371 sermons transcribed, indexed & archived · 2020–2026 · permalink: https://divining.app/church/unitarian-universalist-church-of-palo-alto-sermons-and-refle.html
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May 16, 2026 · power between ideas
Forgiveness & Reconciliation
“Next week, we'll touch on how to seek forgiveness from others, then dive into how to forgive ourselves.”
May 4, 2026 · families and relationships
Friendship & BelongingBeloved CommunityPoverty & Compassion
Apr 25, 2026 · connected common experience
Creation Care
Apr 18, 2026 · human moral beliefs
Suffering & PerseveranceIndigenous Justice & LandPluralism & Interfaith
“Plato also describes the soul's spirit companion, termed Diamond, D-A-I-M-O-N, in Greek and genius in Latin, that guides the soul during its earthly…”
Apr 11, 2026 · human moral beliefs
Work & VocationSuffering & PerseveranceReason & Free Inquiry
Apr 11, 2026 · human moral beliefs
Reason & Free InquiryPluralism & InterfaithFaith & Doubt
“Concerning religious freedom, Immanuel Kant went so far as to declare that despite our prodigious rational capacities, as limited beings, humans can…”
Mar 31, 2026 · power between ideas
Prayer & DevotionCreation Care
Mar 22, 2026 · power between ideas
Lent & Holy Week
Mar 14, 2026 · connected common experience
Spiritual Growth
Mar 14, 2026 · unitarian universalism
Reason & Free InquiryHope & Encouragement
“A good example is that the ancient monotheistic source, just mentioned, is followed by a very different fifth source, quote, humanist teachings which…”
Mar 1, 2026 · families and relationships
MarriageImmigration & Refuge
Feb 22, 2026 · families and relationships
Feb 14, 2026 · unitarian universalism
The TrinityUnitarian Universalist IdentityThe Fall
“So no one ends up in hell, except maybe as a spiritual debriefing and cleansing station.”
Feb 14, 2026 · human moral beliefs
Work & VocationFriendship & BelongingReason & Free Inquiry
“Plato also describes the soul's spirit companion, in German in Greek, D-A-I-M-O-N, and genius in Latin, that guides the soul during its earthly excur…”
Feb 2, 2026 · human moral beliefs
Reason & Free InquiryWork & VocationPluralism & Interfaith
Jan 3, 2026 · hope and light, the beloved community
Pluralism & InterfaithImmigration & RefugeBeloved Community
“And coffee hour, coffee hour, the ever present ritual of Unitarian Universalist churches and congregations is both literally and figuratively warming…”
Jan 3, 2026 · human moral beliefs
Reason & Free InquiryWork & VocationJoseph
“Because I mentioned it today, I'll add that I talked about an inner unease and confusion many friends and I experienced as young teenagers as a resul…”
Jan 3, 2026 · power between ideas
Work & VocationEvangelism & MissionCreation Care
Dec 27, 2025 · power between ideas
Creation CareStewardship & GivingService & Spiritual Gifts
“It just means placing the modern rational mindset, primarily rooted in the philosophy of materialism, which holds that physical matter constitutes th…”
Dec 27, 2025 · families and relationships
Friendship & Belonging
“It's not that we don't value our friends, we do, or it's not that we don't seek them out when we need them.”
Nov 30, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareChurch Life & MembershipAdvent & Christmas
“When the baby was born, of course, there was no cradle for married to lay her baby in, but one of the cows was kind enough to lend her her feeding tr…”
Nov 29, 2025 · connected common experience
ContentmentAdvent & ChristmasLoneliness & Isolation
“So he essentially repackaged it by excising any overtly religious aspects and accentuating its physical and mental health benefits, and ended up with…”
Nov 29, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Racial JusticeSuffering & PerseveranceFear & Anxiety
“This Christmas season of Hope is only constructive if we apply Jesus as a Galaxy, terrien teachings on love and compassion.”
Nov 22, 2025 · power between ideas
Thanksgiving & HarvestPeace & Nonviolence
Nov 22, 2025 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Faith & Mental HealthCreation & EdenInterdependence & Nature
Nov 1, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Reason & Free InquiryPrayer & DevotionPeace & Nonviolence
Oct 26, 2025 · power between ideas
Work & VocationHumanismReason & Free Inquiry
Oct 18, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Doxology & Benediction
Oct 18, 2025 · uu spiritual principles
Joy & GratitudeFaith & DoubtSin & Repentance
“And our 7th principal respect for the interdependent web of all, existence of which we are apart, confirms that a healthy World Community doesn't onl…”
Oct 11, 2025 · families and relationships
Faith & Mental HealthAddiction & RecoveryParenting & Children
“But after college I just stopped going and he said: would you like for me to teach you how to?”
Oct 4, 2025 · power between ideas
Friendship & BelongingGender & Sexuality / InclusionBaptism & Communion
“I know the dad had formed in the Bay Area, but until then I did not know that was right here in Palo Alto.”
Sep 27, 2025 · unitarian universalism
MarriageFriendship & BelongingFaith & Doubt
Sep 20, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Fear & AnxietyThe FallAll Saints
“Abridged surveillance had no use for the doctrine of original sin in the entire theory of Salvation based upon it, including the doctrines of Jesus's…”
Sep 13, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Spiritual GrowthFaith & Civic LifeBible & Exposition
Aug 17, 2025 · power between ideas
Friendship & BelongingJosephInfertility & Child Loss
“The idea of the hero's journey was popularized in the mid-20th century by sociologist Joseph Campbell among.”
Aug 17, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeStewardship & GivingNoah & the Flood
“A month later, I was in San Francisco's Pride Parade, shouting down the homophobia and transphobia that are federal, that pollutes are federal Admini…”
Jul 3, 2025 · readings books learning
Faith & Civic LifeSalvation & GraceRacial Justice
“Fictional stories often gave the children a moral dilemma and encourage them to come to their own conclusions.”
Jul 3, 2025 · families and relationships
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionMarriageFaith & Doubt
“Advocacy work on trans Rights was intentionally sacrificed in favor of same-sex marriage advocacy work with anti-trans, Interfaith and gay and lesbia…”
Jun 26, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingUnitarian Universalist IdentitySalvation & Grace
“As a religious education professional at uu, Church of silver.”
