CALL TO WORSHIP - “Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a…
Sermons
READING ~ The Red and Blue Coat, a traditional African Folktale Once there were two boys who were great friends, and they were determined to remain that way forever. When…
READING - Hard, Brave Choices, by Martha Durkee-Neum, https://worshipweb.uua.org/braverwiser/i/309b5385c0b21d9fae3fb347166871d7/hard-brave-choices When I was a youth, the young adult fantasy series by Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials, was an important source of…
SERMON Music in our lives. With the development of advanced technology, scientists better understand the incredible impact music has on our lives and apply their knowledge to the use of…
READING ~ Poem: The Afterlife of Billy Fingers, by Annie Kagan The same intelligence that grows trees from seeds, that lets birds fly, that waves the ocean and gives birth…
READING - from Rachel Naomi Remen, My Grandfather’s Blessings, Riverhead Books, New York, 2000: My grandfather was a man of many blessings. These blessings were prescribed generations ago by the…
READING - Parker Palmer, Healing the Heart of Democracy, pp. 18, 43-45 READING - 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:1; Mark 3:20-30 SERMON - A House Divided Over twenty years ago, the famed…
READING ~ My Dreams, They Matter by Phoenix Bell-Shelton Biggs Though at times I may forget who I am or who becoming, My dreams: they matter. When I make space…
READING ~ from The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration by Vera Nazarian Once upon a time there were two countries at war with each other. In order to make peace after…
READING ~ from “The Embers and the Stars” by Czech philosopher Erazim Kohak “...Certainly, humans can become wholly absorbed in the preoccupations of time. As there are humans who are…
