Sermons at First Parish Church

We have many of Rev. Kemler’s sermons in audio form, going back 12 years now. Click on the links to play the sermons in your browser (in a new window); click the triangle next to a year for links to that year’s sermons.

We have transcribed a few score of Rev. Kemler’s sermons (and a few from guest ministers); these go back 15 years. Again, click the triangle next to Transcripts for the links.

  2021

June	13 Bridging ( YouTube )	06 Emerging ( YouTube )
May	30 Memorializing the Fallen ( audio; YouTube )	23 Stories Thin and Thick ( audio; YouTube )	09 How to Hold the Deeper Stories ( audio; YouTube )	02 We’re All a Little Broken and We All Belong ( audio; video: the Singing Ministers; YouTube )
April	25 Becoming ( audio, Li Kynvi; video: How to meditate, Li Kynvi; YouTube )	18 Never Finished, Always Enough ( audio; YouTube )	04 Easter: We Rise ( audio – Li Kynvi; audio –Elea Kemler; YouTube )
March	21 What Will We Carry Forward? ( audio; YouTube )	07 The Light of Change ( audio; YouTube )
February	28 Beginning with the End in Mind ( audio; YouTube )	07 Beautiful, Broken, and Real ( audio; YouTube )
January	24 Both, Between, and Neither (Li Kynvi) ( audio; YouTube )	24 Hineni (audio; YouTube )	17 Our Better Angels (audio; YouTube )	10 What To Tell the Children (audio; YouTube )	03 A New Word for a New Year (audio; YouTube )

•       2020

  December	05 Thirty-first: (audio; YouTube )
  November	22 Thirtieth: (YouTube )	08 Twenty-ninth: (YouTube )	01 Twenty-eighth: (YouTube )
  October	18 Twenty-seventh: (audio; YouTube )	11 Twenty-sixth: (audio; YouTube )	04 Twenty-fifth: (audio; YouTube )
  September	27 Twenty-fourth: (audio; YouTube )	20 Twenty-third: (audio; YouTube )	13 Twenty-second: (audio; YouTube )
  August	23 Twenty-first: (audio; YouTube )	16 Twentieth: (audio; YouTube )	02 Nineteenth: (audio; YouTube )
  July	19 Eighteenth: (audio; YouTube )	12 Seventeenth: (audio; YouTube )	05 Sixteenth: (audio; YouTube )
  June	21 Fifteenth: (audio; YouTube )	14 Fourteenth: (audio; YouTube )	07 Thirteenth (Alison Chase): (audio; YouTube )
  May	31 Twelfth: (audio; YouTube )	24 Eleventh: (audio; YouTube )	17 Tenth: (audio; YouTube )	10 Ninth: (audio; YouTube )	03 Eighth: (audio; YouTube )
  April	26 Seventh: (audio; YouTube )	19 Sixth: Three Ministers Walk Into a Deli (audio; YouTube )	12 Fifth virtual church service (audio; YouTube )	05 Fourth virtual church service (audio; YouTube )
  March	29 Third virtual church service (audio; YouTube )	22 Second virtual church service (YouTube )	15 FPCoG’s first virtual church service (YouTube )	08 Mend and Repair (Rev. Mary Margaret Earl) (audio)	01 Five Things Not to Believe (audio)
  February	23 Feed Your Enemy’s Children; Learn Their Word for Home (audio)	16 Be Generous in Your Dreaming (audio)	09 Blessed Are the Forgotten, the Unrepresented, and the Kind (audio)	02 Patience Is More Than A Virtue (Nancy Baker) (audio)
  January	26 The Place Where I Stand (audio)	19 Braver Together (audio)	12 To Hope Is to Give Yourself to the Future (audio)	05 Beautiful in the Inches (audio)

•       2019

  December	24 A Pinhole of Light (transcript) (Autumn Sandrom’s Moth story)	15 In Defiance, In Hope, In Delight, In Gladness (audio)	08 Refections on a Superhero Peace Candle (Eric Elbot) (audio); Undone and Imperfect, Alive and Filled with Grace (Rev. Kemler) (audio)
  November	17 Vulnerability is the Path, Courage is the Light (audio)	10 The Way of The Heart (Marisa Benson) (audio)
  October	20 These Fleeting Temples We Make Together (audio)	13 On Behalf of Life (audio; tran­script)	06 Start Over, Always Start Over (audio)
  September	29 In This Autumn Light, There Is a Path for Beginning Again (audio)	22 The Thread That Runs Between Us (audio; tran­script)	15 The No Becoming Yes (audio; tran­script)
  June	02 Gone to the Fields to Be Lovely (audio)
  May	19 The Place We Stand on the Days our Feet are Sore (audio)	12 Kiss This Beautiful, Holy Ground (audio)	05 Perpetual Becoming (Marisa Benson) (audio)
  April	28 Restoring a Ceme­tery in Bialy­stock (Josh & Amy Degan) (audio; Bialystok Cenetery Restor­ation)	21 The Doors of Hope (audio)	14 Living at the Edge of Our Imaginations (audio; transcript)
  March	24 Radical Hospitality: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (audio; transcript; Fr. Boyle’s speech)	17 Larger Worlds Than We Can Imagine (audio)	10 Loaves, Fishes, and My Grandmother’s Cookies (audio)	03 Loved into Being (audio [partial — missing the last 1–2 min.]; transcript)
  February	24 The Fibrillating Heart of the World (audio | transcript)	17 UU Faith (Jane Thickstun) (audio)	10 The Kindness Which Sustains This Beauti­ful, Aching World (audio)	03 Faithful to Living (audio)
  January	13 Flesh and Blood and Bone and Spirit (audio | transcript)	06 How to Give Your­self to This World (audio)

•       2018

  December	24 The Beautiful, Aching Work of Repair (audio | transcript)	16 The Joy that Finds Us So Ready and So Unprepared (audio)	09 Shall We Cross Over? (audio)	02 Blessing the Way (audio | transcript)
  November	25 Coming Home to Ourselves (Marisa Benson) (audio)	11 Carbonated Holiness: How Stories and Laughter Save Us Over and Over Again (audio)
  October	28 Reflections (Steve Lieman — Lisa Girolamo)	21 Silver Linings (Matthew Dicks) (audio)	14 The Mightiest Word (audio)	07 Inside the Quiet Places of Your Heart (audio)
  September	30 Always Hope (audio)	23 Let the Space in My Heart Be Open (audio)	16 Each of Us Is More (audio)
  June	17 Love the Hell Out of this World (Matt Meyer) (audio)
  May	27 Keep That as a Smooth Stone (audio)	20 Reflections on interna­tional re­settle­ment by Laura Wool, Rogers Muyanja	13 A Great and Common Tender­ness (audio)	06 Awakening (Nick Maciel) (audio)
  April	29 Coming of Age: Credo statements (in Members area) by Julia Hudson, Olivia Logan, Isabel Stanley-Kemler, Sarah Hudson, Sarah Stram, Trudy Burnham, Jai Santoro.	22 Coming of Age: Credo statements (in Members area) by Jacob Podsiadlo, Luke Benedict, Trent Tessier, Cameron Hadland, Ivan Sturm, Jacob Tessier, Izzy Conners.	15 Critical Yeast (audio)	08 Infinity Calling Us Forth (audio)	01 Roll Away That Stone (audio)
  March	25 Youth Service: reflections by Haley Watson, Lara Hill, Sara Woods	18 This Can Happen Anywhere: What Love Can Do (audio)	11 A Thousand Prayers of Hope (audio)	04 Love Makes Us Brave (audio)
  February	25 Holding Hands and Climbing (Rev. Elea Kemler, read by Alyssa Dallas) (audio)	18 Fog, Dust, and Moving Forward (audio)	11 On Blessing (audio)	04 Sys­tem­ic and Sys­tem­atic (Sarah Iacobucci); Walking Each Other Home, Remix (Alison Chase)
  January	28 The Ground of Our Hope (audio | transcript)	21 365 Acts of Hope (audio)	14 The Redemptive Power of Love (Not an Easy Assignment) (audio)	07 Choose a Strong Word (audio)

•       2017

  December	24 Love Intentionally, Extravagantly (audio)	17 Joy is an Act of Resistance, and Singing Too (audio)	10 Reading in Two Voices: God Gave Me a Word by Amy Petrie Shaw Sermon: Four Essen­tial Things (Rev. Karen G. Johnston) (audio)	03 Keep Turning Your Face Toward This Earth ( transcript )
  November	12 Stories of Hope (Laura Wagner) ( audio )	05 The Difficult Angel Who Has Chosen You ( audio — partial | transcript )
  October	29 Remembering Wil­liam Perry Brandt (Ellen Brandt) ( audio | transcript )	22 Kind World Contin­ues ( audio )	15 Kind World ( audio )	08 This Tender Thread ( audio | transcript )	01 Still Becoming Able ( audio | transcript )
  September	24 The Holy Work of Showing Up for Life ( audio )	17 A Tender Teaching ( audio | transcript )
  June	04 Wake Up, Give Thanks, Sing
  May	14 What to Tell the Children	07 All of Us Need All of Us to Make It
  April	23 Jewels of Gratitude	16 Keep Room for the Unimaginable	09 The Universe Speaks with the Vocabulary of Peace	02 Youth sermons: Jon Frey, Ian Peterson, Eleanor Keydel, Will Premru, Kira Hill
  March	26 Building That World of Which We Dream	19 Blessed Are We	12 Every Hour. Even Here. Even Now.	05 Out of a Great Need
  February	19 The We of Me	12 Nevertheless, We Persist	05 The Time Has Chosen Us
  January	29 We Can Do Hard Things	22 Reflections on the Kigali Reading Center (Parfait Gasana)	15 What if the Mightiest Word is Love	08 How Brightness Makes a Home in You

•       2016

  December	24 (transcript) Some­thing New Is Trying to Get Itself Born	11 Joy Strewn All Around	04 How We Bear the Light
  November	13 We’re All Just Walking Each Other Home	06 Love and Grace Bat Last
  October	23 This is the Sound of All of Us	16 Open to the Stars and Weather	09 Clumsy Transformations	02 Active Hope: A New Story for a New Year
  September	25 Our Project (Rev. Aaron Stockwell) | Gather the Sparks (Rev. Elea Kemler)	18 More Beautiful for Having Been Broken ( audio | transcript )
  June	19 An Invisible Thread: A Farewell Sermon (Rev. Karen G. Johnston) (audio | transcript)	05 If You Want God to Laugh, Make Plans (Rev. Elea Kemler)
  May	29 Listening as an Act of Love: The Stories that Heal, Transform and Bring Us Home	15 Chalice Lighting (Rev. Elea Kemler) You Say Hello... (Almost-nearly-but-not-quite-yet-Rev. Karen G. Johnston) (transcript)	08 Litany of Endearments (Rev. Lilia Cuervo)	01 Three sermonettes: It Was Designed That Way (Sarah Iacobucci); Building a Moral Compass (Jack Wool); Where Do We Go from Here (Steve Boczenowski)
  April	24 Holy Envy (Karen G. Johnston, Sabbatical Minister)	17 Small (Karen G. Johnston, Sabbatical Minister)
  March	27 The Limits of Our Senses (Karen G. Johnston, Sabbatical Minister): audio | transcript	20 The Paradox of Generosity & Scarcity (Karen G. Johnston, Sabbatical Minister): audio | transcript	13 A Great Cloud of Witnesses (Matt Meyer)	06 The Work (in Progress) Written by Rev. Peter Boullata and originally de­liv­ered at the ordina­tion of Rev. Aaron Stockwell. Deliv­ered today by Gregg Baker, Chair of the FPCoG Joint Board
  February	28 Illuminating the Ministry of Joshua Young (Karen G. Johnston, Sabbatical Minister) audio | transcript	21 Always Creating, Always Building (Rev. Tom Nalesnik, guest minister)	14 Redemption Song (Jeanne Nieuwejaar, guest minister)
  January	31 Practicing the Art of Losing (Karen G. Johnston, Sabbatical Minister)	24 We Stand at a New Doorway	17 Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression, Multiculturalism: What’s In It for White People (Ken Wagner)	10 Persistently, Abundantly, Miraculously the Way It Is	03 What Ships Are Built For

