The Unitarian Church in Summit

Sermons by Title

The following titles are available:

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9/14/2003: "The Ties that Bind": Covenant Group Kick-Off (VRS)

12/26/2004: 'Twas the Day After Christmas ... (CPT)

3/23/2003: 63-38-13: Confessions of an Unrepentant Liberal (CSH)

1/9/2005: A. Powell Davies: A Great Mind in Search of God (CPT)

3/22/1998: An Agnostic's Prayer (DEB)

9/15/1996: Are We There Yet? (BAB)

7/14/2002: Armageddon Outa Here (DEBerger)

12/3/2000: Aspects of Liberal Religion (OAP)

9/19/1999: At-one-ment (GKB)

11/7/1999: At Home in the Universe (AW)

5/18/2003: Atheists and Agnostics (VRS)

10/18/1998: Basic Generic October Sermon (DEB)

11/4/2001: The Basics of Islam (VRS)

11/21/1999: Begin with Thanksgiving (GKB)

10/13/1996: Behold the Child (BAB)

9/24/2000: Being a Unitarian Universalist (OAP)

7/30/2000: Beyond Hope (AW)

10/1/1995: Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover. (DEB)

3/26/2000: Buddha's Mindfulness, Jesus' New-Mindedness (GKB)

4/13/1997: Building for the Future (DEB, BAB)

1/5/2003: Bumps in the Road (JM)

9/15/2002: Can We Forgive? Can We Ever Forgive? (VRS)

3/2/2003: Can We Pray Here? (VRS)

1/18/1998: A Candle is a Careless Thing (DEB)

5/16/1999: Carpathian Orchids and Dandelions (JAWR)

10/29/1995: The Cauldron (BAB)

7/18/1999: Celebrating Our Vertical Pluralism (AW)

4/13/2003: The Challenges of Interfaith Marriages (VRS)

1/3/1999: The Changing Face of Beauty (KJH)

10/9/1994: A Chapter from God's Memoirs (DEB)

12/15/1996: A Child's Christmas... in Maryland (BAB)

12/24/1995: Christmas in a Narrow Place (DEB)

10/13/2002: Coffee in the Desert and Other Lessons on Hospitality (VRS)

11/3/1996: Coming of Age in Summit (DEB)

3/7/1999: Commitment Sunday (group)

5/21/1995: The Community of Renewal; Renewal of the Community. (DEB)

6/29/2003: The Compassionate Mind (AW)

2/16/1997: Concepts of God (BAB, DEB)

11/4/2006: Courage Now (CEB)

6/25/2000: The Covenant of Spiritual Freedom (GKB)

12/4/1994: Credo: God, Humanity and the Universe (DEB)

11/13/1994: Crime, Punishment, and Redemption (DEB)

1/7/1996: The Currency of Time (BAB)

10/5/1997: The Directive in Unitarian Universalist History: Transylvanian Heresy (DEB, BAB)

12/1/2002: Discovering the Constant Core of Our Unknown Religion (KAN)

11/24/2002: Divine Naivete: The Gifts of Children (VRS)

1/26/1997: Dream Curled in the Seed (DEB)

11/14/1999: A Dwelling in the Evening Air (GKB)

3/27/2005: Easter 2005: The Hard Work of Second Chances (VRS)

4/4/1999: Easter Flower Communion (CSH)

3/31/2002: Easter Sunday: A Chance to Be Reborn (VRS)

4/15/2001: Easter Without Christ? (OAP)

4/11/2004: Easter and "The Passion" (VRS)

1/15/1995: The Ecology of Evil (DEB)

3/12/2000: Economic Justice: The Fear of Limits is the Beginning of Wisdom (GKB)

5/15/1994: The Education of God: Moses (DEB)

11/10/1996: Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo (CSH)

8/4/2002: Embracing Power (AW)

11/9/2003: Emerson: Mind on Fire (VRS)

4/30/1995: Encountering the Sacred. (DEB)

4/9/2000: An End to Love and Mourning (CSH)

1/26/2003: Entertaining Angels Unawares (PR)

4/18/1999: Faith beyond Freedom (AW)

10/4/1998: Faith Is a Verb (CSH)

9/18/1994: Faith of a Lunatic. (DEB)

11/1/1998: Familiar Strangers (DEB)

1/9/2000: Father and Son (GKB)

8/19/2001: The Fear of Happiness (AW)

1/12/1997: Feeding the Hungry Soul (DEB)

