Archival Sermons
We present here selected sermons from our ministers and guest speakers from the past.
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- Wounded Words
- Our Commitments to Carry on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Legacy
- Gender Destiny
- Building FAITH in Community, Part 1: Foundations
- Building FAITH in Community, Part 2: A Church for All Souls
- Building FAITH in Community, Part 4: Transcendence
- Building FAITH in Community, Part 5: Hope
- The Tibetan Debt to Death
- Ten Good Reasons to Resist Change
- The Ethics of Conversation
- Legacies of Phophetic Leadership
- Power and Patience
- Kwanzaa Values for the New Year
- Wherever You Go, There You Are
- Our Theology, Part 1: Atheism is Always Right, Always Wrong
- Our Theology, Part 2: Beyond Theism
- Do Youth Have Souls?
- Spiritual Formation of the U. S. Constitution, Part I
- Spiritual Formation of the U. S. Constitution, Part 2
- Leap of Faith: The Perils of Government Funding Religion
- Einstein: Person of the Century
- The New Story of the Universe
- Enjoying My Shoes
- The Spirit of Public Education
- The “Suppose…” Node
- A Theology of Rage
- Sustaining Each Other
- By the People
- A Hunger for Hope
- Let It Shine
- Don’t Let the Light Go Out!
- Christmas Eve Message
- What I’ve Learned About Prayer So Far
- Reclaiming Mythos in a Logos World
- What Was So Radical About The Radical Reformation?
- The Spirit of Creativity
- Transcendentalism is Still Controversial
- Starting Places
- The Arc of the UUniverse Bends Towards Merger
- Ancient Site-Seeing as Pilgrimage
- A Sufi is as a Sufi Does
- Spiritual Courage
- Call of the Wild, the Challenge of the Web
- What UU’s Believe
- Pooh & Friends, Seeking Oneness, on the Road to Iraq
- The Art at the Heart
- The P’u Way
- A Pecan Tree Legacy: Faith In the Future
- Food for the Spirit
- Where the Awesome Meets the Familiar
- A Call to Faith, Liberally
- Can We Hold America to UU Values
- Hear the Angels Sing
- A Beacon for the Third Dimension
- I Gotta Be Me, You Gotta Be You. Now What!?
- A Theology of Ecology: Greening Our Faith
- Holy as Mud
- Theodore Parker and the Coherence Factor
- Turn the World Right Side Up: The Journey of Sojourner Truth
- Practice on the Path
- BothAndian Humanism
- You Matter to God: the Heart of Universalism
- Lesser Known Origins of Mother’s Day
- The Young Adult in All of Us
- Sharing Creative Spirit
- Animal Encounters
- Paint Branch Creative Visions
- “The Best Known Sermon Ever Preached in America”
- To Forgive is Human
- Time is Personified in Us
- Neo-Family Values, Part 1: At Home
- Reflections on War Through My Father’s Eyes
- Neo-Family Values, Part 2: Beyond Home
- Stars to Look At, Stars to See
- Adlerian Psychology: A Psychology for UU’s
- Beyond Fear
- Music of the Heart: Howard Thurman’s Legacy
- Rumi, With Music
- To Celebrate Things of Worth
- “Born Again” Unitarian Universalists?
- “The Heart is Bigger Than Trouble”
- Sabbatical Reflections
- Is Public Education Dead?
- A Stranger in My Own Hometown
- Salvation Through Lenses, Part 1: The 6 1/2 Spiritual Laws of Success
- Our 50th Anniversary: The Art and Spirit of Paint Branch
- Our 50th Anniversary: Founders Day Service
- Our 50th Anniversary: Wrestling Less with Angels Than with Prophets
- Our 50th Anniversary: Finale Sunday
- The Gospel of Unitarian Universalism in Music
- Out of the Ashes
- A Progressive Paradigm for Guiding Groups
- Unitarian Churches in India? Where? When? How?
- The Promised Land of Health Care
- Men in Motion
- Reclaiming Sin
- Religious History You Can UUse
- Three Faces of Compassion
- Not Your Father’s Father
- Eat, Drink and CommUUne
- I Love My Body
- We Have Values, Too
- Once Upon A Vision Quest
- War and Innocence
- Learning How to Learn
- Shoring Up the Wall
- Aggression vs. Violence
- A Living Web: 20 Years in Ministry
- 21st Century Religious Leadership
- Why Die? The Quest for Immortality
- The Rainbow Crucifixion
- Hosea Ballou: The First Unitarian Universalist
- The Miracle of Hope Made Human
- My Journey From Homophobia
- What Would Martin Do?
