114 sermons transcribed, indexed & archived · 2022–2026 · permalink: https://divining.app/church/unitarian-universalist-fellowship-of-mobile.html
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Apr 26, 2026 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Creation & EdenHoly SpiritProverbs
“In the beginning was Lady, wisdom, feminine and the Divine, masculine become, and then, and then it says- I'm going to read just John here- in the be…”
Apr 12, 2026 · power between ideas
4th Principle: Free & Responsible SearchEvangelism & MissionSpiritual Growth
Apr 5, 2026 · hope and light, the beloved community
Grief & LamentResurrection & EasterSpiritual Growth
Mar 29, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Unitarian Universalist IdentityBible & ExpositionSin & Repentance
Feb 22, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Noah & the FloodBible & ExpositionFaith & Civic Life
“You read it in Hebrew and every time the name of Heyman comes up, you try to pull out Hayman's name, and you do it traditionally with one of these.”
Jan 18, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareMarriageFear & Anxiety
Dec 28, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Church Life & MembershipPluralism & InterfaithNew Year & Watch Night
“See if you can change your feelings in isolation you can.”
Nov 30, 2025 · gifts giving gratitude
Parenting & ChildrenReason & Free InquiryThanksgiving & Harvest
“How do we teach our kids that it is okay, TV in your own bubble, but you need to learn how to intersect with other bubbles, how to work with them, ho…”
Nov 16, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Thanksgiving & HarvestJoy & GratitudeMarriage
“Very, but what if you don't feel what is your life is in shambles or loved ones are extremely ill?”
Oct 5, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareParenting & ChildrenFear & Anxiety
“Respect for the interdependent web of existence reminds us that all life is rooted in rhythms, cycles and limits.”
Sep 21, 2025 · power between ideas
Friendship & BelongingFaith & Civic LifeGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“As an important part of the dialogue and important part of the brene Brown writes in braving the Wilderness, the Quest for True belonging and courage…”
Sep 14, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Grief & LamentFriendship & BelongingAddiction & Recovery
“So a few weeks ago I was up in Chicago spending a week with my teachers and my fellow students at Meadville Lombard, daring my preaching class that W…”
Sep 7, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeSin & RepentanceGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
Aug 3, 2025 · connected common experience
Parenting & ChildrenRacial JusticeFriendship & Belonging
Jul 21, 2025 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Prophecy & End TimesPluralism & InterfaithAttributes of God
“Born in 1897 and died in a number of the process theology, it's all about motion, energy, vibration, the interdependent animals and plants and, in an…”
Jul 13, 2025 · families and relationships
Faith & Civic LifeBeloved CommunityInterdependence & Nature
“He had no desire to speak out against the lgbtq plus community, no desire to offend other students, but he felt Bound by his understanding of Islam e…”
Jul 6, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingShame & GuiltRacial Justice
Jun 1, 2025 · church god jesus gospel spirit
The Ten CommandmentsBible & ExpositionExodus
“The Bible doesn't call what Moses says when Moses comes down the mountain and improvises.”
May 11, 2025 · power between ideas
Addiction & RecoveryShame & GuiltFear & Anxiety
“Further, youth are nearly twice as likely to suffer from an illicit drug use disorder than they are from.”
Apr 20, 2025 · uu spiritual principles
Resurrection & EasterForgiveness & ReconciliationCrucifixion & Atonement
“Contemplate spiritual principles, play reconciliation, compass, integ Article 2.”
Apr 6, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Immigration & RefugeInterdependence & NatureAttributes of God
“We're talking about late-stage capitalism that values production rather than people, rampant Discord in society, a deepening climate crisis and conti…”
Mar 30, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Beloved CommunityGender & Sexuality / InclusionIdentity & Worth
“The lgbtq plus college conference is at MTSU April 3rd to the 5th, and it's seek out and listen to stories from within the marginalized.”
Mar 24, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifeThanksgiving & Harvest
“I hate Jewish Christian Muslim in Hindu supremacists who promote fascist theocracies in the United States and hungry and Russia in Israel and India,…”
Mar 16, 2025 · uu spiritual principles
Spiritual GrowthSin & RepentanceJoseph
“Greg Boyle tells a story of a young man named Joseph, who he had known since he was and he knew Joseph's father, who had been.”
