Recent Sermons

By Interim Minister, the Rev. Joy Atkinson
By the Rev. Barbara Meyers
By the Rev. Chris Schriner
By Others

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Sermons by Our Interim Minister, the Rev. Joy Atkinson

• Still Dreaming: Dr. King's Unfinished Work (January 17, 2010)
   
• State of the Congregation (MP3 file) (Excerpts from the January 24, 2010 service)
   
• Still Dreaming: Dr. King's Unfinished Work (MP3 file) (Excerpts from the January 17, 2010 service)
   
• MP3 file or Civility and Graciousness (Excerpts from the January 10, 2010 service)
   
• Twelve Other Gifts (MP3 file) (Excerpts from the December 27, 2009 service)
   
• Christmas Eve Service (MP3 file) (December 24, 2009)
   
• (MP3 file) or Jesus the Sage (December 20, 2009)
   
• Who Can God Be...If He Isn't He...or She? (November 8, 2009)
   
• A Path With Heart: Our Unitarian Universalist Journeys (October 11, 2009)
   
• The Fabric of Diversity (October 4, 2009)
   
• What You Told Me About Your Hopes and Fears (September 20, 2009)
   
• When I Heard the Learned Astronomer (June 14, 2009)
   
• Our First Fifteen Years: Looking Back and Looking Forward (May 23, 2009)
   
• Hope is the Thing With Feathers: a Homily for Easter and Passover (April 12, 2009)
   
• From Mozart to Motown, Bach to Blues (March 15, 2009)
   
• Compassion, Community, and the Pursuit of Happiness (February 22, 2009)
   
• Failure is Impossible (February 15, 2009)
   
• The State of the Congregation (January 11, 2009)
   
• A Jolly Generosity (December 7, 2008)
   
• Thanksgiving Homily: For All That Is Our Life (November 23, 2008)
   
• The Election is Over - Now What? (November 9, 2008)
   
• Death, Remembrance, and the Meeting of Two Worlds (November 2, 2008)
   
• Loving The World (October 19, 2008)
   
• Growing In Spirit (October 12, 2008)
   
• The Miracle of Forgiveness (October 5, 2008)
   
• The Third Principle: Growing Souls (September 21, 2008)
   
• Just So Long, and Long Enough (September 14, 2008)
   

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Recent Sermons by the Rev. Barbara Meyers

• Spiritual Practices: Two Pulpitorials and a Sermon, by Graham Bell, Jackie Porter, and Rev. Barbara Meyers (February 21, 2010)
   
• The Resilient Spirit (November 29, 2009)
   
• The Perennial Philosophy (August 2, 2009)
   
• We are the Ones We've Been Waiting For (March 29, 2009)
   
• Friendship as a Calling (November 30, 2008)
   
• Knoxville and Letting Go (July 3, 2008)
   
• All the Lonely People (June 22, 2008)
   
• Televangelism (January 13, 2008)
   
• May Nothing Evil Cross This Door (August 19, 2007)
   
• Where Is Our Holy Church? (July 1, 2007)
   
• Humility (January 7, 2007)
   

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Recent Sermons by the Rev. Chris Schriner

• A Time of Parting (July 20, 2008)
   
• Life 102: Beginning Anew (July 13, 2008)
   
• When My Father Died (June 15, 2008)
   
• The UU Identity Crisis: Moving Toward a Solution (June 8, 2008)
   
• Confessions of a Warm-Blooded Dinosaur: Looking Back on 40 Years of Ministry (May 5, 2008)
   
• Do We Need to Fear Death? (March 23, 2008)
   
• Stand By This Faith: Serving the Mission of Mission Peak (February 24, 2008)
   
• Grandson Trumps Theology - Giving Gayness a Human Face (February 17, 2008)
   
• Meaning Grows From Within (February 3, 2008)
   
• Beyond Category, Beyond Prejudice: Realizing the Vision of Dr. King (January 20, 2008)
   
• Rocking the Cradle and Rocking the Boat (December 24, 2007)
   
• Natural Spirituality, for This World and This Life (December 9, 2007)
   
• A Gospel of Ignorance (November 18, 2007)
   
• Going Beyond the Long White Beard: Varieties of Unitarian Universalist Theism (November 4, 2007)
   
• Why Unitarian Universalism Matters (October 14, 2007)
   
• Human Unity and Ethnic Diversity (October 7, 2007)
   
• Freedom, Limits, and Positive Power (June 10, 2007)
   
• Days of Future: Lessons of the 1960s (May 27, 2007)
   
• Theism and Atheism: Brothers in Disguise? (March 11, 2007)
   
• Spirit Guides: Fact, Fantasy or Fallacy? (February 25, 2007)
   
• Saving the World - Ten People at a Time (February 11, 2007)
   
• Starting Fresh: The Art of Beginning Again (January 21, 2007)
   
• Starting Fresh II: Candid Conversation as a Spiritual Practice (January 28, 2007)
   

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Recent Sermons by Others

(MP3 file) Spiraling Into the Future (Excerpts from the January 3, 2010 service)
 

(MP3 file) Saving Lives/Helping Families, by Kevin Drewery (February 8, 2009)
 

(MP3 file) What Harry Potter Has Taught Me about Being a Unitarian Universalist, by Kevin Drewery (September 28, 2008)
 

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