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2017 Sermons

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Chronological Sermon Archive for 2017

Dec 31 "On Saying Yes"
"The Year of Yes & No"
Rev. Carl
Julia Jones
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Dec 24 Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's "Christmas Sermon on Peace" The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Dec 17 Star Wars: Jediism, Invented Religions, & the Spirituality of the Force The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Dec 10 Contemplative-Curious: What Happens on an 8-Day Meditation Retreat? The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Dec 3 The Meaning of Life, from Confucius to the Dalai Lama Scot Hull, UU Seminarian Recording Text  
Nov 26 The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Nov 19 Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Navigating the Bioethics of the Near Future The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Nov 12 Where Does Creativity Come From? David Lynch, Twin Peaks, & Transcendental Meditation The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Nov 5 Daring Democracy The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Oct 29 Martin Luther & the Law of Unintended Consequences: Reflections on the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Oct 22 "You Say You Want a Revolution": What Have We Learned on the 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution? The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Oct 15 Take Down These Walls: Immigrants Make America Great The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Oct 8 How To Maintain UU Principles When You Can't Agree on the Facts? The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Oct 1 Universalism, Then & Now: Lessons from the Life of Orestes Brownson, "An American Religious Weathervane" The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Sep 24 When to Not Tolerate Intolerance? Insights from the Jewish Tradition The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text Video
Sep 17 American Islam & Muslims in America The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text Video
Sep 10 Bioethics, CRISPR, & Our Children Redesigned The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Sep 3 Beyond $15: The Sturdy Floor of a Universal Basic Income The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text Video
Aug 27 Orwell, Atwood, Butler: Reading for Resistance & Resilience The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Aug 20 Reclaiming Religious Language Bob Clegg Recording Text  
Aug 13 "What Animals Think & Feel: The Deep Origins of Consciousness" The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Aug 6 "The Religion of Tomorrow": Ken Wilber on "Waking up, Growing up, Cleaning up, & Showing up" The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Jul 30 Voting Rights, Taxation and Representation The Rev. Amanda Poppei Recording  
JUL 23 The Thread of Life is Woven Fine The Rev. Amanda Poppei Recording  
Jul 16 Dissent The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Jul 9 A Brief History of Tomorrow The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Jul 2 Who Do We Want to Be When We Grow Up? Scot Hull Recording  
Jun 25 A UU Theological Journey Story 1: Five Smooth Stones Story 2: Mujerista Theology Story 3: The Prophetic Church Lora Powell-Haney Recording  
Jun 18 Second Story For All Ages / Mediation For All Ages Rev. Mike Morse / Sea Raven Recording Recording  
Jun 11 Chögyam Trungpa, Freedom, and Meditation The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text Video
Jun 4 Religion & Truth: Insights from John Caputo's Postmodern Religion of the Rose The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text Video
May 28 Protecting What We Love Nancy Pace Recording Text Video
May 20 Blessing New Voices, Part 1
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Owen Powell
Neil Sweeney-Haney
Peter Singley
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May 14 Mary Moody Emerson: Ralph Waldo's First & Best Teacher The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text Video
May 7 Countercultural Gnosticism, Then & Now: Firsthand Spiritual Experience vs. Secondhand Theology The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Apr 30 Spiritual Practices of Curiosity & Commitment #UUWhiteSupremacyTeachIn The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text Video
Apr 23 Earth Day, the Earth Challenge, & the People's #ClimateMarch The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text Video
Apr 16 Easter: History Remembered of Prophesy Historicized? The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text Video
Apr 9 Resistance & Resilience: What Does (and Doesn't) Work in Movements for Social Change The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Apr 2 Music Sunday: The Wiz The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Mar 26 Eugenics, Then & Now: Liberal Religion & Illiberal Progressives The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Mar 19 The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. for Today The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Mar 12 Youth Sunday Introduction/Spoken Meditation "Freedom of Speech"
Part 1: "Freedom of Assembly"
Part 2: "Freedom of the Press"
Part 3: "Freedom to Petition";
Chalice Extinguishing "We Shall Overcome" and Concluding Comments
Lora Powell-Haney and Joey Schuman
Cole Bromfield
Ethan Powell
Neil Sweeny-Haney
Peter Singley & Youth Group
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Mar 5 The Market as God The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Feb 26 What Comes "After Buddhism"? The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Feb 19 Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Feb 12 What Does It Mean that We Are Sapiens? Reflections on Darwin Day The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Feb 5 How to Empower Your Mind Bhante Sujatha Recording  
Jan 29, 2017 Art & Creativity The Sanctuaries, DC Recording  
Jan 22, 2017 Thoreau in Today's America The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Jan 15, 2017 Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 21st Century Karen Reilly Recording  
Jan 8, 2017 Religious Freedom, Corporate America, & Christian America The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  
Jan 1, 2017 How to Excel at One Hard Thing: Grit, Passion, & Peak Performance The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Recording Text  

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