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This morning, I want us to grapple with one of the most universal and troubling facts of human existence. Though every last one of us would have it otherwise, it is an unavoidable reality that during our lifetimes people close to us will become sick, suffer great pain, and, in some cases, die. It...Sermon | By Scott W. Alexander | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Illness, Presence, Relationships, Suffering
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Elie Wiesel was just a wide-eyed and innocent adolescent when he and all the other Jews of the Transylvanian village of Sighet were jammed into cattle cars one April night in 1944 by SS troops, and shipped to Auschwitz....Sermon | By Scott W. Alexander | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Brokenness, Christianity, Despair, Evil, God, Judaism, Searching
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An Austrian millionaire was in the news this month for giving away all of his fortune. Why? "For a long time I believed that more wealth and luxury automatically meant more happiness," he said....Sermon | By Vail Weller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Generosity, Money, Responsibility, Stewardship, Transformation
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Since the time human beings became conscious of their existence, of the reality that they will die, and of the awareness that birth creates new life, they have wondered where they came from, why they were there and what happened to them when they died. They regarded these happenings with awe and...Sermon | By Elizabeth M Strong | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Humanism, Reason, Science
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Thursday marks the bicentennial of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Different though they and their influences were, both contributed to a tectonic shift in ideas. Neither arrived at his culminating treatise: Darwin’s 1859 The Origin of Species and Lincoln’s 1865 Emancipation...Sermon | By Leaf Seligman | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Humanism, Marriage, Race/Ethnicity, Relationships
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The journey was a long one. We started on an airplane, a 16-hour trip crossing the international date line. A van for an hour, then another hour’s plane ride. A pedi-cab trip, and a four hour van ride. Then another hour’s drive up a windy mountain road, turning off the road onto a rocky, bumpy,...Sermon | By Vail Weller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Direct Experience, Generosity, Globalism, International, Justice, Poverty, Privilege, Unitarian Universalism, Universalism
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Jefferson Unitarian Church Golden, CO Mothers Day, May 13, 2007 Three weeks ago my wife, Phyllis, and I participated in our all church social action weekend. What a magical day that was! We chose to help out building the new community garden at 32nd Avenue just this side of I-70....Sermon | By Peter Morales | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 6th Principle (World Community), Child Dedication, Children, Commitment, Health, Parents, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Relationships, Teacher Dedication, Teacher Recognition
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In a Barnes & Noble just before Easter, I watched a woman glance at a table of books and make a face like she'd just tasted something awful. Then she hurried on by as if she were afraid the books would bite. Curious, I looked to see what she had grimaced at: All the books on the table were about...Sermon | By Holly Anne Lux-Sullivan | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Diversity, Faith, Identity, Living Our Faith, Unitarian Universalism
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In 1935, a US government truck pulled up to my grandfather’s house, a two-room sharecropper’s shack in which sixteen people lived. They were starving to death. Not malnutrition. Starvation. The truck brought surplus food, which on that particular visit consisted of a gallon of mustard. My father...Sermon | By David Breeden | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Human Rights, Labor Day, Money, Poverty, Work
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"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America..." "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are!..." 1 "Sisters are we, Spurs always true, our hearts ring out for the yellow and blue..." "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both..." 2 A...Sermon | By Leslie Becknell | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Faith, Spiritual Practice, Unitarian Universalism
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What we try to express as Unitarian Universalists, are these truths: Each of us is unique. Each of us has gifts we were given at birth – we were born with these gifts; they are wired within us. Each of us has the responsibility to apply these talents to the world. Each of us must navigate how to...Sermon | By Beth Graham | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Calling, Canvass/Pledge, Meaning, Searching, Service, Stewardship, Vision
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A Sermon for First UU Church of New Orleans and Community Church of New Orleans Sunday, August 27, 2006 First Presbyterian Church The clouds gather and the rumbling is enough to unsettle anyone....Sermon | By Marta I. Valentín | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Diversity, Generosity
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First, let me bring you greetings from the larger family of faith of which you are a part. The Unitarian Universalist Association is the coming together of, now, 1055 free, liberal religious congregations in North America....Sermon | By William G. Sinkford | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Class, Race/Ethnicity, Reconciliation
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When I was a child, the world felt safe and whole and meaningful to me. It reached out and embraced me in a comfortable, welcoming, protective way. I felt "at home in the world," to borrow from the title we use for one of our Church School curricula....Sermon | By Jeanne Harrison Nieuwejaar | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Children, Education, Spiritual Practice, Unitarian Universalism
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Sermon | By Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Family, Hospitality, Reconciliation
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It was Spring. At long last there was no hint of snow on the ground. It was even warm, sort of. Birds and bugs had, at last, returned to Milwaukee. And so in the great flush of Spring madness, Jan and I decided it was time to barbecue....Sermon | By James Ishmael Ford | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Acceptance, Buddhism, Change, Life Transition, Presence
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Your presence here in such numbers today is a wonderful indicator that this congregation is important to you and to people you love....Sermon | By Patrick T O'Neill | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Generosity
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Last spring, I got a message from the universe. Now I don’t get too many messages from the universe; sometimes I don’t even get my phone messages. But this message was very loud, and it came at four in the morning in the form of a tremendous thud from my closet. This particular message was one...Sermon | By Bonnie McClish Dlott | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Abundance, Direct Experience, Economy, Greed, Money, Redemption, Stewardship
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Sermon | By Cecilia Kingman | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Generosity, Money, Spiritual Practice
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The question for us today is: what does it mean for us to stand with our faith, for us to stand with this church?Sermon | By Naomi King | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Faith, Unitarian Universalism