Call to Worship Rev. Denis The words of A. Powell Davies: None of our private worlds is big enough for us to live a wholesome life in. We need the wider world of joy and wonder, of purpose and venture, of toil and tears. What are we, any of us, but strangers and sojourners forlornly wandering through the nighttime until we draw…
Love. Revere. Discover. Connect.
Love. Revere. Discover. Connect.
Sermons by Rev. Denis Paul (Page 11)
Call to Worship (Rev Denis)“How does one address a mystery?” Gordon McKeeman asked, back when he was the last president of the Universalist Church of America, before it consolidated with the American Unitarian Association in 1961. Cautiously, he said, let us go then to the end of our certainty, to the boundary of all we know, to the rim of uncertainty, to…
Monthly Theme: Multigenerationalism Call to Worship: Rev Denis I’d like to share with you the words of poet and social activist Thomas Merton, who also happened to be a Trappist monk. He wrote: We are living in the greatest revolution in history –A huge spontaneous upheaval of the entire human race:Not a revolution planned and carried outBy any particular party, race, or…
Monthly Theme: Being Mortal Personal Reflection Bree Byrd Recently while in a class where we were viewing and discussing images, I came to an odd realisation about myself. Among the images we were viewing were several images of catastrophe about to strike, including one in particular which showed a tsunami about to strike the coastline of Japan. On one side of the…
Monthly Theme: Being Mortal Call to Worship & Chalice Lighting, Rev. Denis Can you hear them? Can you hear the whispers of the ancestors? We remember.Their stories are in the walls, in our bones, in the air that we breathe.Their stories are in the touch of a calloused hand,In the melody of songs that we hum while washing dishes,In remembered faces. We hear…
Monthly Theme: Being Mortal Call to Worship Rev. Denis Letourneau Paul You’ve got a lot going on in your life.Your days are filled with challenges that feel like they will drag you down into a deep dark pit of despairYour days are filled with tasks Soaked with obligation Like homework and deskwork and emails and billsThat seem to keep getting put on top of…
Monthly Theme: Unconditional Love Prayer (Rev Denis) Spirit of life and love in the universe,Wellspring of compassion and justice; We are once again faced with tragedy too horrible to contemplate.We are trying not to be numbed by the constant barrage of fear and hatred Expressed in acts of vengeance and violence. But even as we continue breathing and trying to find our center,We…
Monthly Theme: Unconditional Love Time for All Ages “Tikki Tikki Tembo” Rev Denis Letourneau Paul Reading Laura Solomon This morning’s reading is by Unitarian Universalist theologian James Luther Adams, from his essay “The Prophethood of All Believers.” Religious Liberals are accustomed to emphasize the prophetic task of the church. But we have long ago abandoned the whole idea of predicting the future…
Monthly Theme: Music and Art Personal Reflection (Rev Denis) I come from a profoundly unmusical family. There was no music in my house for most of my growing up. The radio was only ever on in the car, where in the glove box lived a few eight tracks of the Carpenters, Neil Diamond, and Ray Charles who sang my parents’ song, I…
Theme: Music and Art Time for All Ages (Rev Denis) In the days of Ancient Greece, from about 1000 years before the beginning of the Common Era, until about year 500, they worshiped a whole bunch of Gods and Goddesses. Hundreds of them. And there were lesser beings, too, beings who had influence over humans, but didn’t have the status of power…