SERMON ARCHIVES
Seasons, Evangelists, and the Power of Healing in Community
Paige Rappleye | February 5, 2023
Don’t let the title scare you. Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show won’t be in the parking lot to heal you with a touch. But some powerful testimony will be shared, and you may leave with more questions than answers. Laugh, cry, and perhaps even be born again?
Leadership (and Followership)
Rev. Samuel Schaal | January 29, 2023
We emphasize the need for leadership. What about followership? How does the dance of these two movements create the container for a successful relationship with a minister?
Creative Conflict
Rev. Samuel Schaal | January 22, 2023
Is conflict essential in discovering our center? Should we avoid or engage conflict? How can healthy conflict bless us?
Praise and Protest
Martin Luther King Sunday
Rev. Samuel Schaal | January 15, 2023
The role of the Black church was central to the mid-20th century civil rights movement. Its dual emphasis was protesting the inequalities of society while praising the presence of the sacred. How might we in the liberal free faith take these principles?
Revisiting the Center of our Faith
Rev. Samuel Schaal | January 8, 2023
Our Unitarian Universalist Association is considering revising Article II of the bylaws that includes the principles, sources and purposes of our association. Their draft creates a simplified center of our faith. How might this call us into the next generation of our movement?
What Illuminates Your Life?
Jim Reay | January 1, 2023
New Year’s Day is a wonderful opportunity to assess life’s blessings and consider future aspirations.
Christmas Morning
Intergenerational Worship
Rev. Samuel Schaal | December 25, 2022
What did you get for Christmas? In word and song, we realize the real gifts of life.
Christmas Eve
Intergenerational Worship
Rev. Samuel Schaal | December 24, 2022
The journeying couple found shelter among the humble animals where new life was born. This suggests that our own common journeys hold blessing and wonder. We gather on this dark night to light candles and bring light to the world.
Holiday Service of Song With the UUCS Choir
Rev. Samuel Schaal | December 18, 2022
In word and song, we celebrate the majesty and melodies of the season.
Would You Like to Hold the Baby?
Rev. Samuel Schaal | December 11, 2022
Our congregation of all ages gathers to enact Joyce Poley’s pageant of original songs and story. As we ponder the timeless story of Mary and Joseph, the kings and shepherd, we embrace the many meanings that Christmas holds for us.
A Year of Giving Thanks
Rev. Samuel Schaal | December 4, 2022
Our beloved community is supported by the work and gifts of our members and friends. We gather to celebrate our shared interdependence as we approach a new generation of ministry.
Waiting for Wonder
Rev. Samuel Schaal | November 27, 2022
In a world of changing forms, the winter holidays offer a time of stillness to discover peace, grace and a sense of wonder.
Beyond Categorical Thinking
Rev. Samuel Schaal | November 20, 2022
Healing the Nation
Rev. Samuel Schaal | November 13, 2022
We honor those who have joined the congregation since last spring.
Deep River
Rev. Samuel Schaal | November 6, 2022
We ponder African American theologian Howard Thurman’s idea of the deep river in African American spirituals, reflecting the journey of life to death and remembrance. We name those from the congregation who have died over the past year.
Bring photos and mementos of those you have loved and lost to display on the memory table in the sanctuary.
Golden Rule Sunday
Rebecca Riggs | October 30, 2022
The Courage to Let Go
Rev. Samuel Schaal | October 23, 2022
Lifting Our Voices
Amy St. Peter | October 16, 2022
Confronting White Supremacy Culture
Rev. Samuel Schaal | October 9, 2022
The term white supremacy suggests images of the KKK in robes. True enough. White supremacy also subtly affects our institutions, even our congregations.
Repentance and Right Relationship
Rev. Samuel Schaal | October 2, 2022
Yom Kippur is a Jewish holy day calling us into repentance and right relationship with each other and all of creation. Taking the first step toward such repentance requires courage.
To Covenant
Amy St. Peters | September 25, 2022
As we search for a new minister, we search for what defines us, what binds us, and what inspires us as a faith community. We will unpack the covenants that have shaped us to date and the covenants that will guide us into the future.
Saving the World Ten at a Time
Lois Bartel and Liz Thomas | September 18, 2022
Creating community is part of our mission as a faith. We explore the place of covenantal small group ministries in the congregation.
Better Together
Rev. Samuel Schaal | September 11, 2022
We celebrate the Water Communion, a UU tradition. Bring a small vial of water symbolizing the living waters that sustain you.