Jun 26, 2025 · families and relationships
Suffering & PerseveranceImmigration & Refuge1st Principle: Inherent Worth & Dignity
“If you open a Burmese English language newspaper like 1199, you'll find Buddhist quotes tucked between articles about weather and politics, like: if…”
Jun 20, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Poverty & CompassionFriendship & BelongingBeloved Community
“We overlooked the veteran, the student, the artist, The Elder Reverend, doctor Rebecca Parker says: when we dehumanize others, we dehumanize to bring…”
Jun 9, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityThanksgiving & HarvestJoy & Gratitude
Jun 4, 2025 · power between ideas
Abraham & IsaacHumanismChurch Life & Membership
“You know we can join social justice, environmental justice organizations, and many of us do.”
May 21, 2025 · families and relationships
Faith & Civic LifeWork & VocationFaith & Doubt
May 18, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Baptism & CommunionBeloved Community
“And, just like Reverend cat was saying about Norbert Tropic, who created this flower communion, when I say love, I don't just mean the feeling is won…”
May 18, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Identity & WorthHumanismShame & Guilt
May 16, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Bible & ExpositionSin & RepentanceUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Well, I wonder about this, in each case as new data so we can identify our biases and resist the temptation to automatically believe whatever confirm…”
May 16, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Poverty & CompassionChurch Life & MembershipCreation Care
May 11, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Addiction & RecoveryFear & AnxietyPrayer & Devotion
“You know, somewhere you see the middle as your passing by it and in my early sobriety, and I'm talking about my first 20 years.”
May 4, 2025 · power between ideas
Creation CareReason & Free InquiryIdentity & Worth
Apr 28, 2025 · power between ideas
Creation CareParenting & ChildrenAdvent & Christmas
“Amen.”
Apr 22, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
MarriageFaith & Civic LifeLoneliness & Isolation
Apr 17, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Are we willing to confront and name the white supremacy culture that Sur, that's inside each of us, that's inside every institution of this nation fo…”
Apr 5, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Faith & Civic LifeFriendship & BelongingJoy & Gratitude
“5% of the global population had.”
Apr 5, 2025 · families and relationships
Forgiveness & ReconciliationFear & AnxietyUnitarian Universalist Identity
“But for most of the people I work with who fear death, it is not a fear of what happens after they die, but rather a fear that the dying process itse…”
Mar 15, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Forgiveness & ReconciliationJoy & GratitudePeace & Nonviolence
Mar 15, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Mar 15, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareUnitarian Universalist IdentityFriendship & Belonging
“She writes a lot about how can we take care of the and she says, you know, people keep talking about climate change, like, in order to take care of t…”
Mar 14, 2025 · unitarian universalism
HumanismPluralism & InterfaithParenting & Children
“Now let's talk about the children and the youth and their experience of.”
Mar 11, 2025 · connected common experience
Thanksgiving & HarvestIdentity & WorthJoy & Gratitude
“Moreover, I remember that I cannot access or Express gratitude without also accepting and acknowledging my own vulnerability, my finitude, the limits…”
Mar 7, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Thanksgiving & HarvestCreation & EdenFriendship & Belonging
“I'm going to read that as, and then the last is the 7th: respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are apart.”
Feb 26, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & Belonging
Feb 18, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Joy & GratitudeCreation CareReason & Free Inquiry
Feb 13, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyAddiction & RecoveryGrief & Lament
“I'm going to pay attention to what's going on and I'm going to do the things I can, exactly what I just wrote about it, and I think I'm going to work.”
Feb 8, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Addiction & RecoveryAdvent & Christmas
Feb 5, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Shame & GuiltGender & Sexuality / InclusionFriendship & Belonging
“I just hearing your choir warm up today, I started to think about that, all the ways that I feel held and I'm so, so an inclusive and say diversity,…”
Feb 5, 2025 · connected common experience
Peace & NonviolenceSuffering & PerseveranceFriendship & Belonging
Jan 26, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeUnitarian Universalist IdentityBaptism & Communion
“Martha, from her home in the United States, was watching the events in Europe in the fall of 1938 and she was very, very worried, I dare say even pos…”
Jan 19, 2025 · families and relationships
Thanksgiving & HarvestMarriageFriendship & Belonging
Jan 15, 2025 · power between ideas
Faith & Civic LifeBaptism & Communion
Jan 7, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Stewardship & GivingFriendship & BelongingFear & Anxiety
Dec 28, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Pluralism & Interfaith
Dec 8, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Racial JusticeFaith & DoubtImmigration & Refuge
“Like, acting in Coalition for Trans Liberation and migrant Justice is a direct antidote to the rising fascism we see not only in the United States bu…”
Dec 7, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Identity & WorthGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
Nov 23, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
The NativityAdvent & ChristmasJoseph
“Or Magi are cheap, or shepherds are angels, or animals are are Nazareth, sign Mary and Joseph and the baby penguin.”
Nov 23, 2024 · power between ideas
Faith & DoubtFear & AnxietyPeace & Nonviolence
“Remember how I said you heard this 2 weeks ago.”
Nov 20, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Thanksgiving & HarvestEvangelism & MissionParenting & Children
“They lived on a ranch in Frazier Park just off the I-5, at the top of the Grapevine.”
Nov 15, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifeImmigration & RefugeMarriage
“I am not going to walk up to the homes of people who have been identified as likely hostile to illegal immigrants and try to talk them out of their o…”
Nov 15, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Peace & NonviolenceFriendship & BelongingCreation Care
“It's a project of mine for this year: to help train us all in noticing and responding to subtle acts of exclusion and the hardest thing, after notici…”
Nov 5, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifeMarriageFriendship & Belonging
“I recall a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, those leftists, who works for a republican Spain against Franco before World War I, he says.”
Oct 28, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Grief & LamentPoverty & Compassion
Oct 15, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Baptism & CommunionUnitarian Universalist IdentityPluralism & Interfaith
Oct 9, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Hope & EncouragementService & Spiritual GiftsThanksgiving & Harvest
“But like the stranger who comes to town in stone- 5000 people and lots and lots of left- I, some people find it in Raging.”
Sep 30, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Interdependence & Nature
“And let's live a little bit more into our animal bodies and honor that part of the interdependent web that.”
Sep 25, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareFaith & Civic Life
Sep 6, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFriendship & BelongingRacial Justice
Aug 28, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Pluralism & InterfaithReason & Free InquiryUnitarian Universalist Identity
“I believe that Covenant, to learn from one another and to remember that everyone is sacred, that are differences, although sometimes challenging, are…”
Aug 28, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Unitarian Universalist IdentitySuffering & PerseveranceHope & Encouragement
“But here it is in our shared values that we just approved as a denomination, including some of the delegates from this congregation in June.”
