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This is a full list of sermons presented at UUCCSM since mid-1999. Links to sermon texts are included when made available by their authors. Audio recordings are also available for most sermons presented after September, 2007 by our staff ministers and others directly affiliated with our church (just click the speaker icon next to each sermon where it's available*). Audio from guest speakers is posted only when we have their permission to share it.
Hard copies of sermons by Rev. Jeremiah Kalendae are available in the church office. Contact office assistant Sibylla Nash at office@uusm.org if you have a request.
"Leaving Room for Hope: Sermons for Uncertain Times," a book of Minister Emerita Judith Meyer's sermons, is available here.
**Please Note: Video recordings are available for sermons with a small TV icon showing at the bottom of the sermon listing. Just click the icon to watch the service.**
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, whose 1969 book On Death and Dying broke new ground in the care of dying persons, died this summer. The Day of the Dead is a good time to celebrate her work. If you are grieving a loss, you are invited to bring an object or picture in remembrance of your loved one to place on the chancel altar before the service begins.
Reminder: Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m., October 30. Set your clocks back one hour.
Music: Michelle McWilliams, soprano
The United Nations Day theme for 2004 is women?s rights and empowerment. Unitarians and Universalists share a long history of advocacy for women. We?ll learn a few of the highlights and their lessons for today, United Nations Sunday. Music Louis Durra, piano
The Muslim observance of Ramadan, a month of fasting and abstinence, offers lessons in self-discipline as a spiritual practice. What can we Unitarian Universalists learn from the Muslim example? Music: Michael Lamb, tenor
Our speaker will offer some thoughts on the all-pervasive nature of one?s sexual orientation, the ways it permeates one?s being, informing decisions, actions, and reactions. It is a core element of most people, if not every person. However, for lesbian, gay, and bisexual people, outside the realms of politics or intimate relationships, the characteristic is often thought not to exist. Rebecca will share her experiences concerning ways in which this issue plays itself out in her life. Rebecca is a lesbian mother of two who lives in Los Angeles with her partner of 15 years and their two daughters, ages 3 and 6. She is active in her synagogue, in GLIDE (an antihomophobia speakers bureau), and in her children?s schools. Music: Sara Andon, flute
In our Sunday service, the children's story often serves as a text for the message of the day. We'll explore the use of story as an expression of the religious imagination. Music: Victor Lawrence, cello
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. -- The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith communities know about acts of charity and mercy; we also know that charity is not enough to create justice. What role should faith communities play in influencing public policy? How do we encourage spiritual depth and maturity in such work? The Rev. Lindi Ramsden, executive director of the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of California will join the Rev. Judith Meyer to lead our service. Faith in Action?s Fall Issues Election takes place after the second service.
Being part of a church calls us to minister to one another and to serve our community. Many of us yearn to do both more effectively. Now a grass-roots movement for Small Group Ministry is showing us how we can.
We celebrate our Ingathering with an affirmation of our community and our covenant, which bring us together and make us one people.
At our annual issues election last year we voted to support the work of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) in their efforts to help low-wage workers in the hotel industry. We are pleased to dedicate Labor Day Sunday this year to an update of this important work by the Rev. Alexia Salvatierra, Executive Director of CLUE.
Statistics show that most religious people are also politically conservative. David Klinghoffer of the Jewish Forward finds the connection religions emphasize personal moral responsibility, the ability of every person to know right from wrong and to act as he or she chooses. Unitarian Universalists hold those same principles but are overwhelmingly liberal politically. Are we inconsistent with our faith and politics, or is there a better theory to explain the statistics? Music: Julie Millet, vocals
