2019 Sermons
Topical Sermon Archive
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Chronological Sermon Archive for 2019
| Dec 29 | For the Time Being | Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | Text | |
| Dec 22 | Why We Sleep & Why It Matters | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Dec 15 | Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Dec 8 | Huston Smith: Tales of Wisdom & Wonder | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Dec 1 | What Grows in the Dark? | Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Nov 24 | Hope & Fear in America, Then and Now | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Nov 17 | The Opposite of ‘Racist’ Isn’t ‘Not Racist.' It's ‘Antiracist' | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Nov 10 | How Change Happens: Why do some social movements succeed & others fail? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Nov 3 | How Democracies Die & An Education in Hope | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Oct 26 | Defense Against the Dark Arts: Harry Potter for Such a Time as This | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | Text | |
| Oct 20 | Earthrise, Big History, & Deep Time | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Oct 13 | Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Oct 6 | "If You’re Not at the Table, You May Be on the Menu”: Principles of Social Justice | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Sep 29 | Open, Direct, Mutual, Present, Spontaneous—without judgement or agenda: Martin Buber’s Life of Dialogue (includes closing comments & benediction) | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Sep 22 | "This Life: Secular Faith & Spiritual Freedom" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Sep 15 | "My Journey to Unitarian Universalism" | Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | Text | Video |
| Sep 8 | "How to Be 10% Happier" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Sep 1 | "Alienated Labor, Bullshit Jobs, & the Dream of a 15-Hour Work Week” | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Aug 25 | "Moving from Radical Individualism to Compassionate Community” | Steve Buckingham | Recording | ||
| Aug 18 | "Singing in the Taizé Tradition” including original poetry: “Why I Wake Early” by Sabrina and Cecilia Smith, “Of Love” by Julia Jones, “Wild Geese” by Scot Hull, “Praying” by Nichole Hodges-Abbasi, and “Song of the Builders” by Renée Wilmer. | Nichole Hodges-Abbasi | Recording | ||
| Aug 11 | "From Panic to Hope: Responding to the Climate Crisis” | Barb Trader | Recording | ||
| Aug 4 | "Religious Humanism from a Planetary Perspective” | Lora Powell-Haney | Recording | ||
| July 28 | "Let the Darkness be Soil" | Irene Glass | Recording | Video | |
| Jul 21 | "What's Your Counter Narrative, UUCF?" | Rev. Megan Foley | Recording | ||
| July 14 | "Out of the Past: Where Do We Go from Here?" | David Key | Recording | Video | |
| July 7 | "The Battle to Forgive" | Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd | Recording | Video | |
| Jun 30 | "To Bless, to Hope, to Ordain: For the Ordination of Megan Mathieson" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Text | ||
| Jun 30 | "The Secret Life of Anger" | Julia Jones | Recording | ||
| Jun 23 | "Plot Twist: Our Lives are Stories We Get to Write" | Scot Hull, M.Div. | Recording | ||
| Jun 16 | "A Year Made Better by Our Care" | Paula Cole Jones | Recording | ||
| Jun 9 | "Beloved Conversations" | Bob Clegg, Ph.D, M.Div | Recording | ||
| Jun 2 | "Riots, Rebellion,Liberation, & Pride: On the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| May 26 | "What Really Matters" | Megan Mathieson, Intern Minister | Recording | ||
| May 19 | "Blessing New Voices" | Cole Bromfield | Recording | ||
| May 12 | "Olympia Brown: Founding Mothers of Unitarian Universalism" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| May 5 | 200 Years Later: Why We’re Still Talking about Channing’s Most Famous Sermon | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | |
| Apr 28 | "Gwendolyn Brooks" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Apr 21 | "Resurrecting Easter": The Communal Uprising We Need Today | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Apr 14 | "Winter Is Coming: Wizards, Prophets, & Climate Change" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Apr 7 | Sermon, Parts 1-4 ("Universalism," "Universalist Theory," "Universalist Mercy," and "With the End in Mind"), incl Benediction | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg and UUCF Choir & Guests | Recording | Text | |
| Mar 31 | "Finding True Peace (by forgiving everyone)" | Bhante Sujatha | Recording | ||
| Mar 24 | "Soaring" | Megan Mathieson, Intern Minister | Recording | ||
| Mar 17 | From the Waves of Feminism to “The Mother of the Hubble” | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Mar 10 | Sermon, Part 1 Sermon, Part 2 Sermon, Part 3 Sermon, Part 4 Sermon, Part 5 | Cole Bromfield
Fiona Torok Claudia Cruey Nora Farahat Joey Schuman | Recording
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| Mar 3 | "A Clock on the Floor Runs Slower than One on a Table—& Other Wild Truths about Time" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Feb 24 | "Turning Thunder into Grace" | Shari Halliday-Quan, Intern Minister | Recording | ||
| Feb 17 | "America’s First Mental Health Court: Moving from Stigma to Dignity"
“Symptoms to Success: People Make It Possible” "In the Mood" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg
Susan Holt Nancy Pace | Recording
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| Feb 10 | "The Book That Changed America" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Feb 3 | "A More Beautiful & Terrible History" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Jan 27 | "We the Corporations?!" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Jan 20 | "MLK's Dreams & Legacies: Who Is Forming You?" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Jan 6 | "Beginnings" | Megan Mathieson, Intern Minister | Recording | Text |