Aug 27, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionFaith & DoubtHope & Encouragement
“I am so sorry and you hold on to it right.”
Aug 26, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
MarriageCreation & EdenDating & Godly Relationships
“But the guy was dating, but they used to have like crazy sex, whatever, and then he got with another woman, but it was something that she just wouldn…”
Aug 19, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Advent & ChristmasDating & Godly RelationshipsSpiritual Growth
Aug 12, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Parenting & ChildrenAdvent & ChristmasFear & Anxiety
Aug 10, 2024 · readings books learning
Heaven & HellFriendship & BelongingGrief & Lament
Aug 7, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Dating & Godly RelationshipsWork & VocationMarriage
“She ended for our own reasons, and everyone's opinion around the office was that I was doing, I was the one that was doing the chasing like a lost pu…”
Aug 4, 2024 · connected common experience
Immigration & RefugeCreation CareJoy & Gratitude
“There are countless examples of movements like the climate change movement, realizing people are tired and discouraged and they don't know whether wh…”
Jul 24, 2024 · spirituality in nature
Baptism & CommunionUnitarian Universalist IdentityParenting & Children
“The water that we pour- listen to Tesla, part of it, will remain many, many years from now to the children and the people in the water communion.”
Jul 3, 2024 · families and relationships
Friendship & BelongingPoverty & CompassionFaith & Civic Life
Jul 2, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Creation CareFriendship & BelongingPeace & Nonviolence
“Connecting Church values of love and Justice in the larger Gardens Are My Chosen Sanctuary, where I help 10 the soil of the earth, as well as cultiva…”
Jun 29, 2024 · families and relationships
Faith & Civic LifeFriendship & BelongingThe Exodus
“We're going to go back about 5,000 years ago to the Tomb of the first Egyptian pharaoh.”
Jun 28, 2024 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Disability & BelongingPoverty & CompassionThe Kingdom of God
“Over the past four years living in Berkeley as a person with a disability myself, I've had the joy of learning about the beginnings of the modern Dis…”
Jun 23, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Beloved CommunityBible & ExpositionFriendship & Belonging
“But aside from slogans about side with love or living on the side of Love or love at the center, I don't hear a lot of more nuanced theology about lo…”
Jun 14, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & DoubtFear & AnxietyUnitarian Universalist Identity
Jun 4, 2024 · power between ideas
Worship & PraiseJoy & Gratitude
May 23, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Grief & LamentSalvation & GraceUnitarian Universalist Identity
“I felt it today, just thinking who else could we speak about, who we might remember on Memorial Day, and not wanting to disrespect the people for who…”
May 23, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Interdependence & NatureGrief & LamentFear & Anxiety
May 21, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Suffering & PerseveranceGod the Father / CreatorBible & Exposition
May 14, 2024 · families and relationships
Friendship & BelongingHope & Encouragement
“Religious education serves as the interconnected root system that binds us together and enables us to drink from the Waters of life in this world.”
Apr 29, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Parenting & ChildrenMarriageFriendship & Belonging
“I was dating somebody, one, and I said after my last relationship- and it's probably cuz my wife want to post it, it ain't cuz I actually I post othe…”
Apr 27, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Prayer & Devotion
Apr 27, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & Civic LifePoverty & Compassion
Apr 24, 2024 · power between ideas
Creation CareFear & Anxiety
“It's incredibly validating, and even people who don't donate or agree with our issue can be incredibly kind.”
Apr 13, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Evangelism & MissionCreation CareJoseph
“Despite the problems, despite the very real threat that the way human beings have been living poses to this amazing, we are still part of the good ne…”
Apr 2, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Parenting & ChildrenFaith & DoubtImmigration & Refuge
Mar 27, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Bible & ExpositionMarriageDating & Godly Relationships
“I had before I started dating, so it's just like, damn, I been by myself so long and only been operating in a certain space.”
Mar 25, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Dating & Godly RelationshipsBible & ExpositionFriendship & Belonging
Mar 24, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionJoy & GratitudeIdentity & Worth
“He was a good man, killed by the Empire at the age of only 33.”
Mar 24, 2024 · power between ideas
Peace & NonviolenceFaith & Civic LifeForgiveness & Reconciliation
“Many who knows something of the background of this conflict have lots of incidents and quotes at their fingertips: bitter moments, moral turning poin…”
Mar 14, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Dating & Godly RelationshipsFaith & Mental HealthBaptism & Communion
Mar 13, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareBeloved CommunityFear & Anxiety
Mar 2, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Church Life & MembershipPoverty & CompassionAddiction & Recovery
“We come here for a free and responsible search for truth and meaning, and one of our other principles is peace, Liberty and liberty and justice for a…”
Feb 12, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Dating & Godly RelationshipsParenting & ChildrenBaptism & Communion
Feb 6, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Thanksgiving & HarvestRacial JusticeService & Spiritual Gifts
Feb 5, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyBible & ExpositionMarriage
Jan 29, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Dating & Godly RelationshipsParenting & ChildrenFriendship & Belonging
Jan 24, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Dating & Godly RelationshipsPrayer & DevotionForgiveness & Reconciliation
Jan 20, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeUnitarian Universalist IdentityEvangelism & Mission
“What in honor it is to share my deep passion and joy for the liberal religious faith in the Philippines that we, as a queer filipino-american Unitari…”
Jan 18, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Immigration & RefugeFaith & Civic Life2nd Principle: Justice & Equity
“Even a Godless fellow like myself can wholeheartedly say yes, amen, and that is why the symbol of the Chalice, with the Burning Flame within it, did…”
Jan 18, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Shame & GuiltParenting & ChildrenService & Spiritual Gifts
“And you know it would just be a real shame if anybody went a whole life time without having one, or preferably many.”
Jan 13, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
New Year & Watch NightFear & AnxietyDating & Godly Relationships
Jan 11, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Names & Titles of GodRacial JusticeDaniel
“It's anything that takes us away from Martin Luther King Jr's great dream of Beloved Community.”
