Two of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s most well-known poems, “Ulysses” and “Crossing the Bar,” assist us in exploring one of the great polarities and paradoxes in human life: doing and being, striving and surrendering, never to yield and always to yield. Bruce A. Bode is Minister Emeritus at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (QUUF) in Port … Continue reading A Polar Tension at the Heart of Human Life
Rev. Bruce Bode and Rev. Linda Hart reflect on their theology. Click here to watch the service starting at 10am. Click here to read the sermons.
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 Article II Study Commission report to the UUA Board of Trustees, … Continue reading In Quest of ‘Living Religion’
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. Jill Bolte Taylor’s book My Stroke of Insight, this sermon … Continue reading Death in Dual (and Dueling) Perspectives
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 stands before the congregation, tells why a particular poem is important in their … Continue reading Annual Favorite Poem Service
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?” Click here to view the service. Click here to read the reading and sermon.
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 portion of the services, Bruce reads selected questions (without name) … Continue reading I’m Glad You Asked That Question… (2018)
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 In the grey disguise of years, Seeking ache of memory here. Click here to … Continue reading The Ache of Memory
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 “For largest Woman’s Heart I knew – ”. Click here … Continue reading If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
