Sermon Archive 2010 and Before

Sermons from 2010-2011 Program Year

May 24, 2011 “Beauty and Meaning”
January 9, 2011 “Spiritual Growth in Connection”
September 26, 2010 “The Communion of the Ordinary”
September 12, 2010 “An Invitation”

Sermons from 2009-2010 Program Year

October 25, 2009 “Wonderment”
October 18, 2009 “Theodore Parker Speaks to His Time and Ours,” edited, adapted, rewritten and arranged from the writings of Theodore Parker, by Rev. Richard M. Fewkes
October 11, 2009 “The Conundrum of Cultural Borrowing”
September 13, 2009 “A Hundred Searching Hearts”

Sermons from 2008-2009 Program Year

April 5, 2009 “With Brains in Your Head and Feet in Your Shoes”
March 15, 2009 “A Fierce Desire”
March 8, 2009 “On Being in a Body”
February 15, 2009 “Two Essays on Darwin” by Robin Colgrove
January 18, 2009 “The Prophet and the Prophesied”
January 4, 2009 “Finding True North”
November 9, 2008 “Singing to the Demons”
October 5, 2008 “When Forgiveness Is Impossible”
September 21, 2008 “This I Believe” by Robin Colgrove
September 14, 2008 “Being There: Offering a Ministry of Presence”
September 7, 2008 “A Spirit of Adventure”

Sermons from 2007-2008 Program Year

April 6, 2008 “The Language of Abundance”
March 9, 2008 “The Sources of Our Faith, Part III: Prophets and Reformers”
March 2, 2008 “Let Wonder Go Through You”
February 17, 2008 “The Sources of Our Faith, Part II: Jewish and Christian Teachings”
February 10, 2008 “Not a Dream But a Path of Love”
January 27, 2008 “The Sources of Our Faith, Part I: Direct Experience”
November 18, 2007 “‘We Solemnly Covenant and Combine Ourselves'”
October 21, 2007 “Love Is An Act of Will”
September 30, 2007 “Transcendentalist Echoes: Parker’s Prejudice”
September 16, 2007 “Four Questions to Live By”

Sermons from 2006-2007 Program Year

April 22, 2007 “The Earth Will Teach Us”
April 8, 2007 “Out of the Ashes, Love Rises Like a Phoenix”
February 18, 2007 “Thunderous Wings: Dragons of Creativity and Chaos”
February 4, 2007 “How to Be an Activist”
January 28, 2007 “The Paradox of Power”
January 14, 2007 “With Head and Heart: The Life and Spirituality of Howard Thurman” by Bruce Taylor
January 7, 2007 “Seasons, Symbols, and Ceremony: Why We Need Ritual in Our Lives”
December 3, 2006 “What Do We Do With All This Beauty?”
November 5, 2006 “In Search of Wisdom”
October 29, 2006 “A Song of Grief” by J. Johnson
October 15, 2006 “Joy and Woe Are Woven Fine” Podcast (mp3 24M, 16min.) All This Joy by TP Singers and Children’s Choir.
October 8, 2006 “Putting Our Hearts into It”
October 1, 2006 “Faith and Madness” by Robin Colgrove. Complete Order of Service.
September 24, 2006 “When There Is Peace In the Holy Land, There Will Be Peace In the World” Podcast (mp3 28M, 20 min.) 3 Prayers by TP Singers and guests. Postlude for the service.
September 17, 2006 “Religion Is Neither Good Nor Bad, but Practice Makes It So,” Sermon. Podcast (mp3 24MB, 17 min.)
September 10, 2006 “No Creed, But A Covenant”

Sermons from 2005-2006 Program Year

April 16, 2006 Podcast (mp3)”Resurrected Earth”(26MB, 18 min.). Link to music page, Canticle of Brother Sun referred to in the sermon.
April 6, 2006 Podcast (mp3) “Getting Our Hands Around Justice,” sermon by Kevin Murray. Right-click link and Save link target for best results (25MB, 18 minutes)
March 12, 2006 “Divine Persuasion: A Look at Process Theology”
January 22, 2006 “Random Kindness, Senseless Beauty, and the Quiet Waging of Peace”
January 15, 2006 “Abolition for Our Time”
January 8, 2006 “Starting Where We Are, Stretching Toward What We Might Become”
December 11, 2005 “The Gift”
November 13, 2005 “Prophetic Politics”
October 23, 2005 “Let Me Go, for the Day Is Breaking”
October 16, 2005 “Harvest” by Jennifer Justice, guest minister
October 9, 2005 “The Echo of the Last Thing Said”; Hasidic Story: “Can You Feel the Turning?” Reading: “Can You See the Turning?” (pdf)
September 25, 2005 “Labyrinth”
September 18, 2005 “Why Not Become Fire?”
September 11, 2005 “Come Drink from the Well”

Sermons from 2004-2005 Program Year

June 12, 2005 “One Wild and Precious Life”
May 29, 2005 “Divided We Fall”
April 17, 2005 “The Soul of This Church”
February 27, 2005 “Wade In the Water: Race and Class in the UUA”
February 20, 2005 “The Soul Has a Need for Beauty”
February 6, 2005 “Developing Inner Strength to Meet Life’s Challenges”
January 30, 2005 “Oceans of Sadness”
January 9, 2005 “The Power of Sound and Music” by Marcia Feldman
December 12, 2004 “Darkness and Light”
December 5, 2004 “Unreasonable People”
November 21, 2004 “Love Even This: A Sermon of Thanksgiving”
November 7, 2004 “Arming Ourselves With Knowledge: Reclaiming Scripture on Same-Sex Relationship”
October 24, 2004 “Darwin Meets Buddha: Does Compassion Make Evolutionary Sense?”
October 17, 2004 “The Fast: Making Room for the Spirit”
October 10, 2004 “Sky for Sale: the Fragile Future of the Commons”
September 26, 2004 “What Is a Spiritual Practice?”
September 19, 2004 “A Time for Turning”

Sermons from 2003-2004 Program Year

May 23, 2004 “Tribulation: Living Through the End Times”
February 8, 2004 “Native Earthling”
January 18, 2004 “Martin Luther King and the Beloved Community”
January 11, 2004 “The Light Before Dawn: Musings on the State of the World”
November 23, 2003 “A Crowd At the Table: A Thanksgiving Sermon”
October 9, 2003 “The ‘G’ Word” (second in the ‘Big, Scary Words’ sermon series)
November 2, 2003 “Leaving Without Goodbye, Goodbye Without Leaving: The Struggle of Ambiguous Loss”