Dec 24, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Joy & GratitudeSpiritual GrowthAdvent & Christmas
“So you'll see them in the crash or in our- or no rehearsal Christmas Pageant- everybody together, because we like to kind of condensed the story and…”
Nov 19, 2023 · power between ideas
Thanksgiving & HarvestBaptism & Communion
Nov 19, 2023 · uu spiritual principles
3rd Principle: Acceptance & Growth2nd Principle: Justice & EquityAdvent & Christmas
“It's that time of year when a lot of people decorate for Christmas, and even people who aren't Christian may choose to participate just to be festive…”
Nov 19, 2023 · power between ideas
Forgiveness & ReconciliationSpiritual GrowthBaptism & Communion
“But if the prior three steps- telling the story, naming the hurt and granting forgiveness- were taken with care, the choice to renew or release is, d…”
Aug 12, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Salvation & GraceReason & Free InquiryUnitarian Universalist Identity
Jul 26, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Grief & LamentReason & Free InquiryDoubt & Deconstruction
“Renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell seconds this notion toward the Transcendent and the notion that the soul grows by subtraction when he says you h…”
Jun 14, 2023 · power between ideas
HumanismFear & AnxietySalvation & Grace
Jun 11, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Creation CareService & Spiritual GiftsSpiritual Growth
Jun 8, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
HumanismCreation CareUnitarian Universalist Identity
Jun 8, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Pluralism & InterfaithUnitarian Universalist Identity4th Principle: Free & Responsible Search
“Next year we're going to be voting this proposed new language, and this is how pluralism is: celebrate that we are all sac diverse in experience and…”
Jun 5, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Addiction & RecoveryMarriageFaith & Doubt
Jun 3, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
MarriageAddiction & RecoverySin & Repentance
“Hard to fight drug and alcohol addiction and sexual abuse at the same time.”
Jun 2, 2023 · power between ideas
Friendship & BelongingUnitarian Universalist IdentityCreation Care
“In recent years we've tried very hard to push back on it, and 2012 Unitarian Universalist took the song at general assembly and we formally rejected.”
Jun 2, 2023 · power between ideas
Abraham & IsaacThanksgiving & HarvestThe Nativity
“Bruce read one of his poems at our choir rehearsal a few weeks ago.”
Jun 1, 2023 · connected common experience
Interdependence & NatureFaith & Mental HealthFriendship & Belonging
“I did not do anything to deserve it and it was an unbearable gift, let's say, from the universe.”
Jun 1, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionHope & EncouragementRacial Justice
“Fortunately, Unitarian universalists are far from alone in holding these core values.”
Jun 1, 2023 · spirit soul within us
Racial JusticeSalvation & GraceBeloved Community
May 30, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionReason & Free InquiryDisability & Belonging
“Communication: yes, we humans have reason and logic, unlike dogs, but perfectly reasonable implies that I have the answer and the other person just n…”
May 30, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Psalm 23 / The ShepherdUnitarian Universalist IdentityBaptism & Communion
“So, in this age of deep and often intentional division, as we now meditate on Ripple as an entry into our water communion, I invite us to notice the…”
May 29, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Addiction & RecoveryDivorce & Broken RelationshipsShame & Guilt
“Four of them don't even live, you know, in the United States and one of them lives in Europe.”
May 28, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Baptism & Communion
“And here we are showing ourselves and showing the world every time we gather for this flower communion, what's going on all over the world right now.”
May 20, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeSin & RepentanceSuffering & Perseverance
Apr 30, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareImmigration & Refuge
“I'm so grateful to be joined up here by a few of the many people working on the green Sanctuary, which is our committee and our movement to continue…”
Apr 27, 2023 · connected common experience
Poverty & CompassionCreation CareService & Spiritual Gifts
“I seem to be the target audience and in the chapter biblical Christianity and social justice, Eric Schoenberg allowed that helping the poor on a volu…”
Apr 16, 2023 · families and relationships
Faith & Civic LifeFaith & Mental HealthIdentity & Worth
“Now she'd have to rhyme everything with six, or maybe she could just write it for the 9 mm to 9 pm, six days a week culture that people in China call…”
Apr 16, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifeFaith & Doubt
“But white supremacy- which I turn to Merriam-Webster here- is the social, economic and political systems that collectively enable white people to mai…”
Apr 12, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
MarriageGender & Sexuality / InclusionFaith & Civic Life
“A lot of people are merely tolerating same-sex marriage and, for that matter, having both parents in the same-sex marriage have their names on their…”
Apr 3, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Grief & LamentCrucifixion & AtonementResurrection & Easter
Mar 27, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Addiction & RecoveryHope & EncouragementFaith & Doubt
Mar 26, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeCreation CareReason & Free Inquiry
“Setting boundaries and white supremacy culture is often very uncomfortable, but it's important setting boundaries in white supremacy culture.”
Mar 20, 2023 · families and relationships
4th Principle: Free & Responsible SearchParenting & ChildrenSpiritual Growth
“In what does it mean to accept one another and encourage spiritual growth with this child in this?”
Mar 20, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Addiction & RecoverySpiritual GrowthFear & Anxiety
Mar 15, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionFaith & Doubt
Mar 14, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeAdvent & Christmas
Mar 13, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Addiction & RecoveryChurch Life & MembershipStewardship & Giving
“That was just, you know, advertisement for 12 steps, but it but it, but you know, and we got some flak from that kind of stuff because we didn't, you…”
Mar 8, 2023 · connected common experience
Friendship & BelongingGender & Sexuality / InclusionGrief & Lament
Mar 6, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Addiction & RecoveryGrief & LamentDivorce & Broken Relationships
“For listen to what he said: the deeper that sorrow carves into your, the more joy you can take, the more joy you can contain is not the cup that hold…”
Feb 26, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingService & Spiritual GiftsChurch Life & Membership
“It's not just that we provide Logistics, the sort of structure, the the small groups that say: oh, you can meet because you all like to sing together…”
Feb 21, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Work & VocationFaith & Mental Health
Feb 18, 2023 · school age stories
Faith & Civic LifeRacial JusticeParenting & Children
“So if you are at Drew High School, would you sit next to the Carters at lunch?”
Feb 11, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
God the Father / CreatorCreation CareHumanism
“I want to propose that a Common Thread that runs through all these Traditions is humanism.”
Feb 9, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Joy & Gratitude
Feb 2, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Dating & Godly RelationshipsMarriageFaith & Mental Health
“And then, if we look at at least us here in the United States, we- many of us- lived through the largest civil rights movement of our lifetimes, with…”
Feb 1, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & DoubtThe Cost of Discipleship
Jan 27, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Identity & Worth
Jan 23, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Joy & GratitudeUnitarian Universalist IdentitySuffering & Perseverance
“We have lots and lots of ways of getting through bad times and, although it doesn't feel like it when a bad time is here, one of the other things tha…”
Jan 23, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Dating & Godly RelationshipsMarriagePhilippians
Jan 16, 2023 · school age stories
Advent & ChristmasThe ExodusDisability & Belonging
Jan 13, 2023 · readings books learning
Bible & ExpositionHumanism4th Principle: Free & Responsible Search
“But thanks to this book, I feel free to.”
