Sermon Archive

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A Caddo Indian myth is our starting point for this meditation on tyranny, obsession, and the human power to dream of a new direction for individuals or whole communities. May this powerful story help us dream a stronger dream, and raise a stronger song! Sermon by Rev. Craig Moro.

Our Wy’east teenagers will lead the worship service, sharing what they’ve learned from the Coming of Age curriculum and what they personally believe in. 

Listen to the Children's Story: "Martian Rock," by Carol Diggory Shields

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Good science fiction deals in big ideas. It imagines whole worlds, their origins and their destinies, much like religious scriptures do. It suggests possibilities and alternatives to what we see around us. Let’s travel through time and space to explore some of these alternatives together. Sermon by Rev. Craig Moro.

As the fifth and last speaker this year on our social justice theme of children, Laurie Gift Harris, the executive director of AIDS Orphan Education Trust, will talk about her work in Uganda with this program that serves a thousand children.

Come celebrate an intergenerational service as we honor the diversity of our congregation. Bring a flower from your garden, a nearby field, or the local market and see what a beautiful bouquet we can make. Service led by Wy’east member Amy O’Brien.

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Years ago, in Thailand, a dear friend shared these questions with me. She told me that if I tried to answer them honestly and carefully, I might come to know myself better than before. Come this morning, and I’ll share them with you. Bring your friends along! Sermon by Rev. Craig Moro.

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Emily Goetz is the managing director of a communications agency unique in that it works solely for causes. Emily will share about her own path toward defining a life and work that supports positive change and community, plus ideas on how others can explore what community means to them, including what the positive change is they can contribute.

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Folktales, like religious scriptures, have a bottomless quality. There’s no end to the meanings we can discover, if we keep looking. This morning, let’s cross a river with The Three Billy Goats Gruff and see what we can find on the surface, below the bridge, and over on the other side. This story is definitely not just for children! Sermon by Rev. Craig Moro. 

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We are all familiar with the passage of time; at moments it moves too slowly and at others too fast. Sometimes we lose time, and sometimes we find it. Join the Reed College Unitarian Universalist group in an exploration of time and the changes it has wrought.

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Sometimes it is through suffering loss that we learn to go deeper and discover tremendous possibilities. Sermon by Rev. Mark Gallagher.

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