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September, 2008

Title	Presenter	Church	Date presented
Partners in Faith: A Transylvanian Experience	Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman	The Unitarian Church of Montclair (NJ)	09/28/2008
Rosh Hashanah- 10 Days of Examining Your Life The Jewish "High Holy Days" are often called the Ten Days of Repentance or Ten Days of Awe that begin with Rosh Hashanah and end with Yom Kippur, the Jewish New year; they are meant to be a time to examine your life and to ask forgiveness for your sins. I think it very important that Jews believe that there are two kinds of sin, one against God, but the other other is against humans, usually loved ones! Therefore, the sins loved ones, friends, etc. only be forgiven by them, not God, and during these holy days we must ask this forgiveness! On the first day, God opens the Book of Life where all your sins are written and on the 10th day, God will close it, so you've only got 10 days to "atone" or ask forgiveness for your sins of the last year! Wouldn't this be a practical holiday for the world? A time of self examination, a time of true repentance , especially to those whom we have wronged or hurt in some way.	Rev. Arthur G. Severance	East Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, Kirtland, OH	09/28/2008
Thirty Years at All Souls in a Nutshell	Forrest Church	All Souls Unitarian Church (New York City)	09/28/2008
Be Present in the Present Wisdom teachers from a wide variety of theological, philosophical, psychological, and just plain practical perspectives agree on this: the power of your mind to shape your life experience. What about you? Do you believe that, as one saying goes, "You are the only one who can create the life you deserve."		UU Congregation of Somerset Hills	09/28/2008
Who Is My Neighbor?	Gary E. Smith	First Parish in Concord, MA	09/28/2008
The World Is Calling	Erin Gingrich	First Unitarian Church of Rochester NY	09/28/2008
Beloved Community: Making it Real Who are the moral owners of Unity Church? What is the relationship between personal and institutional morality? How can we move from "charity to solidarity" in our efforts for social justice?	Janne and Rob Eller-Isaacs	Unity Church-Unitarian, St. Paul, MN	09/28/2008
Religion or Science A few weeks ago in his sermon Fred addressed the question, "Do you believe in atheists?" I would like to examine this question from a slightly different angle. Many atheists are deeply rooted in science and find that, for them, it conflicts with religion. But must it? Let's look at the roles of science and religion and the tension between them in our present day.	Rev. Russ Savage	Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis	09/28/2008
Sanctuary We talk about establishing "safe space" for difficult conversations, seek refuge in a "sanctuary" built of glass and wood, practice "safer" sex, wear helmets. This summer we were reminded that danger is another foe of freedom.	Rev. Margie Allen	The Unitarian Church in Westport	09/28/2008
Our Sources I: The Experience of Mystery and Wonder We begin our exploration of Unitarian Universalism's sources where all liberal religion begin --: the heart of human experience.	Rev. John Cullinan	The Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, New Mexico	09/28/2008
Christine for President :) Christine thinks there are a few things that need talking about that the official candidates are avoiding. Therefore, she's launching her own candidacy. :)	Rev. Christine Robinson	First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque, NM	09/28/2008
Large Is Beautiful Too Congregations come in all sizes and each size has its challenges and its joys. What makes large congregations beautiful too?	Rev. Stefan Jonasson	Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Durham, NC	09/28/2008
The Stewardship of Risk The title comes from the Alban Institute church consultant and Unitarian Universalist minister, the Reverend Dan Hotchkiss. Speaking about churches’ roles in the world he writes: "One part of our accountability is for sheltering our common treasure against theft and waste. The other part of our accountability -— the part we aren't so good at —- is for the results that can come only when we weigh the stewardship of prudence against the stewardship of risk." As we go forward "Building Community" we might do well to ask ourselves, "What are we willing to risk?"	Rev. Arthur Vaeni	Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Olympia, WA	09/28/2008
the Wall	Rev. Tony Lorenzen	Pathways Church, Southlake, TX	09/28/2008
Stranger in a Strange Land	Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie	Arlington Street Church, Boston, MA	09/21/2008
With or Without God	Rev Patricia Sheldon	East Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, Kirtland, OH	09/21/2008
Let There Be Peace on Earth Today, we remember the events of July 27 at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville and reflect on the significance of our UU heritage. How are we called to serve our faith and to model its values in the world at large? Are you willing to live for this faith?		UU Congregation of Somerset Hills	09/21/2008
Getting Wide From God	Jenny M. Rankin	First Parish in Concord, MA	09/21/2008
Spread Thin	Scott Tayler	First Unitarian Church of Rochester NY	09/21/2008
Real Religious Freedom	Rev. Marlin Lavanhar	All Souls Unitarian Church of Tulsa	09/21/2008
