Speaker: Rev. Anthony Mtuaswa Johnson

Rolling Back The Stone

Our Worship Service, “Rolling Back The Stone,” will recognize Easter Sunday, Passover, and Ramadan, as well as those Earth Centered Traditions that recognize ancient, naturally occurring phenomenon. We will ask what a time after the earthquake might look like. A time after the death of white supremacy, a time when the people rose up and … Continue reading Rolling Back The Stone

Sermon on The Amount

Our SUUF Worship Service, “Sermon On The Amount,” will ask us to consider what is truly ours. So, what is yours? How about, what you came here with. Your wit, your insight, your character, a gallbladder, couple hips, a head and a heart. Money is not yours, it is something you earned, inherited or was … Continue reading Sermon on The Amount

The Great Undoing

“The Great Undoing” could be a prescription for our current time of turmoil within America. This worship service will offer a way, an attitude, an internal expression, an embodied approach to whatever is happening around us and our families. The good news is you already know how to do this. This in-person service takes place … Continue reading The Great Undoing

Living With Intention

Our worship service this Sunday will ask us to consider the difference between setting intentions that pull us forward or outward to set new goals which is a good thing. And Living with Intention which speaks to allowing ourselves to be pulled inward, to listen to that inner voice where matters of the heart await … Continue reading Living With Intention

A Strange Freedom

This SUUF Worship Service will give voice to the Reverend Howard Thurman, mystic, preacher and spiritual advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr. Reverend Thurman was the first black dean at a white university, co-founder of the first interracially pastored, intercultural church in the United States and gives an unparalleled insight into the religious experience and … Continue reading A Strange Freedom

Critical Race Theory

Our lawmakers, parents, many think tanks, and conservative pundits continue to wage a war over how to teach students about systemic racism. These activists and lawmakers have centered much of their anger on a framework called Critical Race Theory. This sermon will clarify that CRT is a body of legal scholarship from the 70s and … Continue reading Critical Race Theory

Of Bone and Sinew

Ellen Craft and her husband William escaped American Slavery on an amazing journey of one-thousand miles in search of peace and freedom. Clutching their dream of having children born as free persons, born of free ”bone and sinew,” their saga is one of love and one of the most unique stories in American history. “Love … Continue reading Of Bone and Sinew

What is Faith

This Worship Service will explore the meaning of faith. How does your faith guide you or how does it reveal itself to others, or does it? In the Living Tradition of Unitarian Universalism we shall ask ourselves and ponder the question: What does it mean to have faith? “To have faith is to trust yourself … Continue reading What is Faith

Poetry as a Spiritual Practice (Part 3)

Reverend Anthony shares his original poetry and hosts this special SUUF Worship Service, featuring original and favorite poems presented by SUUF Members and Friends along with music from Susannah Martin. “Poetry may make us a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being” ….T.S. Eliot This in-person service … Continue reading Poetry as a Spiritual Practice (Part 3)