Social Witness Sermon Contest

Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Commission on Social Witness (CSW) & Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association (UUMA)

The Social Witness Sermon Contest is your opportunity to speak out on any dimension of the current Congregational Study/Action Issue. Let your views from the pulpit on this important topic reach a wider audience, and you might even win $500 (USD).

The winner of the 2012 Social Witness Sermon Contest is Rev. Barbara Prose with her sermon, "Define American." She delivered her winning sermon at Justice GA 2012.

2012-2013 Theme: Immigration as a Moral Issue or Reproductive Justice: Expanding Our Social Justice Calling

Submissions are due Friday, March 1, 2013.

Who Can Enter

The contest is open to both clergy and laypeople as long as the sermon was delivered to a congregation.

You must have delivered the sermon to a congregation within the past year and before the deadline.

How to Enter

Submit in MS Word, WordPerfect, Rich Text Format, or Plain Text. (PDF not acceptable.) Email to socialjustice @ uua.org.

Include two items:

1. A cover page, which has your name, address, phone number, email address, sermon title, congregation to whom the sermon was delivered, and date the sermon was delivered. Be sure to indicate this is for the Social Witness sermon contest.
2. Your sermon with title, from which any identifying information has been taken out (name, congregation). Please do not include footnotes.

For more information contact socialwitness @ uua.org.