114 sermons transcribed, indexed & archived · 2022–2026 · permalink: https://divining.app/church/uucci.html
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May 27, 2025 · connected common experience
Friendship & BelongingUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
“As a reminder, this was only a year after the Supreme Court struck down the remaining laws that made interracial marriage illegal.”
May 21, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingJosephJoy & Gratitude
“Joseph Campbell argues in his book The Hero with a thousand FAQ.”
May 13, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifeThanksgiving & Harvest
“Regress that signs and markers, articles of news and Analysis, Facebook memes and forwarded email, the new zodiac- were capable of forecasting all th…”
May 13, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Pluralism & InterfaithFriendship & BelongingRacial Justice
“And so I said: well, what if we say: May the force of love be with you?”
Apr 29, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingFear & AnxietyPluralism & Interfaith
“What about people who have found particular connection to the traditions of science, any kinds of science, Cosmic, nanobio, whatever Arts.”
Apr 24, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Resurrection & EasterJoy & GratitudeCreation Care
“We have been waiting in our Despair and hopelessness.”
Apr 15, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Immigration & RefugeThe ExodusPluralism & Interfaith
“Along with other children, I was told this dramatic about this holiday, this holy day of the between Moses and Pharaoh, between the Israelites and th…”
Apr 3, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Fear & AnxietyGender & Sexuality / InclusionPeace & Nonviolence
“My relationship with David has grown a little more complicated as I've studied scripture and I've learned a lot more about David, and I don't like hi…”
Mar 27, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Pluralism & InterfaithUnitarian Universalist IdentityCreation Care
“And I picked this piece of art, the millennial Gaia, from one of my favorite authors, O'Brien sell Raven heart, and this work is based on the Gaia hy…”
Mar 18, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeHope & EncouragementPrayer & Devotion
“This will all blow over soon.”
Mar 13, 2025 · families and relationships
Creation CareParenting & ChildrenInterdependence & Nature
“So many things will never see again extinct because of climate change.”
Mar 7, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Beloved CommunityService & Spiritual GiftsJesus: Life & Teachings
“Like many times over the past several hundred years of Unitarianism, universalism and now Unitarian universalism I have existed that have existed in…”
Feb 26, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Beloved CommunityUnitarian Universalist IdentityAdvent & Christmas
“But before we started this chapter of ministry together in July 2017, there was another significant mom that occurred a couple weeks earlier in New O…”
Feb 18, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Creation CareFriendship & BelongingImmigration & Refuge
“Unitarian universalism is as paradoxical as applying it to life because, like the 100 million songs on love, I would suspect that almost every Unitar…”
Feb 13, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
David & GoliathFriendship & BelongingUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Each generation must, when insight into the ambiguous nature, human existence and must, give tomorrow and spiritual- an understatement to say the lea…”
Feb 7, 2025 · families and relationships
Parenting & ChildrenAdvent & ChristmasUnitarian Universalist Identity
“You know those devices that are in our in their schools at very early ages, and even if you're the parent who says I'm not bringing that in till cert…”
Jan 30, 2025 · families and relationships
Shame & GuiltRacial JusticeGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“I know that misogyny, like racism, is almost unbelievable until you witness it, until you feel it or love someone who lives it on a daily basis, and…”
Jan 23, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Baptism & CommunionPluralism & InterfaithUnitarian Universalist Identity
“I believe that really encouraged the care that is necessary for activists and social justice and leaders in our community to really have an agenda of…”
Jan 17, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Parenting & ChildrenDivorce & Broken RelationshipsEvangelism & Mission
Jan 2, 2025 · reason and sound thinking
Shame & GuiltGrief & LamentForgiveness & Reconciliation
Dec 18, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingRacial JusticePoverty & Compassion
“In Alabama, African-Americans were being denied the right to vote and blacks and whites were marching together in beautiful, peaceful, risking their…”
Dec 18, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Advent & Christmas
“Another starts playing Christmas songs the day after Thanksgiving.”
Dec 10, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Pluralism & InterfaithAdvent & ChristmasCreation Care
“It is on social justice.”
Dec 5, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Sin & RepentanceUnitarian Universalist IdentityThanksgiving & Harvest
“And the minute that same Minister took a number of us high school kids during Christmas to New York City where we experienced not quite TV comedy ser…”
Nov 29, 2024 · families and relationships
Pluralism & InterfaithIndigenous Justice & LandHope & Encouragement
“And if you go back, everybody who in United States is a descendant of someone who came from another, and that includes the so called indigenous peopl…”
Nov 5, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Peace & NonviolenceInterdependence & NatureFriendship & Belonging
“Pay attention to who is coming in and out of the building when your community is gathering and remember the importance of escalation as you take your…”
Oct 30, 2024 · families and relationships
Thanksgiving & HarvestIdentity & WorthBaptism & Communion
“And now there's been because of and this table, we could easily think about what's on top of the table as the value of, and we can also think of the…”
Oct 16, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Church Life & MembershipRacial JusticeHumanism
“In this, and so it is true, with being a part of a community that seeks to be a microcosm, a vision for The Wider Community, a vision of Multicultura…”
Oct 8, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Fear & AnxietyIdentity & WorthInterdependence & Nature
“It also asked us questions like: who gets to Bear the burden of care and how do we care for those who care for us?”
