Author: Richard Colón

Sermon: Co-Creating Justice

Unitarian Society of New Haven May 13, 2018 Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner Reading: “Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman” by Sonia Sanchez (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/146231/haiku-and-tanka-for-harriet-tubman)   Sermon:   “None of us alone can save the world. Together—that is another possibility, waiting.”[i] The words of the Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker.   Serena Williams is considered one of the … Continue reading Sermon: Co-Creating Justice

A Homily for Music Sunday

Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner Unitarian Society of New Haven Franz Schubert’s Mass in G was written in less than a week in 1815, when he was eighteen years old.[i] In 1825, Schubert wrote a letter to his parents about a different composition: “My audience,” he wrote, “expressed great delight at the solemnity of my hymn…” … Continue reading A Homily for Music Sunday

Sermon: The Way of the World

Unitarian Society of New Haven Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner March 11, 2018   Reading “The Pulse of Life” by Jennifer Johnson https://www.uua.org/worship/words/meditation/pulse-life   Reading “Remember” by Joy Harjo https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/remember-0   Sermon It is so easy to forget.   It is so easy to forget who we are, where we come from, that we were once … Continue reading Sermon: The Way of the World

Sermon: Rising Together

Unitarian Society of New Haven Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner March 4, 2018   Call to Worship: “Be Still With Me and Enter” Marta I. Valentín   Reading: “On Approaching Seventy” by Joan Seliger Sidney http://mikeschultz.ghost.io/untitled-29/   Sermon I chose this morning’s reading because I could hear USNH’s personified voice in the narrator’s words. Our congregation … Continue reading Sermon: Rising Together

Wild and Precious Life

Reflections on One Wild and Precious Life Unitarian Society of New Haven February 25, 2018 Cedro Greist Salazar: Good morning everyone!  I am Cedro Greist Salazar and my life is both wild and precious because of my friends, my family, and YOU. I was born in Costa Rica, where everything was wilder than here – … Continue reading Wild and Precious Life