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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.**
United Nations Sunday "E Pluribus Unum," an American motto since 1782, now signifies greater cultural - and religious - pluralism than our forebears imagined. As the American spiritual landscape diversifies into many expressions of faith, in what ways are we still united? These issues, originally scheduled for the service September 16, are more pressing than ever.
National Coming Out Day (NCOD), the day set aside to encourage bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender (BGLT) people to be open about who they are, is October 11. To a great extent it has been the coming out of individuals to their family, friends, and coworkers that has led to steady reductions in the seemingly global condemnation of BGLTs. In celebration of NCOD, Interweave, our church's group for BGLTs and their allies, hosts the service and welcomes to the pulpit the Rev. Ernest Pipes, who will discuss his history of officiating at same-sex couple weddings long before most BGLTs even dreamed of same-sex marriages as a possibility.
New Member Recognition Sunday Among the first Americans to discover eastern religions were Unitarians Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Emerson read and wrote about Hindu scriptures and Thoreau practiced yoga by Walden Pond. Their adventures and insights into eastern religion transformed Unitarianism forever.
In the past year I have spent many hours walking my dog throughout my neighborhood. This has been an absorbing (though outwardly unproductive) experience from which I've actually learned a lot.
As Jewish people prepare for Yom Kippur, we explore the meaning of this spiritual practice by reflecting on the value of facing the truth within ourselves.
Finding inspiration in Martin Luther King's words "We shall hew out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope," our service will be a time to grieve and to affirm the values and the bonds that give us hope.
Ingathering Sunday Our ingathering service of the church year will center on the theme of transitions. The first half of the service will include a ritual and story for the children and a dedication ceremony for religious education teachers, followed by a special activity for the children and a sermon for the adults.
A reflection on how critical it is for us living in this nation at this historical point to respect and value our interdependence. Rev. Perez will use examples of the workers' struggles for justice in Santa Monica and the ways in which we can be a part of the resolution of these complicated conflicts in our daily life. Altagracia Perez is rector of the Episcopal Church of St. Philip the Evangelist in South Central Los Angeles.
for the entire month of August. He states "The journey as a metaphor for the religious life is a common one. Each of these four films involves characters who make a journey of discovery, a discovery of the possibility for deeper understanding of life." Powwow Highway Path of Transformation Two modern American Indian warriors follow a meandering route to Santa Fe to free the captive woman. Bigger things are at stake in this amusing and heartfelt film. [Note This film may be hard to find in video stores. Copies will be available in the church office before the service.] August 19, 2001 Princess Mononoke The Epic Journey This beautiful Japanese animated film (with imagery that may be too strong for younger children) speaks of a long-ago faraway land where two young people
What does worship have to do with compassion? And what does love have to do with justice? Unitarian Universalist and Buddhist perspectives provide valuable insights into the relationship between faith and works. Music Lisa Graham, voice (last day!)
