58 sermons transcribed, indexed & archived · 2023–2026 · permalink: https://divining.app/church/sermons-first-unitarian-universalist-society-of-san-francisc.html
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Nov 2, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeThanksgiving & HarvestFaith & Civic Life
“Finally, our children are cared for by a religious education staff and volunteers we have so much to be grateful for As We Gather each and every Sund…”
Oct 26, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityNoah & the FloodFriendship & Belonging
“2025 marks 175th anniversary of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco, a historic, spiritual and social force that has long serve…”
Oct 12, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityMarkImmigration & Refuge
Oct 5, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifePluralism & InterfaithPoverty & Compassion
“These are some of the ways that I am channeling the real Panic that I feel, that many of us feel, that I felt particularly recently, two weeks ago, w…”
Sep 28, 2025 · connected common experience
Friendship & BelongingNew Year & Watch NightLoneliness & Isolation
“Elizabeth Lerner Maclay writes a new magazine that Jewish theology holds that forgiveness has to happen on the Mortal plane between individuals befor…”
Sep 14, 2025 · unitarian universalism
The Prodigal SonFriendship & BelongingJesus: Life & Teachings
“I'm taking a little license with the new, revised Standard Version translation.”
Aug 24, 2025 · power between ideas
Creation CareFriendship & BelongingGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“You have a role to play here.”
Aug 17, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Grief & LamentFaith & Civic LifeParenting & Children
Jun 22, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Parenting & ChildrenHumanismCreation & Eden
“For more information go to USF dot org.”
Jun 15, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Parenting & ChildrenSin & RepentanceGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
Jun 8, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingResurrection & EasterAdvent & Christmas
Jun 1, 2025 · families and relationships
Hope & EncouragementFriendship & BelongingSin & Repentance
“It was this advice about realizing how often the change you needed in your life wasn't some massive overhaul, but just tweaking things everyday, twea…”
May 25, 2025 · power between ideas
Reason & Free InquiryPoverty & CompassionFaith & Civic Life
“Do we really want to be reminded that the people we are supposed to remember on Memorial Day are the soldiers who died in our nation's, even if they…”
May 18, 2025 · power between ideas
Suffering & PerseveranceFriendship & BelongingJesus: Life & Teachings
“Go down Moses way down in Egypt's land and tell old Pharaoh: let my people go this classic slave spiritual doubled as a secret instruction melody in…”
Apr 13, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeMarriageSuffering & Perseverance
“So the joy list is collect and, in case you needed any more proof than your own experience, you and I can turn to researchers at the Yale Center for…”
Mar 2, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Stewardship & GivingThanksgiving & HarvestEvangelism & Mission
“I found some old public domain book about Gloucester from 1923 that someone had clearly taken from a University of California library and digitized t…”
Jan 26, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
MarriageJosephCreation & Eden
“As Joseph Campbell outlines it and the, the rest is the stories own unfolding that you are called to throw yourself.”
Jan 12, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeInfertility & Child LossChurch Life & Membership
“Are reading is the moment for Visionary narratives by, adapted from an article written by Adrienne Maree Brown after the play, still relevant today,…”
Dec 15, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyImmigration & RefugeJoy & Gratitude
Nov 17, 2024 · power between ideas
Forgiveness & ReconciliationChurch Life & Membership
“For more information, go to USF dot org.”
Nov 10, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingChurch Life & MembershipStewardship & Giving
“One of them said at a gathering of you, you ministers, that was here this week, that he invited us to think about whether or not what we were feeling…”
Oct 27, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeFear & AnxietyBaptism & Communion
“Let us move into a time of ritual and deep listening to the wisdom brought forth by our ancestors and loved ones.”
Oct 20, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingBible & Exposition
“We do it to deepen our connections with each other.”
Oct 6, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Bible & ExpositionForgiveness & ReconciliationDaniel
“I mean sometimes we get the big ones, sometimes we do this 180° pivot, we get sober, or we go for marriage counseling, or we quit one job and we chan…”
Sep 29, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Church Life & MembershipJoy & GratitudeHeaven & Hell
“I was traveling back for Christmas to see my mom in Florida and now I was a new.”
