83 sermons transcribed, indexed & archived · 2016–2026 · permalink: https://divining.app/church/unity-church-sermon-podcasts.html
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Nov 30, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Creation CareFriendship & BelongingAdvent & Christmas
“How would you describe we actually begin the season of Advent today, and I have been told that some of us at Unity actually mark this time.”
Sep 28, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticePluralism & InterfaithFaith & Civic Life
Aug 31, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Advent & ChristmasShame & GuiltPrison & Restorative Justice
“Is there a warning sirens blaring everywhere, a genocide in Gaza, ice raids and deportations all across the United States, extreme weather?”
Aug 24, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeService & Spiritual GiftsHumanism
“And then last week we talked about the second expectation: that members of Unity Church practice the skills of small group intimacy, to go deep quick…”
Aug 3, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingJoy & GratitudeChurch Life & Membership
“The spring there were 86 Unitarian Universalist Congregation is looking for either contract or called Ministries.”
Jun 1, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityJoy & GratitudeThanksgiving & Harvest
“They include a loving kindness, meditation, gardening, regular Gatherings with beloved colleagues, a daily telephone call to connect me to my purpose…”
May 25, 2025 · unitarian universalism
HumanismThanksgiving & HarvestAdvent & Christmas
“A brief but not exhaustive list of worship rituals that I have led or learned about since starting here includes merging of waters, the litany on ato…”
May 11, 2025 · families and relationships
Parenting & ChildrenGender & Sexuality / InclusionFaith & Civic Life
“And, poignantly, this research that they've been doing also uncovers the extraordinary women whose work history too often Lisa Friedman introduced us…”
Mar 16, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionRacial JusticeFriendship & Belonging
“John Lewis's life is a Counterpoint to the song that the diversity of experiences and issues serving to distract and diminish in his life.”
Mar 9, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticePluralism & InterfaithChurch Life & Membership
“Are proudest moments was coordinating between the Lancaster County Health Department's and houses of worship in the early days of the covid pandemic…”
Feb 16, 2025 · unitarian universalism
ElijahFaith & Civic LifeForgiveness & Reconciliation
Feb 2, 2025 · unitarian universalism
Grief & LamentImmigration & RefugeFaith & Civic Life
Jan 17, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Fear & AnxietySin & RepentanceGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“Start from where- and it's not where you're, Thurman wrote- that hope lies in the well-rooted systems of trees that shall bear in the breathing of st…”
Dec 29, 2024 · families and relationships
Noah & the FloodAdvent & Christmas
Dec 15, 2024 · families and relationships
Advent & ChristmasRacial JusticeSpiritual Growth
“About holiday, add vent, however, is a season which invites us to go much deeper than Advent asks something of us.”
Nov 24, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Faith & Civic Life
Oct 27, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Health & Temperance5th Principle: Conscience & Democratic ProcessPluralism & Interfaith
“At the Unitarian Universalist general assembly in June this year, a new framework was adopted to express our shared values as equity and generosity,…”
Sep 15, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFriendship & BelongingImmigration & Refuge
“That's great power and comfort in that sense of belonging right.”
Aug 23, 2024 · power between ideas
Faith & Civic LifeInterdependence & NatureCreation Care
Aug 4, 2024 · families and relationships
Loneliness & IsolationGrief & LamentFaith & Civic Life
“In 1845, as we know, Henry David Thoreau went to Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.”
Jun 30, 2024 · connected common experience
Thanksgiving & HarvestInterdependence & NatureJoy & Gratitude
“We can challenge ourselves and each other to learn how to see from a paradigm of abundance, one that places us in a more intimate and reciprocal rela…”
Jun 28, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Grief & LamentFaith & DoubtIdentity & Worth
Apr 28, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingWork & VocationCreation Care
Apr 14, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityMarriageImmigration & Refuge
“My home corrugation Minister from Baltimore came to Lincoln to dedicate our child in the morning before the congregation in Lincoln ordained me that…”
Mar 24, 2024 · human moral beliefs
Suffering & PerseveranceActsAdvent & Christmas
“Maybe you were reading the latest science from the United Nations panel on climate change and burst into.”
