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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.**
A sermon about where we come from our fathers and our mothers and also the ancestors long before them. Their lives and goals live in us. The task of our life is to remember and live out their dreams but also to transform them in line with our unique selves and times. The Rev. Ricky Hoyt, minister, author and former member of our congregation, will be leading three services this month. We welcome him back to our pulpit. Music: Charla Gulino, Flute
The culmination of this year’s RE program, this service features our children, youth, and teachers. They will do a “Way Cool Sunday School” worship service. Come participate and see what it’s all about.
Learning how to say hello and goodbye is spiritual work. It is not always easy. But to take it seriously is to use its power well.
Each Sunday, I repeat the words of James Luther Adams, who said, Church is where we get to practice what it means to be human. This Sunday I want to probe that thought a little deeper.
All too often we characterize Unitarian Universalism as a faith that allows us to believe whatever we want. While we do make a lot of room for individual perspectives, we hold certain beliefs in common as well. Today I'll explain what they are. This sermon is a good introduction for newcomers and new members. Newcomer orientation takes place this Sunday as well, 1230-130, with Judith and Ofelia Lachtman. Invite a friend!
Four young women in our congregation — Jesse Figueroa, Amelia Harati, Rachel Nannini, and Hayley Paddock — will celebrate their coming of age in a service they have created after a year of reflection, study and preparation. Please join them for this special occasion.
Though opinions about war may divide us, grief over the losses unites us. In the universal human experience of grief we may find a way to heal divisions and move on together. Music David Ellis, guitar
A Unitarian Universalist publication recently reported that high expectation congregations, which stress the responsibilities of membership, come closer to fulfilling their mission than congregations with low expectations. Neighborhood Church in Pasadena, for example, has these responsibilities of membership attendance at Sunday services, personal transformation, social justice work, and giving time and money to support the church. As we come to our Annual Meeting with high hopes for the coming year, it is time to heighten our expectations of each other as well. The Annual Meeting of the congregation takes place at 1230 p.m. today in the sanctuary. Music Sara Andon, flute
Several women influenced Ralph Waldo Emerson, especially his aunt Mary Moody Emerson, his friend Margaret Fuller and each of his wives, Ellen Tucker and Lydia Jackson. In honor of Mother's Day, we'll honor the role women have played in nurturing others' genius. Music Ginger Murphy, cello
Our faith tradition is short on dogma, but long on reverence, at least as I see it. This sermon is part of my continuing effort to describe an ethics of the soul, which I believe is at the heart of Unitarian Universalism. Music Jonathan Davis, oboe
