What is religion and how may one speak of it? In this service, a retired Unitarian Universalist minister will take a look at the current attempt in Unitarian Universalist circles to give written expression to its approach to religion. Suggested preparation for sermon: Read the … read more.
In Nature, death is not a factor of special importance; it’s simply part of the turning wheel of Being as it rolls onward through time. But to us in our human world, death is a factor of huge significance. Taking my cue from neuro-anatomist Dr. … read more.
Genuine sharing is vital to a healthy community, and the “Favorite Poem Service” celebrates sharing in deep and personal ways. This annual summer ritual is intimate, layered, and always surprising, structured on a format as simple as it is powerful: A person … read more.
The sermon on this Sunday when we light a candle to Hope will explore the questions, “What is hope and in what is it rooted?”
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In this time of turmoil as our nation struggles to determine its “soul,” this sermon by our Minister Emeritus, Rev. Bruce Bode, will explore the overlap of the core principles, values, and ideals of our American society and liberal religion.
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For the final service of the program year and for his final service as a QUUF minister, Bruce invites us, as has been his practice on the concluding Sunday in which we have two services, to submit questions (philosophical, practical, personal, whatever). During the sermon … read more.
The title of this Memorial Day message is taken from a Robert Frost poem titled “On the Sale of My Farm” that concludes with the lines:
Only be it understood,
It shall be no trespassing
If I come again some spring
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The sermon this Mother’s Day Sunday brings forward some themes in the poems of Emily Dickinson, poems such as: “I’m ceded – I’ve stopped being Theirs – ”, “The Soul has Bandaged moments – ”, “Bring me the sunset in a cup – ”, and … read more.
An exploration of five different kinds of blame and what it might mean to live by a principle of “no blame”.
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A summary sermon by Rev. Bode of numerous sermons on the theme of forgiveness.
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