Jan 11, 2023 · power between ideas
Prayer & DevotionLoneliness & IsolationJoy & Gratitude
“Everything from wishes for looking, to love, to struggling with addiction, to suffering from health issues, they're all displayed publicly in the shr…”
Jan 11, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Racial Justice
Jan 10, 2023 · school age stories
Evangelism & Mission
Jan 4, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Salvation & GraceBaptism & CommunionPoverty & Compassion
“We ended up getting baptized.”
Jan 2, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Dating & Godly RelationshipsMarriageNew Year & Watch Night
“So if they dated somebody, who has ill intentions and goes out here, and you don't have to social media, putting everything on front or letting posti…”
Jan 1, 2023 · power between ideas
Prophecy & End TimesSalvation & GraceThe Parable of the Sower
“In our verse for this morning, Butler takes her time to invite us into a tactile ways of knowing that we have lived before and we will live again thr…”
Dec 21, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareGender & Sexuality / InclusionSuffering & Perseverance
“All these companies have a men's opportunities to to refactor and reimagine how we are diagnosing these diseases, ideally earlier, and have remarkabl…”
Dec 20, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Advent & ChristmasDating & Godly RelationshipsBaptism & Communion
“I mean I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.”
Dec 6, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Mental Health
“So my social media is called an sop, to be the number two and just a letter b, and I have a website, Instagram, Facebook.”
Dec 3, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Poverty & CompassionBaptism & CommunionCreation Care
Nov 29, 2022 · school age stories
Creation & Eden
Nov 25, 2022 · families and relationships
Hope & EncouragementService & Spiritual GiftsParenting & Children
“What a fabulous kind of training to create the next generation of adults, because that's what we're doing here at church, those little little ones.”
Nov 25, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingCreation CareParenting & Children
“Someone will fall in love with someone of the wrong Clan, the wrong cast, the wrong country or color, or religion, or sex, or, and sometimes the full…”
Nov 25, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Bible & ExpositionWork & VocationHoly Spirit
“To move the web forward and give web designers and developers the best tools and services in the world.”
Nov 20, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Forgiveness & ReconciliationCreation CareHoly Spirit
Nov 18, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Thanksgiving & HarvestDaniel
Nov 18, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyCrucifixion & Atonement
Nov 13, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Creation CareThe Kingdom of GodThe Second Advent
Nov 6, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Immigration & RefugeBible & ExpositionCreation Care
Oct 30, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Baptism & Communion
Oct 30, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Sin & RepentanceCreation CareThe Kingdom of God
Oct 29, 2022 · unitarian universalism
MarriageImmigration & RefugePluralism & Interfaith
“And then, in December of 2002, set timer 22, 2002, December, so a month from now, a group of those leaders met at Neighborhood Church down in Pasad a…”
Oct 23, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
The Creed (Apostles'/Nicene)Creation & EdenBible & Exposition
Oct 6, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingPoverty & Compassion
Oct 5, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Worship & PraiseGrief & LamentGod the Father / Creator
“As we know, the dominant image of God in in the Bible, in both the Jewish and Christian tradition, is is male, and Along Came, feminist theologians 5…”
Oct 3, 2022 · christmas and easter
Advent & ChristmasFaith & Civic Life
Sep 26, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Service & Spiritual GiftsPrayer & DevotionChurch Life & Membership
“If we were only doing that, that would be fabulous, but we would have go on with all our kind of parts of our lives here at ucpa.”
Sep 14, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Church Life & MembershipGod the Father / CreatorFear & Anxiety
Sep 10, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
HumanismImmigration & RefugeGrief & Lament
“He probably wouldn't mind this word- I know some of you do and it might make some of the people at the American humanist Association role in the aisl…”
Sep 9, 2022 · power between ideas
Creation CareFriendship & BelongingStewardship & Giving
“For example, in 2012, there was a United Church of Christ Minister who hold, who held a symposium for features, and his recommendation was that every…”
Sep 9, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Poverty & CompassionCalling & Purpose
“I see the consequences of people living in poverty and Nicaragua and Venezuela in the tenderloin of San Francisco, in many, many places throughout ou…”
Aug 31, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Peace & NonviolenceLent & Holy WeekDisability & Belonging
“And in fact, the ritual that I just described as commanded by God to take place at a certain date, that becomes the day of atonement, Yom Kippur- and…”
Aug 31, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Service & Spiritual GiftsJoy & Gratitude
“Come to the volunteer fair and say: this is what I think it is, what have you got?”
Aug 27, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
MarriageFaith & Civic LifePrayer & Devotion
Aug 20, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Interdependence & NatureFriendship & BelongingEarth-Centered Spirituality
Aug 11, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFriendship & Belonging5th Principle: Conscience & Democratic Process
“There are many who died for daring to vote long before the Advent of the civil rights movement, and some of those names are recorded as well within t…”
Aug 10, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Church Life & Membership
Aug 9, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeAngerShame & Guilt
Jul 23, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Evangelism & MissionBible & Exposition
Jul 18, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifeHope & Encouragement3rd Principle: Acceptance & Growth
“What are the rabbinical teacher teaches students is Yom Kippur, and they say: well, how do we really learn how we should do Yom Kippur?”
Jul 18, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Forgiveness & ReconciliationCreation CareIdentity & Worth
“Many of us know the song as it was made famous by pro-union folk singers, Jim Garland or Pete Seeger, or by its use in the Civil Rights Movement.”
Jul 10, 2022 · school age stories
Advent & ChristmasHope & Encouragement
Jul 9, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Hope & EncouragementFriendship & Belonging
Jul 7, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Shame & GuiltFear & AnxietyGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
Jun 30, 2022 · spiritual practice
Hope & Encouragement
Jun 20, 2022 · power between ideas
Forgiveness & ReconciliationPoverty & Compassion
Jun 17, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
God the Father / CreatorChurch Life & Membership
Jun 11, 2022 · uu spiritual principles
Faith & Civic LifeGun Violence & SafetyGrief & Lament
“He was was to defend himself from his, as the Supreme Court has now ruled should be true in every single state.”
