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- 19-12-15: Living in the Future, Today
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- 19-11-24: Our Hearts Broken Open
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- 19-11-10: Rest As Resistance
- 19-11-03: When Walls Crumble
- 19-10-27: Connecting with the Ancestors
- 19-10-20: We Begin Again in Love
- 19-10-13: Forgiving Each Other
- 19-10-06: We Forgive Ourselves
- 19-09-29: Your Sunflower
- 19-09-22: Fall Equinox
- 19-09-15: Moving at the Speed of Trust
- 19-09-08: Rowing Together - Trusting Relationship
- 19-09-01: Floating Alone -The Myth of Self-Reliance
- 19-08-25: A Radical Welcome
- 19-08-18: Question: "Why?"; Answer: (a) "Because" or (b) "Why Not?"
- 19-08-11: A Dynamic Welcome
- 19-08-04: Bless All You Carry
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- 19-07-21: Justicia para todos!
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- 19-06-09: Prayer for a Humanitarian World
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- 19-05-19: The Beauty of Uncertainty
- 19-05-12: A Messy, Beautiful Bouquet: Flower Communion
- 19-05-05: The Spirtual Practice of Fasting
- 19-04-28: Poetry Service
- 19-04-28: Renewal - Us and the Earth
- 19-04-14: Destroying Empire with Palms
- 19-04-07: White Supremacy Culture Teach-In
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- 19-03-10: This is Me - Centering Stories of UUs of Color
- 19-03-03: Capital 'L' Love
- 19-02-24: A Musical Religious Education: On Kindness, Mindfulness, Service and Self Reflection
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- 19-02-03: To Care For One Another
- 19-01-27: Peace Through Patience
- 19-01-20: Raise Every Voice
- 19-01-19: Installation of Rev. Bethany Russell-Lowe
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- 18-12-16: Celebrating Winter Solstice
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- 18-12-02: The Season of Dark and LIght
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- 18-11-11: Moral Injury - The Effect of War on the Spirit
- 18-11-04: Making America Actually Great
- 18-10-28: Costumes and Masks
- 18-10-21: No Human Being is Illegal
- 18-10-14: Sitting Amongst the Seeds
- 18-10-07: Creating Sacred Space
- 18-09-30: Our Whole Lives - Sexuality and Our Values
- 18-09-23: Choose to Bless the World
- 18-09-16: Relationships, Relationships
- 18-09-09: Where Does a Stream Begin
- 18-09-02: Truth and Other Endangered Species
- 18-08-26: Tangled Up in Unitarian Universalism
- 18-08-19: To Make Our Own Days Glad
- 18-08-05: Pop Culture Spirituality
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- 18-07-22: Looking Outward
- 18-07-15: On the Turning Away: a Spiritual Practice
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- 18-06-03: One Step at a Time
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- 18-05-20: Courage
- 18-05-13: Celebrating our 70th Anniversary and Mothers Who Made It Possible
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- 18-02-18: You Bet We Can
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- 16-06-26: Kindness and Ben's Bells
- 16-06-19: Amazing Grace
- 16-05-22: The Virtue of Sin
- 16-05-15: Spiritual Beings
- 16-04-10: I Call That Mind Free
- 16-04-03: Empowerment- Relating to it All: A Youth led Service
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- 16-03-13: The Spirit of Generosity and Non-judgment
- 16-02-28: Dissecting the Anatomy of Trust: Boundaries and the Vault
- 16-02-21: BRAVING Trust
- 16-01-31: What Does It Mean to Forgive?
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- 16-01-03: Does Size Matter?
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- 15-11-29: Sheep in Wolves' Clothing
- 15-11-08: Hearing the Voiceless
- 15-10-11: Poetry Sunday
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- 15-08-09: UUs and the Spiritual
- 15-08-02: Interconnectedness Is Not Optional: Viewing Society Through The Lens of Science
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- 15-04-05: To Life!
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- 14-12-21: Mystery of the Big Question (A UU Testimonial)
- 14-11-30: Food for Thought
- 14-11-23: All You Need Is Love.... seriously?
- 14-11-16: Roots, Branches, and Wings
- 14-11-09: Lessons from the Town 10 Miles from Sin: Oberlin, Ohio
- 14-11-02: Not Just Some but All Souls
- 14-10-05: The Wind and the Stillness: Breath as a Tool for connecting Body, Mind, Heart, and Spirit
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- 14-08-31: The Importance of the Unitarian Universalist Faith
- 14-08-24: It's a Man's World: The Spiritual Influence of Patriarchy on the Border
- 14-08-03: Annual Poetry Service
- 14-07-27: Everybody Eats, or the Spiritual Side of Eating
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- 14-07-06: Sanctuary: Radical Hospitality
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- 14-06-22: We Are The Ones We've Been Waiting For...
- 14-06-15: I Believe in Miracles (just not the Biblical or Hallmark ones)
- 14-05-25: What Happened to Easter?
- 14-05-11: Mothers, Mothers' Day, and Peace
- 14-04-27: No More Deaths 10th Anniversary
- 14-04-20: Why Easter?
- 14-03-30: The Joy of Music
- 14-03-23: Wellspring
- 14-03-02: The Fingerprint of Grief
- 14-02-16: One in Community
- 14-02-09: A Valentine for Liberal Religion
- 14-02-02: Discrimination in the New Generation
- 14-01-12: Mind, Body, and Spirit
- 14-01-05: Friendship in the Digital Age
- 13-12-29: Volunteering as a Spiritual Practice
- 13-12-22: Teach Us All You Can of Saying "YES!"