Feb 23, 2025 · power between ideas
Immigration & RefugeFear & AnxietyFriendship & Belonging
Feb 16, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Beloved CommunitySuffering & PerseverancePoverty & Compassion
“That said, the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecuti…”
Feb 2, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Bible & ExpositionIdentity & WorthPoverty & Compassion
Nov 17, 2024 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Faith & Civic LifeBible & ExpositionCreation Care
“It would be an inevitable if the Earth weren't going to drown from climate change.”
Nov 10, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Fear & AnxietyService & Spiritual GiftsMarriage
“Check our social media.”
Nov 4, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Lent & Holy WeekFaith & Civic LifeJoy & Gratitude
“We say that in our seven principles.”
Oct 13, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionHumanismThanksgiving & Harvest
“But there are also precious moments of sitting right there on the sand looking out at the, and there are moments which feel for me Divine, where I fi…”
Sep 22, 2024 · uu spiritual principles
Sep 22, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingShame & GuiltRacial Justice
“And the ways we get ourselves into, or are born into, or are pushed into or maneuvered into hard situations are so complicated and so various that it…”
Sep 15, 2024 · power between ideas
GenesisGod the Father / CreatorCreation Care
“It's a Hebrew word.”
Sep 2, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityAngels & Spiritual WarfareThanksgiving & Harvest
Aug 25, 2024 · uu spiritual principles
Pluralism & InterfaithCreation CareThanksgiving & Harvest
“In June of this year, the uua general assembly voted to accept the new Article 2 bylaws.”
Aug 11, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Suffering & PerseverancePoverty & CompassionFear & Anxiety
“When we start learning how to do this for ourselves, as we talked about earlier, we can also start to do this, and when we can see and offer love to…”
Aug 5, 2024 · unitarian universalism
HumanismDavid & GoliathBeloved Community
“Goliath, a huge Warrior from the side of the Philistines, challenge someone from the side of the Israelites to battle David in the world.”
Jun 2, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionCreation CareImmigration & Refuge
“A lot of issues talked about, like deceptive advertising and bribery, and price collusion and environmental concerns, and product safety and business…”
May 19, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Creation CareUnitarian Universalist IdentityJoy & Gratitude
“It represents that person's unique humanity and therefore it deserves your kind of touch with the worth and dignity of every person, and we accept on…”
Apr 1, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityBeloved CommunityReformation Sunday
“Half of the half of the really famous people in the 19th century thought he was great and the other did not like him at all, for instance Mark Twain,…”
Mar 17, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Faith & Civic LifeLoneliness & IsolationBaptism & Communion
Feb 18, 2024 · power between ideas
Peace & NonviolenceUnitarian Universalist IdentitySalvation & Grace
“And then, finally, we have the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, or I should say the latest conflicts that have occurred, and this was thought att…”
Dec 31, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
New Year & Watch NightPoverty & CompassionUnitarian Universalist Identity
“He's a past executive director of Amnesty International and his president emeritus of The UU service, Dr Schultz, wrote an article in you world a few…”
Oct 22, 2023 · power between ideas
Creation CarePoverty & Compassion
“A lot of people believe that climate change doesn't affect them.”
Oct 8, 2023 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Bible & ExpositionMarkAbraham & Isaac
Oct 1, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Immigration & RefugeShame & GuiltFaith & Civic Life
“This was a Chinese family that had emigrated to the United States in the mid-century- mid-20th Century after band's first created by the Chinese Excl…”
Sep 17, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Forgiveness & ReconciliationGenesisCrucifixion & Atonement
“In Genesis, chapter 12, verse 3, Abraham and Sarah, the first Jews, are called to be a blessing to all the families of the year.”
Sep 10, 2023 · power between ideas
Thanksgiving & HarvestGender & Sexuality / InclusionSin & Repentance
“My Hope for all of you today is that you leave your curious and excited to name those sources in your own life and that if you aren't in the practice…”
Aug 20, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyCreation CareBible & Exposition
Aug 13, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Shame & GuiltThanksgiving & HarvestParenting & Children
“At first we feel bad about something and then we feel bad about feeling bad about something right, that unhappiness comp.”
