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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 the Coming of Age of Nicky DePaul, Hannah Groezinger, John-Michael Lisovsky, Kara Maas-Ruane, Conner Nannini, Tommy Nunan, Jordan Paddock, Alex Rosenthal, Natalie Storey, Alyssa Wood, and Casey Zierler as they share their religious credos in a worship service of their own design.
It will take more than a leap of faith to move our church into the future. It will take a realistic look at where we are right now and thoughtful planning about where we really want to go.
Music Julie Millett, vocalist
Unitarian Universalist civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo, mother of five, died in 1965 on the road from Selma to Montgomery, AL. She was brutally murdered by four members of the Ku Klux Klan. On this Mother's Day we will learn about her life, her faith, and her legacy. Music Ron Djuibla, saxophone
So how do you live a contemplative life in today's urban world? It helps to live near the beach. But anywhere you go there will be distractions. Music Nevenka (Eastern European Folk Ensemble)
Michael, a member of our congregation, is a hospital and hospice chaplain, primarily at UCLA Medical Center. He will share some of what he has witnessed in serving those who are fighting cancer, and what he has learned. More importantly, he will invite us to reflect upon some of those themes as they may speak to those of us living in less dramatic, but nevertheless difficult circumstances.
What we first take to be a disappointment ? sometimes a devastating disappointment ? can open up possibilities we had never anticipated. It takes patience and imagination, however, to benefit.
Chalice Lighting When I am an Old Woman, by Jackie Schwartz
In our annual Youth Sunday, the YRUU high school group presents a service that explores our third UU Principle, and how we can go beyond acceptance to understanding.
This Sunday we celebrate the 75th anniversary of our sanctuary building and kick off our Capital Campaign to build a facility that will last us another 75 years. It truly is a “once in a lifetime” moment in the life of our church. Don’t miss it.
Chalice Lighting: "If These Walls Could Talk" by Rob Briner
We readily associate the Easter season with renewal, human and natural. This year, after a difficult winter in which human and natural catastrophes caused many deaths, the yearning for life is even stronger than usual.
Palm Sunday marks the day Jesus made his momentous arrival in Jerusalem. His arrival in America as a multicultural icon has also been momentous in its own way. According to scholar Stephen Prothero, he has become the man nobody hates and everyone knows, whatever their religious faith.
