The Unitarian Church in Summit

The following sermons by Rev. David E. Bumbaugh, Jr., are available:

5/12/2002: Sacred Spaces (with BAB)

12/20/98: The Magic Tree (a story)

12/6/98: The Midnight of the Year

11/22/98: Goodbyes (a story, a poem)

11/15/98: Under One Roof

11/8/98: Lessons from the East

11/1/98: Familiar Strangers

10/25/98: The Servants of Life

10/18/98: Basic Generic October Sermon

10/11/98: Imitations of Morality

9/20/98: Inviting the Spirit (with BAB)

5/31/98: Toward a Faith for a New Age

4/26/98: The Vines across the Road

4/5/98: The Forgotten Children of Affluent America

3/22/98: An Agnostic's Prayer

3/1/98: To Burn a Man

2/8/98: The Road to 2073

1/18/98: A Candle is a Careless Thing

12/14/97: A Season of Memory

11/16/97: We Do Not Stand; We Move.

11/2/97: The New Universalism

10/26/97: Somewhere West of Dedham

10/19/97: Our Transcendentalist Legacy

10/5/97: The Directive in Unitarian Universalist History: Transylvanian Heresy

9/28/97: The Story We Share

9/21/97: One God Is Not Enough

9/14/97: Reinventing the Church

5/25/97: A Time to Remember

4/27/97: Paradigms Lost

4/13/97: Building for the Future

4/6/97: There's No Fool like...

3/30/97: Winter Rains Have Turned the Star Wheel

3/9/97: A Revolution of Values

2/16/97: Concepts of God

2/9/97: The Lactating of the Ewes

1/26/97: A Dream Curled in the Seed

1/12/97: Feeding the Hungry Soul

12/8/96: A Meditation for the Season

11/3/96: Coming of Age in Summit

10/6/96: An Open Letter to Young Americans

9/22/96: Overtones and Undertones

9/8/96: The Places We Have Been, The People We Have Known, The Times We Have Shared

5/19/96: Your Basic, Generic May Sermon

4/28/96: Something Evil This Way Comes

4/14/96: Worship among the Unitarian Universalists

3/24/96: The Dreamers and the Dream

2/25/96: Where's the "R" in Religious Education?

2/11/96: On Healing and Being Cured

1/21/96: When Courage Fails and Faith Burns Low

12/24/95: Christmas in a Narrow Place

12/10/95: I'm Tired of Waiting for the Angels

11/19/95: A Thanksgiving Story

11/5/95: The Race Card

10/22/95: The Great Divide in Religion

10/1/95: Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover

5/21/95: The Community of Renewal; Renewal of the Community

5/14/95: Women's Work

5/7/95: Theology and the Contract with America

4/30/95: Encountering the Sacred

4/23/95: Roots. Go. Deep.

4/9/95: The Promises We Make, The Promises We Keep

3/26/95: The Ghost in the Cave of the Patriarchs

3/12/95: Women I Admire Most

3/5/95: The Poor You Have with You Always

2/26/95: Religion for the New Millennium

2/19/95: Random Thoughts -- Love

2/12/95: The History They Didn't Teach Me

1/15/95: The Ecology of Evil

12/27/94: Beginnings/Endings 1994

12/11/94: Yeah, But What About Xmas?

12/4/94: Credo: God, Humanity and the Universe

11/23/94: Would God Live in New Jersey?

11/13/94: Crime, Punishment, and Redemption

10/30/94: The Nature of Human Nature

10/16/94: Would I Do It Again?

10/9/94: A Chapter from God's Memoirs

9/25/94: The Sanctity of Life

9/18/94: Faith of a Lunatic

5/29.94: A Fitting Memorial

5/15/94: The Education of God: Moses

4/17/94: Taxes, Morality and The National Debt

4/4/94: On Falling From Grace

4/3/94: Anthem of Resurrections

3/20/94: Stumbling Across The Spirit

3/13/94: A Religion of Values

2/27/94: The Signs of Spring

2/20/94: Religion That is Good...For Nothing

1/30/94: Giving the Devil His Due

1/30/94: A State of Grace

1/23/94: Reconciled to Death

1/16/94: Prisoner of Hope

1/9/94: Journey to Transylvania

12/24/93: Christmas Eve Service 1993

12/19/93: A Time of Magic

12/12/93: Scrooge Was Right

12/5/93: Living in a Post-Moral World

11/21/93: The Native Americans

11/7/93: The Mission of a Congregation

10/31/93: In The Name of Religion

10/24/93: What in The World Is Going On?

10/17/93: And You Call That A Religion

10/10/93: In The Third Act, Everyone Either Dies or Goes Away

10/3/93: Running Out of Everything But People

9/26/93: Universalism for Such a Time as This

9/19/93: Bethlehem, Nazareth, Emmanus....

4/25/93: The World of a Middle-Aged Male

4/18/93: In Memoriam: Jacob Trapp

2/28/93: Is This a Joke?

1/10/93: But Before I Go...

1/3/93: Your Basic, Generic January Sermon

12/27/92: Celebration of Beginnings and Endings

12/24/92: Christmas Eve Service 1992

12/20/92: Pre-Christmas Service 1992

12/20/92: The Season of Lights

12/6/92: The Supreme Worth of Every Human Personality

12/6/92: The Servants of Life

11/29/92: The Congregation We Can Become

11/22/92: Thanksgiving Service

11/8/92: On Being a Born-Again Unitarian Universalist

11/1/92: An Election Sunday Sermon

10/25/92: In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-Two

10/18/92: Sunday Afternoon Thoughts on Listening to a Brass Quintet

10/4/92: The Wolf by the Ears

9/27/92: I've Decided to Be a Grandfather

9/20/92: Family Values and the Religious Vision

9/13/92: Charge to the Board

5/31/92: Visions and Portents

4/19/92: Religion of the Earth

9/29/91: The Final Gift

9/15/91: Minor Theophanies

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