Mar 22, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Spiritual GrowthEvangelism & MissionJoy & Gratitude
“We begin in the care of others, totally dependent, and hopefully we are nurtured in a way that gives us a sense of belonging, one in which loving kin…”
Feb 16, 2024 · connected common experience
Friendship & BelongingHumanismInterdependence & Nature
Jan 24, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeEvangelism & MissionFaith & Civic Life
“Worship themes often will be framed by some aspect of Dr Martin Luther King Jr's Life and Legacy of leadership and service, and it's also a day where…”
Apr 18, 2017 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingCrucifixion & AtonementSalvation & Grace
“He gave everyone the benefit of the doubt and the grace of a second chance, even his best friend and disciple Peter who betrayed him.”
Apr 11, 2017 · power between ideas
Friendship & BelongingWork & VocationLent & Holy Week
Apr 3, 2017 · human moral beliefs
Racial JusticeCreation Care
“One One of the people not hired for the job was a Latina woman, because of the platform that social media now provides news of this hired spread very…”
Apr 3, 2017 · reason and sound thinking
Mar 21, 2017 · connected common experience
Forgiveness & ReconciliationInterdependence & NatureImmigration & Refuge
“That science is denied that we have a head of the Environmental Protection Agency that That is denying that climate change is real, is a tapestry.”
Mar 13, 2017 · connected common experience
Faith & DoubtShame & GuiltWorship & Praise
Mar 10, 2017 · unitarian universalism
Work & Vocation
Mar 2, 2017 · power between ideas
Friendship & BelongingCreation CarePrayer & Devotion
Feb 23, 2017 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & Civic LifeStewardship & Giving
Feb 13, 2017 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingPoverty & CompassionInterdependence & Nature
Feb 7, 2017 · uu spiritual principles
Prayer & Devotion
Feb 3, 2017 · church god jesus gospel spirit
HumanismParenting & ChildrenSuffering & Perseverance
“And as I said to the children this weekend staff meeting, KP Hong, having spent time with your children and youth, said, I just realized that one of…”
Jan 24, 2017 · hope and light, the beloved community
Evangelism & MissionDisability & BelongingRacial Justice
Jan 17, 2017 · families and relationships
Immigration & RefugeIdentity & WorthFriendship & Belonging
“And eventually, the executive team of unity asked your board of trustees to pass a motion declaring our congregation as a sanctuary congregation, whi…”
Jan 17, 2017 · hope and light, the beloved community
Grief & LamentHumanismJoy & Gratitude
“Now I tell you this story, not to discourage you from that elective surgery you are contemplating, but to talk about the shock that the loss of our l…”
Jan 3, 2017 · reason and sound thinking
Dec 30, 2016 · hope and light, the beloved community
Advent & ChristmasGrief & Lament
Dec 30, 2016 · hope and light, the beloved community
Advent & ChristmasFriendship & BelongingGrief & Lament
“Because as we know, both the Christmas season and the birth of Jesus come with a lot of emotions, and it's not the end of the story.”
