Read the Order of service February 7, 2016 – This morning I want to talk about “nones.”  That’s right, “nones.”  If you think about it, “nones” have a lot to tell us about who we are as Unitarian Universalists.  In fact, “nones” might be the ones to help us see more clearly how it is that […]

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January 31, 2016: Resistance in the Home

Read the Order of Service January 31, 2016 – There were a lot of folks from here who were at the Open House of the Islamic Society yesterday.  [How many of you were there?]  One of the things we were told was that if a Muslim lives her or his daily life with an awareness of Allah, then everything they […]

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Read the Order of Service. January 17, 2016 – You’ve probably never heard the name Ephraim Nute.  (But it is a pretty cool name, isn’t it?)  You’ve also probably never heard about the 2011 book that Skinner House published about him:  The Incredible Story of Ephraim Nute: Scandal, Bloodshed, and Unitarianism on the American Frontier.  (And how’s that […]

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Read the Order of Service January 10, 2016 – People often think of the Unitarian Universalist faith as a champion of the individual. And in the early to mid-1800s, our Transcendentalist forebears did indeed elevate the importance of the individual, yet some today argue that their true legacy to us is their commitment to challenging the […]

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Read the Order of Service This is the sermon I preached on Sunday, January 3rd, 2016.  It is not the sermon that had been advertised, nor the one I’d worked on with the lay worship weavers.  Instead, as I said in the introduction, “this sermon simply appeared unbidden.  But if you want to keep the Muses happy, you […]

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December 24, 2015: Christmas Eve

Read the Order of Service 4:30 – Our annual family-friendly, highly participatory Christmas pageant. 7:00 – A Christmas Eve communion, hosted by the TJMC Christian Fellowship 8:00 – A service of readings, carols, and candle lighting.

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November 22, 2015: Multi-Bread Communion

This month the theme we’re exploring is: what does it mean to be a person of ancestry? Now a TJMC tradition, we will celebrate a “multi-bread communion” that is an expression of multicultural community, and we’ll be asking ourselves how Thanksgiving – the practice and the holiday – can reflect our identity as “people of […]

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