Sermons

A Family Portrait in Black and White;  This one’s personal: I’ll tell the story of how one band of social misfits became a “forever family.” About my children, I am always quick to point out [...]

Breaking Bread Together All Ages Worship – Bread Communion and Child Dedications. We break bread together to call forth the Beloved Community we long for and to joyfully commit ourselves, in covenant, to our youngest [...]

Democracy the Day After The United States has voted: did democracy prevail?  What does democracy mean today for Unitarian Universalism, which promotes “the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our [...]

Premeditated Mercy Says liberation theologian Jon Sobrino, “The church of mercy must be prepared to lose its reputation in the world of anti-mercy.”  Throughout history, the Church’s mission has been one of mercy, and some [...]

Honoring All Souls - The stories of our past and those who have gone before us hold information we can use to move ahead. It is important to thoughtfully explore who we are and where [...]

If you were arrested for being a religious liberal, would there be enough evidence to convict you? This Sunday, we'll consider the examples set by abolitionist Unitarian minister Theodore Parker, and by fugitive slaves William [...]

 Let’s Be a Church on Purpose Why do we exist?  What is it that we are called to do?  While the answers are often simple, their realizations are often complex and confusing.  It begins with [...]

What Is the Spirit of this Church? We say it every Sunday: “Love is the spirit of this church . . .” That’s a tall order, even on a good day.  How does what we [...]

Circle Round For Freedom Two members of UU Prison Ministries of IL, Monica Cosby and Megan Selby, share their direct experience of the prison industrial complex. Focusing on the spiritual imperative to end mass incarceration [...]

Love and Death "The one thing that can’t be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go."  So says the late Rev. Forrest Church, senior minister of the [...]