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  • 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
  • Working to feed the hungry and obtain adequate food for poor people in our society has long been central to my own justice and service work. When I was in high school, I spent many weekends volunteering with a group called Youth Service Opportunities Project....
    Sermon | By Michael J. Tino | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Abundance, Body, Direct Experience, Earth, Food, Food Justice, Unitarian Universalism
  • Tomatoes are arguably the most consumed fruit or vegetable in our country....28% of Americans eat a meal every day that contains at least one tomato. It is estimated that every American eats about 29 pounds of fresh tomatoes a year and an additional 73 pounds processed in tomato sauces, ketchup,...
    Sermon | By Peggy Clarke | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Dignity, Direct Experience, Earth, Economy, Food, Food Justice, Human Rights, Nature, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Work
  • ...[H]ow we eat is not an isolated issue. While we would like to think, and often do think, with our independent human personalities, that what we eat is our own business, the truth is that what I eat, what you eat, has further reaching consequences than merely staying alive and being healthy. In...
    Sermon | By Alison Wohler | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Animals, Food, Food Justice, Nature, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Responsibility
  • A meat eater comes up to a vegan: “Did you hear about the new study saying vegans are more likely to go blind? I guess it’s because you don’t get the proper nutrition.” The vegan replied, “Nah, it’s just from reading all of those tiny ingredient lists.” Vegans (vegetarians who don’t...
    Sermon | By LoraKim Joyner | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Animals, Compassion, Food, Food Justice, Responsibility
  • ...Our spiritual connection to the food we eat has...been harmed by a modern culture in which over-processed foods are so ubiquitous that we have ceased to think about foods in their whole forms any more. ...Michael Pollan writes, “Try this: Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother...
    Sermon | By Michael J. Tino | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Earth, Food, Food Justice, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Responsibility
  • It’s really complicated honey. I’m only now understanding it myself. We weren’t really thinking about it like you and your friends do. It’s not that we didn’t care about how it would impact you; we weren’t really thinking about you at all. Oh that’s sounds terrible, I’ll say. I...
    Sermon | By Scott Tayler | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Environment, Generations, Healing, Responsibility, Unitarian Universalism
  • A while ago my friend told me that his son had come home from school with a new put-down expression. “That is sooo gay.” My friend explained to his son that perhaps he didn’t want to say that—after all, he lived in a family with two daddies—“gay” as a put-down just didn’t seem the...
    Sermon | By Devorah Greenstein | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Aging, Anti-Oppression, Body, Disability, Inclusion, Integrity, Multiculturalism, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Secular, Unitarian Universalism
  • My friend Sue has a son with autism who is now 19 years old. When Adam was younger (8–13) and when they would go to the grocery store, he would inevitably make a scene because he would want his parents to buy something he couldn’t have. This would be no ordinary scene of power play and wielding...
    Sermon | By Laurie Thomas | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Body, Children, Direct Experience, Disability, Honesty, Illness, Multiculturalism, Parents, Relationships, Respect, Unitarian Universalism
  • God, or however you wish to name the Divine, does not make mistakes. What does this mean? What does this mean when a mother gives birth to a child with mental retardation or cerebral palsy? What does this mean when a child is in an accident and becomes seriously physically impaired?...
    Sermon | By Sally Patton | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 6th Principle (World Community), Disability, Hospitality, Illness, Mental Health, Multiculturalism, Unitarian Universalism
  • I’ve always had a fantasy about going to the airport with just the clothes on my back, my ID, a credit card and my toothbrush. I go through the revolving door, walk up to the counter and look up at the day’s flight schedule as if I were looking at the menu in a coffee shop. But instead of...
    Sermon | By Susan Maginn | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, Multiculturalism, Reverence, Searching, Spiritual Practice, Transformation, Multiculturalism
  • SERMON DELIVERED BY REV. ROBERT WEST at the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, New York on September 8, 1963. This was Rev. Robert West's first sermon at First Unitarian in Rochester. Late on a Sunday afternoon, five weeks ago, my family and I drove into Rochester to begin our life here with...
    Sermon | By Robert Nelson West | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, History, Race/Ethnicity, Rights, Anti-Oppression
  • If you have been paying attention lately, you have been exposed to a mountain of information about the status of immigrants and aliens in the United States. You have heard some of the heart-wrenching stories about separated families and exploited workers, about thousands of deaths as a result of...
    Sermon | By Kendyl L. R. Gibbons | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Connections, Immigration, Justice, Politics, Seven Principles, Unitarian Universalism, Immigration