Jun 10, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Grief & LamentFear & AnxietyMarriage
“This is the group of people that I spend the most time with, other than thinking about how we can become a more welcoming, more welcoming.”
Jun 5, 2022 · uu spiritual principles
Grief & LamentBeloved CommunityPeace & Nonviolence
“It brings us, Joyce and Sorrows.”
Jun 1, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionBible & ExpositionHope & Encouragement
“And there's people who are non-binary in their gender identity and even the folks who've been in the LGBT community for a long time say this is: I'm…”
May 21, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifeGrief & LamentFriendship & Belonging
“But even before the events of the last couple of weeks and the terrible violence that we are once again grappling with, it seemed very appropriate to…”
May 21, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Bible & ExpositionUnitarian Universalist IdentityChurch Life & Membership
“If you've told people that you're active in this congregation, it goes like this: you're sitting next to a new acquaintance or talking with a co-work…”
May 12, 2022 · power between ideas
God the Father / CreatorCreation & EdenFaith & Civic Life
May 12, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingFaith & Mental HealthHumanism
“The burden of proof is suddenly on you to prove that you were raped, which, as we know, is going to take months or years, and our legal system?”
Apr 29, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Poverty & CompassionThe Ten CommandmentsFriendship & Belonging
Apr 27, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Racial Justice
“I mean there's institutional racism, I mean systemic racism, there's all that, and I don't want to toss that off as well.”
Apr 22, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareUnitarian Universalist Identity
Apr 21, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Suffering & PerseveranceGod the Father / Creator
Apr 14, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
God the Father / CreatorAdvent & Christmas
Apr 10, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Disability & BelongingFaith & Civic Life
“So we have a response on Zoom that says I have 20 days of sick leave per year, the cruise year after year, over year, there is long-term disability,…”
Apr 9, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Evangelism & MissionLent & Holy WeekJoseph
Mar 29, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Work & VocationRacial Justice
Mar 29, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingHope & EncouragementStewardship & Giving
“Don't worry, the paper will stay.”
Mar 23, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareThanksgiving & HarvestRacial Justice
Mar 22, 2022 · connected common experience
Baptism & CommunionCreation & Eden
Mar 22, 2022 · families and relationships
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFear & AnxietyFaith & Doubt
Mar 16, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Peace & NonviolenceSpiritual GrowthIntercessory Prayer
Mar 14, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Mental HealthFaith & Doubt
“So the main thing to do is to reclaim your autonomy such as it is- and I know under capitalism we're all like you know, this is very go to the degree…”
Mar 3, 2022 · connected common experience
God the Father / Creator
Mar 2, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Bible & ExpositionInterdependence & NatureUnitarian Universalist Identity
Mar 1, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyReason & Free InquiryFaith & Civic Life
Feb 25, 2022 · uu spiritual principles
God the Father / Creator
Feb 22, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & DoubtShame & GuiltRacial Justice
“And but I think where, as I was listening to you tell, I was thinking that Renee Brown's hole work is that the opposite of Shame is vulnerability and…”
Feb 18, 2022 · power between ideas
God the Father / CreatorIdentity & Worth
Feb 16, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Acts
Feb 14, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Spiritual GrowthPluralism & InterfaithCrucifixion & Atonement
“Here they were explicitly recognizing all of these pads, as if you missed dance class about this a couple weeks ago.”
Feb 13, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Spiritual GrowthPeace & NonviolenceFear & Anxiety
“Furthermore, there was a lot of conflict between at least the senior Minister and the members of the congregation, certainly the lay, and also this w…”
Feb 13, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityBaptism & CommunionService & Spiritual Gifts
“Even after I understood that not all Unitarian universalists are humanists and that there are many different kinds of humanism, I still thought for a…”
Feb 10, 2022 · connected common experience
Baptism & CommunionPeace & Nonviolence
“My name is Joe casabona and today we're talking about WordPress is seat at the table, as reported by the meeting at the White House, which was led by…”
Feb 2, 2022 · power between ideas
Racial JusticeGender & Sexuality / InclusionStewardship & Giving
“I would recommend the Beloved conversations program to anyone who wants to explore more deeply the second principle of Unitarian Justice, equity and…”
Jan 31, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityStewardship & GivingFear & Anxiety
“That's what people do, and they thrive in the United States, where there are so many different kinds of organizations that are not created by the sta…”
Jan 19, 2022 · power between ideas
Creation CareReason & Free InquiryGrief & Lament
“And, very importantly, they believed- although they put this in many different ways- in the Divinity of Nature and they centrality of nature, all, al…”
Jan 9, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifeParenting & Children
“No black person cast a vote in the entire County for the next.”
Jan 2, 2022 · uu spiritual principles
Unitarian Universalist IdentityGrief & Lament
“Pay attention, stop right here, pay attention.”
Dec 19, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Advent & ChristmasJosephThe Nativity
“Joseph and Mary knew it was not going to be an easy Journey, because Mary was almost ready to have her baby.”
Dec 12, 2021 · gifts giving gratitude
Creation CareStewardship & GivingAdvent & Christmas
“But there's a beauty there too, because once we shove the guilt trips and transactions aside, what we have is a relationship between gratitude and ge…”
Dec 5, 2021 · power between ideas
Creation CareChurch Life & MembershipAdvent & Christmas
Nov 23, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Poverty & CompassionFear & AnxietyBible & Exposition
Nov 9, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Thanksgiving & HarvestJonahFaith & Doubt
“The Book of Jonah is.”
Oct 26, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Church Life & MembershipImmigration & RefugePoverty & Compassion
“Four: we can realize that changing individual habits is not enough- and I am so grateful to the green Sanctuary committee and are bored and this poli…”
Oct 26, 2021 · connected common experience
Reason & Free InquiryFaith & Civic LifeRevival & Renewal
“And, as one of our historians of Unitarianism and universalism writes, few opposed the intense Revival that swept his region in the 1740s with the te…”
Oct 26, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
God the Father / CreatorIntercessory PrayerGrief & Lament
“As Abraham Joshua heschel said, it's.”
Sep 25, 2021 · spirituality in nature
Baptism & CommunionFaith & DoubtInterdependence & Nature
“We float in mostly water as we form and were born in a rush of water, just as life formed in the waters of our planet billions of years, and so we ar…”
Aug 29, 2021 · families and relationships
Forgiveness & ReconciliationParenting & ChildrenDating & Godly Relationships
“It's really not any different than at our commitment to Justice.”