Justice, Mercy and Humility
Cynthia Baker | September 4, 2022
Cynthia Baker, Labor in the Pulpit speaker from the Arizona AFO-CIO, considers Micah’s ancient injunction against the contemporary state of workers’ rights and the labor movement.
Stillness in an Age of Anxiety
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | August 28, 2022
All the philosophies and theologies of the ancient world understood stillness as the most powerful force in the world. In our age of anxiety, how can stillness focus us, root us, and empower us in our work?
Loving the World, Anyway
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | August 21, 2022
This summer was seasoned with cataclysmic events that thwarted the world as we knew it—Supreme Court decisions, floods and fires, international conflict, more tribalization of politics, even an attack on our own campus. How can we love and serve such a world? Three principles from Stoicism suggest an approach.
Is Giving Stuff Away the Kind of Social Change Jesus Came to Teach?
Jon Katov | August 14, 2022
Sermon Recording
Brooke Gaunt | August 7, 2022
Sermon Recording
Amy St. Peter | July 31, 2022
Sermon Recording
Joanne Thomson | July 24, 2022
An Improbable Librarian and Our Unlikely Library
Juliet Gustavson | July 17, 2022
Telling Stories
Rebecca Riggs | July 10, 2022
Sermon Recording
July 3, 2022
Upon Reflection
David King | June 26, 2022
Juneteenth: Don’t Hallmark My Holiday
Emrys Station | June 19, 2022
The Blessings of Sabbath
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | June 12, 2022
The Blessings of Imperfection
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | June 5, 2022
A Memorial to America
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | May 29, 2022
A Stream of Light: Unitarianism in America
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | May 22, 2022
Beauty and Justice
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | May 15, 2022
Motherhood
Amy St. Peter | May 8, 2022
Beyond Welcome
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | May 1, 2022
Awakening to Interdependence
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | April 24, 2022
Awakening to Joy
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | April 17, 2022
The UUCS Choir performs.
Great Expectations
Juliet Gustavsonl, Guest Leader | April 10, 2022
Awakening the Breath
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | April 3, 2022
The UUCS Choir performs.
Roots of a New Faith
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | March 27, 2022
First in an Occasional Series of the History of Our Living Tradition
The freedom of our Living Tradition makes it look like an easy faith. But the emergence of Unitarianism in Europe arose out of difficulty and crisis with our forebears imprisoned, executed and forced into exile. From these adversities emerged a new faith on the global stage.
I Believe
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | March 20, 2022
Faithful Doubt
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | March 13, 2022
Holding On and Letting Go
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | March 6, 2022
Beloved Everybody
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | February 27, 2022
Draw the Circle Wider
Guest Speaker – Dr. Mary Rothschild | February 20, 2022
Should We Love Our Enemies?- A Golden Rule Sermon
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | February 13, 2022
deeply disagree?
Remembering the Future
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | February 6, 2022
Being Present
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | January 30, 2022
Remembering the Future
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | January 23, 2022
Intentionally Interdependent
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | January 16, 2022
We honor the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as we explore his idea of the network of mutuality. Overcoming racism isn’t just overcoming prejudice. It’s being religiously aware of our interdependence and working to build a more just and antiracist society.
History Wall follows at 11:45 a.m. in the Social Hall and continues for the next several weeks.
Living the Question
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | January 9, 2022
An Intentional New Year
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | January 2, 2022
Searching for Truth
David King, Worship Associate | December 26, 2021
been challenged in the past year.
Joy in the Jungle: A Holiday Tale
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | December 19, 2021
Waiting for Joy
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | December 12, 2021
Harvest the Power
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | December 5, 2021
Stewardship Sunday
When we gather, our spirit is greater than the sum of individuals. How might the Living Tradition of our faith empower us to
serve each other and the world?
Faith and Sufficiency
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | November 28, 2021
Perceptions and Transitions
Amy St. Peter, Worship Associate | November 21, 2021
Creative Advance
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | November 14, 2021
Life, Death and Immortality
Rev. Samuel Schaal, Transition Minister | November 7, 2021
What in one’s life is immortal? We will honor the lives of church members who died in the last year-plus.
Where am I?
Juliet Gustavson, Guest Leader | October 31, 2021
Held by Grace
Rev. Samuel Schaal | October 24, 2021
Reaching Out
Rev. Samuel Schaal | October 17, 2021
Freely Bound
Rev. Samuel Schaal | October 10, 2021
Cultivating Your Soul
Rev. Samuel Schaal | October 3, 2021