Why I’m Still a Liberal This summer, someone asked me if I’d been a liberal all my life – and then proceeded to tell me why I hadn’t been! It got me thinking and questioning because there have been plenty of opportunities to be something other than a liberal. In an age of cynicism and fear, wearing and naming my liberal credentials has not been easy. Join me this morning as I reflect on why I’m still a Liberal.	Rev. Fred Muir	Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis	09/21/2008
A Noble Spirit Emerson put it well: "Who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. Who does a mean deed is by the act itself contracted." Simple. But not 'easy.'.	Rev. Frank A. Hall	The Unitarian Church in Westport	09/21/2008
Life Lists and Life Longings	Rev. Marti Keller	Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta	09/21/2008
The Spirituality of Kenosis, or Emptying Emptiness is a concept that is usually understood through Taoism or Budhism. In Phillipians, Paul said, "Jesus though he existed in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant."	Rev. Dr. Rob Manning	The Unitarian Church of Quincy, Illinois	09/21/2008
Watershed 1492 Evan Rose presents his understanding of Columbus and the impact of the European discovery of America. He combines his reading of Samuel Eliot Morison's "The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages, AD 1492-1616" with Charles C. Mann's "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus". Something big happened in 1492. We are still discovering what happened and exploring how it occurred.	Evan Rose	The Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, New Mexico	09/21/2008
Gusty Winds May Exist Much as we might like to think we have our lives all mapped out, fate and fortune have ways of sending unexpected changes to our plans. How do we understand such events in life? And, even if we cannot control them, how do we respond to them	Andrew Millard	First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque, NM	09/21/2008
Spirit Catcher The term "spirit" comes from the Latin, spirit us, meaning breath, and for centuries people have struggled to figure out how to get acquainted with this elusive something that their experience tells them is real, but is as intangible as air. How have Unitarians and Universalists caught the spirit? What role has community played in this? Even more importantly,what are the opportunities at ERUUF?	Rev. Deborah Cayer	Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Durham, NC	09/21/2008
Nature's Deranged Scheme Many people find profound spiritual insights in nature, but none quite like Annie Dillard. Her essays explore the heights of spiritual ecstasy as well as the depths of nature's cruelty. We'll look at natural theology through her extraordinary perceptions.	Reverend Bonnie Vegiard	Eliot Unitarian Chapel, Kirkwood, MO	09/21/2008
Moving Through Life with Reverence Albert Schweitzer wrote, “Actually, whenever love and devotion are glimpsed, reverence for life is not far off, since one grows from the other.” Although he acknowledged we could only live the reverence for life ethic in a relative manner, Albert Schweitzer maintained it was an absolute and universal ethic that needed to inform everything we do. What does it mean to live with reverence for life?	Rev. Arthur Vaeni	Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Olympia, WA	09/21/2008
Roots Hold Me Close	Rev. Arline Conan Sutherland	First Parish Lexington Unitarian Universalist	09/21/2008
Weirdoes From Another Planet	Rev. Tony Lorenzen	Pathways Church, Southlake, TX	09/21/2008
...And What Does It Mean to You?	Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman	The Unitarian Church of Montclair (NJ)	09/14/2008
Doubt: Hell in the Hallway	Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie	Arlington Street Church, Boston, MA	09/14/2008
We Have the Questions for All Your Answers (But we do have SOME answers) We Unitarian Universalists have always been the questioners, the doubters, yes, the heretics, but we also find answers. We do believe. We have a faith. It's just that it doesn't stand still, and that we are always adding to it! What do we believe? What have we believed? Who has been our sages?	Rev. Arthur G. Severance	East Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, Kirtland, OH	09/14/2008
Worshipping Obama	Kaaren Anderson	First Unitarian Church of Rochester NY	09/14/2008
What's in a Name The founders of our church chose their words carefully. For them the word pointed to the unity of religious experience. For us the word implies a quality of curiosity, engagement and respect. Are we living up to our name?	Rob Eller-Isaacs	Unity Church-Unitarian, St. Paul, MN	09/14/2008
In Our Own Tongues	Rev. Tamara Lebak	All Souls Unitarian Church of Tulsa	09/14/2008
For All That Is Our Life Join us for our last single service of the summer. As we move into our fall program year and a new year of transitions and opportunities, let us give thanks for all that is our life - together.	Rev. Fred Muir	Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis	09/14/2008
Living in the Layers In his poem, The Layers, Stanley Kunitz introduces a voice that admonishes him to 'live in the layers, not on the litter.' It's all about change, growth and an abiding faith in the process.	Rev. Frank A. Hall	The Unitarian Church in Westport	09/14/2008