Aug 29, 2021 · unitarian universalism
Reason & Free InquiryChurch Life & MembershipFriendship & Belonging
“They're both a part of our lives and we are trying to embrace them both.”
Aug 28, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
Creation CareGrief & Lament
Aug 22, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingFear & AnxietyFaith & Civic Life
Aug 15, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Baptism & CommunionFaith & Doubt
Jul 31, 2021 · power between ideas
7th Principle: Interdependent WebRacial JusticeHumanism
Jul 8, 2021 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Friendship & BelongingThe ExodusJoy & Gratitude
Jul 7, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Noah & the FloodPrayer & DevotionPoverty & Compassion
“I wasn't joking when I said: go to the green Sanctuary committee meeting if you would like to help green our world, because that is, of course, very…”
Jun 20, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Poverty & CompassionJoy & GratitudeFaith & Civic Life
“How can I support what you are doing, as we will be doing with our green sanctuary?”
Jun 13, 2021 · power between ideas
Faith & Civic Life
“Adrp 1 prescribes the moral principles for how and why the Army shapes, fights and wins our nation's wars in the right way, setting the tone for all…”
Jun 13, 2021 · uu spiritual principles
Pluralism & InterfaithFear & AnxietyRacial Justice
“It isn't right and we don't feel comfortable.”
May 30, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Bible & ExpositionPrayer & DevotionFriendship & Belonging
May 16, 2021 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeUnitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & Civic Life
“Morrison Reid is our most most faithful chronicler of such attempts of people of color, especially African-Americans like himself, to breach the wall…”
May 12, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
Creation CareFriendship & Belonging
May 7, 2021 · power between ideas
Friendship & BelongingShame & GuiltGrief & Lament
“It seems that for people sensitive to Melancholia, or as we might say today in our more psychotherapeutic world, some kind of deeper sense of belongi…”
May 2, 2021 · unitarian universalism
Worship & PraiseWork & VocationThanksgiving & Harvest
“I hope you will consider what I'm saying today in light of our seventh principle, which affirms that each of us is part of an interdependent web of a…”
Apr 25, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Poverty & CompassionRacial JusticeUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Go to address systemic racism a little farther.”
Apr 18, 2021 · unitarian universalism
Sin & RepentanceBaptism & CommunionPoverty & Compassion
Apr 13, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
Identity & WorthHeaven & Hell
Apr 4, 2021 · families and relationships
Crucifixion & AtonementHumanismCreation Care
“We can have our Easter if we awake and to rise and greet the dawn that is before us, within us, in this.”
Mar 28, 2021 · power between ideas
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionLent & Holy WeekJoseph
Mar 14, 2021 · families and relationships
Church Life & MembershipPsalmsService & Spiritual Gifts
“The big negative impact has been on their interrupted High School experience.”
Mar 11, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
Thanksgiving & HarvestCreation Care
Feb 27, 2021 · families and relationships
Faith & Civic LifeRacial JusticeJoseph
“And I want to recognize as well as I begin that the hero's journey I'm speaking about here, the one described by literature Professor Joseph Campbell…”
Feb 21, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingRacial JusticeBeloved Community
Feb 6, 2021 · hope and light, the beloved community
Saints & RelicsSin & RepentanceMarriage
Jan 31, 2021 · power between ideas
Thanksgiving & HarvestSin & RepentanceStewardship & Giving
“I recall how long ago sing a quote on a college brochure that said something like: if you never, in your 4 years here, stayed up for the whole night…”
Jan 24, 2021 · racism race justice black lives matter
Disability & BelongingRacial JusticeFaith & Civic Life
“I don't know whether those who sat in at Woolworths were aware of this precursor to their strategy, but the thread runs back through both Liberation…”
Jan 18, 2021 · uu spiritual principles
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFriendship & BelongingReason & Free Inquiry
“How does it feel to be free?”
Jan 17, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Work & VocationRacial Justice
“I don't think I'd be here speaking to you today if it weren't for my African-American allies in college who patiently explain to me white supremacy,…”
Jan 3, 2021 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingGun Violence & SafetyFaith & Mental Health
“Another way to put it is that it is better to be the last one to die for a mistake then for another thousand to die after you, or even another hundre…”
Dec 20, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Peace & NonviolenceUnitarian Universalist IdentityParenting & Children
“Things we do in the East, like household chores divided between the genders, parenting, teaching, taking care of the ill or the Aging, or these are n…”
Dec 13, 2020 · families and relationships
Advent & ChristmasDivorce & Broken RelationshipsImmigration & Refuge
“It is at best a distant 7th place behind the Sabbath, the high holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and the three planting and harvest holidays,…”
Dec 3, 2020 · hope and light, the beloved community
Stewardship & GivingHumanismFriendship & Belonging
“Angels keep their watch of wandering.”
Dec 1, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Sin & RepentanceHope & EncouragementSuffering & Perseverance
“But it was definitely the most epic day ever and I think I had fallen asleep with my normal attack.”
Nov 18, 2020 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Fear & AnxietyPrayer & DevotionWork & Vocation
Nov 18, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Thanksgiving & HarvestBaptism & Communion
“If you want to read the parts I'm leaving out, you can get it at the library and lots of other books that bird Baylor and Peter Parnell have written…”
Nov 17, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Immigration & RefugeFaith & Civic Life
“They actually have spies and refugee camps and throughout Africa that get a bounty for bringing back refugees from Eritrea, gets out of Eritrea, she…”
Nov 10, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic Life
“I asked Goldberg if current events played a part in the photographs chosen.”
Nov 2, 2020 · families and relationships
Shame & GuiltLent & Holy Week
“Shame in a family may be more subtle and complex, and the secrets can be buried for Generations, but it yields to the same treatment.”
Nov 2, 2020 · power between ideas
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionThanksgiving & HarvestSalvation & Grace
Nov 1, 2020 · uu spiritual principles
HumanismJoy & GratitudeForgiveness & Reconciliation
“I agree with the great Jewish philosopher, Rabbi Abraham heschel, when he said: quote a few are guilty, all are so.”