•       2015

  December	24 Lift Your Face Toward the Light ( audio | transcript )	13 If We Don’t Believe in Hell, Does It Still Exist? (Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister)	06 Go Lightly, Toward Light, Toward Beauty
  November	29 Reflections on Making the Way by Walking: Christina Rogers | Marisa Benson	15 We Make the Way by Walking	08 Reflections on Veterans in Two Voices: Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister | Rev. Elea Kemler	01 Reflections on Love and Grief (Frank Sapp)
  October	25 Imagine a World	18 Invite Wonder	11 Everything Possible: On the Fluidity of Humanity (Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister) audio | transcript	04 Ten Thousand Prayers, Ten Thousand Paths to Hope
  September	27 Hearing the Call of Your Heart	20 Hearing the Call to Renewal: audio | transcript
  June	24 Love Is Best But Baseball Is Pretty Good
  May	24 On Not Waiting to Be the Humming­bird (Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister): audio | transcript	17 Why We Are Here	03 Let Me Show You Beauty
  April	26 Holding this Earth: Our Gratitude, Our Pain, Our Hope (Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister): audio | transcript	05 A Call to Such Rising
  March	29 See What Road Appears	22 Youth Service Re­flec­tions — Anya | Ale­jandro | Emma | Kaitlin | Brayden	15 Begin Again in Love (Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister)	08 Hope is a Road
  February	22 Choosing Open Eyes (Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister)	08 To Save What Matters Most	01 Thanks for the Memories (Rev. Charles Gaines)
  January	25 Abundance Scooped From Abundance (Karen G. Johnston, Intern Minister) | Always Enough (Rev. Elea Kem­ler)	18 Who Is My Neigh­bor? Rev. Elea Kem­ler | Rev. Eustace D. Payne Jr. | Charles Bogues	11 Come With Your Wild Imaginings

•       2014

  December	14 The Shared World: Lessons in Joy and (Dis)Comfort (Intern Minister Karen G. Johnston):	07 So Bold, So Brave, So Loving: audio – transcript
  November	30 Two reflections on growing up UU: Chris Funch; Grace Flannagan	16 Transcript: The Blessing of a Quiet Heart	09 Calling on Wholeness	02 How They Move in Us
  October	26 Who Do We Shelter Now?; Opening the Doors	19 This Holy Ground Called Love	12 Nobody, but Nobody Can Make It Out Here Alone (Intern Minister Karen G. Johnston): audio – transcript	05 The Language of Love (Rev. Jeanne Harrison Nieuwejaar)
  September	28 Engaging Life with Tenderness	21 Taste This Sweetness	14 Out of a Great Need: This Shared Faith
  May	25 Who Is With Us On The Road? (Laura Geoghegan Kellner)	18 The Annual State of the Congregation Address	11 Teach Us All You Can of Saying Yes	04 And That Has Made All the Difference
  April	20 Rolling the Stone from the Tomb of Longing	13 Pilgrims on This Road of Love and Ashes	06 Four Short Sermons on Courage: Will Frey | Hannah Tellier | Tom Grigglestone | Abbie Clark
  March	30 Eat What Is Good	23 Invocation | The Giants Are Dancing (Laura Geoghegan Kellner)	16 Not So Fast — Beyond Loaves and Fishes (Aaron Stockwell)	09 A Season for Wandering	02 A Quiet Source of Strength
  February	23 On Wonder and Imagination (Laura Geoghegan Kellner)	16 Now is the Time	09 Spirituality of Imperfection (Rev. Kimberly Toma­szewski): audio – – transcript	02 People Get Ready: In Celebration of the Generous Life
  January	26 The Gratitude Project: audio – – transcript	19 Reflections on service by Sara Woods, Brenna Mayer, and Steve Boczenowski — Transcript	12 Every Luminous Moment	05 Waste Your Heart on Fear No More: Reflections on the New Year