- 13-12-08: God and Beyond: Spirituality for Today and Beyond
- 13-12-01: Opening Into Grace
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- 13-10-13: Service, Sacrifice, and Honor
- 13-10-06: The Courage to Trust
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- 13-09-15: A Religon for One World
- 13-09-08: The One That Comes From Many
- 13-09-01: Practice Our Preach
- 13-08-25: The Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism: Guideposts For Living
- 13-08-18: Five Smooth Stones of Liberal Religion
- 13-08-11: Seeing the Full Spectrum
- 13-08-04: Poetry Service
- 13-07-28: Private Prisons, Public Problems
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- 13-06-16: Called
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- 13-06-02: Associating with the Sacred
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- 13-05-12: This I Believe
- 13-04-28: The Doctrine of Discovery
- 13-04-21: Earth and Forgiveness Day
- 13-04-14; Truth and Reconciliation
- 13-04-07: Pre-forgiven
- 13-03-31: Easter Sunday
- 13-03-24: Who Are You?
- 13-03-17: Reflections on an Old UU Joke
- 13-03-10: The Beauty of Brokenness
- 13-03-03: The Paradox of Powerlessness
- 13-02-17: Evolution as Our Sacred Story
- 13-02-10: Standing on the Side of Love!
- 13-02-03: Love as a Spiritual Practice
- 13-01-27: Beyond Duality to Sanity
- 13-01-13: Adopting Goodness, not Evil!
- 13-01-06: Fallow Times
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- 12-23-12: A God That Looks Like Me
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- 8-12-12: Poetry Sunday
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- The Interdependent Community: Pathways Out of Poverty
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- Nothing Less Than Saving the World
- Spirituality and Health
- Born and Re-born Again
- Kindness Can Heal Us
- What Do We Really Mean by "Democracy"?
- Mercy and Other Non-rational Acts of Kindness
- Family Values and Immigration Policy
- A Question of Worth and Dignity
- Standing on the Side of Fear: How can we stop bullying before it is too late?
- Coming Back to Life
- Five Steps to Building Beloved Community
- Shared Ministry
- Bringing Justice to Phoenix
- Out of the Garden: Original Sin or Original Blessing?
- Come Dream a Dream With Me
- Aria in Vermillion
- Cowboys, Conmen and Conservatives
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- Human Nature
- Reality Television and Interfaith Dialogue
- The Courage to Love
- Where the Paths of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Unitarian Universalism Crossed
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- Ordinary Time
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- Waiting
- What We Are Thankful For
- After the Apocalypse: Gratitude
- Occupy!
- The Worst Mistake the Church (Any Church) Can Make Right Now
- Day of the Dead
- DOGs and Other Super-Natural Beings
- Faith in Pink
- Living in a Multi-Religious World
- Morality and Human Nature
- Entertaining Angels Unaware
- Restoring Ruins
- DA/GA 2011 and 2012
- Coming Home
- The Ethical Side of Climate Change: Compassion
- Looking in the Mirror: Who are We?
- U.S Immigration and Border Policy: A Call for Compassion and Justice
- Not Just for Black History Month
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- Today's Ancient Wisdom
- Keepers of Light
- If Not Now, When? (A Look at the Election)
- The Flying Trapeze and the Fine Art of Freedom
- Trusting Life in the Presence of Death
- UUism in the French Speaking World
- Our Legacy: Honoring the Past, Looking Forward to the Future
- Letters From a Phoenix Jail
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- Blindspots, Rearview Mirrors, and Headlights
- A Noisy Silence - Poetry Service
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- Chaos and Creativity
- Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Just as Well...Or Better?
- Reflections after Fifty Years in Ministry
- Don't Wait
- The Meaning of Welcome
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- Grace Across the Ages
- Happy 200th Birthday, Margaret Fuller
- Coming of Age in an Age of Uncertainty
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- Earth in the Balance
- Beyond Local Thinking
- The Actual U
- Easter: A Time to Forgive
- Something About Addictions
- Taking a Risk for Justice
- Universalism: Past, Present and Future
- The Things We Do For Love
- Standing on the Side of Love
- What I Love About Unitarian Universalism
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- Confronting Evil
- I Have a Dream
- The State of the Church
- Looking Back, Looking Forward
- Struggles and Progress in Swaziland
- Night of Wonder, Night of Silence
- Enumerating God: None, One, or Many
- Three Miraculous Births
- The Gospel According to St. Lute
- The Lost Art of Thinking
- Stories of Hope: Guest at Your Table
- Question Authority
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- An Agreement With Life
- The Community Food Bank
- Universalist Heritage
- Class Matters
- Wise Restraints That Set Us Free
- Free Pulpit, Free Pew
- To Whom It May Concern: A Sermon on Prayer
- One Family
- Poetry Sunday
- Who Knows What Will Come To You?
- Will the Minister Be Speaking in the Service Today?
- Life or Litter? The Value of People and Hope
- Parts of the Bible You Do Not Know
- Chaplain Stories
- Eating as a Spiritual Practice
- Gifts of Our Fathers
- Faith of Our Fathers
- To See Beauty, Even When It’s Not Pretty
- A Nomination for the Greatest Unitarian Ever
- We Remember
- Milestone Moments: A Service of Rituals
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- Earth Day
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- Friendship as Spiritual Practice
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- Civil Initiative
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- Divine Creation
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- Weaving the Web of Trust
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- Ministry in the New Millennium
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