2015 Sermons
Chronological Sermon Archive for 2015
Dec 27 | "The Ghost of Christmas Past: A Remembrance in the Spirit of Charles Dickens" | Sea Raven, D.Min | Recording | Video | |
Dec 20 | "Why You Should See 2,700 (Not 12) Stars at Night: Reclaiming a Spirituality of Dark Skies" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Dec 13 | "Asherah, Heavenly Mother, and Mother Earth" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Dec 6 | "Are You a Faitheist?" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Nov 29 | "Our Liberal Religious Witness" | Bob Clegg | Recording | ||
Nov 22 | "From Baby Boomer Buddhism to Lodro Rinzler's Millennial Hipster Buddhism: Insights for Modern Life" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Nov 15 | "Why Peter Singer Hates on Guide Dogs & the Make-a-Wish Foundation: Reflections on The Most Good You Can Do" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Nov 8 | "Dharma Talk from a Buddhist Monk" | Bhante Sujatha | Recording | ||
Nov 1 | "How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible: Liberal Religion, Shifting Interpretations, and the Democratic Process" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Oct 25 | "Vampires, Witches, and NPR: Remembering the Legacy of Margot Adler" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg and Irene Glasse | Recording | Text -CG;
Text -IG | Video -CG Video -IG |
Oct 18 | "Our Chosen Faith" | Dr. Alexa Fraser | Recording | Video | |
Oct 11 | "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Oct 4 | "Practicing Safe Texts: Misquoting Moses, Misquoting Jesus, Misquoting Muhammad" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Sep 27 | "Do You Really Want to Know? Copernicus, Darwin, and Marx" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Sep 20 | "What Ta-Nehisi Coates Taught Me About People Who Believe They Are White" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg with Carol Antoniewicz | Recording | Text | Video -CG
Video -CA |
Sep 13 | "Unsanctifying Human Life: Wrestling with Peter Singer's Ethics" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Sep 6 | "Coming Out of the Broom Closet: Pagan Pride" and "The Call of the Old Paths" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg and John Grastorg | Recording | Text - CG;Text - JG | |
Aug 30 | "Celebrating Mixed Religion: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Syncretism" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Aug 23 | "What Happens When You Listen to the Sound of Silence?" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Aug 16 | "Equal Access: The Ongoing Struggle for Disability Rights" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Aug 9 | "Letting Go of Fear & Celebrating Differences:Insights from Intersectionality for Collective Liberation" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Aug 2 | "Are You Living the Life You Chose?: How To Discern Your Call" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Jul 26 | "Give Yourself Permission for Self-Care:Cautionary Tales from UU History" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Jul 19 | "The Spirituality of Embodiment" | Irene Glasse & The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text - IG;Text - CG | Video - CG;Video - IG |
Jul 12 | "Building a New Way" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Jul 5 | "America the Beautiful" | Doug Foard | Recording | ||
Jun 28 | "A Song in My Heart" and "Dance Like No One is Watching" | Cosette Blackmer and Lora Powell0Haney | |||
Jun 21 | "Holy Land, Sacred Hope: Reflections on the Conflict in Israel" | The Rev. Mike Morse | Recording | ||
Jun 14 | "Why a 40-Hour Work Week? (It's Decreased Before. It Could Again.)" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Jun 7 | "Practicing Forgiveness" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
May 31 | "Reclaiming Prophetic Witness: Liberal Religion in the Public Square" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
May 24 | "The Fourth Turning in Buddhism" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
May 17 | "Seventh-Generation Thinking (Annual Transitions Service)" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg and Jasmine Whims | Recording | Text | Video |
May 10 | "Founding Mothers of Our Faith: The Peabody Sisters" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
May 3 | "Pippin: The Search for Truth and Meaning (Annual Music Sunday)" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
Apr 26 | "The Lost Way: The Gospels of Thomas and Q" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Apr 19 | "Betting on Earth's Future" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Apr 12 | Youth Sunday | ||||
Apr 5 | "The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Mar 29 | "What Do We Mean When Say, 'Building the Beloved Community'?" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Mar 22 | "Holding the Tension: A free and responsible search for truth and meaning" | Nastasha Ostrom, M.Div. | Recording | ||
Mar 15 | "The Transient and the Permanent: Theodore Parker & Transcendentalism" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Mar 8 | "The Selma Awakening" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Mar 1 | "The Generosity Path" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Feb 22 | "Where Have You Encountered God?" | Pastor Madelyn Campbell | Recording | ||
Feb 15 | "Part 1: The Love Drug, Part 2: Chocolate for Lent" | Danielle Grace
The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text
Text | Video 1
Video 2 |
Feb 8 | "Recovery of Soul: Healing 'Moral Injury'" | The Rev. Mike Morse | Recording | Video | |
Feb 1 | "The Great End of Religious Instruction: William Ellery Channing" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Jan 25 | "The Honest Heretic: Religion, Science, & Dr. Joseph Priestley" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Jan 18 | "Rosa Parks: The Rest of the Story" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Jan 11 | "Building Your Own Ethics" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
Jan 4, 2015 | "Thrive: Choosing Well-being in the New Year" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |