The Community Garden
April 12, 2015This sermon captures a speaker reflecting on their initial experiences with a Metropolitan Community Church, highlighting its unique, lay-led structure and the speaker's cautious first visit.
Past Sermons
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A Place of Dreams and Hopes
Speaker: Leslie Wright
March 29, 2015
This sermon interweaves Langston Hughes's poem "Freedom's Plow" with a historical narrative centered on the founding of Mount Olive Methodist Episcopal Church by formerly enslaved people in Gleedsville.
The Call of Selma
Speaker: Rev. John Manwell
March 8, 2015
Reverend John Manwell's sermon reflects on the experiences of Unitarian Universalist ministers who answered Dr. King's call to Selma fifty years prior, drawing from Reverend Mark Morrison Reed's book, The Selma Awakening
Be the Bridge
Speaker: Ryan Petit
March 8, 2015
The sermon contemplates the overwhelming nature of the modern world, marked by environmental destruction, governmental struggles, and religiously fueled suffering, which fosters fear and judgment.
From Ignorance to Bliss
Speaker: Chris D'Arcy
February 22, 2015
This sermon explores the idea that true happiness comes not from ignorance, but from moving from ignorance to a more engaged and connected existence.