Aug 6, 2023 · connected common experience
Poverty & CompassionMarriageJoy & Gratitude
Jul 30, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Bible & ExpositionRacial JusticeBaptism & Communion
Jul 23, 2023 · uu spiritual principles
Reason & Free InquiryAbraham & IsaacHope & Encouragement
“Abraham Lincoln spoke about that through line when he wrote: I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.”
Jul 16, 2023 · families and relationships
Dating & Godly RelationshipsSuffering & PerseveranceEvangelism & Mission
“And then the next turning point, 10 years later, when I started dating, finally my now husband.”
Jul 9, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Unitarian Universalist IdentityPeace & NonviolenceShame & Guilt
“Her greatest hope, Sophia says, is quote that you use will get over shame and fear and be resilient and obnoxiously proud of our values in the Public…”
Jun 25, 2023 · uu spiritual principles
Reason & Free Inquiry
“Did someone tell you spirituality?”
Jun 23, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Identity & WorthFriendship & BelongingThanksgiving & Harvest
“None of that occurs without ripping out into the universe and affecting change both seen and mostly unseen throughout this all inspiring connection b…”
Jun 11, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyContemplative Prayer & SilenceStewardship & Giving
“Exploring my resistance to Stillness helps me to understand better how I relate to myself and to the world and to be more selective in what I please…”
Jun 4, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
ContentmentThanksgiving & HarvestRacial Justice
May 28, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifeShame & Guilt
May 21, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentitySpiritual GrowthEvangelism & Mission
“Acceptance of one another in a cars with the spiritual growth in our congregations.”
May 14, 2023 · power between ideas
Suffering & PerseveranceCreation CareSin & Repentance
May 7, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareGender & Sexuality / InclusionJoy & Gratitude
“How you belong Where You Are- not about a lessening, it's usually about you- are more spiritual practices help you understand and experience and impr…”
Apr 30, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Spiritual GrowthJoy & GratitudeCreation Care
“My five-year-old daughter has learned in her religious education classes at our home church that we are the Church of the open mind, the loving heart…”
Apr 23, 2023 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Creation & EdenHoly SpiritGod the Father / Creator
“I explain Jehovah's Witness to the Jehovah's Witness.”
Apr 16, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Faith & Civic LifeBaptism & CommunionCreation Care
“As we said, all the flowers are different, even the ones that seem not to have their own uniqueness, just as we are all different: the flowers.”
Apr 9, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Resurrection & EasterPoverty & CompassionFaith & Doubt
Apr 2, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Identity & WorthPoverty & CompassionGrief & Lament
“This makes sense in the way we have and have not attended to mental health, to stress and our children, to our young adults.”
Mar 26, 2023 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Abraham & IsaacInterdependence & NatureFear & Anxiety
“So when, When God says to Abraham, I'm going to destroy Sodom, Abraham says anyone: yeah, right, but Abraham has this great, he says you can't do tha…”
Mar 19, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Beloved CommunityFear & AnxietyImmigration & Refuge
“What happens if we open that up and does that give us tools for meeting climate change and survival of not just other species but our own species as…”
Mar 12, 2023 · power between ideas
Poverty & CompassionAddiction & RecoveryShame & Guilt
“Vulnerability is necessary in forming connections with others, have encouraged to share deeply who I am and what my experience has been allowed the o…”
Mar 5, 2023 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Prayer & DevotionReason & Free InquiryIdentity & Worth
Feb 26, 2023 · families and relationships
Parenting & ChildrenGender & Sexuality / InclusionFaith & Doubt
“I believe, his Unitarian Universalist who are called to social justice, that this is a moment where we have to show up more and we have to have these…”
Feb 19, 2023 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Sin & RepentanceGender & Sexuality / InclusionSalvation & Grace
“If we were gone for a weekend or a week or something and we were doing contemplative practices, then we will be trying to experience.”
Feb 12, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingUnitarian Universalist IdentityCreation & Eden
“Many years ago, the congregation together reenacted the imagined moment in the biblical story when Mary and Joseph were told by The Innkeeper that th…”
Feb 5, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Grief & Lament
Feb 5, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityHumanismRacial Justice
“2010, as you use, got more and more involved in Immigration Justice and showing up in Arizona.”
