Tag: Unitarian Universalist

• “Wisdom’s Story of Creation”

  

  a sermon for the First Unitarian Church, Louisville, Kentucky … From pure Joy springs all creation; by Joy it is sustained, towards joy it proceeds, and to Joy it returns. Upanishads – but probably not the Mundaka after all I feel I need to include some words of introduction about this sermon, so that people…

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  May 22, 2023

  Sermons

  interfaith, Proverbs 8:1-4, Proverbs 8:22-31, Rg Veda, Unitarian Universalist, wisdom literature

• “Cultivating Our Center”

  

  If we go in search of ourselves, what are we likely to find? …

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  January 30, 2023

  Sermons

  character, ethics, humanity, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, personal responsibility, Unitarian Universalist

• Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

  

  Because I am modern, I assume effects have causes. I assume sciatica has a cause. Our theory about the cause of D’s recent bout of sciatica is “stairs.” Specifically the stairs in Dayton, Ohio, at her family’s houses, that she spent a lot of time going up and down last Labor Day weekend. As the…

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  September 8, 2019

  A Month of Sundays

  evangelism, God, home, Reformed tradition, relationships, Robert Frost, Unitarian Universalist

• Third Sunday in Lent

  

  [“The Humble Questioner,” a sermon for First Unitarian Church, Louisville, Sunday, March 24.] I come from a tradition in which it’s customary to prepare a sermon as a reflection on a text – so here’s one text – it’s a little proverb, actually, that according to tradition was collected by one of the wisest people…

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  March 24, 2019

  Sermons

  communication, Ecclesiastes 1:15, humility, limits, Luke 18:15-17, questions, social change, spirituality, Unitarian Universalist