•       2013

  December	24 Make Your Life an Answer	15 It Will Astonish You: Reflections on Joy	01 A Plan for Existence, a Plan for the Sublime (Joel Wool): audio – transcript
  November	17 The Heart is an Unerring Compass	10 What If?	03 Open Door and the Strategic Plan
  October	27 Loosen Your Hands	20 A Sanctuary of Peace and a Welcome Table	13 Ja Helo (Czech Mountain Greeting) — Libana	06 And We Call This the Repair of the World
  September	29 Taste and See | Reading (Laura Geoghegan Kellner)	22 A Life Constructed Around Love	15 The Restoration of our Hearts	08 Gathering of the Water
  June	02 Summer Spirit, Summer Mind
  May	19 A Long Road Together: The Minister’s Annual Report to the Congregation
  March	24 The Terrible Blessings of the Journey	17 Reflections	10 Sacred Time	03 Finally To Unfold Again: Spiritual Renewal and the Practice of Prayer [truncated]
  February	24 Going Deeper, Coming Home: Spiritual Renewal and the Practice of Prayer	17 Our Song at the Sea (Matt Meyer)	03 Truth and Emptiness: Reflections on the Fourth Principle
  January	27 One Sun, One Ground, One Sky	20 Lay-led service for Martin Luther King Day Chalice lighting – Betty Keddy Excerpts from Drum Major Instinct by Dr. M. L. King Jr. – Paul Harter Restorative Justice – Barbara Rich Prison Ministry/ AVP – June Adams Johnson Groton Interfaith Council – Donna Nowak	13 Paint From the Inside

•       2012

  December	24 The Blessed Light That Comes	16 Words for Dec. 16: audio – transcript
  November	18 Around Our Grateful Table	04 The Passionate Heart of Joshua Young (Rev. Elz Curtiss)
  October	28 Beloved Then, Now and Always	21 The Heart of a Sojourner	14 Get Found, Sing Loud!	07 Eye to Eye and Soul to Soul
  September	30 The Shelter of Each Other	23 Carbonated Holiness — On Laughter and Forgiving	16 Who We Haven't Yet Become
  May	27 Memorial Day Reflections (Ellen Todd) Bless the Poets and Those Who Mourn (Rev. Elea Kemler)	13 To Bless the World	06 A Call to Those Who Remember the Dreams of Our Youth
  April	29 The God Who Knows Only Four Words: Come Dance With Me: audio – transcript	22 We are Grateful, Good Earth	15 Dancing on the Edge of Maybe	08 Woken from the Sleep of Ages	01 Pilgrims on the Road of Dust and Ashes
  March	25 Reflections (Clara O'Rourke) Reflections (Meghan McNierney) Reflections (Grace)	18 Over and Over Again [truncated]	11 Use Your Wings to Show You're Alive	04 The Open Doors of the Heart: audio | transcript
  February	26 Let This be a Season for Wandering	12 The Gift of Deeper Sight	05 Bring Your Broken Heart to This Altar of Life
  January	29 Put a Pebble in My Shoe (Melinda Green)	22 The Holy Thing Inside You	15 Reflections on CityReach (Gregg Baker & Braydon Woods) Reflections on Prison Ministry (Pat Parker-Roach & Justin Holmes) Reflections on Nicarugua (Ed O’Rourke & Clara O’Rourke) Reflections on TADS (Teenage Anxiety and Depression Solutions) (Steve Boczenowsk)	08 Heeding the Signposts of Intuition and Dream

