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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.**
Some UU congregations use a UU Affirmation for Children We are Unitarian Universalists, a people of open minds, loving hearts, and helping hands. This is a perfect example of being holistic, or as educators say, cognitive, with affect, with behavior; head, heart, and hands for a whole person.
The Rev. Grant, returning to Santa Monica for a two-Sunday visit, writes The key word is "we." We are engaged in ministry under the leadership and support of the professional minister. Being a minister with a congregation is similar to being with a partner in a dance -- no solos. In this sermon, I hope to do a little dance instruction with a congregation I love.
Church members Rima Snyder, Joanna Woods-Marsden, Steve White, and Larry Howard present poems addressing the topic of change and transformation.
Movie sermons are back! S.J. Guidotti picks up the fallen mantle and brings an August movie sermon back to UUCCSM. The movie is "Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb." Popcorn will be served afterward. (NOTE: The subject of this sermon will be the 1964 movie, "Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb." For anyone who has not seen it or would like to see it again, it will be screened in the sanctuary on Tuesday, August 3, and Thursday, August 5. Both screenings will begin at 8 p.m. Admission is free.)
In the 1820s, reform-minded Hindus in the eastern province of Bengal looked to the West and found in the Unitarian Church a model of congregational worship and discourse that was unknown in Hindu worship at the time. The result was the emergence of not only the youngest of India's recognized religions, Brahmo Dharma, but also a sociopolitical climate that nurtured nationalism and the demand for independence from British rule. Our speaker was born and raised a Hindu in post-colonial Bengal. She now produces documentary films about little-known events that have shaped the lives of Americans. Her films include the 2007 documentary, "Sisters of Selma." http//home.earthlink.net/~jayasrihart/.
Non-believers have long struggled with the inadequate labels applied to us. Church member Ian Dodd offers an alternative that better reflects the richness and depth of his worldview.
How do we make sense about the debates concerning undocumented immigration? Is it possible to approach undocumented immigration in a humane manner and consistent with our UU values?
Church member and oncology chaplain Michael Eselun explores the various dimensions and implications of a coping strategy we all use: the notion that it could be worse. What does it say about how we view our own suffering and the suffering of others?
The grounds of our national experiment in democratic selfgovernment are shifting beneath our feet. What will we mean by democracy in the 21st Century? We welcome back the Rev. James Conn, who is Director of New Ministries with the California-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Rev. Furrer leaves us with some closing remarks about his time here in Santa Monica.
