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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.**
When the heart is broken, writes professor Kimberley C. Patton of Harvard Divinity School, the soul is released from its prior constellations. . . . The soul rushes toward rebirth. This is not a comfortable process. But it is a normal one. Chalice Lighting Remarks by Melanie Sharp
This year Earth Day is a timely reminder of recent dire warnings about global warming. How are we going to reverse this trend -- if there is still time?
Easter quickly follows Passover this year, provoking the image of people finding new life in exile. We revisit these ancient biblical themes and update them with stories from Elizabeth Gilbert?s travel memoir, Eat, Pray, Love. 9 a.m. Chalice Lighting Remarks by Barbara Kernochan 11 a.m. Chalice Lighting Remarks by Sharon Voigt Damerell
Our guest is UU finance expert Peter Henrickson, who will speak to us about a congregation's relationship to money. He writes, I will be addressing why it is that some people seem to be more generous in charitable giving, and why it might come to look that way. Peter Henrickson has served in a variety of UU financial leadership positions and is a recently retired finance professional living in Vancouver, WA. Chalice Lighting Remarks by Jacki Weber
Members of our high school group, Young Religious Unitarian Universalists, provide their annual service this Sunday
When Martin Luther King described the task of the civil rights movement as the challenge to hew a stone of hope out of a mountain of despair, his rhetorical genius spoke not only to the magnitude of the undertaking but also to the spiritual dimension in which hope would appear in the midst of (indeed, be made out of the same stuff as) despair. The most effective movements for social justice require not only organizational skills and techniques, but a solid grounding in a religious understanding of the source of power for change. There?s more to social action than clipboards, banners and mailing lists.
As we note the third anniversary of the war in Iraq, we turn to consider what it takes to make a difference in our world and what we must do to nurture ourselves spiritually as we do it. 9 a.m. Chalice Lighting Remarks by Stanley Johnston
We celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the congregation calling the Rev. Ernie Pipes to be their minister. Ernie will deliver the sermon. The choir will sing at both services. Each service will be followed by a brunch in Forbes Hall to honor Ernie and Maggie. Everyone is invited. 9 a.m. Chalice Lighting "Ernie, Here," by Lu Ann Darling
The Universalists asked themselves, if God is love, then who are we? Their answers remain relevant today.
Joan Didion’s recent book, The Year of Magical Thinking, has brought fresh insight to the experience of grieving. Yet her story is just like all our stories. Grief is a common human bond.
9 a.m. Chalice Lighting: Remarks by Karen Canady
11 a.m. Chalice Lighting: Remarks by Dayla McDonald