Dec 12, 2016 · connected common experience
Sin & RepentanceEvangelism & MissionPluralism & Interfaith
“A question the clergy should be contemplating on a regular basis, because what's true is that it is part of the human condition to carry our pain and…”
Dec 12, 2016 · connected common experience
Evangelism & MissionSin & RepentanceSuffering & Perseverance
“A question the clergy should be contemplating on a regular basis, because what's true is that it is part of the human condition to carry our pain and…”
Dec 5, 2016 · school age stories
Peace & NonviolenceAddiction & RecoveryParenting & Children
Dec 5, 2016 · families and relationships
DanielThanksgiving & Harvest
Nov 28, 2016 · hope and light, the beloved community
Parenting & ChildrenFaith & Civic LifeImmigration & Refuge
“And to be honest, I wasn't really planning to go to Standing Rock, I wasn't thinking I had the time to go or the ability to go, So especially during…”
Nov 28, 2016 · hope and light, the beloved community
Faith & Civic LifeImmigration & RefugeThanksgiving & Harvest
“And so I went to Standing Rock with dozens of Unitarian Universalists, ministers and lay leaders from across the country to join with over 500 clergy…”
Nov 16, 2016 · hope and light, the beloved community
Thanksgiving & Harvest1st Principle: Inherent Worth & DignityJoy & Gratitude
“And when he sees that sign of openness, openness to changing opinions, opinions, openness to hearing other opinions, he will openly and vividly expre…”
Nov 16, 2016 · hope and light, the beloved community
Thanksgiving & HarvestJoy & GratitudeSuffering & Perseverance
“And I know that some of you maintain a gratitude practice, reviewing each day at its conclusion to determine and to name that for which you are grate…”
Nov 8, 2016 · reason and sound thinking
Nov 8, 2016 · power between ideas
Racial JusticeChurch Life & MembershipFriendship & Belonging
Nov 1, 2016 · hope and light, the beloved community
Shame & GuiltLoneliness & IsolationAdvent & Christmas
“For many parents out there you might be familiar with this chastising your child in public shame, am I right?”
Oct 26, 2016 · uu spiritual principles
Salvation & GraceRacial Justice
Oct 17, 2016 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingMarriageThanksgiving & Harvest
“When same-sex marriage was legalized and we stood in the center of the capital, singing our hearts out.”
Oct 5, 2016 · power between ideas
Abraham & IsaacSuffering & PerseveranceFriendship & Belonging
“When she sees Sarah coming, Hager reaches back before the agony of exile, recalling how kind Sarah was and how supportive before that little miracle…”
Sep 27, 2016 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifeFear & Anxiety
“And this individualism enables us to deny systemic racism because we know as individuals we're not racist.”
Sep 23, 2016 · unitarian universalism
Unity of the ChurchImmigration & Refuge
Sep 6, 2016 · readings books learning
Faith & Civic LifeEvangelism & MissionRacial Justice
Aug 22, 2016 · hope and light, the beloved community
Baptism & CommunionThanksgiving & HarvestFaith & Doubt
Aug 15, 2016 · families and relationships
Faith & Civic LifeParenting & ChildrenSuffering & Perseverance
Aug 8, 2016 · connected common experience
Faith & Civic LifeGrief & LamentGod the Father / Creator
Aug 5, 2016 · unitarian universalism
Prayer & DevotionShame & GuiltRacial Justice
“We saw the civil rights era and movement led by the black church and other allies of that community.”
Jul 25, 2016 · families and relationships
Suffering & PerseveranceGrief & Lament
“At the funeral, earnest loved ones told me with feeling that she's in a better place with God in heaven.”
Jul 18, 2016 · families and relationships
Identity & WorthWorship & PraiseFriendship & Belonging
“Here are some of the verses tempted and tried will off me to wonder why it should be thus all the day long while there are others living about us nev…”
Jul 11, 2016 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
“I am deeply aware of the power of presence this week, to the sustaining power of hope and faith, as we have received outreach from other Unitarian Un…”
Jul 5, 2016 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeFaith & DoubtMarriage
Jun 27, 2016 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingSuffering & PerseverancePoverty & Compassion
Jun 27, 2016 · reason and sound thinking
Joy & GratitudeGrief & LamentIdentity & Worth
“So many of my friends in the LGBTQ community, so many members of that community, of marginalized marginalized communities who have been posting on Fa…”
Jun 13, 2016 · unitarian universalism
Baptism & CommunionFriendship & BelongingChurch Life & Membership
Jun 6, 2016 · power between ideas
Fear & AnxietyParenting & ChildrenIdentity & Worth
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