Oct 2, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Creation CareGod the Father / CreatorGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“Is is gender justice, is disability Justice, mental health Justice, lgbtqia, plus Justice, immigration Justice, economic Justice and on climate, Just…”
Sep 25, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareBaptism & CommunionAdvent & Christmas
“It is important for us in community to recognize we are all going through different and so to know if someone is bringing with them Joy or sadness th…”
Sep 25, 2024 · power between ideas
Faith & Civic LifeJoy & GratitudeChurch Life & Membership
Sep 25, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Immigration & RefugeJoy & GratitudeParenting & Children
“Beloved you, I'm here to invite you to join us for our first ever climate Justice.”
Sep 25, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Service & Spiritual GiftsFriendship & BelongingBeloved Community
“For many of us is the same is the same for preparing to go back to work or to the various commitments and appointments and volunteer opportunities fo…”
Aug 26, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingGender & Sexuality / InclusionJoy & Gratitude
“It was a blessing to find this word, this new way to identify, and I was able to do so because I had found community and others like me when I was a…”
Aug 22, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Fear & AnxietyPluralism & InterfaithJoy & Gratitude
“Does that resonate with anyone, as I love the sentiment, not just because it makes me feel good, like that, I can find belonging in my wholeness, but…”
Aug 13, 2024 · power between ideas
Disability & BelongingRacial JusticeHope & Encouragement
“Advocating for accessibility is not only Central to my personal values, but professional as well.”
Aug 7, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Reason & Free InquiryPoverty & CompassionPluralism & Interfaith
“For is the, I believe our Humanity, this Universal sacredness of existence and, by extension, are Liberation and full actualization, is interdependen…”
Jun 24, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Creation CareThanksgiving & HarvestThe Cost of Discipleship
“Today, and, as always, we light a candle for the joys and Sorrows that remain unspoken but held within the hearts of those in play.”
Jun 18, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingGod the Father / CreatorSin & Repentance
“May we realize that, whatever we can do or small the efforts of all R indeed need to do in the courageous people of a war weary, finally free to recl…”
Jun 10, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Hope & EncouragementHumanismCreation & Eden
“And with whom shall we share the Harvest is about our shared Ministry, about our generosity and about her abundance in our interdependence.”
Jun 6, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Joy & GratitudeParenting & ChildrenFear & Anxiety
“It's kind of, in this place, of feeling the heaviness, the of just stress and anxiety and all I could think about when I thought of my ancestors heav…”
May 28, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeUnitarian Universalist IdentityCreation Care
“And of course, if you're up on your recent Unitarian Universalist history, you may also know that things really came to a head in 2017, Latina religi…”
May 22, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Immigration & RefugeUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
May 15, 2024 · power between ideas
Parenting & ChildrenGrief & LamentInterdependence & Nature
“As Unitarian Universalist do, we believe pretty strongly that we should everybody with the same inherent worth and dignity right that each person is…”
May 6, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Joy & GratitudeGrief & LamentCrucifixion & Atonement
May 6, 2024 · power between ideas
Thanksgiving & HarvestCreation CarePluralism & Interfaith
“And so, and and your classes, do you do another kind of joy and sorrow thing, say candles.”
Apr 24, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Pluralism & InterfaithLoneliness & IsolationUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Let's all commit to finding our stories and vision of a future where everyone we're reading this morning is the Civic good of interfaith leadership.”
Apr 16, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingFaith & Doubt4th Principle: Free & Responsible Search
“The Creed is a set of beliefs to which a group of people would agree.”
Apr 9, 2024 · power between ideas
Pluralism & InterfaithCreation CareThanksgiving & Harvest
“I paused to express my gratitude dropping into my heart.”
Apr 3, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
ElijahCrucifixion & AtonementBaptism & Communion
“It swings blue and tonight we dip the eggs in saltwater, like Elijah comes with the fierce early spring, bringing prophecy that cracks open, the head…”
Mar 29, 2024 · power between ideas
Grief & LamentSuffering & PerseveranceFaith & Civic Life
“I am filled with mult, my friend's dad.”
