2020/21 Sermons
Topical Sermon Archive
In addition to the chronological order below, also see our Topical Sermon Archive, which organizes all of Rev. Carl's sermons by category.
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Chronological Sermon Archive for 2020/21
| December 5, 2021 | After Jesus, Before Christianity | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | ||
| November 28, 2021 | The End of Blue Boat Home...But not Yet | Rev. Mike Morse | Recording | Text | Video | |
| November 21, 2021 | The Past, Present, & Future of Thanksgiving | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | ||
| November 14, 2021 | What's In a Worldview? Everything | Intern Minister Kathryn | Recording | Video | ||
| November 7, 2021 | Post-traumatic Growth | Seth Pollack, UUCF Member | Recording | Text | Video | |
| October 31, 2021 | “Samhain: A Special Halloween Service” | Frederick Covenant of UU Pagans | Recording | Text | Video | |
| October 24, 2021 | “We Are Freer Than We Think”: Power/Knowledge & Tools for Resistance-- Insights from Foucault for Today | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| October 17, 2021 | On the Frontlines of Climate Justice | Brooke Harper, Maryland State Director for the Energy Foundation | Recording | Video | ||
| October 10, 2021 | Reimagination, Decolonization, & Indigenous Peoples' Day | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| October 3, 2021 | The Birth of the Mind | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| September 26, 2021 | The Body Is Not An Apology
Mindfulness, Heartfulness, Bodyfulness |
Irene Glasse
Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg |
Recording | Text - Irene
Text - Carl |
Video - Irene
Video - Carl |
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| September 19, 2021 | My Journey to and with Unitarian Universalism | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | Text | Video | |
| September 12, 2021 | Reading the Same Stories Differently | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video | |
| September 5, 2021 | The Past, Present and Future of Work | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video | |
| August 29, 2021 | Crossing the Great Divide | Steve Buckingham | Recording | Text | Video | |
| August 22, 2021 | Fierce Self-Compassion | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video | |
| August 15, 2021 | Maintaining Hope: Struggle & Our Ability to Thrive | Dr. Terry Anne Scott | Recording | Video | ||
| August 8, 2021 | Doubts & Loves: Israel/Palestine, Perspectives, & Peace | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video | |
| August 1, 2021 | Yasodhara: The Forgotten Story of the Buddha’s Wife | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video | |
| July 25, 2021 | Finding Lughnasadh | Irene Glasse, Eira Mila, Tamara Curry, Raven Rauth, Jack Park | Recording | |||
| July 18, 2021 | From Gold to Collard Greens: Shifting Values, Shifting Our Faith | Lora Powell-Haney, M.Div. | Recording | Video | ||
| July 11, 2021 | Boundaries, Healing, & Hope: How to Shift Out of Survival Mode | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video | |
| July 4, 2021 | "Imagine There's No Countries”: Interdependence Day & Immigration Justice | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| June 27, 2021 | Until Love Wins | UUA General Assembly | Video | |||
| June 20, 2021 | What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Our Relationships with Animals? | Dr. Aysha Akhtar | Recording | |||
| June 13, 2021 | Climate Justice, Courage, & Hope | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| June 6, 2021 | What Really Matters? | Intern Minister Jen Raffensperger | Recording | |||
| May 30, 2021 | The Stories We Tell Matter: Tulsa 1921 & UU History | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| May 23, 2021 | "What Does #DefundThePolice Really Mean? Awakening Our Abolitionist Imaginations" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| May 16, 2021 | "The Mindset List" & "Blessing New Voices" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg & Nora Farahat | ||||
| May 9, 2021 | What Stars are Made Of: Founding Mothers of UU | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| May 2, 2021 | “Workers of the World Unite”: Wrestling with the Life & Legacy of Karl Marx | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| April 25, 2021 | Earth Day: Pathways to Healing & Regeneration | UU Ministry for the Earth | Video | |||
| April 18, 2021 | Demystifying Shariah & Reimagining Islam | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| April 11, 2021 | In the name of the Bee — And of the Butterfly— And of the Breeze: Emily Dickinson | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| April 4, 2021 | “The Cross & the Lynching Tree”: The Life & Legacy of James Cone, Founder of Black Liberation Theology | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| March 28, 2021 | Conscience & Democracy | Youth Group | ||||
| March 21, 2021 | Broadway Sunday: Godspell | Intern Minister Jen Raffensperger | Recording | |||
| March 14, 2021 | Loved into Being | Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association | Recording | |||
| March 7, 2021 | Myths, Mirages, & Measuring Time | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| February 28, 2021 | Odetta, Music, & Protest | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| February 21, 2021 | A Black Women’s History of the U.S.--Past, Present, & Future | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| February 14, 2021 | Side With Love | Unitarian Universalist Association | Text | Video | ||
| February 7, 2021 | An Evolution of Thinking | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| January 31, 2021 | Love, Rage, & Radical Dharma | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| January 24, 2021 | Another World Is Possible: What Does Prison Abolition Really Mean? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| January 17, 2021 | Martin & Malcolm & America | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| January 10, 2021 | Sacred Liberty & Desolating Sacrilege: On the Storming of the United States Capitol | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| January 3, 2021 | How to Find Meaning in Life | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| December 27 | Thresholds: Lectio Divina | Intern Minister Jen Raffensperger | Recording | Text | ||