2/8/2004: Fertile Dreams (VRS)

2/10/2002: Fighting Well (VRS)

4/20/2003: Finding Hope When All Seems Lost (VRS)

5/29/1994: A Fitting Memorial (DEB)

1/10/1999: Following Each Goodbye, A Real Hello (CSH)

4/5/1998: The Forgotten Children of Affluent America (DEB)

1/19/1997: The Future of Non-Violence (BAB)

2/24/2002: The G-Word: Does Anyone Know What It Means? (VRS)

11/3/2002: Gathering Wise Elders (CSH)

3/26/1995: The Ghost in the Cave of the Patriarchs (DEB)

4/16/2000: God and God-Talk (GKB)

1/30/2000: God, Gods, Goddesses: Embracing Our Theological Diversity (CSH, MS)

5/13/2001: The Good Enough Mother. (VRS)

11/22/1998: Goodbyes (a story, a poem). (DEB)

2/2/2003: Grace Reconfigured (VRS)

5/12/2002: Gratitude (CSH)

10/22/1995: The Great Divide in Religion. (DEB)

8/17/2003: Growing Up an Enemy Alien (SO)

6/20/1999: Hanging on by Our Toes. (AS)

6/1/2003: The Hard Work of Welcoming (VRS)

8/6/2000: High-Tech Happiness (AW)

2/12/1995: The History They Didn't Teach Me (DEB)

3/23/1997: Home and Economics (BAB)

4/8/2007: Hope Where You Least Expect to Find It (VRS)

10/8/2006: Hope in the Unseen (VRS)

4/30/2006: How Is What We Eat a Moral or Religious Act? (VRS)

12/10/2000: How the Dogma Got into the Manger (OAP)

2/11/2001 How Do We Know? (OAP)

10/24/2004: How to Raise a UU (CPT)

11/11/2001: The Humanist Manifesto (VRS)

2/12/2006: I Do, I Do (VRS)

12/10/1995: I'm Tired of Waiting for the Angels (DEB)

2/21/1999: If "God" Were an Adjective (AW)

9/16/2007: Il Bel Far Niente (VRS)

10/11/1998: Imitations of Morality (DEB)

5/23/1999: Inside, Going Outside (AW)

9/27/1998: Intimations of Mortality (BAB)

9/20/1998: Inviting the Spirit (BAB, DEB)

7/28/2002: Is God Holistic? (AW)

2/22/2004: Is There More to Universalism than Universal Salvation? (VRS)

2/15/1998: It Matters What We Myth (BAB)

9/12/1999: Jacob's Pillow and Jacob's Ladder (GKB)

2/9/1997: The Lactating of the Ewes (BAB, DEB)

4/11/1999: Lazarus and the Moon (WFW)

2/28/1999: Leadership and Anxiety (JHW)

11/8/1998: Lessons from the East (DEB)

2/3/2002: Life as Art: Embracing Your Creativity (KM)

7/25/1999: Life Is an Offering (AW)

4/27/2002: Like Tissue on Some Vast Incredible Gift (VRS)

1/11/1998: A Little Bit of 90 Years (BAB)

5/19/2002: Living with Soul (JAB)

5/16/1993: A Long-Term Historical Perspective on Religion and as Religion (KAN)

12/20/1998: The Magic Tree (a story) (DEB)

12/16/2001: Making It Through the Darkness (VRS)

1/14/2007: A Map to the Soul, Part I: The Reverent Iconoclast (HK)

3/4/2007: A Map to the Soul, Part II: The Peacock’s Tale (HK)

11/12/2000: Me? Homophobic?! (OAP)

4/30/2000: The Meaning of Membership in a Unitarian Universalist Congregation (GKB)

12/8/1996: A Meditation for the Season (DEB)

6/16/1996: Midsummer's Eve (CSH)

12/6/1998: The Midnight of the Year (DEB)

9/22/2002: Mindfulness and Genuine Relationships (MShah)

2/7/1999: Ministry Belongs to the People (CSH)

4/8/2001: The Ministry of A. Powell Davies (OAP)

1/15/2006: My Strange Canon: Literature as a Sacred Source (DRC)

12/3/1995: The Myth of the Virgin Birth (BAB)

10/21/2001: The Morality of Peace and War (VRS>

10/30/1994: The Nature of Human Nature (DEB)

11/2/1997: The New Universalism (BAB, DEB)

