Sermon Archive
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
| October 1, 2023 | Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | |||
| September 24, 2023 | Enemies, Friends, and the Stories We Have Not Heard: Peacemaking in Israel & Palestine | Elad Vazana | No recording at speaker's request | ||
| September 17, 2023 | On Repentance And Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | |
| September 10, 2023 | Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | |
| September 3, 2023 | The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | |
| August 27, 2023 | My Journey to Unitarian Universalism | Intern Minister Derail Holcomb | Recording | Text | Video |
| August 20, 2023 | Dorothy was Right: There's No Place Like Home | Duane Musgrove | Recording | Video | |
| August 13, 2023 | Radical Permissions | Lora Powell-Haney, M.Div. | Recording | Video | |
| August 6, 2023 | Justice Work as Spiritual Practice | Steve Buckingham | Recording | Text | Video |
| July 30, 2023 | Existential Ethics | Bob Clegg | Recording | Text | Video |
| July 23, 2023 | Transgender Rights Today | Tamara Curry | Recording | Video | |
| July 16, 2023 | Hospitality:The Old World, the Emerging World & the Community We Build | Irene Glasse | Recording | Video | |
| July 9, 2023 | Dying With Dementia: Ethical and Legal Alternatives | Rev. M. Michael Morse | Recording | Video | |
| July 2, 2023 | Sufism, Islam, Rumi: The Mystics of the World's Religions and the Results of Science | Rev. Dr. Sara Zimmerman | Recording | Video | |
| June 25, 2023 | From Shame, to Pride to Wholehearted Living | Richard L. Warren | Recording | Text | Video |
| June 18, 2023 | What Is a UU Pagan? | Ursa Sylvest | Recording | Video | |
| June 11, 2023 | We Choose the Future: Beloved Community | Paula Cole Jones | Recording | Video | |
| June 4, 2023 | A UU Requiem: Death, Grief, Remembrance, & Gratitude | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | |
| May 28, 2023 | What Really Matters? | Intern Minister Kathryn | Recording | Video | |
| May 21, 2023 | Blessing New Voices | Davin Faris | Recording | Text | Video |
| May 14, 2023 | Founding Mothers of UU: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | |
| May 7, 2023 | Asian American Histories of the United States | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | |
| April 30, 2023 | Heartfulness: A Guided Tour of the Buddhist Brahmaviharas (“Sublime Abodes”) | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | |
| April 23, 2023 | From Ego-centrism to Ecological Consciousness: On the 53rd Anniversary of Earth Day | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | |
| April 16, 2023 | Celebrating the Life of Norbert Čapek: On the 100th Anniversary of Flower Communion | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | |
| April 9, 2023 | Celebrating Easter Literally Or Archetypally?: Re-reading the Bible as Earthlings in Ecological Interdependence | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | |
| April 2, 2023 | "My Heart Is Moved By All I Cannot Save: The Power of Adrienne Rich" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | |
| March 26, 2023 | “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Video | |
| March 19, 2023 | “Ostara: Can You Feel the Wheel of the Year Turning?" | Frederick Covenant of UU Pagans (FCUUPS) | Recording | Video | |
| March 12, 2023 | “UU 7th Principle: Respect for the Interdependent Web of All Existence of Which We Are a Part" | Youth Sunday | Recording | Video | |
| March 5, 2023 | “Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| February 26, 2023 | “The Celling of Souls" | Analysis | Recording | Video | |
| February 19, 2023 | “Living for Seven Generations through the Triple Bottom Line" | Kathryn Adams, Intern Minister | Recording | Video | |
| February 12, 2023 | “'No Fate But What We Make': Darwin Day, Transformational Artificial Intelligence, & Human Values" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| February 5, 2023 | "Wisdom, Comfort, Solidarity: Coalitions for Collective Liberation" | Sergio España, ACLU | Recording | Video | |
| January 29, 2023 | "Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?: Unexpected Adventures in Philosophy" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 22, 2023 | “How Rights Went Wrong”: On the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 15, 2023 | "Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Martin Luther King Jr. & Thich Nhat Hanh" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 8, 2023 | "What Should You Do in This New Year? Trusting Your Gut & Trusting the Data" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 1, 2023 | New Beginnings: Becoming and Renewal | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | Video | |
| December 25, 2022 | UU Christmas Day Service (Option 1)
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UU Chesapeake Congregations
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| December 24, 2022 | How UUs Helped Invent Christmas | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| December 18, 2022 | Rest Is Resistance | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Irene Glasse | Recording | Text | Video |
| December 11, 2022 | For Such a Time as This: How Do We Sustain Our Attempts to Change the World? | Dr. Terry Anne Scott | Recording | Video | |
| December 4, 2022 | “How William James Can Save Your Life”: Peak Spiritual Experiences, Psychedelics, & Consciousness Research | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| November 27, 2022 | Innovations in Ministry: Creating Communities of Care | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | Video | |
| November 20, 2022 | Indigenous Wisdom & Experience | Tom Wardell | Recording | Video | |
| November 13, 2022 | Imaginable: How To See the Future Coming | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| November 6, 2022 | A Brief History of Equality: Reflections on the State of Our Democracy | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| October 30, 2022 | Is There An Antidote to Bad Faith? How Minds Change & Deep Canvassing | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| October 23, 2022 | The Power of Stories: The truth about stories is that stories, changing, growing, learning, hopeful are all we are | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | ||
| October 16, 2022 | Recent Scientific Discoveries of Galaxies Far Far Away from a UU Perspective | Rev. Dr. Sara Zimmerman | Recording | Text | Video |
| October 9, 2022 | Somatic Abolitionism | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| October 2, 2022 | Perceptual Worlds: Insights from Animals about the Hidden Realities Around Us | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| September 25, 2022 | Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| September 18, 2022 | Strength to Strength: How to Find Lifelong Purpose | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| September 11, 2022 | Growing Up Absorbed: Lifelong Religious Exploration | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| September 4, 2022 | Labor Day Insights from the People Who Brought You the Weekend | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| August 28, 2022 | Progress in Racism & Anti-Racism: On the Anniversary of the Lynching of Emmett Till | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| August 21, 2022 | Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| August 14, 2022 | Contemplative Cross-Training: Six Ways to Meditate; or, How Do You Know If You Are Making Progress in Meditation? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| August 7, 2022 | Traveling as a Spiritual Practice: Lessons from Our National Parks | Steve Buckingham | Recording | Video | |
| July 31, 2022 | What Really Matters? | Nichole Hodges-Abbasi, DRE | Recording | Video | |
| July 24, 2022 | What We Nurture | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | Video | |
| July 17, 2022 | Creativity Matters in Love and Justice | Lora Powell-Haney, M.Div. | Recording | Video | |
| July 10, 2022 | Spiritual Practices of Service & Leadership | Irene Glasse | Recording | Video | |
| July 3, 2022 | “Quantum Physics and the Buddhist Heart Sutra: On the 10th Anniversary of the Higgs Boson Discovery” | Rev. Dr. Sara Zimmerman | Recording | Video | |
| June 26, 2022 | “Where Does It Hurt? Ruby Sales, Black Folk Religion, and White America” | Bob Clegg, M.Div. | Recording | Video | |
| June 19, 2022 | Watergate Revisited: The Changing Seasons of Journalistic Accountability | Rev. Mike Morse | Recording | Video | |
| June 12, 2022 | Awkward, Brave, & Kind: A Valediction from Brené Brown | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| June 5, 2022 | Ablaze, But Not Consumed | Rev. Dr. Rob Hardies | Recording | Video | |
| May 29, 2022 | A Tale of Two Declarations: Doing the Impossible | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | Text | Video |
| May 22, 2022 | “Imagining How a More Just World Might Feel”: The Life & Legacy of Woody Guthrie | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| May 15, 2022 | Shifting Your Mindset: How Do You Encourage Spiritual Growth? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| May 08, 2022 | Founding Mothers of UU: The Doctors Blackwell & Reproductive Justice | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| May 1, 2022 | Dharma Talk | Bhante Sujatha | Recording | Video | |
| April 24, 2022 | "How to Be a Good Ancestor" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| April 17, 2022 | "How Do You Make Sense of Easter Today?: Progressive, Mystical, Humanist" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| April 10, 2022 | "The Short Life & Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| April 3, 2022 | "Racial Reconciliation" | Rev. Michael Hughes | Recording | Video | |
| March 27, 2022 | “Dream a Little Before You Think”: Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Transformative Power, & the Ripple Effects of Community Activism | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| March 20, 2022 | Building a New Mythology (Women's History Month) | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| March 13, 2022 | World Community: Peace, Liberty, & Justice for All | Youth Group
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| March 6, 2022 | The Revolutionary Love of our Time | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | Video | |
| February 27, 2022 | "The Gospel of Unitarian Universalism: Two Kinds of Good News" | Dr. Michael Franch | Recording | Text | Video |
| February 20, 2022 | An Afro-Indigenous History of the U.S.--Past, Present, & Future | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| February 13, 2022 | The Evolving Story of Evolution | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| February 6, 2022 | The Words That Come Before All Else: Wisdom from an Indigenous Practice of Giving Thanks Every Day | Peter Brooks & Michael Nephew | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 30, 2022 | How Chinese Philosophies Can Change Your Life | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 23, 2022 | Social Progress, Religion, & Law | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 16, 2022 | Messages from the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, & James Baldwin | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 9, 2022 | Into the Woods with Ralph Waldo Emerson | Rev. Dr. Sara Zimmerman | Recording | Video | |
| January 2, 2022 | Because Survival Is Insufficient: What Will You Do with Your Four Thousand Weeks? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |