Covenant
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Someone asks, “What is Unitarian Universalism?” “What do Unitarian Universalists believe?” What do you do? People are going to ask. It’s inevitable, in this world in which folks are generally not familiar with what those two very long words strung together, “Unitarian Universalism,” mean. I think elevator speeches (brief statements between 30 seconds and 2…
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Khalil Gibran has said, “We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.” Abraham Maslow has said, “In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.” The last time our denomination faced its limitations and stepped forward into growth was 38 years ago, in…
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We are in the sixth month of our year-long sermon series about the world’s religions. As Unitarian Universalists, our religious faith compels us to go in search of truth wherever truth may be found. And so we have gone: to Hinduism, to Buddhism, to Confucianism, to Taoism, to Islam, and now, this morning, to Judaism. …
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At times, I am asked about what Unitarian Universalists have in the way of scriptures. What’s our sacred text, what’s our holy book? What do you say to that, when you believe that truth is abundantly present in the world, comes from many sources, and never ends in its evolution? How do you bind something…
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One day not so long ago, a man named McArthur Wheeler robbed a bank. He threw himself fearlessly into it, and there is a reason why. He was fearless because he covered his face with lemon juice which, he believed, would make his face invisible to the surveillance cameras. Lemon juice makes for invisible ink,…
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