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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.**

The Soul of Money Commitment Sunday
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Speaker

What we choose to do with our resources says something about who we are as individuals and as a community, and what is important to us.

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Dia de los Muertos
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Speaker

We share an intergenerational service of ritual and remembrance.

Right Relations
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Speaker

How can we build authentic, caring relationships with one another, both in church and in the world?

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Foundations of Faith
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Speaker

After many years of fundraising, planning, building, and expanding our campus, we rejoice in the re-dedication of Angie Forbes Hall.

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Still Coming Out?
Ron Crane, Speaker

Church member and psychologist Ron Crane shares a seven-decade cultural and personal history of being gay.

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A Religion for Our Time
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Speaker

What does a religion rooted in Puritan New England offer pluralistic, multiethnic, cosmopolitan Los Angeles?

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Spiritual Housekeeping
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Speaker

As the renovation of our social hall reaches its final stages, Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur will preach on thinking spiritually about how we take care of our homes, buildings and other important spaces.

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Fogiveness
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Speaker

Our service takes place the day after Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement in the Jewish calendar.

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Mobilize Love
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Speaker

Celebrate the start of a new year of congregational life at our intergenerational services at 9 and 11. Children are invited to meet in the courtyard before both services to join a lively procession into the sanctuary. Our new settled minister, the Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, will preach.

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Labor in the Pulpit
Juan Torres, a worker for Marina Car Wash, Cloe Osmer, a worker for CLEAN Car Wash Campaign, and Jose Luis Gutierrez. an organizer with CLUE, Speakers

Join us to learn about conditions for car wash workers in the Santa Monica and Venice areas, their efforts to organize for fair wages and working conditions, and what we can do to help.