2020 Sermons
Topical Sermon Archive
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Chronological Sermon Archive for 2020
| December 27 | Thresholds: Lectio Divina | Intern Minister Jen Raffensperger | Recording | Text | |
| December 24 | A Unitarian "O Holy Night" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| December 20 | “What Is Saving Your Life Right Now?” Hygge, Walking, Nature | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| December 13 | Living the Entangled Life: World-Changing Insights from Mushrooms & Mycelium | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| December 6 | Who Owns Religion? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| November 29 | The Borders We Must Cross Separately | Intern Minister Jen Raffensperger | Recording | ||
| November 15 | Fear, Heartbreak, & Hope: What Wants to Emerge through You? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| November 7 | “Widening Circles & Active Hope: Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects” | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| November 1 | Forgotten History & the Origins of Our Discontents | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| October 25 | What Do You Know to Be True Because It Happened to You? Spiritualism, Spookiness, & Universalism | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| October 18 | Being Heumann | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| October 11 | Decolonizing, Healing, Rebalancing: Indigenous People's Day | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| October 4 | Lasting Impressions | Intern Minister Jen Raffensperger | Recording | ||
| September 27 | Where Do We Go From Here? Emergent Strategy & Shaping the Way Forward | Intern Minister Jen Raffensperger | Recording | ||
| September 20 | Economic Justice: Psychology, Poverty, & the American Dream | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| September 13 | “What Truly Needs to Get Done? What Needs to Be Protected? Listening to What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You” | Intern Minister Jen Raffensperger, Irene Glasse & Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| September 6 | Utopia for Realists | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| August 30 | Even One Deep Breath Can Make a Difference: How to Change the Channel in Your Mind | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| August 23 | "The Uncertain Anthropocene & the Infinite Game" | Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | Text | |
| August 16 | “Grandma Was a Suffragette”: Justice Across Generations (On the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote) | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| August 9 | Thoreau, Animal Emotions, & Us | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| August 2 | The Death-positive Movement & The Order of the Good Death | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| July 26 | Reading Rumi in a Pandemic: Poetic & Healing Insights for Today | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| July 19 | Natural, Normal, Nothing | Irene Glasse & Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| July 12 | High Summer: How We Are With Each Other | Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | Text | |
| July 5 | Justice, Liberty, Equality: Toward a Progressive Reading of the Constitution | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| June 21 | Trust Women: Bodies, Laws, & Reproductive Justice | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| June 14 | Where Do We Go From Here? The Need for a Third Reconstruction | Dr. Terry Anne Scott | Recording | Video | |
| June 7 | Meditation, Neuroscience, Psychedelics: Who Am I? Who Are You? Who Are We? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| May 31 | Asian American History for Today | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| May 24 | Shape the World: Creation Myths & New Pathways | Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | Text | |
| May 17 | High School Graduation | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg, Fiona Torok, Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | ||
| May 10 | Founding Mothers of UU: Lydia Maria Child | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| May 3 | From Sacred Stories of Sacrilege to Imagining a Future with Hope (On the 50th Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre) | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| April 26 | “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”: The Life-saving, Ecstatic Poetry of Mary Oliver
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| April 19 | “If the Climate Was a Bank, They Would Have Already Rescued It”: Earth Day: Recent History, the Human Game, & Eco-dharma | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| April 12 | What's Next?: A History of the Afterlife & What Happens If Everyone Matters? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| April 5 | A Free & Responsible Search for Truth & Meaning - Youth Service | Nora Farahat, Maya Rowan Haas, Fiona Torok, and Kate Wells | Recording | ||
| Mar 29 | Meaning, Purpose, & Love: How to Reimagine Your Life during a Pandemic & Physical Distancing | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Mar 22 | Kindness, Courage, Connection, & Creativity amidst Coronavirus | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister Julia Jones, UU Seminarian Rev Scott Hull | Recording | Text | Video |
| Mar 15 | Spiritual Practices for a Pandemic: Connection, Meaning, & Hope in the Time of Coronavirus | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | Text | Video |
| Mar 8 | Suffering is optional | Bhante Sujatha | Recording | ||
| Mar 1 | Apocalypse? We've All Been There | Jen Raffensperger, Intern Minister | Recording | Text | |
| Feb 23 | The Stories We Tell Matter: “An African-American & Latinx History of the United States” | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Feb 16 | Diversity is Not the Point: Lessons Learned in Tulsa | Julia Jones, UU Seminarian | Recording | ||
| Feb 9 | The Tangled Tree of Life: Evolutionary Insights after Darwin | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Text | Video | |
| Feb 2 | The Love of Wisdom & the Wisdom of Love: For the Ordination of Scot Hull as a Unitarian Universalist Minister | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Text | ||
| Feb 2 | The Radiant & Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Jan 26 | Chinese Religion & Religion in China | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| Jan 19 | The Last 31 Hours of a Contemporary Prophet | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Jan 12 | Recovering a Language of Reverence | Pre-Rev. Scott Hull | Recording | Video | |
| Jan 05 | Marie Kondo, Animism, & Changing Your Life | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |