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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.**
Patricia Hampl says, "Silence is the first prayer I learned to trust." In an article in the Los Angeles Times several years ago, Vince Rause wrote, "Religious feelings ... are born in a moment of mystical union." This sermon will be about spirituality, more particularly about meditation, which some people call prayer.
Thanksgiving Sunday The holiday we celebrate today is quite different from feast days British settlers happened to share with members of the Wampanoag Nation in 1621. What, if anything, is left over from that first Thanksgiving?
Veterans Day Sunday
How else can we honor the sacrifice veterans make than to mourn their loss of life and potential?
Commitment Sunday
Just imagine what we can do as a congregation in the coming years. We'll take a look at that vision and how each and every one of us can help bring it to life.
Our annual observance of Day of the Dead will include the traditional altar for remembrances of those who have died in the past year. If you have something for the altar, please come a few minutes before the service begins so that your contribution can be included.
George Regas, pastor emeritus of All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena, is one of the leading voices in the faith-based movement for peace and justice in Southern California. He is the founder of Regas Institute, which is dedicated to the study of progressive religious causes, and Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP), which facilitates interfaith dialogue on important moral issues of the time. A sermon he delivered at All Saints the Sunday before the 2004 election led to an audit by the IRS and public debate about the role of the pulpit and politics.
Ever since a new member told us that she discovered Unitarian Universalism from the jokes on A Prairie Home Companion, I have been asking myself what it means that others - and we ourselves - laugh at our idiosyncrasies. Are we not being taken seriously enough?
We welcome back the Rev. Keith Kron, Director of the Office for Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Concerns for the Unitarian Universalist Association. He asks, What does it mean to be a UU in these times? What are we called to do and how does our faith serve us as well as those around us? We will explore these questions about how each of us can be a voice of the spirit.
Of the different kinds of forgiveness that life requires of us, the most difficult of all is to forgive ourselves. Yom Kippur begins this day at sundown. Chalice Lighting Remarks by Karen Brodie
Love is the doctrine of this church. The quest of truth is its sacrament, And service is its prayer.
We will spend our September Sundays together exploring these affirmations in our covenant, asking ourselves what they mean to us and how we can live by them in today’s world.
