Sermons
January 12, 2020
"The Art and Arc of Worship" Worship Arts Council and Karen Gustafson What ARE we doing at UCE every Sunday morning? Remarkably each week we show up and, to no one's surprise, there is [...]
January 5, 2020
"Our Annual Fire Communion" We begin the new year by releasing whatever has held us back – regret, fear, resentment. Letting go of burdens of the spirit makes room for wholeness and integrity to [...]
December 29, 2019
"On Not Waiting to Be the Hummingbird" - Rev. Karen G. Johnston All of us must die. It is written in our blood and bones. How might we befriend this fact, rather than turn [...]
December 22, 2019
"Keeping the fire burning: collectively sustaining resistance" Hanukkah reminds us of the miracle of the sacred oil that lasted, long past expectation, long enough to be renewed. Collectively, we find renewal in community and [...]
December 15, 2019
"The Christmas Story" - Rev. Karen Gustafson & Kathy Underwood At our 9:15 am worship service, come hear the story of Christmas and enjoy singing carols to celebrate the birth of Jesus. As Unitarian Universalists, [...]
December 8, 2019
We enter the season of Christmas, approaching winter and the lessening light, with a celebration of music. Our choir will sing the haunting, evocative, and exciting Christmas Cantata by Daniel Pinkham - accompanied by brass [...]
December 1, 2019
"Light in the Darkness" This time of year is rich with the symbolism of casting light into the growing darkness. The season of Advent with its candles of anticipation, hope, peace and love; preparing [...]
November 24, 2019
"Of Healing and Gratitude" - Rev Karen Gustafson As the UCE community seeks to move your story into a hopeful future with a new called minister, it is a good thing to acknowledge and [...]
November 17, 2019
"Attending to Our Stories: How the Past Shapes the Future" - Rev. Karen Gustafson Much of human discourse is story. At dinner parties or during coffee hour, in encounters with old and would be [...]
November 10, 2019
"Attention Deficit - Scarcity in the commodity of attention" What do we attend to? How do we decide what deserves our attention in the age of social media when the calculated political strategy is [...]
