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Download the PDF of this discourse. When I see them walking down my driveway, I hide. I crouch behind a chair in the living room, tell the kids to be quiet, and wait. The doorbell rings. “I’ll get it!” yells one of my kids. “No –no- no!” I say. “Be quiet, act like we aren’t home.” “What is your…
By Kaaren Solveig Anderson | March 24, 2009 | From Gould Discourse -
Inherent Worth and Dignity: Speaking Well of Our Congregations Gould Discourse, April 25, 2008 Download a PDF of this discourse I am deeply grateful for the religion of my childhood: the people of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus, Ohio nurtured in me much of what I most cherish…
By Joel Miller | April 25, 2008 | From Gould Discourse -
One Nation Under Whose God? Or Why We Need to Make Our Voices Heard Gould Discourse, 2006 Download a PDF of this discourse PROLOGUE: The Tortoise and the Tree (a Nigerian Tale) What animal do you think is the smartest? Well, some tribes in Nigeria believe that at one time, long, long ago, the…
By Anne Marsh | April 25, 2006 | From Gould Discourse -
Response to Thoughts on Sharing Ministry and Leadership by Rev. Samuel A….
By Scott Tayler | April 22, 2005 | From Gould Discourse -
Thoughts on Sharing Ministry and Leadership Download a PDF of this discourse Read the responses by Jeane Crane and Scott Tayler Your Gifts Your gifts–whatever you discover them to be– can be used to bless or curse the world. The mind’s power, The strength of the hands, the reaches of the heart,…
By Sam Trumbore | April 22, 2005 | From Gould Discourse -
Gould Discourse, April 23, 2004 Helena Chapin Download a PDF of this discourse. Good evening, it is very good to be here among you. I ope you will appreciate that there are at least twenty people standing up here with me to tell you the story of Josephine Gould. She influenced so many, in so many…
April 23, 2004 | From Gould Discourse -
No Easy Answers Download a PDF of this discourse Whether you were born into this religion or chose it as you matured, I suspect you have been asked to explain what Unitarian Universalists believe. I came from Roman Catholicism and no one asked me what I believed….
April 28, 2003 | From Gould Discourse -
Truth Telling Download a PDF of this discourse I come before you this evening having set myself a simple but daunting task — to tell the truth. This, it seems to me, is the quintessential goal of the minister as preacher. We must approach the pulpits and rostrums of our vocation as if they were…
April 20, 2002 | From Gould Discourse -
Cry, Lament, Understand and Celebrate Download a PDF of this discourse One day a mouse was walking on the banks of a river that ran through the jungle. He saw a Hippopotamus in the water and shouted to the Hippopotamus, “Hey you, come out of the water onto this bank, NOW”….
April 27, 2001 | From Gould Discourse -
Rethinking the Unitarian Universalist Relationship to Christianity Download a PDF of this discourse “The question of what any tradition means is part of that tradition itself, and as long as the tradition lives the question remains in dispute….
April 14, 2000 | From Gould Discourse