Sharon Wylie

Full name: Rev. Sharon Wylie

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The early emergence stage of the pandemic, followed by the ongoing threat of variants, has prompted rowdy and aggressive behavior in many areas of society (airplanes, ballparks). It is not surprising that some of this behavior has made its way into our congregational life.

By Sharon Wylie | September 27, 2021 | From Better Together
Tagged as: Governance for Congregations
A person in a gray shirt is doing a jigsaw puzzle, holding up a piece to someone else on a video call on a cell phone.

It's okay to be feel weary of resiliency and wholeness and learning and growth.

Opening | By Sharon Wylie | November 16, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: #COVID19, WorshipWeb, Worship
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This solstice night [or day] In honor of ancient traditions that celebrate this time of longest night, we observe that the flaming chalice holds the elements of the four directions: Earth, air, fire, water....

Chalice Lighting | By Sharon Wylie | May 5, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Balance, Earth, Earth-Centered, Nature, Winter Solstice / Yule
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We speak so often of brokenness in religious life, Let us speak today of wholeness....

Opening | By Sharon Wylie | May 28, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Acceptance, Anti-Oppression, Beauty, Coming Out, Gender, Humanism, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, National Coming Out Day, Pride Sunday, Secular, Self-Respect, Wholeness
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The hours of day and night are in balance. In honor of Earth-centered traditions that celebrate this time of year, we observe that the flaming chalice holds the elements of the four directions: Earth, air, fire, water. The lamp oil for earth The air that feeds the flame The fire we light And the...

Chalice Lighting | By Sharon Wylie | December 22, 2017 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Autumnal Equinox, Balance, Earth, Earth-Centered, Nature, Searching, Vernal Equinox
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You whose hearts are broken, come in. You whom pain has touched, and sorrow, and shock. You who have cried this week, and read the news with sadness. You whom loss has shadowed. You who grieve. Come in, come in. You with hearts open to joy and hope, come in. You whom love has touched, and...

Opening | By Sharon Wylie | November 21, 2017 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Brokenness, Challenge, Community, Despair, Direct Experience, Disaster or Crisis, Hope, Inclusion, Interdependence

It is said that ministers are here to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. I say, we are all afflicted, and we are all comfortable. May our time together this morning be a comfort and a confrontation. May we here find peace in times of tumult; May we here invite tumult into lives of...

Opening | By Sharon Wylie | March 27, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Activism, Challenge, Commitment, Justice, WorshipWeb

For millennia People have gathered together to hear stories, To root for the underdog, To jeer the evil and the unkind. We see in our stories Mirrors to our own lives Where we hope good things will happen to good people And that evil will be vanquished....

Opening | By Sharon Wylie | March 3, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Connections, Evil, Generations, Good, History, Judaism, Purim, Unitarian Universalism

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