In this sermon, a speaker reflects on the transformational power of names by recounting a turbulent childhood marked by legal identity shifts and family conflict.
Sermon Category: Transformation
Sermons
“Who were you before the world told you who to be?”
This sermon highlights a speaker’s transformational journey toward living an authentic life through the lens of their experiences with a Unitarian Universalist congregation.
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Pushing the River
Can we make things happen? Or do we let things unfold? Where is the balance in emergence, emergency and urgency?
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Born Again: Confronting the Challenges of Change
In this sermon, the speaker reflects on the transformative power of storytelling to inspire personal growth and hope.
Sermons
Burning Bowl Ceremony
This sermon captures a UUCL’s New Year’s service centered on the Burning Bowl ceremony, a ritual designed for spiritual renewal.
Sermons
The Call of Selma
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
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The Upside Down Church
This sermon reflects on a previous sermon about community and encourages the congregation to embrace the church’s potential for conflict as a necessary part of spiritual growth.
Sermons
Who we are, what we do
This sermon captures the beginning of a new church year at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Loudoun.
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