UUCDC Sermons

This Sunday was our annual multigenerational Ingathering Service. We meet in the circle outside the church and then process into the church together to kick off a new year. During the service we installed Chrissy Bushyager, our new Director of Religious Education, and commissioned many of our volunteers. Congregation members were asked to bring a stone from summer wanderings to be blessed during the service, which are used throughout the church year for our "Joys and Concerns" segment of each service. The service was followed by an all-church picnic hosted and provided by the UUCDC Board of Trustees.

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Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. asked, “where do we go from here?”  That’s a timely question for UUs in 2017.  With the recent discontent this spring, it’s time to examine Unitarian Universalism and its prospects for the future. 

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The Bible has several well established stories that sound marvelous and have been the genesis (pun totally intended!) of some fabulous movies. Did Noah really save all the creatures of the earth from the great flood? Did Moses really lead the exodus of the Israelites across the Red Sea? And what about those plagues? But is it possible that these dramatic stories could be derived from actual events. Is there archeological or anthropological evidence that might give them more credence? Could they have been appropriated from more ancient sources? Or could it be, as the heckler shouts in Monty Python’s Life of Brian:  “You’re making it up as you go along.”  I am a great believer in the adage that to copy one person’s work is plagiarism, but to copy two or more is research. On that basis this service will present a compilation of sources, some of which could be considered “alternative facts” that might just make you reconsider your view of these stories.

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