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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.**
Professor of Sociology and Chicano Studies at Pitzer College and activist for immigrant and worker rights, Calderon shares how his survival in higher education has rooted in the connections between experience as the immigrant son of farm worker parents and the lessons he has learned overcoming systemic obstacles as a community organizer, family participant, and intellectual activist.
This past year undocumented immigrant students throughout the country advanced a powerful movement to support passage of the federal Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. They proclaimed that they are undocumented and unafraid and organized pilgrimages, hunger strikes, civil disobedience actions, and mass protests. How can we, as people of conscience, support this movement?
Executive Director of Westside Food Bank Bruce Rankin explores ways of looking at what it means to live in community — and how needs such as hunger can be better recognized and addressed when people exemplify true community.
Edna Bonacich, Joanna Woods-Marsden, Bettye Barclay, and Rima Snyder present poems and share how the poets’ words speak to them. Service led by Rima Snyder, music provided by cellist Lynn Angebranndt.
Church member and sociologist Edna Bonacich has been involved with a project to address both the jobs crisis and the ecological crisis in the African American community. She shares how it seeks to create communallyowned backyard micro-farms in black neighborhoods.
Worship Leaders Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Director of Religious Education Catherine Farmer Loya, and Lifespan Religious Education Leaders and Learners Please bring cut flowers from your garden to share in a special Flower Communion.
