UU Theologian, Rebecca Parker says “Revelation comes to those who are radically hospitable to what they don’t know.” The question is – what bit of the unknown are you willing to welcome, fully welcome into your life? Every day – every moment, holds the potential for a new revelation.
We are told daily that we are living in a deeply polarized world. It is often challenging to know what to say to those who see life from a perspective different from our own. Yet to build walls that separate us from whomever we see as The Other brings us no closer to creating the world we say we long for – one where everyone has a place at the table. This sermon explores what it means to cultivate the courage to reach out and risk saying the wrong thing with the desire of building a bridge to understanding.
When we were children growing pains manifested as physical aches in our arms and legs. As we mature, the pain we feel as we grow is more ambiguous. This sermon examines the roots of our discomfort and considers how we might learn to welcome the ambiguity of our discomfort.
What is love? We often think of it as something quite abstract. We feel love. We see the results of love (or the lack there of) but have you ever considered that through our everyday interactions with each other we actually created the conditions for love to become flesh through those very interactions?
Every June thousands of UUs from around the world gather for our UUA General Assembly. What does this gathering mean for local UU communities and for each one of us individually?
Communication is such an important aspect of any life. We all want to be heard and understood by others. Yet it is so easy to take what we hear others say and misunderstand their words. This sermon explores what gets lost in translation and what we can do to remedy the situation.
Something happened in the 1960s that opened the world up to change – the likes of which seemed unprecedented. But the desire to live in harmony goes much farther than what took place at Woodstock.
Many traditions hold the recognition of beauty as essential to the understanding of the spiritual life. The Sufis see the One and Only Being as the perfection of Love, Harmony and Beauty. Too often we see beauty as something separate from ourselves. This sermon considers the beauty that we are – the beauty that exits within our broken, scarred, perfectly imperfect bodies. For when we truly see the beautiful within ourselves and hold it with tender reverence, how can we not see it and celebrate it in all beings?
This sermon lays the foundations for a space to explore and re-form the brokenness of racism into new patterns of thought and behavior through The Beloved Conversations curriculum. Come and be challenged - come and be inspired.
Read More →As a group, UUs are deeply engaged in social justice efforts AND at the same time we are often puzzled by the lack of diversity in many of our congregations. This sermon explores how classism impacts the ways in which we grow our communities.
Read More →This multi-generational service brings Joy front and center in this workshop experience – (complete with BUBBLES!)
Read More →Here we are at the start of another new year. We never know what the future will hold but after a year like we just had, how do we let go and put trust into the unknown?
Read More →What is a covenant? When lived, it becomes our way of being together through the acts of Promise Making, Promise Keeping, Promise Breaking and Promise Renewing. Let’s explore the promises we make to one another.
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