Ever had life all mapped out, only for the Divine to grab the wheel? This sermon is about those moments when you think you’re heading one way, and suddenly—boom!—you’re on a completely different path. Rev. Kari Kopnick is a lover of good books and poetry, a gardener of native plants, and tends a hearty little … Continue reading Divine Detours: Trusting the Way
Come and explore the interrelationships of generosity, joy, and service as we try to live lives of integrity and purpose. This sermon will also make mention of the Cedars pledge drive! Rabindranath Tagore inspires us with his poem: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I … Continue reading Generosity: The Joy of Service
This sermon is a kick-off for all the learning and visioning we will be doing together in the months to come. Let us work together in building a co-ministry of support, beauty, and restoration. John O’Donohue says, “We each possess an imagination. Everyone, whether they like it or not, is involved in the construction of … Continue reading Imagination: We Are All Artists
Hope is tricky, especially when things are going wrong. Does it mean hoping for a cure, or turning this disaster around, or what exactly? In this sermon, we’ll consider the changing nature of hope and explore our options for getting through these uncertain times Rev. Barbara Cornell was in an About Your Sexuality class when she … Continue reading Resurrecting Hope
An exploration of why “everyday depression” comes to us, what it intends, and whatmeaning it may hold for us. Bruce A. Bode is Minister Emeritus at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (QUUF) in Port Townsend, Washington, from which he retired in 2018 as the Senior Minister after serving the congregation for fourteen years (2004-2018). Before … Continue reading Everyday Depression’: Our Potential Ally
Springtime and gardening go together and have us imagining Beloved Community as a garden. Imagine the soil of Beloved Community as the ground of being that nurtures Unitarian Universalism. What do we want to cultivate? How do we handle the weeds? Will everyone be welcome? Camille Dungy’s book “Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden” provided … Continue reading Creating the Garden of Beloved Community
Moral injury is a human condition, suffered as a part of living in a world where we, others and the earth are harmed by actions or the failure to act. How do we integrate these experiences to be able to continue to live when everywhere we look there are more reasons to cry in agony, … Continue reading Living with Moral Injury
We ALL face challenging changes and losses in our lives–whether it be a change in our health, the loss of a loved one, or the evaporation of a dream. And every time we face such changes, we are offered a powerful spiritual choice. Rev. Kate Lore is a Unitarian Universalist minister known for her work … Continue reading Through the Storm: Finding Light in Life’s Changes
This talk will focus on the potent inner/outer landscape: the intersection between who we feel we are internally and how we behave in the world. As areas of confluence in the natural world, ecotones are especially rich in biodiversity. Viewing ecotones as a concept, we can begin to apply their value in human contexts – … Continue reading Spiritual Life as an Ecotone
The architect, philosopher and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller wrote, “We arecalled to be architects of the future, not its victims.” In our changing worldthat call has become increasingly urgent: when we hear it, how can werespond in ways that help create the future we hope to see? The Reverend Carol McKinley, now retired, lives in … Continue reading We Are Called
