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Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
October 4, 2020
Rev. Dr. Barry Andrews
What lies on the other side of death? Myths, religions and philosophies have offered answers to this question. As a religious humanist I have pondered the question myself. Searching through the words of sages and poets, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mary Oliver, I’d like to explore intimations of immortality.
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
September 27, 2020
Jonathan Prescott
Ancestors — we know we have them, but who are they? What do they mean to us?Jonathan Prescott will join SUUF to look deeply into our ancestors. Will consider how ancestors gave us not only our bodies, but our very ways of seeing the world. Knowing that our ancestors made mistakes, we’ll explore how to forgive their warts and foibles so that we can become better ancestors ourselves.
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
September 20, 2020
Rev. Bruce Bode
Where to start in the face of strongly opposing and intractable positions? This sermon will explore how the image of tectonic plates might be a helpful image in relation to gridlock, whether personal, political, or religious.
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
September 13, 2020
Joseph Bednarik
The large map is on display behind plexiglass. A bold arrow points to a spot and three words announce, in no uncertain terms: "You are here." These three words – each on its own then working together - are profound: Individuality. Existence. Location. This sermon follows that arrow to a specific spot on the map, bows to the miracle of your existence, then asks "OK. Now what?"
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
August 23, 2020
Susie Wilson
Unitarian Universalists affirm a living tradition based on six sources, one of which is the direct experience of transcendent mystery and wonder. This Sunday, please join us as we complete our last Summer session on the theme of Miracles, with Susie Wilson, who will share her reflections on experiences of miracle and mystery.
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
August 16, 2020
Ken Stern
In August of 1859 slavery seemed like it would last forever in the United States. Then, in September, John Brown and a small band attacked Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Sixteen months later seven southern states panicked at the prospect of Lincoln taking office and seceded from the Union in January, 1861, before he was inaugurated. And that is why the Civil War began. From Thoreau, who gave a talk on John Brown, through Frederick Douglass, the suffragists movement and women gaining the vote, to African Americans insisting on Civil Rights in the 1950s, to Black Lives
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
July 26, 2020
Matt Bianconi
Matt will share his thoughts about how science can come about through serendipity along with discovery.
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
July 12, 2020
Andra Heath
It is a miracle that a big bang of energy precipitated into particles and congealed into galaxies. It is a miracle that life blossomed on at least one planet we know of. It is a miracle that at least one species on that planet developed language and tools, and consciousness. But it is a miracle that anything exists at all.
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
June 14, 2020
Joseph Bednarik
Spring is the time when hundreds of thousands of students and scholars dress in robes and mortar boards to participate in ceremonies and receive their well-earned diplomas and degrees. In 2020, people are moving across a virtual stage in the midst of a global pandemic and economic recession while thousands of protests call attention to police violence, systemic racism, and white supremacy. This sermon explores the current world these graduates are entering, and what they are being called to do.
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
June 7, 2020
Pippa Breakspear
Wow, how life has changed in the last few months! Anything we're feeling or struggling with, before Covid, has been dialed up quite a bit and we haven't had access to our regular coping strategies and remedies. We're adapting quickly, but combined with the current state of the nation, its impact on our nervous systems and our hearts, well, it's a lot to hold.
Our speaker has some thoughts she'd like to share with you Sunday about all this and hopefully lift your spirits. And if you've thought about seeing a therapist... you're in luck. Today a therapist is coming to see you!