Oct 25, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyCreation CareBeloved Community
Oct 18, 2020 · uu spiritual principles
Daniel
Oct 11, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Fear & AnxietyUnitarian Universalist IdentityFriendship & Belonging
“And on days when I lose my own strength, I turn to the words of Alice Walker, who reminds us: we remember our ancestors, because it is an easy thing…”
Oct 4, 2020 · families and relationships
Joy & GratitudeCreation CareInterdependence & Nature
Sep 27, 2020 · more than it appears
Crucifixion & AtonementSin & RepentanceRacial Justice
“That's how we move forward and that is why it is a separate matter from asking for forgiveness to chuva is not the moment to ask anything of the peop…”
Sep 20, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionRacial JusticeUnitarian Universalist Identity
Sep 13, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Reason & Free InquiryFaith & DoubtFriendship & Belonging
“Is it matched with our reason and experience?”
Sep 6, 2020 · connected common experience
Fear & AnxietyJoy & GratitudeFriendship & Belonging
“Hearing about my siblings- serious illness, arguing with people on social media about current politics.”
Aug 30, 2020 · spirituality in nature
Creation CareBaptism & Communion
“We have people: endurance, resilience, acceptance, Focus, Phoenix, safety.”
Aug 23, 2020 · families and relationships
Church Life & MembershipJesus: Life & TeachingsFaith & Civic Life
Aug 16, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyParenting & ChildrenFriendship & Belonging
Aug 2, 2020 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Abraham & IsaacBible & ExpositionFaith & Doubt
“According to Buddhism, it takes us Beyond even longing.”
Jul 26, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Creation CareUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
“Gregorio and his family experienced the gregorio's last name, because if you have been tortured or threatened with torture, you might be able to appl…”
Jul 22, 2020 · power between ideas
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifeFaith & Doubt
Jul 19, 2020 · hope and light, the beloved community
Hope & EncouragementUnitarian Universalist IdentityPoverty & Compassion
Jul 5, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingBaptism & Communion
“And then it be as it became clear that we would not be able to have an in-person flower communion until the next flower communion, time at the ear, t…”
Jun 28, 2020 · power between ideas
Racial JusticeGender & Sexuality / InclusionFaith & Civic Life
“Happens either when the witnesses, the vast, silent crowd, stops being silenced, stops being complicit and instead recognizes the quiet submission an…”
Jun 21, 2020 · more than it appears
Baptism & CommunionJoy & GratitudeUnitarian Universalist Identity
“I'm thinking on this flower communion morning about same, same and different are one of the things that we learn from our very earliest years.”
Jun 14, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeFriendship & Belonging
Jun 7, 2020 · racism race justice black lives matter
Faith & Civic LifeRacial JusticeThe Fall
“His Jewish take on it is is very different than the Evangelical idea in Words, with only in my memory I haven't been able to find exactly where he sa…”
May 24, 2020 · power between ideas
Contemplative Prayer & SilenceHoly Spirit
“Saying what I have created is good about cultivating an attitude of listening, and here is a wonderful description of what could it could be a descri…”
May 17, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Service & Spiritual GiftsPoverty & CompassionUnitarian Universalist Identity
“An 1896 newspaper described it thus conceded to be the finest and most conveniently arranged Post in the United States Army.”
May 10, 2020 · uu spiritual principles
MarriageUnitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & Civic Life
“When The Architects of our Republic- architects of our Republic- wrote The Magnificent words of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, the…”
May 3, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticePoverty & CompassionEvangelism & Mission
“The Republicans believe the Federalists were a front for the British Monarchy and the Federalists saw the Republicans as tools of the chaos and blood…”
Apr 26, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Service & Spiritual GiftsUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
Apr 19, 2020 · connected common experience
Grief & LamentUnitarian Universalist IdentityCreation Care
“As high school students reading Walden under duress, we were captivated by the disgustingness of this image.”
Apr 12, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Church Life & MembershipThe Parable of the SowerLent & Holy Week
“I am about to do a new thing: I will make a way in the wilderness, a road through the wild.”
Apr 5, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionMarriageSpiritual Growth
Mar 22, 2020 · unitarian universalism
Baptism & CommunionFaith & DoubtStewardship & Giving
Mar 15, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Thanksgiving & HarvestWorship & PraiseLoneliness & Isolation
“We in a class plan of to be held here March 29th, and I hope we'll still be offered online or in some Susan P will lead a group in the practice of gr…”
Feb 23, 2020 · power between ideas
MarriageFaith & DoubtSuffering & Perseverance
“Medical Treatments are developed through clinical trials that are run like scientific experiments, although with billions of dollars at stake when is…”
Feb 16, 2020 · power between ideas
Friendship & BelongingUnitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & Doubt
Feb 9, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Mental HealthCreation CarePeace & Nonviolence
Feb 3, 2020 · power between ideas
Immigration & RefugeBeloved CommunityPeace & Nonviolence
“The circle of those this government would like to exclude from its protections is broadening from illegal immigrants to Asylum Seekers and now to gre…”
Jan 30, 2020 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Creation CareFriendship & BelongingGod the Father / Creator
“Contact with nature also increases a sense of belonging and accept.”
Jan 26, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Stewardship & GivingIdentity & WorthCreation Care
“It doesn't just come from nowhere unless you're really really come back to that, because I'm just thinking about this pause, the pause of the whole c…”
Jan 19, 2020 · families and relationships
Faith & Civic LifeElijahRacial Justice
“Since that time I've learned a lot about the Civil Rights Movement, which had been a vague and distant experience for me growing up in the Central Va…”
Jan 12, 2020 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyCreation Care
Jan 6, 2020 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Faith & DoubtIsaiahCorinthians
Jan 6, 2020 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Revelation / End VisionCrucifixion & AtonementResurrection & Easter
Jan 6, 2020 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Poverty & CompassionPsalm 23 / The ShepherdWorship & Praise
“Actually paint a picture of this rest in the words he maketh me to lie down in Green Pastures.”
Jan 6, 2020 · hope and light, the beloved community
Worship & PraiseParenting & ChildrenHumanism
Jan 6, 2020 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Abraham & IsaacCrucifixion & Atonement
Jan 6, 2020 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Identity & WorthSin & RepentanceCrucifixion & Atonement
Jan 6, 2020 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Sin & RepentanceFaith & Doubt
Jan 6, 2020 · church god jesus gospel spirit
JosephGrief & Lament
Jan 6, 2020 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Bible & ExpositionFaith & Doubt
“I said: why don't you begin reading here with the Book of John and every time you find something that you do not believe, just take this red pencil a…”
Jan 5, 2020 · hope and light, the beloved community
Lent & Holy WeekFriendship & BelongingAdvent & Christmas
“That that first is the story of the, also called wise men, magicians, sometimes the three, who from the because they prophetic and saw a star behavin…”
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