4/19/1998: The Next Step (BAB)

5/17/1998: 90th Anniversary Presentation (MAD)

7/6/2003: On Liberty and Certainty (TSH)

6/25/2006: Paradise Here (HK)

6/6/2004: Paradox: Journeys with a Skeptic (CSH)

10/1/2000: The Path with Heart (AW)

5/21/2000: Notes Toward a Spiritual Autobiography: Growing Up Unitarian Universalist (GKB)

12/2/2001: The Obligation to Speak Up (VRS)

7/15/2001: On the Religious Character of Dying (WDT)

9/21/1997: One God Is Not Enough (DEB)

10/3/1996: An Open Letter to Young Americans (DEB)

2/22/1998: ...Or They'll Never Learn to Swim (JB)

12/7/1997: Orphans and Changelings (BAB)

10/19/1997: Our Transcendentalist Legacy (DEB, BAB)

6/4/2000: Our Truest Myth, or, The Story That Tells Us Who We Are (GKB)

10/20/2002: Overpopulation and Social Justice (VRS)

9/22/1996: Overtones and Undertones (DEB)

3/17/2002: Pagans Among Us (VRS)

4/27/1997: Paradigms Lost (DEB)

3/8/1998: Partners, Mentors and Midwives (CSH)

4/6/2005: Peaks and Valleys (BJD)

4/10/2005: Picking Up the Pieces: Helping to Heal the Pain of Child Sexual Abuse (VRS)

9/8/1996: The Places We Have Been, The People We Have Known, The Times We Have Shared (DEB)

3/5/1995: The Poor You Have with You Always. (DEB)

1/19/2003: The Power of Symbolic Acts: Gandhi's Salt March (VRS)

4/9/1995: The Promises We Make, The Promises We Keep (DEB)

9/30/2007: Pyramids and Flying Saucers in the Land of the Free (HK)

11/17/1996: Quirks and Contentions (BAB)

11/5/1995: The Race Card (DEB)

2/19/1995: Random Thoughts -- Love (DEB)

8/7/2005: Re-Forming God (HK)

4/25/1999: Real Boys (RPM)

1/12/2003: Reclaiming Sabbath (VRS)

8/16/1998: Reflections of Summer (CSH)

9/14/1997: Reinventing the Church (DEB, BAB)

2/26/1995: Religion for the New Millennium (DEB)

11/30/1997: Religious Conflicts We Should Not Avoid (KAN)

12/17/2000: Responsive Readings and Storytelling (group)

2/27/2000: Rethinking the Ethics of Abortion (GKB)

5/14/2000: Retreat, Refreshment and Renewal (GKB)

3/9/1997: A Revolution of Values (DEB)

8/9/1998: Rising above the "Bottom Line" (AW)

2/8/1998: The Road to 2073 (DEB)

4/23/1995: Roots. Go. Deep. (DEB)

10/29/2000: Sabbath For Us All (CSH)

4/29/2001: Sabbatical Blossoms (CSH)

1/8/2006: Sacred Sources: Science (HK)

5/19/2002: Sacred Spaces (DEB, BAB)

9/25/1994: The Sanctity of Life (DEB)

11/12/1995: Salvation and Atonement (CSH)

12/14/1997: A Season of Memory (DEB)

10/10/1999: Seasoning Faith (CSH)

9/11/2002: Service on the Green (VRS)

10/25/1998: The Servants of Life (DEB)

1/6/2002: Service Is Our Prayer (CSH)

9/29/2002: Shared Theological Roots and a Shared Commitment to Religious Freedom (VRS)

1/14/1996: Solutions and Resolutions (BAB)

4/28/1996: Something Evil This Way Comes (DEB)

1/3/1999: Sometimes ... You Get What You Need (CBO)

10/26/1997: Somewhere West of Dedham (BAB, DEB)

7/1/2001: Soul Food: Food for the Soul and Care for the Planet (AW)

12/5/1999: Spirituality for a Harried Season (GKB)

7/9/2000: A Standing Place (AW)

9/28/1997: The Story We Share (DEB, BAB)

9/16/2001: Struggling to Make Sense of It All (VRS)

7/2/2000: Suffering and Salvation in the Interdependent Web (AW)

6/27/1999: Summer Gifts (AS)

6/22/2003: Summertime and the Livin' Is … (BHW)

10/12/2003: Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights (WFS)

