We celebrate the Winter Season of 2022 by recognizing the Holidays of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. We celebrate Hanukkah on December 19tt, through December 26th. We recognize and honor Kwanzaa from December 26th through January 1st. And on this Sunday, we celebrate Christmas Day.
Today’s talk is entitled, “Love In Action,” a sermon calling our Unitarian Universalist Principles, Sources and Purpose into view. As Unitarian Universalists we honor our “Living Tradition” by committing to an ongoing examination of where we are as a faith, what we believe, and how to change what needs to be updated and or changed. … Continue reading Love In Action
This Sunday’s sermon honors the day that the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is observed every year on the 10th of December. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a milestone document, and is the most translated document in the world today. As we endure these … Continue reading All Human, All Equal
This week’s message will focus upon our commitment to creating a more loving, just and sustainable world, what we refer to as a Beloved Community. One challenge to this commitment is the very real theological tension, within ourselves, within society and within Unitarian Universalism, between individualism and interdependence. “The central task of the religious community … Continue reading Widening the Circle
Today’s talk is entitled, “Thanksgiving/Thanksgrieving.” I purposely used a slash between the two words for a reason. I asked myself the question; can both concepts be held up to the light in the same place, in the same space and in the same container, is both /and possible? When I Googled Thanksgrieving, what comes up … Continue reading Thanksgiving/Thanksgrieving
This Sunday’s Sermon honors our Unitarian Universalist seventh principle; “Respect for the Interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.” We shall remind ourselves that every action that we take effects everything around us and beyond. That our perceived separation is just that, a perceived and learned construct. This construct is not … Continue reading As We Rise, We Lift Others
Today’s message will explore if a time like this, of great uncertainty and tumult, can add a feeling, an attitude, can add an acceleration to everything we come in contact with. This Sunday’s message will remind us to slow down. Could the worries we have, those that concern us the most, be tied into our … Continue reading No Hurry, No Worry
This Sunday our service recognizes the Mexican Holiday “Día de los Muertos” or “Day of the Dead,” where families welcome back the souls of their deceased relatives for a reunion in the realm of the living. We invite our members and friends to bring pictures, keepsakes or mementos of their departed ones to add to … Continue reading Honoring the Ancestors
Our sermon topic is “The Beauty of Individual Differences,” the title of an article written years ago by Kiana Dicker. It is the story of famed sculptor and departed member of our Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, John Waddell. The title also frames my belief in the beauty of individual differences as the basis for our … Continue reading The Beauty of Individual Differences
On this day, our sermon focuses upon the original inhabitants of this sacred and wonderful land upon which we live. Communities around the world and here in Arizona are taking a moment to remember and honor October 11th as Indigenous People’s Day. We shall reflect upon what it must have felt like to be discovered … Continue reading Celebrating Indigenous People’s Day
