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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.**
Long term relationships of all kinds hold a spiritual promise. They invite us to go deeper into the knowledge of each other, a process that is both rewarding and intimidating. The more we know and are known, the more powerful - and vulnerable we become.
We give thanks for the teachers, volunteers, children, and staff who have given our Religious Education program another great year. Today we recognize and celebrate their contributions. Each class will make a presentation based on the curriculum it used. Music Scott Roewe, instrumentalist
Among the many questions life poses to us is the question of whether the glass is half empty or half full. Many of us struggle with the answer. Celebrating Thanksgiving helps us to appreciate what we have, and that is a good beginning. The Youth Choir will sing at the 11 a.m. service. Please bring bread to break together during our coffee hour.
Unitarian Universalist minister Jeremy Taylor offers these words about the service Like a lotus or a rose growing up from the dark into the light, our spiritual|experience develops into consciousness out of unconscious depths. Our dreams give|us glimpses of these developments and allow us to experience the archetypal patterns|of myths and sacred narrative in a direct and personal way. The 'magic mirror|does not lie' and the reflections it offers connect us to our deeper selves and|to the world simultaneously.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unitarian and Transcendentalist, wrote, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." His bracing words have given us a noble but lonely path to walk. Is that all there is?
Theologian Harvey Cox, who wrote The Secular City in 1965, once predicted that modernity would bring an end to religion as we know it. He has since changed his mind. What has happened since 1965? The service today will include an observance of D
UNITED NATIONS SUNDAY We live in a world in which grandparents will soon outnumber grandchildren. That reality, combined with the unavoidable fact that we are all growing older all the time, reveals aging as a global phenomenon, with social and spiritual implications We will celebrate our new members with a Welcome Ceremony at both services.
We travel to see something different, but a really good trip also reacquaints us with ourselves.
Today we join the diverse religious organizations that recognize Solidarity Sunday, to call an end to hate speech and hate crimes against all people, including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Together we witness to the universal human need for respect.
USC Men's Chorus, with Ethan Sperry, Director, guest musicians The Rev. Nick Cardell, minister emeritus of the May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society in Syracuse, NY, and a veteran of World War II, served six months at the Allenwood, PA, federal prison camp last year after having been convicted of criminal trespass at the School of the Americas. His sermon is "a reflection on the relationship between two experiences that are too often thought of as separate and distinct from each other."
