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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.**

August 4, 2013
"Poems of Connection"
Monthly Theme: Surrender
Bettye Barclay, Carrie Lauer and Rima Snyder
Chance moments in our lives throw us into unexpected situations and can create connections with people that show us something about ourselves. In this service church members Bettye Barclay, Carrie Lauer and Rima 
Snyder share poems that describe moments of connection between strangers. Leonard Cachola joins us as worship associate.
July 28, 2013
"Justice for Immigrants"
Monthly Theme: Vision
Kent Wong
July 21, 2013
"The Good Work"
Monthly Theme: Vision
Jessica Clay

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July 14, 2013
Plantation Capitalism - The Financialization of Life
Monthly Theme: Vision
Rev. Jim Conn
American society has shifted into a culture where everything is measured and counted, and if it cannot be measured and counted, it is useless.  Yet even though the dominant motif has shifted to economics, our money is the last thing we can really talk about.  We can talk more easily about our sex life than about our financial situation.  As a result, we cannot unpack the economic pressures that push us into deep stress.

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July 7, 2013
Seeing More Clearly
Monthly Theme: Vision
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

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June 30, 2013
Interdependence Day
Monthly Theme: Pride
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

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June 23, 2013
Common Ground
Monthly Theme: Pride
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur and singer-songwriter John Flynn

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June 16, 2013
Dad's Day in Prison
Monthly Theme: Pride
Bronwen Jones, with Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur asssting

This sermon looks at a key relationship that cuts the murderers and rapists to the core. Whatever their past, they love their children with whom they cannot be. As a chaplain Bronwen has the privilege of spending time with gang members even though she is a middle-aged, middle-class white woman. This is her story about spending three days at Ironwood State Prison.

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June 9, 2013
Daring Greatly
Monthly Theme: Pride
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

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June 2, 2013
Celebrating Lifespan Religious Education
Monthly Theme: Pride
Lifespan Religious Education Committee