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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.**

December 18, 2013 - 6:00pm
Solstice Vespers
Monthly Theme: Joy
Rima Snyder

This service, hosted by Worship Associates Rima Synder and Judith Martin-Straw, will honor solstice traditions across cultures and through the ages. We will mark the longest night of the year with readings rituals of chant, candle lighting and sacred silence – embracing the dark and celebrating the return of light.

Please also join us for an informal welcoming reception before the service, at 6:00 pm in Angeline Forbes Hall, next to the sanctuary.
December 15, 2013
"Dark Matter"
Monthly Theme: Joy
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

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December 8, 2013
"Surprised by Joy"
Monthly Theme: Joy
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

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December 1, 2013
"Restringing the Beads"
Monthly Theme: Grace
Michael Eselun
Church member and oncology chaplain Michael Eselun will explore our relationship to our own stories and how we  use them in the attempt to make spiritual sense of our lives.

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November 24, 2013
"The Welcome Table"
Monthly Theme: Grace
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

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November 17, 2013
"With Empty Hands"
Monthly Theme: Grace
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
November 10, 2013
"The Gift"
Monthly Theme: Grace
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

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November 3, 2013
"Our UU Theology is Ablaze!"
Monthly Theme: Grace
Rev. Tom Owen-Towle
[Daylight Savings Time ends this week - please remember to turn your clocks back!]
 
In recent years, Unitarian Universalism has awakened spiritually and grown unashamedly theological. I will make 
a case for what our liberating, life-affirming, and loving faith has to offer today’s oft-fundamentalist and fractured 
world.

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October 27, 2013
Dia de los Muertos
Monthly Theme: Change
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Catherine Farmer Loya and DeReau K. Farrar
The Adult Choir will sing at 9am and 11am for our intergenerational services.
October 20, 2013
All of the Above
Monthly Theme: Change
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

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