sermon archives

2024
June 2 - Toward a New Covenant

April 7 - Amplifying the Charge"

March 31 - "Rise Again"
March 24 - "Together, Step by Step"
March 3 - "Ebenezer Gay's Natural Religion"

February 4 - "Abe Lincoln in Context"

2023

December 17 - "Christmas In the Trenches"

October 29 - "The Thinning Veil"
October 22 - "Calvin and the Original Sin"
October 8 - "Goodbye Columbus!"

September 24 - "Atonement and Compensation"
September 17 - "The Blessings of Imperfection"
September 10 - "Ingathering and Water Communion"

2022

June 19 - "What's a Blessing?”
June 12 - "Worth the While”

May 29 - "Looking Ahead"
May 22 - "Looking Back"
May 15 - "Why I Am a Unitarian Universalist"
May 8 - "The Healing Grace of Music"
May 1  - "Touchstones"

April 24 - "Never Too Late"
April 17 - "Even - or Especially - This Year"
April 10 - "Everybody Says Freedom"
April 3 - "Poetry for Our Lives"

March 27 - "Can't We All Get Along?"
March 20 - "What is Our Place in the Scheme of Things?"
March 13 - "What, After All, is Normal?"

February 27 - "God By Any Other Name"
February 20 - "Even Those People?"
February 13 - "And the Greatest of These"
February 6 - "Continuation"

January 30 - "Beneath the Deep-Piled Snow"
January 16 - "Who Made America"
January 9 - "New Horizons"
January 2 - "The Truth of the Matter...Life, that is"

2021

December 12 -  Jesus and the Christmas Magician
December 5 - The Ninth Candle

November 24 - Give Thanks in All Circumstances
November 21 - Gratitude and Gravy
November 7 - Why Hope?

October 31 - Mourning Without End
October 24 - To Everything A Season
October 17- How Shall We Live in a Burning World?
October 3 - How Are We Doing?

September 26 - Come As You Are
September 19 - Widening The Circle
September 12 - How Shall We Live?

June 20 - More Than Silver Linings
June 13 - Stronger Together
June 6 - Roads Taken and Not Taken

May 30 - Mystic Chords of Memory
May 16 - Can We Have Our Lives Back?
May 9 - Is Poetry Necessary?
May 2 - Lift Every Voice

April 25 - Why Should We Care?
April 18 - Who Speaks for Earth?
April 4 - Much to Grieve - Much to Hope

March 28 - Daring the Journey
March 21 - Are The Transcendentalists Relevant?
March 14 - Giving Like The Berries

February 28 - The Only Way Through?
February 21 - Perennial Wisdom or Perennial Illusion?
February 14 - Lincoln, Douglass and Love
February 7 - Do We Dare?

January 24 - Looking Ahead
January 17 - A Single Garment of Destiny
January 10 - My Journey Through the World's Religions
January 3 - Ancient Wisdom for These Times

2020

December 13 - The Beauty, Power, and Miracle of Your Light
December 6 - Holy Expectations: What Are We Waiting For?

November 22 - Gratitude Always?
November 15 - To Everything a Season
November 8 - Now What?
November 1 - Voting for Democracy

October 18 – The Human Agenda
October 11 - On The Land of Others
October 4 - Cultivating Compassion

September 27 - Spirituality For These Times
September 20 - For Such a Time as This
September 13 - More Important Than Ever

July 26 - When Hope Is Hard To Find
July 19 – Everything Holy?
July 12 - Layers of Mindfulness
July 5 - Independence for Whom?

June 21 - Do We Have Eyes to See?
June 14 - What Sort of Church Did You Join?
June 7 - Don't Borrow Trouble

May 31 - Where is God in These Times?
May 24 - This Threshold Time
May 17 - Spiritual, Prophetic, Religious, Political
May 10 - Legacies of Love
May 3 - Awakened Hearts

April 26 - How Things Really Are
April 19 - Home on Earth
April 12 - Why seek the Living among the Dead?
April 5 - Journey not of our Choosing

March 29 - Fear and Love
March 22 - Inviting Delight
March 15 - The Greatest of These
March 1 - Heed the Generous Impulse

February 23 - Busy No More
February 16 - Through the Valley
February 9 - Winning at Any Price

January 26 - Greta and the Power of One
January 19 - Never Delicate to Live
January 5 - Touchstones of Wisdom

2019

December 15 - Inside the Story

November 24 - No Other Choice
November 17 - Necessary Beauty
November 10 - To Become More Fitting Temples
November 3 - Seed Time

October 27 - Return to the Most Human
October 13 - What Endures?

