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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.**

Afghanistan Armistice
Monthly Theme: Gratitude
Rev. Kenneth Torquil MacLean

This is the day we used to commemorate as Armistice Day, because the treaty ending hostilities of the First World War took effect at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. After the Second World War, it was called Veterans Day in the United States and Remembrance Day in the countries of the British Commonwealth. This sermon will explore where we are in the longest war in our history.

Kenneth MacLean was a teacher at Hamilton High School when he joined the Unitarian Community Church of Santa Monica in 1954. Three years later he entered Harvard Divinity School and subsequently served Unitarian
Universalist churches in West Roxbury, MA; Knoxville, TN; Bethesda, MD; and Rancho Mirage, CA, from which he retired last June. 

The Fire of Commitment
Monthly Theme: Gratitude
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

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Day of the Dead
Monthly Theme: Letting Go
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur and Catherine Farmer Loya
Theodore Parker: Radical Politics, Radical Faith
Monthly Theme: Letting Go
Rick Hoyt, minister of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles

Theodore Parker was a 19th century Unitarian minister in Boston. A fierce abolitionist and a theologian so provocotive he was exclued from th society of oher Unitarian ministers. Today he may be our most important spiritual ancestor. Rev. Hoyt is the minister at the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles.

Coming Out Day
Monthly Theme: Letting Go
Coordinated by Interweave
Unfinished Business
Monthly Theme: Letting Go
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

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Love in the Tangled Undergrowth of our Lives
Monthly Theme: Forgiveness
Rev. Jim Grant

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Listening for Love
Monthly Theme: Forgiveness
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

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On Apology
Monthly Theme: Forgiveness
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur

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Standing on the Side of Love
Monthly Theme: Forgiveness
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur and Catherine Farmer Loya

Intergenerational and Ingathering services at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m.

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