In this sermon, Jared Mummert discusses finding spiritual grounding and emotional resilience through the natural world.
Sermon Category: Resilience
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Joy Comes Back
This sermon by Reverend Alice King explores the resilient nature of joy, distinguishing it from fleeting moments of happiness.
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Practices for Solidarity and Survival
This sermon by Reverend Alice King that introduces a set of spiritual and practical commitments for navigating modern chaos and societal “brokenness.”
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Coming Back to Life
This sermon by Reverend Alice King explores the profound process of reclaiming one’s spirit and returning to a state of conscious presence.
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A Doubter’s Thoughts
What do I base my theological views on? How did I get to my present humanistic mystical outlook? Will it serve me in a crisis?
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Failure Is Always an Option
An exploration of the gift of making mistakes, embracing imperfection, and the freedom in failing.
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What Else Is a Heart For?
In this personal reflection, a Unitarian Universalist seminarian explores the concept of active hope after finding inspiration in a uniquely decorated Chicago cafe.
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How (And Why) To Practice Gratitude
This sermon explores a substantial and realistic approach to gratitude, contrasting it with the “magical thinking” found in many prosperity philosophies.
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A Ship of Dreams
This church building stands here because a small group of people had a dream they achieved through patient perseverance enduring challenges we can never understand. What is their lesson to us today?
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A Place of Dreams and Hopes
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.
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