Sep 15, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeBeloved CommunityPluralism & Interfaith
“I asked you to use your wisdom and reason and making sure when you see stories on social media and other spaces that you check the sources before you…”
Jul 7, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Creation CareUnitarian Universalist IdentityPluralism & Interfaith
“I don't know about you, but I'm happy and humbled to be part of a network of religious Communities going back centuries, reminding us that we are all…”
Jun 30, 2024 · church god jesus gospel spirit
The Kingdom of GodGender & Sexuality / InclusionEvangelism & Mission
“Some people think it's the glitter that makes Pride Parade like heaven: pearly gates and streets of gold.”
Jun 2, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeChurch Life & MembershipImmigration & Refuge
“You have a role to play here.”
Jun 2, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingEvangelism & MissionPeace & Nonviolence
“We have lots of moments that look a lot like parties, extravaganzas of Joy, but also you'll see hanging of the greens and holiday parties and fairs w…”
May 5, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Grief & LamentBaptism & CommunionEvangelism & Mission
“I honored the Reverend space hell during Joyce and I want some more weddings than I did Memorial- and I saw how grief impacted the way people showed…”
Apr 21, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Shame & GuiltParenting & ChildrenHope & Encouragement
Apr 21, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
“In the disability rights Community there's something called the social model of the idea is that whether something is a disability isn't an objective…”
Apr 7, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Church Life & MembershipStewardship & GivingResurrection & Easter
“As some of you know, I lived and worked in Nicaragua before coming to the Bay Area in 1998 and then co-founded faithful Fools With Reverend Kay Jorge…”
Mar 24, 2024 · connected common experience
Thanksgiving & HarvestAdvent & ChristmasIndigenous Justice & Land
“I cherished the resilience Workshop that Reverend Laura Shannon facilitated last year, as well as the Equanimity meditation that Elena Perez leads ev…”
Mar 3, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Church Life & MembershipAdvent & ChristmasThanksgiving & Harvest
“And we know the leaders in the congregation LED efforts, multiple- not once, not twice, multiple times- to incorruption in the governance of the gove…”
Feb 25, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
MarriageAdvent & ChristmasImmigration & Refuge
Feb 11, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Work & VocationService & Spiritual GiftsNew Year & Watch Night
“He recites the Beatitudes, as written in the Book of Matthew, where Jesus says: for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me…”
Feb 4, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingResurrection & EasterUnitarian Universalist Identity
Jan 21, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingGender & Sexuality / InclusionUnitarian Universalist Identity
Jan 14, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingChurch Life & Membership
“You have a role to play here.”
Dec 25, 2023 · church god jesus gospel spirit
JosephAdvent & ChristmasThe Nativity
“But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in.”
Dec 24, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
The NativityFear & AnxietyChurch Life & Membership
“Okay, it's now to do our manger scene, with everybody coming up, including Brie, can you grab the baby?”
Dec 17, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Immigration & RefugeEarth-Centered SpiritualityChurch Life & Membership
“Long before the birth of Christ, people in northern Europe celebrated the winter solstice with bonfires on hilltops and Evergreen bows and even whole…”
Dec 10, 2023 · families and relationships
Bible & ExpositionJoy & GratitudeRacial Justice
“I'm grateful for the opportunity and for the fellowship, and I look forward to exploring our text together and sharing with you a little bit more abo…”
Dec 3, 2023 · power between ideas
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifePluralism & Interfaith
“A few weeks ago, the Interfaith Council of San Francisco, whose Board of Trustees I share for this year, did some amazing hard work, bringing Jewish,…”
Nov 26, 2023 · families and relationships
Thanksgiving & HarvestAdvent & ChristmasImmigration & Refuge
“At Sunrise Gatherings, at Harvest festivals, Thanksgiving meals, We Gather the same and different at the same and different places, drawn to the tabl…”
Nov 19, 2023 · families and relationships
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionLoneliness & IsolationThanksgiving & Harvest
Oct 29, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Creation CareGrief & LamentThe Cost of Discipleship
Oct 22, 2023 · power between ideas
Creation CareBaptism & CommunionSin & Repentance
“Channing is going on and on criticizing the movement, and Samuel met, a more active abolitionist leader, has been listening until he can't take it an…”
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