Sermons
August 25th, 2019
Our Faith in Truth and Meaning: Moving from Certainty to Curiosity - Bring your Backpacks, Bookbags and Briefcases to be Blessed in this end of summer ritual. As we get ready to go back [...]
August 18th, 2019
Beloved Conversations: Meditations on Race and Ethnicity - More than 10% of our congregation has participated in this transformative curriculum developed by the Fahs Collaborative of Meadville Lombard Theological School. Beloved Conversations creates an intentional, [...]
August 11th, 2019
Denominational Affairs - Unitarian Universalists make up a small percentage of the population but our voice can be a mighty force for good if we collaborate beyond the walls of our congregations. There are [...]
August 4th, 2019
To Bless and Be Blessed by the Animals – Our cohabitants on the earth bless our lives in many ways and we take this time each year to express our gratitude to those closest to us with a blessing. We’ll learn about some of the ways [...]
July 28th, 2019
Telling the Truth - For a study group, I was asked to write a paper on "Truth." I thought that might be simple, but many books and magazine articles later, I found it to [...]
July 21st, 2019
Person ≠ Mental Health Obstacle - People living with mental health obstacles are but one group who desire the visibility of the individual. We live in a society that is fascinated with labels. One could imagine [...]
July 14th, 2019
Every Long Journey - Curiosity is a gift but to act on it requires courage. Empathy is a skill and to learn it enables us to move from a place of shame to a [...]
July 7, 2019
Cultivating Joy - How do we cultivate joy as a spiritual practice of restoration and resistance? Visiting Minister The Rev. Darrick Jackson is the Director of Education of the UU Ministers Association and an [...]
June 30th, 2019
50 Years After Stonewall - Members of the UCE Rainbow Alliance reflect on the ways the uprising, which sparked what many believe to be the beginning of the Pride Movement, has impacted the lives of [...]
June 23, 2019
Finding Beauty - The Worship Arts Committee leads this service with three perspectives on different ways of seeing beauty and what that can mean in our lives. William Phillips, Lynn Kendall, Tom Hempfling, Barbara [...]
