeBaptism & Communion
“Everyone we do this work of Liberation, getting to the radicalness at the heart of our self-love, because doing so makes it easier, helps us facilita…”
Oct 10, 2021 · families and relationships
Racial JusticeImmigration & RefugeFaith & Civic Life
“Hundreds of years of decisions and laws have continued from there right up into our own time that can be traced back to that doctrine that invalidate…”
Sep 26, 2021 · power between ideas
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifeCreation Care
“That may have been normal for other people, but we're not actually okay or right or just, such as police violence against black indigenous folks and…”
Sep 19, 2021 · power between ideas
Identity & WorthJesus: Life & TeachingsCreation Care
Sep 12, 2021 · spirituality in nature
Creation CareDisability & BelongingGrief & Lament
Sep 5, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Salvation & GraceSuffering & PerseveranceGrief & Lament
“Does jeavons conveyor a lot of pain sufferings that really gets to us?”
Aug 29, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
Creation CareGrief & LamentFriendship & Belonging
Aug 15, 2021 · families and relationships
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionPoverty & CompassionBaptism & Communion
“Along the way of all this history of Montessori and the Catholic Education and the Protestant education and universalism, there was space for Ghostbu…”
Jul 25, 2021 · unitarian universalism
Advent & ChristmasGender & Sexuality / InclusionJoy & Gratitude
“But instead Jack literally had Santa kidnapped so he could take Christmas for himself, and we do well to remember that we will always find deeper con…”
Jul 18, 2021 · power between ideas
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFear & AnxietyRacial Justice
“Powerful institutions that have been around for a long time and fought against Injustice has of many fading in there.”
Jul 11, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Bible & ExpositionUnitarian Universalist Identity
Jul 4, 2021 · connected common experience
Faith & Civic LifeWork & VocationRacial Justice
“The movie focuses on Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan as part of the human computers in the racially segregated West computer grou…”
Jun 20, 2021 · families and relationships
Joy & Gratitude
Jun 13, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingImmigration & RefugeAdvent & Christmas
“That one is pastoral, but also with the world as well, that we would take seriously our understanding and willingness to engage with social justice a…”
Jun 6, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeFriendship & BelongingUnitarian Universalist Identity
“And, in case you didn't know, our annual general assembly in the Unitarian Universalist Association this month includes a drag show, a drag show, and…”
May 30, 2021 · power between ideas
Addiction & RecoverySuffering & PerseveranceGod the Father / Creator
“Prophase told the story of the man who regularly came is mental health challenges made it so that he quote couldn't do inside.”
May 9, 2021 · power between ideas
Work & VocationDisability & BelongingBible & Exposition
“How to pause and say how much I see you for those, those for whom these days are reminders of pain and grief and rage and abuse, of rejection, becaus…”
May 2, 2021 · unitarian universalism
Shame & Guilt1st Principle: Inherent Worth & DignityRacial Justice
“Let me see a little bit about the origin of where this eighth principle- about 10 years to be a real need for something call Nicole Jones, is on the…”
Apr 18, 2021 · school age stories
Creation CarePoverty & Compassion
Apr 11, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
DanielGrief & LamentCreation Care
“All of this is our kids to be our answer to L. What is the leadership look like for the coming part of that begins today with our annual campaign.”
Apr 4, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
Jesus: Life & TeachingsSabbath & RestBeloved Community
Mar 28, 2021 · unitarian universalism
The Cost of DiscipleshipFaith & Civic Life
Mar 7, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifeEvangelism & Mission
“And Woodland, for the rest of the Adam, came back to United States and found people who were sympathetic to these biases that were being promoted, fo…”
Feb 7, 2021 · unitarian universalism
Racial Justice
Jan 31, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
Creation CareWorship & PraiseLoneliness & Isolation
“These last months have taken us away from each other, leaving us so many of us anxious at being together again, at Gathering and being present with i…”
Jan 24, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeUnitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & Civic Life
Jan 17, 2021 · power between ideas
Racial Justice
Jan 10, 2021 · power between ideas
Racial JusticeUnitarian Universalist IdentityGrief & Lament
“Four months, people in power have been telling others lies about people of color, about the nature of our democracy and about the right to speak up a…”
Jan 3, 2021 · power between ideas
New Year & Watch NightLoneliness & IsolationRacial Justice
Dec 27, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Thanksgiving & HarvestFaith & Civic LifeCrucifixion & Atonement
“Black people in the United States have, as you know, had a tough time with slavery, Jim Crow, crack cocaine, unemployment, poverty, now with the Coro…”
Dec 24, 2020 · readings books learning
Advent & ChristmasJosephNew Year & Watch Night
“On this night we tell the new scripture as well as the old, the texts of our current life times we share that remind us of our struggles with lonelin…”
Dec 20, 2020 · hope and light, the beloved community
Advent & ChristmasFaith & DoubtGrief & Lament
“Keep in mind we are also in this last stretch of liminal time that begin way back at about Halloween, and also we have been in this moment of transit…”
Dec 13, 2020 · families and relationships
Advent & ChristmasUnitarian Universalist Identity
Dec 6, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Suffering & PerseveranceHonoring Parents & EldersUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Love in this wonderful, terrible, wonderful intersection of unitarian-universalism in Buddhism calls us and reminds us of the Wonder that is life bef…”
Nov 29, 2020 · hope and light, the beloved community
Advent & ChristmasDanielCreation Care
“Even as we recognize what something that strikes me about so many of the holidays that we celebrate in human experience, as well as this moment as ho…”
Nov 22, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Loneliness & IsolationPoverty & CompassionExodus
“Think of our seventh principle of being interconnected in the web of life.”
