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“Be Nobody’s Darling”
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Read the Order of Service Reading: “Our deepest fear …” by Marianne Williamson I want you to look with me in your mind’s eye at a pastel drawing. There is a figure, sitting on a bench. The drawing is simple; there are no details; the face is an oval and the body a barely disguised rectangle. But the […]
Read the Order of Service What did the Buddha mean when he talked about “desire” and our need to be free from it? What do we do when faced with conflicting desires? How can we “want what we want to want?”
Read the Order of Service Opening Words: “Those of us who are alive in these times have a clear and evident mission. We have a compelling moral purpose that can direct our lives and our energies: We are about saving the world. So what is our part? The place is to begin at home- that is, […]
Read the Order of Service February 14, 2016 – Our senses can help us to mindfully achieve our desires, or draw us away from our goals. With Valentine’s Day upon us, how can we reconcile its cultural messages in a way that delights our senses while at the same time honoring our whole selves? Download a […]
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 […]
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 […]
This week’s Sermon was scheduled to be Resistance to Temptation. Due to the weather, Sunday services were cancelled.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
