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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.**
This movie explores the depths of mystical experience in a most unusual setting a spelling bee. In the midst of such outwardly mundane activity, the opportunity for connection with the divine seems hardly likely. But a young girl has much to teach her father about the meaning of religious experience.
Phillip Roth's new novel, which takes its title from the medieval morality play, pushes me to ask a few questions that usually go unasked in the public arena. If we are so comfortable, why do we feel so anxious? If we are so strong, why do we feel so afraid? If we are so wealthy, why do we feel so poor? Is there a name for this dis-ease? Jim serves as the Director of New Ministries for the California-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, where he previously served as Urban Strategist. For 22 years he was our neighbor as minister of the untraditional Church in Ocean Park and, for a term, Mayor of the City of Santa Monica.
The Tish Tones, led by Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels of Temple Beth Shir Sholom, will offer a service of music and story from the Jewish tradition for all ages.
We'll look at the implications for our faith informed by the insights in Breaking the Spell, Daniel C. Dennett's important book about religion. This Sunday is also the 25th anniversary of our church bell, a gift from Ray and Betty Goodman.
Join us in celebrating UUCCSM's educational ministry to children and youth, with participation from each RE class and including a very special RE volunteer recognition.
Church Talent Sunday. What are the basics about belonging to a church? What are the expectations and the ethics? Come find out this Sunday, when we'll also enjoy our own church talent as our music program and honor our departing high school seniors with a Bridging Ceremony.
Memorial Day is annually set aside for remembering, in the parochial and nationalistic sense, Americans killed in warfare. But this is not emough. To the broader and humane sinsibility, Memorial Day is a time for grieving, no, for raging against the ongoing violence of people against people, nation against nation, race against race, class against class, religion and ethnicity against brothers and sisters. I will talk with you about the violence we do as individuals and as groups, its causes and its controls.
Join us in celebrating the Coming of Age of Rachael Dodd, Zachary Geoffray, Tycho Horan, Kevin Kory, Lily Ng, Arbor Pruett, Adam Reyes, Marcus Rodgers, Colin Rush, Jessica Siegfried, and Haley Weaver as they share their religious credos in a worship service of their own design. The Annual Meeting of the congregation follows the late service at 12:30 p.m.
Adopting a child is a well-considered, intentional act of commitment. Members of our congregation will share their experience as part of this special service on Mother?s Day. Their stories are moving, their observations insightful and challenging, their families an integral part of our church community.
To live in this world, wrote poet Mary Oliver, you must be able to do three things. Her words – which are in our hymnbook and used often in Unitarian Universalist worship – show us the patterns of life and how to live them fully.
