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
An exploration of five different kinds of blame and what it might mean to live by a principle of “no blame”. Click here to listen to the reading and sermon. Click here to read the reading and sermon.
A summary sermon by Rev. Bode of numerous sermons on the theme of forgiveness. Click here to listen to the reading and sermon. Click here to read the reading and sermon.
Our Easter Sunday service begins with a “Flower Communion” ceremony (please bring a flower to the service to share). Rev. Bode reflects on the words of e. e. cummings’ poem, “i thank You, God for most this amazing,” which our choir also sings. Click here to listen to the introduction and sermon.
This service, held in the middle of the day in our sanctuary, adapts and universalizes the Good Friday tradition. In a culture that forever wants to be up, this service provides the rare opportunity to drop down. Both Rev. Bode and Rev. Lore will give meditations on the Good Friday theme. If you would like … Continue reading Good Friday Service
A sharing of personal stories by Bruce Bode and Joseph Bednarik about their engagement with poets in their respective careers and their sense of the place of poetry in liberal religion and at QUUF.
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Borrowing a sermon title from a book by Carl Jung, on this Pledge Sunday I look back at my time at QUUF, the vision I had when I arrived, the shape that vision took in my mind while I’ve been here, and what potential I see in the future for the Fellowship.
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Nineteenth century poet Margaret Fuller died in a tragic way in 1850. And it was the writer Ralph Waldo Emerson who was perhaps most devastated by the loss. Bruce Bode portrays Emerson and Kate Lore portrays Fuller in a conversation imagined by Kate.
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“Love” is, indeed, “a many splendored thing” … particularly in the English language where it is used as an umbrella word to cover our positive feelings of everything from our links to inanimate objects to our most intimate human relationships. This sermon will attempt to distinguish some of our different types of love, with a special look, on this Sunday following Valentine’s Day, at “romantic love”.
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