- Marriage Matters
- Playing with Fire
- Vitality — A Little Dab’ll Do Ya
- Justice Sunday
- The Answer to Bad Religion
- The Mother of All (American) Religion
- Thinking Like a Mountain
- Raising the Curtain on Quantum Reality
- Prayer’s Gifts
- It Is Written
- To Life! (More or Less)
- Mothertalk
- Trusting the Voyage: Images of Quest and Hope
- Great Moments in Universalism: Young Hosea Ballou Converts!
- Recovery for the Rest of Us
- Rejoice!
- Without Us
- I’m Not a Buddhist, But…
- On Being White
- Finding Your Voice
- The Transcendent Within
- Vibrant Imperfection
- Consider the Arc of Your Path
- Playground for the Soul
- The Holy Cycles of Life
- Race: The Power of an Illusion
- “Nothing But the Truth Will Do” – The First Feminist—Margaret Fuller, Unitarian
- But It Says so in the Bible
- Solidarity — A Compelling Quandary
- To Tell The Truth
- Property Rights and Wrongs
- What Does a UU Theologian Eat for Breakfast?
- A Beckoning Light
- Scenarios of Spiritual Spaciousness
- Stepping Forth, Then and Now
- No Future Without Forgiveness
- Modern Scripture, Part 1: From a Birmingham Jail
- Holy Horcrux!
- Modern Scripture, Part 2: From After Slavery
- What Gift Will You Give?
- Sovereignty in Each Other’s Back Yard
- What It’s Like to Live Now
- The Community Within and the Community Without
- Clouds of Consciousness
- When All Else Melts Away
- America’s Real Religion
- On the Verge: Our Opening Farewell
- E Pluribus Unum – Out of Many, One
- Gathered Around the Chalice
- Coming Home, Going Forth: The Spiritual Cycle of Life
- Called To Serve
- Remembering the Past, Transforming the Future
- After the Storm
- Painting the Face of the Holy
- Outward Darkness, Inward Hope
- What Gift Can We Bring?
- Education for All
- Present Moment, Wonderful Moment
- How Shall We Eat?
- The Kingdom of Greatness
- While We Live
- Love Lifted Me
- When the Chalice Burns Low
- The Language of the Heart
- One For All and All For One
- To You I Give
- A Faith for Hard Times
- Rolling Away the Stone
- When the Rivers Run Dry
- Knowing Our Power: Stories of Self, Us, and Now
- Our Mother, the Earth
- A Saving Faith
- Finding Our Way Through Failure
- A System in Crisis
- Are We People of Faith?
- Now Is The Time
- A Theology of Pain and Suffering
- Water Wealth, Water Justice
- Dark of Winter
- Getting Ready
- Gifts
- When the Wind Lifts Your House
- Re-Imagining Valentine’s Day
- Take Joy
- Toward a “Vibrant Community Ministry”
- Liberation
- Is Jesus Risen?
- Counting the Ways, with Mirth
- Margaret Fuller: A 19th Century Woman for the 21st Century
- Crown Thy Good, Under God?
- On Purpose
- On Movement
- Our Neighbors
- Height, Depth, Breadth
- Silence as a Gift
- Season’s Greetings
- Mother Mary
- Herald that Birth
- Lighting the Chalice – More than a Ritualhttp://pbuuc.org/2011/01/09/lighting-the-chalice-more-than-a-ritual/
- My Soul has Grown Deep
- Quoting the Bible
- Standing on the Side of… Marriage?
- Lilies and Sparrows
- For Us and For Others
- Freedom Is Coming, but It Won’t Get Here By Itself
- Beauty Before Us
- In My Mother’s House
- Begin with the End in Mind
- Towards An Intentional Multicultural Congregation: Next Steps In The Journey
- The Power of Our Stories
- The Power of our Unitarian Universalist Story
- The Help, the Quote, and Fortune
- Being Green
- Still Loved
- Public Education Sunday