Jan 22, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingIdentity & Worth
Jan 15, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Worship & PraiseHope & EncouragementMarriage
“I was sailing with a guy who was very Catholic and a guy who is very Jewish, and they were both complaining about the guilt trips that their parents…”
Jan 8, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityPeace & NonviolenceChurch Life & Membership
“This Gap is where we get the creativity and the capacity to be, the capacity, he says, to stare into the gap between experience and just until someth…”
Jan 1, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Spiritual GrowthFear & AnxietyThe Cost of Discipleship
“The new year causes forward filled with mystery.”
Dec 18, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Service & Spiritual GiftsFriendship & BelongingAdvent & Christmas
“There are many people who been volunteering, volunteering alongside me, account for a dozen years or even longer, and we've gotten to know plenty of…”
Dec 4, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Joy & GratitudeCreation CareAdvent & Christmas
“I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of spite.”
Nov 27, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Identity & WorthJosephEvangelism & Mission
“Pencil it's for use fire congregation from the worship web on the Unitarian Universalist association website on.”
Nov 20, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & Civic LifeFriendship & Belonging
“In this complex, Multicultural world that we live in, it's important that we understand the richness we gain in our communities when we welcome all k…”
Nov 13, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Grief & LamentIdentity & WorthMarriage
“So I promised line from archana on the battlefield to William Shatner in space, to myself in deep grief, to physicists dealing with the emergence of…”
Nov 8, 2022 · families and relationships
Grief & LamentMarriageSuffering & Perseverance
Oct 30, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Immigration & RefugeReason & Free Inquiry4th Principle: Free & Responsible Search
“Maria Popova is the author of the book figuring and the publisher of a beautifully enriching literary blog: brain pickings.”
Oct 16, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Fear & AnxietyDating & Godly RelationshipsSalvation & Grace
“I'm a matrona was one of a group of ascetics known as the desert mothers and fathers, who lived in the 4th and the 5th centuries at a time when Chris…”
Oct 9, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Peace & NonviolenceCreation CareSpiritual Growth
“And if we can find Space to accept what is, then those demons, those Terrors that that flash to fill the void, wow, I just I wish, when people had to…”
Oct 2, 2022 · uu spiritual principles
The Kingdom of GodFaith & DoubtRacial Justice
Sep 25, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
New Year & Watch NightBible & ExpositionFriendship & Belonging
“Regarding the new year and Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, which concluded 10-day, We called the days of awe- their elements practice that are real…”
Sep 18, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Racial Justice
Sep 11, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Work & VocationCreation CareFear & Anxiety
Sep 7, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Theosis / DeificationPluralism & Interfaith
Sep 3, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Shame & GuiltGrief & Lament1st Principle: Inherent Worth & Dignity
“But the one thing I found that I cling to the summer, the greatest gift I think my Unitarian Universalist faith had to offer to my patients in the la…”
Aug 14, 2022 · power between ideas
Creation CareInterdependence & NatureThanksgiving & Harvest
Aug 10, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityHope & EncouragementGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“He also got a degree here at Vanderbilt years and years and years ago when I was a student at Vanderbilt, so I know him used really wonderful example…”
Aug 10, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Salvation & GraceFaith & Civic Life
Jul 17, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyFaith & DoubtForgiveness & Reconciliation
Jul 3, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeMarriageHope & Encouragement
“As work, we easily and understandably often leave out of our minds and our vision the joy that comes with not just doing the work but the joy that wi…”
Jun 27, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionCreation CareFear & Anxiety
“When we see the face of the Earth with a small, see the face of the other with Abby takes this more metaphor, but his colleague that they didn't agre…”
Jun 19, 2022 · power between ideas
Grief & LamentFaith & DoubtParenting & Children
Jun 12, 2022 · human moral beliefs
Humanism5th Principle: Conscience & Democratic ProcessIdentity & Worth
“Long as those are being respected right, as long as the worth and dignity of each person is recognized, as long as the interdependent web is respecte…”
Jun 5, 2022 · unitarian universalism
1st Principle: Inherent Worth & DignityIdentity & Worth7th Principle: Interdependent Web
“It's not easy, and yet I believe it is our calling to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person, to respect the interdependen…”
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