Turnings: The Amazing Story of John Murray	Rev. Anthony David	Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta	09/14/2008
The Prophetic Voice of American Agrarianism When Kevin began, he thought he would speak about our little corner of American Culture. As the talk took form, the subject changed to include the community and economy at large. The talk is a studied, philosophical, prophetic outline of agrarian principles; an agrarian proposal for change.	Kevin Ballard	The Unitarian Church of Quincy, Illinois	09/14/2008
Many Pillars Make This House "The living tradition which we share draws from many sources . . ." The richness of our movement grows out of the steadfast and faithful work of many different peoples from different lands and times. As we spend some time this year looking to the sources of our faith, we must first remember that all these sources enrich us.	Rev. John Cullinan	The Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, New Mexico	09/14/2008
How to Apologize We all have to do it. Perhaps we have to do it over and over. This simple and oh, so necessarily human act is a vital part of human relationships.	Rev. Christine Robinson	First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque, NM	09/14/2008
The Power of Mission The Bible claims “where there is no vision the people perish”. We begin a five-part series on ERUUF’s new mission statement. Why is mission so critical to our personal lives and the life of a congregation? How do we create and live out a free inclusive covenantal religious community…and what will it mean if we do?	Rev. Don Southworth	Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Durham, NC	09/14/2008
Learning to be White Somehow, most of us grew up thinking that being "white" or being Caucasian was normal and everything else was exotic. How did we learn this? If we don't unlearn it, will racism ever end?	Reverend Dr. Daniel O'Connell	Eliot Unitarian Chapel, Kirkwood, MO	09/14/2008
Four Reasons to Try Something Different Reason number 1: The experience of human life is incredibly precious. Reason number 2: The experience of human life is incredibly short. Reason number 3: Society is often designed to deny reason number 1. Reason number 4: As short as life may be, we are continually sowing the seeds of our future in our present actions.	Rev. Arthur Vaeni	Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Olympia, WA	09/14/2008
Limbos and Bardos	Rev. Arline Conan Sutherland	First Parish Lexington Unitarian Universalist	09/14/2008
The Times They Are A-Changin	Elizabeth Vise, Cameron Gunter, and Alan Wat	Pathways Church, Southlake, TX	09/14/2008
Dreams	Keith Troughton	Unitarian Church Dublin	09/14/2008
...To the Labors of the Day	Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman	The Unitarian Church of Montclair (NJ)	09/07/2008
Let the Wild Rumpus Start!	Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie	Arlington Street Church, Boston, MA	09/07/2008
Governance as a Spiritual Experience Three years ago, UUCA's Board moved to PBG which has been a significant shift in its mode of operation. It has also meant a major change in the way we "do" church.	Rev. Mary Higgins	Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis	09/07/2008
Homecoming Sunday - What They Dreamed be Our to Do As our congregation enters its 60th year, we look back with appreciation and forward with hope.	Rev. Frank A. Hall	The Unitarian Church in Westport	09/07/2008
Declaring Interdependence	Rev. Anthony David	Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta	09/07/2008
What Do You Believe? This is the first in a series of sermons on "The Big Questions" -- those areas of ultimate human inquiry that all faith traditions pursue answers to. In our tradition there is, of course, no one right answer to this question. It is, perhaps, the most important religious question, and the one about which we talk the least. Join us for the first of seven deep explorations. And bring a friend!	Rev. John Cullinan	The Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, New Mexico	09/07/2008
Simplicity Inward and outward simplicity, simplicity of heart and simplicity of lifestyle, are two values we strive for but rarely attain. What would it be like to live more simply?	Rev. Christine Robinson	First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque, NM	09/07/2008
Water Communion and Ingathering We celebrate the “unofficial” coming together, the ingathering, of our community once again. We will mingle the waters of our life and speak about the metaphorical and real meanings of water and communion.	Rev. Don Southworth	Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Durham, NC	09/07/2008
Sim Spirituality In an online role playing game with seven million subscribers (called Second Life), there is the "First Unitarian Universalist Church of Second Life." Is the term "virtual church" an oxymoron?	Reverend Dr. Daniel O'Connell	Eliot Unitarian Chapel, Kirkwood, MO	09/07/2008
Welcome Home	Rev. Arline Conan Sutherland	First Parish Lexington Unitarian Universalist	09/07/2008
Holy Now	Jana Wertheim	Pathways Church, Southlake, TX	09/07/2008
Watching	Rev. Bill Darlison	Unitarian Church Dublin	09/07/2008
Homecoming, Return to a New Year, Water Communion	Rev. Arthur G. Severance	East Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, Kirtland, OH	09/07/2008
Building a New Way	Rev. Marlin Lavanhar	All Souls Unitarian Church of Tulsa	09/07/2008

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