1/23/2000: Taking a Chance on Love: An Interfaith Journey (JCL)

8/10/2003: Talk That Enlivens (PR)

9/26/1999: The Tasks of Interim Ministry (GKB)

10/3/1999: Ten Ways to Tell Others about Unitarian Universalism (GKB)

1/20/2002: Tending to Beloved Community: The Charge to Foster Loving Relationships (VRS)

11/19/1995: A Thanksgiving Story (DEB)

5/7/1995: Theology and the Contract with America. (DEB)

4/6/1997: There's No Fool like... (DEB, BAB)

1/31/1999: There Is Only One of You, What Are You About? (CJS)

11/25/2001: Thoughts from the Road (JM)

10/8/2000: Thoughts on Aging (OAP)

4/23/2000: Time into Eternity: A sermon for Easter Sunday (GKB)

5/25/1997: A Time to Remember (BAB, DEB)

3/1/1998: To Burn a Man (DEB)

1/4/2004: To Hear an Oriole Sing (HK)

5/31/1998: Toward a Faith for a New Age (DEB)

4/2/2000: The Transylvanian Unitarian Church: Past, Present and Future (AK)

6/24/2007: Typographical Erros (HK)

1/24/1999: Uncovering Reality (AW)

11/15/1998: Under One Roof (DEB)

5/9/2004: Unitarian Universalism and Mysticism (RCN)

4/20/2007: Unitarian Universalists and Pain (VRS)

10/24/1999: United Nations Sunday: Creating a Culture of Peace and Non-violence (GKB)

5/27/2001: A Veteran's View of War: Past and Present (OAP)

4/26/1998: The Vines across the Road (DEB)

11/9/1997: Walking on Fire (CSH)

4/14/2002: We Make It Happen (Pledge Sunday) (VRS)

11/16/1997: We Do Not Stand; We Move. (BAB, DEB)

2/6/2000: We'll Miss You, Charlie Brown (Sigh!) (GKB)

5/26/1996: The Webs of Life (WFG)

12/15/2002: What Do We Say After We Say We're UU? (VRS)

4/25/2004: What Do We Tell Our Boys About What It Means to Be a Man? (VRS, CK, DC)

4/18/2004: What Do We Tell Our Girls About What It Means to Be a Woman? (VRS, HK)

2/4/2001 What Does It Mean to Be Human? (OAP)

3/11/2001 What Does My Death Mean? (OAP)

9/17/2006: What Equips Us for Bold Living? (VRS)

11/13/2005: What Happens After Death? (VRS)

11/21/2004: What Makes Us Happy? (VRS)

3/12/2006: What's Generosity Got to Do With It? (VRS)

2/18/2001 What's My Life For? (OAP)

10/31/1999: What We’re Saying: Notes from the Neighborhood Meetings (GKB)

10/11/2004: What's in a Name? (VRS)

10/9/2005: When Bad Things Happen by Good People (BJD)

1/21/1996: When Courage Fails and Faith Burns Low (DEB)

5/11/2003: When Women Were Priests and Gods (VRS)

3/29/1998: Whence My Ministry? (BAB)

6/24/2001: Where Do We Go From Here? (DSS)

2/17/2002: Where Our Feet Take Us (JCL)

11/5/2000 Whither the American Dream? (OAP)

4/1/2001 Who's in Charge? (OAP)

5/3/1998: On a Wing and a Prayer (CBO)

3/14/2004: Why Bad Things Happen to Good People (VRS)

3/5/2000: Winnie the Pooh's Cottleston Pie Principle (GKB)

3/30/1997: Winter Rains Have Turned the Star Wheel (DEB, BAB)

5/3/1998: Woman Wisdom (BAB)

3/12/1995: Women I Admire Most. (DEB)

5/14/1995: Women's Work. (DEB)

10/8/1995: The World of the Middle-Aged Female (BAB)

4/25/1993: The World of a Middle-Aged Male (DEB)

5/14/2006: World on Fire (HK)

2/13/2000: Worthy Individuals and Individual Worth (WCC)

11/23/1994: Would God Live in New Jersey? (DEB)

10/16/1994: Would I Do It Again? (DEB)

12/11/1994: Yeah, But What About Xmas? (DEB)

10/5/2003: Yom Kippur: Does a Nation Ever Need to Ask for Forgiveness? (VRS)

5/19/1996: Your Basic, Generic May Sermon (DEB)

3/9/2003: Youth Group Sermons