| December 24 | A Unitarian "O Holy Night" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| December 20 | “What Is Saving Your Life Right Now?” Hygge, Walking, Nature | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| December 13 | Living the Entangled Life: World-Changing Insights from Mushrooms & Mycelium | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| December 6 | Who Owns Religion? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| November 29 | The Borders We Must Cross Separately | Intern Minister Jen Raffensperger | Recording | |||
| November 15 | Fear, Heartbreak, & Hope: What Wants to Emerge through You? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| November 7 | “Widening Circles & Active Hope: Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects” | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| November 1 | Forgotten History & the Origins of Our Discontents | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| October 25 | What Do You Know to Be True Because It Happened to You? Spiritualism, Spookiness, & Universalism | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| October 18 | Being Heumann | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| October 11 | Decolonizing, Healing, Rebalancing: Indigenous People's Day | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| October 4 | Lasting Impressions | Intern Minister Jen Raffensperger | Recording | |||
| September 27 | Where Do We Go From Here? Emergent Strategy & Shaping the Way Forward | Intern Minister Jen Raffensperger | Recording | |||
| September 20 | Economic Justice: Psychology, Poverty, & the American Dream | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| September 13 | “What Truly Needs to Get Done? What Needs to Be Protected? Listening to What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You” | Intern Minister Jen Raffensperger, Irene Glasse & Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| September 6 | Utopia for Realists | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| August 30 | Even One Deep Breath Can Make a Difference: How to Change the Channel in Your Mind | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| August 23 | "The Uncertain Anthropocene & the Infinite Game" | Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | Text | ||
| August 16 | “Grandma Was a Suffragette”: Justice Across Generations (On the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote) | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| August 9 | Thoreau, Animal Emotions, & Us | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| August 2 | The Death-positive Movement & The Order of the Good Death | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| July 26 | Reading Rumi in a Pandemic: Poetic & Healing Insights for Today | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| July 19 | Natural, Normal, Nothing | Irene Glasse & Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| July 12 | High Summer: How We Are With Each Other | Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | Text | ||
| July 5 | Justice, Liberty, Equality: Toward a Progressive Reading of the Constitution | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| June 21 | Trust Women: Bodies, Laws, & Reproductive Justice | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| June 14 | Where Do We Go From Here? The Need for a Third Reconstruction | Dr. Terry Anne Scott | Recording | Video | ||
| June 7 | Meditation, Neuroscience, Psychedelics: Who Am I? Who Are You? Who Are We? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| May 31 | Asian American History for Today | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| May 24 | Shape the World: Creation Myths & New Pathways | Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | Text | ||
| May 17 | High School Graduation | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg, Fiona Torok, Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | |||
| May 10 | Founding Mothers of UU: Lydia Maria Child | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| May 3 | From Sacred Stories of Sacrilege to Imagining a Future with Hope (On the 50th Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre) | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| April 26 | “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”: The Life-saving, Ecstatic Poetry of Mary Oliver
Spoken Meditation |
Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg
Nancy Pace |
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| April 19 | “If the Climate Was a Bank, They Would Have Already Rescued It”: Earth Day: Recent History, the Human Game, & Eco-dharma | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| April 12 | What's Next?: A History of the Afterlife & What Happens If Everyone Matters? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| April 5 | A Free & Responsible Search for Truth & Meaning - Youth Service | Nora Farahat, Maya Rowan Haas, Fiona Torok, and Kate Wells | Recording | |||
| Mar 29 | Meaning, Purpose, & Love: How to Reimagine Your Life during a Pandemic & Physical Distancing | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video | |
| Mar 22 | Kindness, Courage, Connection, & Creativity amidst Coronavirus | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister Julia Jones, UU Seminarian Rev Scott Hull | Recording | Text | Video | |
| Mar 15 | Spiritual Practices for a Pandemic: Connection, Meaning, & Hope in the Time of Coronavirus | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | Text | Video | |
| Mar 8 | Suffering is optional | Bhante Sujatha | Recording | |||
| Mar 1 | Apocalypse? We've All Been There | Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | Text | ||
| Feb 23 | The Stories We Tell Matter: “An African-American & Latinx History of the United States” | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video | |
| Feb 16 | Diversity is Not the Point: Lessons Learned in Tulsa | Julia Jones, UU Seminarian | Recording | |||
| Feb 9 | The Tangled Tree of Life: Evolutionary Insights after Darwin | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Text | Video | ||
| Feb 2 | The Love of Wisdom & the Wisdom of Love: For the Ordination of Scot Hull as a Unitarian Universalist Minister | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Text | |||
| Feb 2 | The Radiant & Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video | |
| Jan 26 | Chinese Religion & Religion in China | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | ||
| Jan 19 | The Last 31 Hours of a Contemporary Prophet | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video | |
| Jan 12 | Recovering a Language of Reverence | Pre-Rev. Scott Hull | Recording | Video | ||
| Jan 05 | Marie Kondo, Animism, & Changing Your Life | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |