Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church
Unitarian Universalist
Charlottesville, Virginia

Sermons

All sermons by Rev. David Takahashi Morris (not indicated or DTM) or Rev. Leslie Takahashi Morris (LTM), unless indicated.

2008

• 3/30 War, Faith and Justice (LTM)
• 3/23 Resurrections (DTM)
• 3/16 Young Achievers (DTM)
• 3/09 Being Multilingual (LTM)
• 2/17 Gates and Walls (DTM)
• 2/10 Your Scent of Lilacs (DTM)
• 2/03 Theology in the Age of Aquarius (Rev. Tony Perrino)
• 1/13 Believe in Nothing (DTM)
• 1/06 The Decisive Moment (LTM)

2007

• 12/30 Shades of Green (Laura Wallace)
• 12/09 Love is a Verb (DTM)
• 12/02 Radical Acceptance (LTM)
• 11/18 The Messages of Our Lives (LTM)
• 11/07 The Glad Surprise (DTM)
• 11/04 Declining the Fountain of Youth (DTM)
• 10/28 The Dream of a World United (Rev. Tony Perrino)
• 10/21 Invisible Elders (DTM)
• 10/14 Right Idea, Right Belief (LTM)
• 10/07 Why Religious Freedom? (DTM)
• 09/30 Somewhere Near Your Heart (DTM)
• 09/23/07 No Denying Denial (LTM)
• 09/16/07 Your People Will Become My People (DTM)
• 09/09/07 Peaceful Means (DTM) & Art of Radical Love (LTM), also Call to Worship "Art of Radical Love", Meditation for a Nation at War
• 8/28 Dream of a World United (Tony Perrino)
• 07/08/07 The Spirit of Sleep (Laura Wallace)
• 07/01/07 Water With No Ice: Speaking Your Truth (Louisa Wimberger)
• 06/10/07 Reading Religiously (LTM)
• 05/13/07 Of Rumpelstiltskin and Helicopters (LTM)
• 04/22/07 You Bet Your Life (Rev. Tony Perrino)
• 04/15/07 The Spiritual Roots of Addiction (LTM)
• 03/18/07 A Drumbeat for Darfur (DTM) - also They are There. . . and We are Here
• 03/11/07 We Are Made of Star Dust (LTM)
• 03/04/07 Chalice Bearers (LTM)
• 02/25/07 Living With The Unexpected (DTM) with FOOTBALL by Louis Jenkins
  
• 02/11/07 Warm Hearts and Thankless Tasks (DTM)
• 01/21/07 Under Construction (DTM) also reading
• 01/14/07 We Bid You Welcome (DTM) with multi-part reading
• 01/07/07 Deep Calls Unto Deep (LTM)

2006

• 12/25/06 Christmas Eve sermon (LTM)
• 12/17/06 Darkness Visible (DTM) also Part 1: Acknowledging the Gathering Dark and Part 2: Welcoming the Returning Light
• 12/10/06 Faith and Doubt (LTM)
• 12/03/06 The Caring Universe (DTM) also A Story About Love
• 11/26/06 The Family Chalice (DTM)
• 11/19/06 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (DTM) - also Marriage
• 11/12/06 The Empty Chair: Reflections on UU Christianity (LTM) and others
• 11/05/06 East is East and West is West (DTM) also Exploring Islam
• 10/29/06 Good Grief (DTM) also Grief knows that life has been altered with finality
• 10/22/06 The Earth is Our Mother (by Environmental Concerns Committee) - Air by Sharon Baiocco; Fire by Glenn Short; Water by Deborah Judson-Ebbets; Earth by Nancy Hurrelbrink
• 10/15/06 Standing on the Side of Love - A Million Votes No poem by Doug Loyd; Why I Need YOU to Speak in Opposition by Rosie Smith
• 10/08/06 In Pursuit of Happiness v
• 09/24/06 Why Not Try Peace (Again)? (LTM) - also Bets Wienecke
• 09/17/06 Finding Walden (DTM) - also What Henry Found on the Mountain
• 09/03/06 Water Communion (DTM)
• 08/20/06 Leaving the Rhythm of Routine (DTM) and Perseverance, Balance and Other Lessons of Summer (LTM)
• 07/23/06 Only the Lonely (Laura Wallace )
• 07/16/06 Commitment - Yoke or Liberation? (Chris Lilley)
• 07/09/06 Tracking the Mystery (Bob Kiefer)
• 06/25/06 Suffering By Choice (Alex McGee)
• 06/04/06 Spirit of Service (DTM) - includes The Rainbow Chalice of Service by LTM
• 05/28/06 I'll Live On... (DTM & LTM)
• 05/21/06 Can You Keep A Secret? (DTM)
• 05/07/06 Of Faith and Feminism.... (LTM)
• 04/30/06 Reclaiming Freedom of Religion (DTM)
• 04/23/06 For the Beauty of the Earth….. (LTM)
• 04/16/06 Lo, the Day of Days is Here (DTM)
• 04/09/06 Here Be Dragons: Approaching the Unknown (LTM)
• 04/02/06 Do We Believe in Sin? (DTM)
• 03/26/06 Subject and Object (LTM)
• 03/19/06 The Spirituality of Money (first part by DTM) The Spirituality of Money (second part by LTM)
• 03/05/06 The Risk of Growing (DTM) - also the African Tale The Boy Who Was Afraid To Try
• 02/26/06 The Right to Lie: Honest and Corporate Life (DTM)
• 02/12/06 Stewardship in an Age of Ownership (LTM)
• 02/05/06 Transforming Liberalism (DTM & LTM) - also One Among Many: The Story of James Reeb - A STARS Sunday Story
  
• 01/26/06 Reclaiming Universal Salvation (LTM)
• 01/15/06 Accountability: Do We Mean What We Say? (DTM)
• 01/08/06 Seeing Together (DTM)

2005

• 12/18/05 Solstice Service (led by DTM)
• 12/04/05 Three D’s and an F: Unitarian Universalist Theology (DTM) - also Unitarian Universalist Theological Identity
• 11/20/05 Metaphor as Soul Practice (LTM)
• 11/13/05 Are We There Now? (DTM)
• 11/06/05 Accepting the Inevitable (LTM) - also The Mustard-Seed Medicine - A Tale from India
• 10/30/05 From Clinging and Denial... (DTM) - also Welcoming All Souls and Thanks, Robert Frost
• 10/16/05 The Goal of World Community (DTM) - also Reading adapted from “The Girl in the Café"
• 10/09/05 Approaching Anger (LTM)
• 10/02/05 We Begin Again In Love (DTM)
• 9/25/05 Idealism and Incarnation (LTM)
• 9/18/05 How Do You Know? (DTM)
• 9/11/05 Are We Responsible For One Other? - DTM's part - LTM's part - also The Only Sermon
• 8/21/05 Integrity (LTM)
• 7/10/05 Journeys to Belief (Pamela Philips )
• 6/26/05 Ministries of Social Justice (Alex McGee)
• 6/19/05 Of Seahorses and Spiders (LTM)
• 6/12/05 Do Parallel Lines Converge? (DTM) - also A Peculiar Organization
• 5/22/05 Challenge Service (various)
• 5/15/05 Tongues of Fire (DTM)
• 04/24/05 Transcendence and Certainty (LTM)
• 04/03/05 Count The Days (DTM)
• 03/20/05 The Myth of Fulfillment (DTM)
• 03/06/05 Best Intentions (LTM)
• 02/27/05 The Challenge and Invitation of Change (DTM & LTM)
• 02/13/05 What is Marriage For? (DTM)
• 02/06/05 Difference Intergenerational Service (Leia Durland-Jones and Leslie Takahashi Morris)
• 01/23/05 Martin and Who? (DTM)
• 01/16/05 The Ministry of Membership: Service of the Living Tradition (DTM & LTM) - also various Community readings
  
• 01/09/05 Sustaining Faith (LTM)
• 01/02/05 Umoja Means Unity (DTM)

2004

• 12/26/04 Nothing But Peace Is Enough
• 12/19/04 Solstice Shadows
• 12/05/04 Don't Let the Light Go Out
• 11/28/04 The Family Table
• 11/21/04 Thanks, Whoever You Are: A U.U. Encounters Contemplative Prayer
  
• 11/14/04 Life as the Also-Ran (Leslie Takahashi-Morris)
• 11/07/04 A History on the Front Lines of Justice
• 10/31/04 Rehearsing For Your Death
• 10/24/04 Vocation: Your Life In Work
• 10/17/04 Tolerance and Affirmation (various readings by Lenore Dukes, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Addie Alexander, Alia Stewart-Silver)
• 10/10/04 What We Thought We Knew
• 10/03/04 Embracing Possibilities
• 09/26/04 The Challenge of An Authentic Faith
• 09/19/04 Coming To Terms With Your Religious Heritage
• 09/05/04 What Did You Bring Us? (Water Ceremony Homily)
• 08/28/04 Do I Know You?
• 07/11/04 When War Comes Home (Pam Phillips) - also a glimpse of war reading
• 06/27/04 Gay Marriage - The Final Frontier (Frank Benedetti)
• 06/20/04 Poems from Poetry Sunday (various authors)
• 06/13/04 Constellations of Meaning
• 05/30/04 Fighting the Real Enemy
• 05/23/04 Say A Little Prayer
• 05/16/04 To Speak With A Prophetic Voice - also I Am One Voice dialogue
• 05/09/04 The Sacred Hearth
• 04/11/04 The Passion Is Not The Point
• 04/04/04 Reconciliation
• 03/14/04 Applause, Applause
• 03/07/04 Be A Man
• 02/29/04 Where We Stood, Where We Stand
• 02/15/04 The Sensual World
• 02/08/04 The Quest for the Historical Thomas Jefferson - also A Thomas Jefferson Sampler dialogue
• 02/01/04 Family Matters (Leslie Takahashi-Morris)
• 01/11/04 Speaking Your Faith In the Public Square
• 01/04/04 Dealing With Difficult People

2003

• 12/28/03 Civil Rights and Liberties (Joe Szakos of Virginia Organizing Project)
• 12/07/03 The Gift of Receiving
• 11/23/03 The Heart of the Matter: Seeking the Core of Unitarian Universalism
  
• 11/09/03 The Ways We Talk To Each Other
• 10/26/03 Lessons of Loss
• 10/12/03 The Blessings and Challenges of Living with the Mentally Ill in Community (Dave Dawson) - also How Do I Make You Happy? reading by Susan McCulley
  
• 10/05/03 Pride Month in Charlottesville
• 09/21/03 Unitarian Universalist World
• 09/14/03 The Stewardship of Every Person
• 08/24/03 In The Beginning - also Creation Myths reading
• 08/17/03 The Power of Letting Go (Shirley Paul) - also The Giving Tree reading
• 07/13/03 New Kid on the Block (Doug Loyd)
• 06/29/03 Real Power (Dave Dawson)
• 06/22/03 Myth and Humanness (Rev. Becky Kiser)
• 05/18/03 Relationship As A Verb (Leslie Takahashi-Morris)
• 05/04/03 Play, Creativity And Spiritual Growth
• 04/27/03 Singing The Living Tradition
• 04/20/03 Betrayal And The Indestructible Good
• 04/13/03 Why I Am A UU Pagan (Dr. Mary Gelfand)
• 04/06/03 Oh, Freedom
• 03/30/03 What In the World Do We Mean By God?
• 03/23/03 Facing Evil, Finding Hope
• 03/16/03 A Path We Can All Walk Together
• 03/09/03 The Power of Forgiveness
• 02/23/03 Quality and Other Oppressions
• 02/02/03 Salvation by Self-Development
• 01/26/03 Spiritual Politics
• 01/19/03 If Martin Luther King Were Alive Today (Rev. Tony Perrino)
• 01/12/03 What Do We Stand For?
• 01/05/03 The Gift of Disillusionment

2002

• 12/29/02 The Most Powerful Weapon
• 12/22/02 A Service of Healing
• 12/15/02 Dancing with the Mystery
• 12/08/02 Jesus The Radical (Leslie Takahashi-Morris)
  
• 12/01/02 Who Sits at Your Welcome Table?
• 11/24/02 Just As Long As I Have Breath
• 11/17/02 Raising Our Children To Leave
• 11/03/02 The Meaning of Mental Health
• 10/27/02 Reflections From The Threshold
• 10/20/02 True Abundance
• 10/13/02 Life Passed Through The Fire of Thought (Leslie Takahashi-Morris)
• 10/06/02 To Heal Our Great Unease
• 09/29/02 Crossing Generations
• 09/15/02 Into Your Hands
• 09/01/02 Journeys
• 05/26/02 The Last Full Measure of Devotion
• 05/19/02 Pruning the Orchard
• 05/05/02 My Church Believes That ...
• 04/28/02 Anti-Racism: What's In It For Me?
• 04/14/02 What We Do Is What We Are
• 03/31/02 Practice Resurrection
• 03/17/02 Partner Church Sunday
• 03/10/02 Heed the Guidance of Reason
• 03/03/02 A Gift to the Mystery
• 02/03/02 Earth Teach Me
• 01/27/02 This is Not My Church
• 01/06/02 Roots Hold Me Close