This week, we will conclude our series of services on Cultivating Gratitude with a continuing exploration of the ideas of Galen Guengerich.  Gena Wade will offer a sermon on Guengerich’s 2020 book The Way of Gratitude: A New Spirituality for Today.  This book further develops the ideas we heard in a sermon two weeks ago, … Continued

This week, we will listen to a sermon by Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees.  She says that ““We need ways to reopen ourselves to beauty and gratitude—and to see not only the proverbial glass being half full but also the whole glass… This outlook invites us to embody abundance even in those mud-puddle times.” Debs Szymkowiak … Continued

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This week, we will listen to a thought-provoking sermon by longtime UU minister Galen Guengerich.  He argues for the clarity of a religious discipline of gratitude for Unitarian Universalism.  He says, “In the same way that Judaism is defined by obedience, Christianity by love, and Islam by submission, I believe that Unitarian Universalism should be … Continued

In the recorded sermon “Being Ungovernable: The Sacred Duty of Disobedience,” Rev. T. J. FitzGerald will take us from the streets of Boston to the waters of Walden Pond, following the life and lessons of Henry David Thoreau.  Jackie Triplett will lead the service, using much of the service as it was recently presented to … Continued