Mar 23, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Pluralism & InterfaithFriendship & BelongingSin & Repentance
“As Unitarian Universalist, our ethical Journey has emerged from our liberal religious belief in human, in reason and in cons.”
Mar 12, 2024 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Pluralism & InterfaithCreation CareCrucifixion & Atonement
“While some may well, some may- see these as each unique and individual, Others May view them all as different manifestations of the same singular.”
Feb 19, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Peace & NonviolenceSin & RepentanceSpiritual Growth
“This authentic conception of Love That Adams valued was not long for in a vacuum, but in the backdrop, but with the backdrop of the United States Jus…”
Feb 13, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Immigration & RefugeFriendship & BelongingRacial Justice
“For some of us, social media has always been a distortion of life, but Zoom added this whole layer of bodily vulner as we entered one another's and w…”
Feb 7, 2024 · hope and light, the beloved community
Interdependence & NatureAdvent & ChristmasFriendship & Belonging
Jan 30, 2024 · readings books learning
Friendship & BelongingFaith & Civic LifeChurch Life & Membership
“The point is that Octavia Butler and several topics since and a few prior show that we, as a study group, were entering less charted waters for the b…”
Jan 23, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifeWorship & Praise
“Leonardo DiCaprio is a climate activist, Mark Ruffalo a social justice, Meryl Streep and Jamie Lee Curtis and many others are human rights advocates.”
Jan 19, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
“Green Sanctuary Global action / USC and this definitely increase the involvement in social action.”
Jan 8, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
New Year & Watch NightAdvent & ChristmasFear & Anxiety
“And what time is ritual and a symbol of our coming back together and into this shared space and with this water, something that reminds us of the ref…”
Dec 30, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Racial JusticeFear & AnxietyUnitarian Universalist Identity
“As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Liz is pointing to something we know deep in our hearts: that love is not just romantic and sentimental, but rather p…”
Dec 28, 2023 · power between ideas
Advent & ChristmasThanksgiving & HarvestResurrection & Easter
“Holidays, like most things in life, are comp: Christmas presents, challenges for non-christians, but also often for Christians who grew up more relig…”
Nov 29, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Identity & WorthFriendship & BelongingImmigration & Refuge
“I am currently donating time to our hospice, to the veterans treatment Court, to our racial Justice team and to the NAACP inside Uchee have helped wi…”
Nov 20, 2023 · power between ideas
Grief & LamentFriendship & BelongingCreation Care
“Daniel meeting, then, is a resistance to the hubris that we too often this congregation, this community or any other for, or that we can take anyone,…”
Nov 15, 2023 · power between ideas
Faith & Civic LifeCreation & EdenDisability & Belonging
“Served in the US Senate for 31 years, never backing down from her moral convictions.”
Nov 2, 2023 · human moral beliefs
God the Father / CreatorLoneliness & IsolationUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Is that they are powerful, life-enhancing life, extending tools for our continued survival as an interdependent web of existence.”
Oct 25, 2023 · power between ideas
Fear & AnxietyPluralism & InterfaithFriendship & Belonging
“For many in this room, queer was once heard as a derogatory and hateful term used against people in the lgbtq community, or just a pejorative terms t…”
Oct 13, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Racial JusticeEvangelism & MissionFriendship & Belonging
“In 2022, they tracked 1225 active and or anti-government in the United States of these, 29 groups are present throughout Indiana, including some real…”
Oct 4, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Forgiveness & ReconciliationSpiritual GrowthSin & Repentance
“He described this as what he called cheap, cheap Grace, which, in his words, meant, among other things, quote, the preaching of forgiveness without r…”
Sep 19, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingLent & Holy WeekStewardship & Giving
Aug 23, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Friendship & BelongingCreation CareUnitarian Universalist Identity
“He was an activist working hard on the racial justice issues of the day, advising folks, caring for folks and confronting the powers that I don't kno…”
Aug 16, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityLoneliness & Isolation3rd Principle: Acceptance & Growth
“In Article 2 it is protected, and the current article to and in the proposed Article 2, which will be voted on at General Assembly next, the current…”
Aug 9, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeFriendship & BelongingRacial Justice
“According to the press release found in the White House website, quote, The New National Monument will help tell the story of the events surrounding…”
Mar 28, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Faith & DoubtIdentity & WorthService & Spiritual Gifts
Mar 21, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingUnitarian Universalist IdentityPeace & Nonviolence
“I'm talking about radical, deep, meaningful love and, as I said, trying to articulate is a, and when you look at our principles, it's only there, in…”
Mar 13, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Prayer & DevotionLent & Holy WeekAdvent & Christmas
“And then she asks me questions about the holy month of Ramadan, which is a special month for the Muslims, right for us, for the Muslim Community, we…”
Mar 9, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityWork & VocationPeace & Nonviolence
Mar 9, 2023 · families and relationships
Sin & RepentanceCreation CareAdvent & Christmas
“I immediately started coming on my own and immediately felt I totally love the first Christmas Eve service I attended, which was mostly Pagan based a…”
Feb 14, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingPoverty & CompassionHope & Encouragement
“According to poet Mark nepo, the original use of the word encouragement to stand by one's core, a striking concept that reinforces the belief found i…”
Feb 9, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeFriendship & BelongingFaith & Doubt
“But I believe that the power of Western Christianity in this conversation is one that needs to be named is it has been force and imposed on so many p…”
Feb 1, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeUnitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & Civic Life
“Are reading this morning is from Mark nepo, and he begins with a quote from Abraham heschel, a Rabbi.”
