Sermons from August 2018

August 19, 2018: “Creed and Covenant”

August 19, 2018
Rev. Denis Paul, Rickie Beck

Call to Worship Rev. Denis Letourneau PaulGood morning, and welcome. Welcome into this space that is a bit more intimate than it usually is. Yesterday, there was a wedding here, under this chuppah, constructed by the McGoverns as their daughter Francesca entered into covenant of marriage. Like all covenants it includes not only the bride and the groom, but their families, friends,…

August 12, 2018: “The Life and Death of the Communitarian Impulse”

August 12, 2018
Rev. Denis Paul

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…

August 5, 2018: “Making Memories, Making Meaning”

August 5, 2018
Bree Byrd, Rev. Denis Paul

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…