This sermon draws a poignant parallel between a Unitarian Universalist congregation and the characters in the musical Into the Woods to illustrate the necessity of communal support.
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Seasons of Love
Speaker: Tamar Datan
July 20, 2025This sermon highlights the enduring legacy of the musical Rent and its creator, Jonathan Larson, who tragically died just before the show’s debut.
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She Used to Be Mine
Speaker: Nicola Cook
July 6, 2025This sermon uses the musical Waitress and its poignant song, “She Used to Be Mine,” as a starting point to explore common feelings of inadequacy and loss of identity
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Imagining the Future of Our Faith
Speaker: Rev. Charlotte Lehmann
May 25, 2025Lessons from our Transcendentalist past, from Jewish tradition, and our newly adopted statements of covenant and shared values, as well as this month’s Soul Matters theme to imagine together the future of UUism that we desire and need, a UUism that brings into being a fair, peaceful and just world in which all can thrive.
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Mother of All: Earth, Spirit, and the Sacred Feminine
Speaker: Rev. Alice King
May 11, 2025Summary:
This sermon by Rev. Alice King explores the spiritual significance of the divine feminine, or the Great Mother, as a necessary counterpoint to traditional patriarchal structures. Through personal anecdotes and historical examples, King highlights how figures like Mary Magdalene and Julia Ward Howe were marginalized to suppress the sacred feminine qualities of intuition, nurturing, and fierce protection. She argues that modern culture, heavily influenced by Calvinistic Christianity, often disconnects individuals from the interdependent nature of life by prioritizing obedience over inner transformation. By reclaiming the concept of the Goddess, the speaker suggests that everyone can find a deeper sense of spiritual belonging regardless of gender or religious background. Ultimately, the sermon serves as a call to recognize our shared origin in divine energy, advocating for a world rooted in peace and mutual healing.
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Our Wondrous and Uncanny Bodies
Speaker: Jennifer Springsteen
April 27, 2025As the weather warms, let go of our expectations of how bodies need to look and perform.
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Nature’s Lessons on Change
Speaker: Jared Mummert
April 20, 2025In this sermon, Jared Mummert discusses finding spiritual grounding and emotional resilience through the natural world.
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Collecting Joy as a Spiritual Practice
Speaker: Ann Richards
April 13, 2025In this sermon, Ann Richards describes her spiritual practice of intentionally collecting moments of joy to combat her natural tendency toward pessimism.
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Joy Comes Back
Speaker: Rev. Alice King
April 6, 2025This sermon by Reverend Alice King explores the resilient nature of joy, distinguishing it from fleeting moments of happiness.
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In Whom Do We Trust?
Speaker: Jeff Erickson
March 30, 2025During times of turmoil, uncertainty and unprecedented change, who can we trust, and to what extent?