•       2011

  December	24 Life is So Generous: Christmas Eve Message 2011: audio – transcript	11 To Reteach a Thing Its Loveliness	04 Say the Thing That You Most Need and the Door Will Open Wide: audio – transcript
  November	27 Return to the Place Where Your Heart Is (Aaron Stockwel)	13 Every Small Spring Rising	06 Reflections on Ten Years as a Wel­com­ing Congregation
  October	23 Touch Wonder	16 We Stand As In An Open Field	09 Walking Our Paths	02 Open Your Fists: A Reflection on Yom Kippur
  September	25 Sweet and Thankful For Any Small Gesture	18 Strong and Strong Again: Steeple Navigation Part Two
  June	05 What Sustains Us: The Taste of Honey and the Touch of Stone
  May	29 Making Real A Dream Once Lost Among Sorrows and Songs	22 The Answer to Every Question	15 The Doorway into Thanks and Silence	08 A Great, Common Tenderness
  April	24 What Makes You Come Alive	17 If You Have Seen	10 Perfection	03 The Road to Holiness
  March	27 You Must Answer This Question	20 Hearts Opening, Very Wide	13 The Shared World	06 Ten Year Reflections
  February	27 Whose Silence Are You?
  January	30 Reflections on Fifty Years in Ministry (Rev. Charles Gaines)	23 Stories of Power, Stories of Repair	16 Everybody Can be Great, Because Anybody Can Serve	09 Inspiration, Art, and Spirit	02 These Ways of Seeing

•       2010

  Dec.	24 A Man Who Listened to Dreams	12 While Waiting for Light, Bring Light	05 Hannukah To Haiti (Joel Wool)
  Nov.	28 Seven Gifts (Michael Roberts)	14 Choosing To Be True Human Beings	7 Dramatic Reading: Rev. John Farwell Moors
  Oct.	31 Eternity Breaking In	24 Then, Love the World	17 Room In the House of the Heart	10 To Be (Arron Stockwell)
  Sep.	26 Our True Home is Under the Stars	19 How the Heart Wants to Be Alive
  May	30 The Responsibility of Memory, The Strength of Hope	16 The Compass of the Heart	9 Filling In the Silences	2 Quiet In Heart
  Apr.	25 Reflections For Earth Day	18 The Ground on Which We Walk Together	4 There Is Time Left
  Mar.	28 Telling a New Story	21 Is Anyone Thirsty? Come and Drink	14 We Are Saying Thank You	7 Lifted Out Into the Light
  Feb.	28 Go Into the Place Called Barren; Stand In the Place Called Empty	21 Dancing With Shadows and Light	7 Waiting to See Us Once Beautiful and Brave
  Jan.	31 Welcome to the Mountain of Fire and Miracles	24 The Passing of a Threshold is at Hand	17 Reflections On Service	10 The Dream of a Common Language	3 No Smoldering Twig

•       2009

  Dec.	24 The Turning Open of Each Life	13 While Waiting for Hope, Be Hope	6 Waiting for the Light, Being the Light
  Nov.	15 Come to Prayer, Come to Well-Being	8 Service of the Heart
  Oct.	25 Laughing in Aston­ishment, Bowing Our Heads: The Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer	18 Perhaps This Gift Is Your Answer
  Sep.	27 Go Lightly Toward Light	20 Dawn By Dawn: Seeing Our Way Clear
  May	31 Bless Us With Fool­ishness & Bridges to Community	24 The Responsibility of Memory, The Strength of Hope	17 Reflections on Mental Health	10 The Great Human Family
  Apr.	26 Glad to the Brink of Fear (Sue Phillips)	12 New Life Always Arriving	5 The Terrible Blessing of the Journey
  Mar.	29 Quiet In Heart, and In Eye, Clear	22 Wisdom Ancient & Emerging	8 Holding the World in Trust
  Feb.	22 What Time, Grace, and Circumstances Will Make Us	15 Common Love	1 To Save What Matters Most
  Jan.	25 Walking Forward In that Light	11 The Great Gift of Time: Stories That Transform Our Lives	4 Can You Imagine It: Reflections for the New Year

•       2008

  Dec.	24 Fear Not the Strangeness	14 Sing Sturdy Songs	7 At the Threshold
  Nov.	16 Member Expectations, Caring For One Another	09 Building the Be­loved Community, Honor Differences	02 Remembering Our Journey(George Downey)
  Oct.	26 Building a Beloved Community	19 Building a Beloved Community	12 Living a Life of Meaning and Purpose	5 Praise the Light That Shines Before Us, Through Us, After Us
  Sep.	28 Every Stone on the Road, Precious	14 Navigating By Steeple: A Vision For the Year Ahead

