2016 Sermons
Chronological Sermon Archive for 2016
Dec 26 | The Meaning of Christmas: Then and Now | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Dec 18 | Shadow Work: How to Be More Interesting to Yourself & Less Dangerous to Others | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
"About Those Dark Emotions You've Been Avoiding" | Julia Jones | Text | |||
Dec 11 | How Do You Define Religion? (Who Benefits? Who Decides?) | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Dec 4 | How to Be Happy for a Moment, Day, or Lifetime | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Nov 27 | "UU Spirituality" | Hannah Roberts-Villnave | Recording | ||
Nov 20 | "What’s Fair? Who Decides?" The Ethics of Privilege & Oppression | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Nov 13 | "No Permanent Waves": Rising Up Again after an Election | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Nov 6 | "Voting on the Side of Love" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
"Meditation for Election Stress" | Mary Fletcher | Text | |||
Oct 30 | Sermon, part 1: "Witches of America" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Sermon, part 2: Speaking the Mystery | Irene Glasse | Recording | Text | Video | |
Oct 23 | "None of Us Are Getting Out of This Alive": How & Why to Make End-of-Life Choices | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Meditation on Mortality | Nancy Pace | Recording | Text | ||
Oct 16 | "The Healing Power of Music" | Deborah Int Veldt | Recording | Text | Video |
Oct 9 | "Reactions to the End of White Christian America" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Oct 2 | "Cultivating Empathy: The Worth and Dignity of Every Person Without Exception" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Sep 25 | "Islam, Islamophobia, & Democracy" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Sep 18 | "Whose Side Are You On? The Legacy of Anne Braden for Today" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
"Black. Lives. Matter" | Karen Reilly | Text | |||
Sep 11 | "Toxic Masculinity, Many Masculinities: Reflections on the 15th Anniversary of 9/11" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Sep 4 | "People, Planet, Profit: Revitalizing the Labor Movement" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Aug 28 | "Hardwiring Happiness" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Aug 21 | "Identity and Inclusion: Transgender Liberation" | Part 1, The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg
Part 2, Clover Woodward | Recording-CG Recording-CW | Text-CG
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Aug 14 | Modern Uncertainty: "Meeting the Universe Halfway" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Aug 7 | "Unspeakable: A Mother's Journey" | Kay Armstrong Baker | Recording | ||
Jul 31 | Falling Down & Rising Strong: Learning from Brené Brown | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Jul 24 | "Why Are We Here?" | Scot Hull | Recording | Text | |
Jul 17 | "Death As an Affirmation of Life: An Open Letter to Kathleen Parker" | The Rev. Mike Morse | Recording | ||
Jul 10 | "Becoming Wise: The Practice of Generous Listening" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Jul 3 | "Thing Are Not Always As They Seem" | Bob Clegg | Recording | ||
Jun 26 | "Fresh Fish Sold Here Daily: Parts 1, 2, & 3" | Lora Powell-Haney | Recording | ||
Jun 19 | "I Am Not Free" | Steve Buckingham | Recording | Video | |
Jun 12 | "Why We Should Choose both Religion and Science" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Jun 5 | "Audaciously Alive" | Katie Campbell | Recording | Text | Video |
May 29 | "God Bless America (and No Place Else?!): The Uses & Abuses of Civil Religion" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
May 22 | "Blessing New Voices" | Stephanie Letourneau & Channa Luke | Recording | Text - S | |
May 15 | "Beyond McMindfulness: How Not To Get Stuck in the Early Stages of Buddhist Meditation" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
May 8 | "Founding Mothers of Unitarian Universalism: Julia Ward Howe" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
May 1 | "Pluralistic Ethics & Political Polarization: Struggling to Speaking the Truth in Love in Election Season" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Apr 24 | "Evil: A Liberal Religious Investigation" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Apr 17 | "Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Apr 10 | "The Spirituality of Shakespeare" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Apr 3 | Just Mercy: "Each of Us Is More Than the Worst Thing We've Ever Done" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Mar 27 | "Remembering, Changing, Inventing: How Stories About Jesus Were Told" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Mar 20 | "I Dream a World: Steward, Economic Justice, and Beloved Community" | Mark Ewert | Recording | Text | |
Mar 13 | Listening to "Les Mis" as a Spiritual Practice | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Text | ||
Mar 6 | "Choices and Consequences" | Youth Sunday | Recording | ||
Feb 28 | '"Anti-Racism: America's Gift to the World" | The Rev. Mike Morse | Recording | ||
Feb 21 | "Developing Double Consciousness: Beyoncé, Black Panthers, & W.E.B. Du Bois" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Feb 14 | 'Celebrating Darwin Day: Perpetual Curiosity, Scientific Thinking, & Hunger for Truth | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Feb 7 | "The Spirituality of Doubt" & "Being Wrong, Being Right" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg & Nancy Pace | Recording | Text - CG;
Text - NP | Video - CG;
Video - NP |
Jan 31 | "Rewatching "Groundhog Day" as a Spiritual Practice" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Jan 17 | "The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr.: Why We Need a Third Reconstruction in America" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Jan 10 | "In the Face of Despair--Choosing Hope, Community, & Meaning: Reflections on Richard Rorty" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Jan 3, 2016 | "Are You Fully Charged? The New Year & Fire Communion" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text |