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  • Readings 1: The Gospel of Mark, Chapter 14, verses 3-91 While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came in with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on his head....
    Sermon | By Joanne Giannino | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Class, Humanism, Privilege
  • 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 WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Abundance, Direct Experience, Economy, Greed, Money, Redemption, Stewardship
  • Sermon | By Cecilia Kingman | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Generosity, Money, Spiritual Practice
  • 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 WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Faith, Unitarian Universalism
  • I want to tell you right up-front that I am unabashedly pro-life. I am also unashamedly pro-abortion. What I am not is unequivocally running for political office! Now, some of you might consider my reproductive platform to be oxymoronic. The fact is that many of us find ourselves in this place of...
    Sermon | By Cynthia Frado | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Compassion, Discernment, Reproductive Justice, Sexuality, Reproductive Justice
  • It is 2 a.m. I am sleeping in the chaplain’s on-call room at an inner city hospital. My room hovers over the Emergency Entrance and the darkness is punctuated with sirens and lights. It is my night to be available for those unexpected things that happen in the night. But, unlike most of my calls,...
    Sermon | By Krista Taves | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Grief, Reproductive Justice, Rights, Reproductive Justice
  • It was in Alaska, right before the first Gulf War, that I first realized how music can “teach us how to hear the world differently,” as jazz critic Jed Rasula once said. I was in the Air Force “Gateway to the West” jazz band and my unit was temporarily deployed to Alaska, waiting anxiously...
    Sermon | By Bret Lortie | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Peace, Responsibility, Work
  • After I graduated from college, I worked for Planned Parenthood for several years. Most days, I walked through protestors to get to work. They usually carried crosses and said things like, "Jesus will forgive you if you repent for your work." It turned out that the most revolutionary thing I did...
    Sermon | By Lisa Sargent | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Human Rights, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Justice
  • A former South African paramilitary commander looks across his dining room table into the interviewer's camera. He is in his early sixties, overweight, with short gray hair. He wears glasses and a polo shirt. It's late morning. He explains: "We were at war. We believed that if the Blacks were...
    Sermon | By David Schwartz | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Conscience, Dissent, Spiritual Practice
  • Moses was a rancher. Long before he became a famous Biblical patriarch who led his people to freedom from slavery, he was a simple rancher. And this simple rancher was tending his flock on the side of a mountain one day circa 1527 BCE, when he came upon a small forest fire—a burning bush. He was...
    Sermon | By Ana Porter | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Conscience, Earth, Food, Food Justice, Living Our Faith, Money
  • It has been a not-so-quiet week in Lake Wobegon! On Monday, I found that, apparently over a long period of time, a large sum of money was taken from me. What I thought I had safely saved toward some of my future dreams was gone! Have any of you ever been robbed? Do you remember how it felt to be...
    Sermon | By Randolph Becker | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Peace, Sacrifice, War
  • 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 WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Generosity
  • A child I know, when asked this week whether she would answer the call of her elementary school principal to wear red, white and blue clothes on Thursday, was in a quandary. She put down the crayon with which she was painstakingly trying to squeeze the words Peace is Possible onto the white bars...
    Sermon | By Victoria Safford | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Brokenness, Democracy, Nonviolence, Terrorism, War
  • “I wondered about what I espoused as a pacifist and as a lover of life. As a Unitarian Universalist I dug for answers. But I had no answers. I still felt scared, horrified, hurt, angry, and shocked.”— Tom Capo How has this attack on our safe and secure country affected us? When a catastrophe...
    Sermon | By Tom Capo | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
  • Once or twice a generation comes a tragedy so immense that our whole nation comes to a stop and some new day of infamy becomes ingrained upon our memory and calendars. Such a date now becomes September 11th. We fixate on the horror; and then fear, anger, and a kind of helpless despair follow, but...
    Sermon | By Peter S. Raible | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
  • One of my favorite television shows is the "Third Watch." This series uses an ensemble cast of police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians to tell the story of life on the streets of New York City. Some characters like Doc, an EMT, are strong, steady, and reliable....
    Sermon | By Richard Nugent | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
  • I invite you to reach out and make contact with the person next to you, a hand on shoulder, hand in hand, arm in arm, arm around, that we might feel our human connection at this dreadful time of mourning. And I ask you to be silent with me in remembrance of those who died on Tuesday, Sept. 11, in...
    Sermon | By Elizabeth Ketcham | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
  • For if they are evil and we are not, if that's how we see things, then we are committing the same kind of error which led to this tragedy. That's the problem of evil. Not so much that it exists — in that it's really just a fact of life, or a force of nature. The problem of evil, as I see it, is...
    Sermon | By Erik Walker Wikstrom | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
  • "Few of their children in the country learn English Unless the stream of their importation could be turned they will soon so outnumber us that all the advantages we have will not be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious." Does this sound familiar? This...
    Sermon | By James (Jay) C Leach | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Anti-Oppression, Globalism, Immigration, Oppression, Privilege, Immigration
  • As part of my seminary training I spent a summer working as a hospital chaplain, assigned to the psychiatric floor. I found it to be deeply gratifying work, and I was able to build relationships with many of the patients. Some were long-term and others had a quick turnaround. Some were what we...
    Sermon | By Peter Friedrichs | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Calling, Identity, Meaning, Self-Respect, Unitarian Universalism