September 29 - Force of Truth
September 22 - Who Are We?
September 15 - Earth, Spirit, and Us

June 16 - A Father's Love
June 9 - Touchstones
June 2 - Yes, All Are Welcome

May 26 - Sometimes
May 12 - The Truth That Can Save Us

Feb. 17 - Does What Comes Next Matter?
Feb. 3 - As If Our Lives Depended

Jan. 20 - Not to Weary in Well Doing
Jan. 6 - The Old Man's Calendar

2018

Dec. 9 - Light One Candle
Dec. 2 - Unlikely Teachers

Nov. 11 - Why Not Peace?
Oct. 28 - Broken-Hearted Caring
Oct. 21 - Why Aristotle Still Matters

Sept. 30 - Where is Mr. Rogers?
Sept. 23 - Still Puritans?
Sept. 16 - How Forgiving Is the Earth?

June 17 - A Multi-Religious Journey

May 27 - "We" includes Muslins
May 13 - From Hate to Love
May 6 - Gift of Impermanence

April 29 - Reclaiming Wonder
April 15 - Fifty Years Ago
April 1 - Yes to Lifel

March 25 - A Faith to Live For
March 18 - Doom and Gloom or Soon to Bloom
March 4 - Learning to Let Go

February 25 - Tolerance - Just the First Step
February 18 – What's So Funny About the Banjo?

January 21 - Useless Tree
January 7 - Confucian Wisdom for Our Times

2017

December 3 - Seasonal Wisdom For These Times

November 12 - Appropriate Honor

October 15 - How Did We Get Here?
October 22 - Living Beautifully
October 29 - Coming to Terms

September 17 - What Are We To Do Now?
September 24 - This Journey We Share

June 4 - Thin or Thick
June 11 - White Supremacy - Then and Now

May 14 - Amazing Grace
May 28 - Everyone Worships Something

April 2 - Resilience
April 16 - The Gift of Easter
April 23 - Poetry for the Earth
April 30 - Does Marching Matter?

March 5 - Thou Shalt Not Other
March 12 - Our World is One World
March 26 - Theology Matters

February 5 - Best Things In Life are Free
February 12 - You Have To Be Carefully Taught
February 26 - Traits not States

January 8 - I'll Meet You There
January 15 - Moral Arc of the Universe

January 22 - Keeping On

2016

December 4 - A Jesus Worth Waiting For
December 11 - In a Dark Time

November 6 - The Election Sermon
November 13 - Now What?
November 20 - Still Grateful

October 9 - Facing Death with Life
October 16 - Standing on the Side of Love
October 23 - Balancing Act
October 30 - Woven Fine

September 18 - What's Going On?
September 25 - The Importance of Character

January 3 - The Heart of Islam

2015

December 6 - Hope in a Dark Time
December 13 - Singing as if we Believe

November 1 - Why I Love Cemeteries
November 15 - Living in the Shadow of Terror
November 22 - Radical Hospitality in a Small World

October 25 - Remembering the Future (part 2)
October 18 - Remembering the Future (part 1)
October 11 - Good News for Troubled Times

September 27 - Who Are You Really?
September 20 - Naming Lives That Matter

June 7 - Our Place in the Scheme of Things
June 14 - Knocking on the Wrong Door
June 21 - More Love ... Right Here

May 31 - Are You a Buddha Without Knowing It?
May 24 - Judgments Inexorable
May 17 - First Things First
May 10 - Spiritual and Religious

April 5 - Easter for Our Time
April 26 - Still Here - Reflections on the Journey of Alzheimer's

March 1 - Talking About Islam
March 15 - Now More Than Ever
March 22 - Still Learning from Selma
March 29 - The Only Way Through

2014

January 5 - Is There a Perennial Wisdom?
January 12 - Paths to Perennial Wisdom
January 19 - Living Wisdom

2013

December 8 - Five Billion Neighbors
December 15 - What Are We Waiting For?

November 3 - Letting Go... To the Light
November 10 - Yearning for Peace
November 17 - Behind the Kitchen Door
November 24 - Give Thanks in All Things?

October 6 - What is Your Place in the Web of Life?
October 13 - Right Sizing God
October 20 - Servant of Truth and Love
October 27 - Principled Religion

September 15 - The Journey Home
September 22 - Worth Keeping in Mind
September 29 - Living with Joy in the World as It Is

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