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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.**
Join us in celebrating our wonderful RE children and youth, and the volunteers who serve as their teachers and advisors. There will be a very special interactive story about love and change, brought to you by each of our RE classes, as well as our annual Bridging Ceremony in recognition of this year’s crop of graduating high school seniors.
Standard Memorial Day rhetoric suggests that there is an ultimate justification for the lives lost in war. What if there isn't? Chalice Lighting Hiroshima by Natalie Kahn
Join us in celebrating the Coming of Age of Tom Chorney, Jessie Dietz, Carey Gross, Cheyton Jain, Jessica Kendall-Bar, Skye Menzies-Langabeer, Sammy Nunan, Ian Postel, Sophia Silver, and Elliot Storey as they share their religious credos in a worship service of their own design.
On Mother's Day we celebrate the love and care our mothers have for us; we know that too often we take our mothers for granted, relying on their love and all that they provide. For many reasons, the Earth is usually thought of as a mother - the mother of all living things, from whom we come, and who provides for us. Join us as Dr. Noonan reminds us of the often-invisible nature of mothers - and the Earth Mother's work and care and encourages mindfulness and respect for the Earth and all the mothers in our lives.
Dr. Noonan earned a Ph.D. in Folklore and Mythology from UCLA, has been following the path of the Goddess in earth-based spirituality for almost twenty years, and is ordained through Temple of Diana, a feminist religious organization dedicated to women and the Goddess. She teaches at UCLA and Cal State Northridge.
Reflections on what I’ve learned about social justice from my years in Santa Monica.
The recent death of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement, prompts us to look at gurus and ask why so many people are attracted to them. (Remarks by Melanie Sharp)
Passover celebrates the struggle for freedom in the history of the Jews. We'll explore what makes us free and why freedom is a core religious value. (Chalice ligting remarks by Robin Lowney Lankton)
The challenges of change are many. We are called to be imaginative and persevering, to discern what to hold onto and what to let go. This is so both in our personal lives and in the life of a faith community. The Rev. Bets Wienecke, Pacific Southwest District?s Ministerial Settlement Representative, will share one of her favorite stories about adventuring into the unknown and outline the process of searching for and finding a new settled minister. Rev. Wienecke is Minister Emerita of the Live Oa k UU Congregation of Goleta, CA and consults with UU congregations in this district in the ministerial search process. A graduate of UCSB, she holds an M.A. in counseling from Cal State Northridge and an M.Div. from Claremont Theological School. With her partner, Peter Haslund, who teaches at Santa Barbara City College, she shares four adult children and five grandchildren ranging in age from 21 to 3.
The recent spate of fake memoirs raises questions about ethics, authenticity, and the appropriation of o t h e r s? experiences. These questions are especially compelling for Unitarian Universalists, whose searc h for truth leads us to borrow wisdom anywhere we can find it. (Remarks by Cynthia Cottam)
In a post-9/11 world, immigrants have all of a sudden gone from being hard working and entrepreneurial members of society with strong family values to being security risks and the source of a wide range of economic, social, and cultural problems. Yet the Bible and other sacred texts admonish us to welcome the strangers among you, and our own UU principles call on us to recognize the inherent dignity of all human beings and the interdependent web of life. What should we as UUs, together with other people of conscience, be doing to promote more humane, coherent, and rational immigration policies? Norma Stoltz Chinchilla is professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at California State University Long Beach. Eduarda Diaz-Schwarzbach is a retired professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at California State University Long Beach and a community activist. Each is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach.
