Sermons

What are the intersections of transgender identity and religious experience? How does being trans impact faith formation? And what lessons does that experience hold for all of us? These questions will be explored in a worship service led by Jamez Terry, founder of the Tranny Roadshow and M.Div. candidate at Harvard Divinity School. He...
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As we contemplate once again reasons for giving to our congregation, we will celebrate the good that this congregation accomplishes together. Eric Lawson will remind us of the social justice work which we undertook together during the last year. Barbara Kass will remind us of the caring for each other that we do in...
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We will never be able to fully comprehend nor define God. And yet there must be an equivalent concept in our religious lives if we are to fully explore and express what it means to be humanus religiosus. This is the second in our series about the reasons we gather in religious community. The...
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We prepare ourselves for the High Holy Days of the Jewish tradition by contemplating the question of forgiveness. The Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur service we will read together on October 2 calls for us to forgive everyone who has harmed us, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and then we ask for forgiveness for the injuries we...
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At General Assembly this year, Rev. Peter Morales told the delegates that we need to “get religion.” The word “get” can mean, of course, both “understanding” and “acquiring.” His comment and a lecture by the minister of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City inspired me to do a sermon series...
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Rev. Linda Hoddy Please bring a small amount of water from a place which touched your spirit this summer. We will pour the waters into a common container to symbolize the coming together after summer journeys. Children will participate in the Joining of the Waters and then go to their classrooms for religious education...
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