Nov 8, 2020 · hope and light, the beloved community
Bible & ExpositionImmigration & RefugeRacial Justice
Nov 1, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Grief & LamentFriendship & BelongingRacial Justice
“Also in our larger world, as we become more cognizant of the impact of systems of Oppression, I want to name a few of the people that we hold in our…”
Sep 27, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityImmigration & RefugeCrucifixion & Atonement
Sep 13, 2020 · power between ideas
Friendship & BelongingBaptism & CommunionUnitarian Universalist Identity
“And I'll say, in these last few years, even more recently, not only are we talkin about women's bodies and women's lives, we are also getting better…”
Sep 6, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Shame & GuiltGrief & LamentChurch Life & Membership
Aug 30, 2020 · uu spiritual principles
HumanismGender & Sexuality / InclusionReason & Free Inquiry
“In the Elementary grades, I will bring these experiences into participants.”
Aug 23, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeSpiritual GrowthUnitarian Universalist Identity
Aug 9, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Sin & RepentanceFear & AnxietyFaith & Civic Life
“He made his way to Washington and founded the Washington chicken Farmers kill.”
Jul 26, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFriendship & BelongingPentecost
“I bring love and greetings from my colleagues at the Unitarian Universalist Association and I return the love and well wishes from the First Unitaria…”
Jul 19, 2020 · power between ideas
Baptism & CommunionJoy & GratitudeSuffering & Perseverance
“We have to empower an order for assault, and there is room at the table for all.”
Jul 12, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyRacial JusticeCreation & Eden
Jun 28, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeGender & Sexuality / InclusionFaith & Civic Life
“Abraham Lincoln, in his inaugural address in his Gettysburg Address, spoke to the heart of what is the American creed.”
Jun 21, 2020 · unitarian universalism
HumanismRacial JusticePeace & Nonviolence
May 24, 2020 · connected common experience
Joy & GratitudeHope & EncouragementCreation Care
May 10, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Sin & RepentanceThe Parable of the SowerThanksgiving & Harvest
“Jesus tells a story of a soldier who scattered sees on four different types of soil.”
Apr 26, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Stewardship & GivingUnitarian Universalist IdentityGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
Apr 19, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareGrief & LamentHope & Encouragement
“By then God said last: make man in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heaven…”
Apr 12, 2020 · hope and light, the beloved community
Sin & RepentanceResurrection & EasterJoy & Gratitude
Mar 15, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Stewardship & GivingGrief & Lament
“We share Joyce and we share sorrow, and today we like candles as we move forward with this new normal that we are involved with- live streaming and o…”
Mar 8, 2020 · unitarian universalism
MarriageFriendship & Belonging
Mar 1, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Divorce & Broken RelationshipsFaith & DoubtThanksgiving & Harvest
“Getting rid of feelings not only backfires, but it drains us of the psychological energy that makes life.”
Feb 16, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifeService & Spiritual GiftsParenting & Children
“This writer compared all of those things with the institution of slavery in the sky, by the way, with genocide of First Nations tribes, theft of thei…”
Feb 9, 2020 · families and relationships
Thanksgiving & HarvestCreation CareFear & Anxiety
“My career is really just professional, has really started here in the volunteer work and the the mentoring that I got from both the staff and the and…”
Feb 2, 2020 · power between ideas
Faith & DoubtThanksgiving & HarvestFriendship & Belonging
“Until, in this past year, we have learned to grow together, we have been together through sorrow, loss of loved ones, some plans, some unexpected, an…”
Jan 26, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Identity & WorthGod the Father / Creator
Jan 12, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Work & Vocation
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