Jan 24, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeUnitarian Universalist IdentityJoy & Gratitude
“And add to that that I am Mexican-American, with the experience of having grown up in the immigration system undocumented most of my childhood, a lif…”
Jan 19, 2023 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticePeace & NonviolenceUnitarian Universalist Identity
“How many months later her family ate at a diner that they had never been allowed to eat at before and their March made, and children LED singing the…”
Jan 12, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & DoubtNew Year & Watch Night
Jan 2, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Baptism & CommunionAdvent & ChristmasFear & Anxiety
“I knew as we were bustling in the anticipation of the Festival of Lights at our house, the criminals would be preparing for the arrival of Christmas.”
Dec 14, 2022 · power between ideas
Friendship & BelongingJoy & GratitudeBible & Exposition
Nov 29, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeUnitarian Universalist IdentityBaptism & Communion
“If we engage racial justice issues, gender justice or issues around ableism with the people who live, those issues every day, people like me are goin…”
Nov 23, 2022 · families and relationships
MarriageBaptism & CommunionParenting & Children
“Don't forget to pay attention in the upcoming in order to take advantage of the many opportunities that are coming our way to better understand and l…”
Nov 15, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareThanksgiving & HarvestHumanism
“Talk to the berries, learn their indigenous names.”
Nov 4, 2022 · families and relationships
Worship & PraiseChurch Life & MembershipSin & Repentance
“But first, before we have you, come up and participate in that way, we always honor a time each year to name those who have died in our community, in…”
Oct 27, 2022 · power between ideas
Friendship & BelongingRacial JusticeChurch Life & Membership
“That is the racism that lives inside of us, just as we need to fight systemic racism in our institutions.”
Oct 18, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Immigration & RefugeUnitarian Universalist IdentitySin & Repentance
“That can be defined by a deeply collaborative, religiously intellectual, tightly bonded and highly autonomous group of liberal religious people in.”
Oct 3, 2022 · families and relationships
Faith & Civic LifeThanksgiving & HarvestStewardship & Giving
“Can you feel that place of goodness in your body and out of that place of rooted in goodness?”
Sep 28, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityEvangelism & MissionJoy & Gratitude
“The first includes pastors and teachers who are ministers of the Gospel.”
Sep 20, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Unitarian Universalist IdentityRacial JusticeFriendship & Belonging
“Rededicate your sacred and nurture Interfaith Partnerships, not losing side of that last one and whatever else may come, because there's going to be…”
Sep 13, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeParenting & ChildrenChurch Life & Membership
Aug 29, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareFaith & Civic LifeCreation & Eden
“I discovered that during his work life he had worked with some, some of the very architects who had done buildings here in Columbus and he also had a…”
Aug 8, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeShame & GuiltCreation & Eden
“It often gets used in guilt and shame and blame and benefits.”
Aug 1, 2022 · families and relationships
Baptism & CommunionUnitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & Civic Life
“This summer, a religious education leader, Adrian summerlot, is sharing her story titled Crossroads and companions.”
Jul 25, 2022 · families and relationships
Joy & GratitudeAdvent & Christmas
Jul 18, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyPrayer & DevotionFaith & Civic Life
“And then she and there was an Army movie in from Liberia that was going to oppose the Takeover and try to take over the government from the elected p…”
Jul 11, 2022 · families and relationships
Sin & RepentanceService & Spiritual GiftsRacial Justice
Jun 6, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingThanksgiving & HarvestService & Spiritual Gifts
“Express my gratitude getting to know you and, of course, Tristan and and your uncle, Marion.”
May 15, 2022 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CarePluralism & InterfaithCreation & Eden
“There are no elevator speeches in the same way or bumper stickers- that sort of sum it up the way we might be accustomed to with Western religion and…”
May 9, 2022 · unitarian universalism
HumanismFriendship & BelongingCrucifixion & Atonement
“And the final one- it always seems to be the final one- we bring up, sums up the others, which is: we assert that humanism will, a firm life rather t…”
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