•       Transcripts
  • 2019:
    – 12/24: A Pinhole of Light
    – 10/13: On Behalf of Life
    – 09/22: The Thread That Runs Between Us
    – 09/15: The No Becoming Yes
    – 04/14: Radical Hospitality: Living At the Edge of Our Imaginations
    – 03/24: Radical Hospitality: Notes for Living on Earth
    – 03/03: Loved into Being
    – 02/24: The Fibrillating Heart of the World
  • 2018:
    – 12/24: The Beautiful, Aching Work of Repair
    – 12/02: Blessing the Way
    – 11/04: Love Makes Us Brave
    – 01/28: The Ground of Our Hope
  • 2017:
    – 12/03: Keep Turning Your Face Toward This Earth
    – 11/05: The Difficult Angel Who Has Chosen You
    – 10/08: This Tender Thread
    – 10/01: Still Becoming Able
    – 09/17: A Tender Teaching
  • 2016:
    – 12/24: Some­thing New Is Trying to Get Itself Born
    – 09/18: More Beautiful for Having Been Broken
  • 2015:
    – 12/24: Lift Your Face Toward the Light
    – 09/20: Hearing the Call to Renewal
  • 2014:
    – 12/07: So Bold, So Brave, So Loving
    – 11/23: The Blessing of a Quiet Heart
    – 01/26: The Gratitude Project
  • 2013:
    – 12/01: A Plan for Existence, a Plan for the Sublime (Joel Wool)
    – 04/21: What Thrives in Rubble and Ash
  • 2012:
    – 06/17: Father’s Day Reflections (Tim Svarczkopf)
    – 04/29: The God Who Knows Only Four Words: Come Dance with Me
    – 03/04: The Open Doors of the Heart (Lent 2)
  • 2011:
    – 12/24: Life is So Generous: Christmas Eve Message 2011
    – 12/04: Say the Thing You Most Need and the Door will Open Wide (Advent Two)
    – 09/25: Reflections for Rosh Hashanah: Sweet and Thankful For Any Small Gesture
    – 09/18: Strong and Strong Again: Steeple Navigation Part Two
    – 05/22: The Answer to Every Question
  • 2010:
    – 02/28: Go to the Place Called Barren, Stand in the Place Called Empty
    – 02/21: Dancing with Shadows and Light
    – 02/07: Waiting to See Us Once Beautiful and Brave
  • 2009:
    – 12/13: While Waiting For Hope, Be Hope
    – 09/27: Go Lightly Toward Light: A Sermon for Yom Kippur
    – 09/20: Dawn By Dawn: Seeing Our Way Clear
    – 04/26: Glad To the Brink of Fear (Rev. Sue Phillips)
    – 03/29: Quiet in Heart and in Eye, Clear
    – 02/22: What Time, Grace, and Circumstances Will Make Us
  • 2008:
    – 11/16: Reflections on Member Expectations: Caring For Each Other
    – 06/01: The World Shining: A Post-Sabbatical Sermon
    – 05/11: And It Was Good (Rev. Sue Phillips)
    – 02/03: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? (Rev. Sue Phillips)
    – 01/06: Stepping Out of the Current
  • 2007:
    – 12/16: You Have Come Into the World To Do This
    – 12/02: Living With Less: The Path To Sustainability (Patrick Hughes)
    – 09/23: Out of the Narrow and Choked Place: The Power and Promise of Yom Kippur
  • 2006:
    – 11/26: Indigo Reflections (for a service of Blues Music)
    – 11/18: Misunderstanding and Meaning (a worship service for the Excellence In RE Conference, Clara Barton District of the UUA)
    – 10/01: Unpacking Your Heart
    – 09/17: Living In Shaky Houses
  • 2005:
    – 05/01: Beginning From Below
    – 03/06: Only A Visitor

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