Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner Unitarian Society of New Haven August 26, 2018 Audio link to Blessing of the Backpacks excerpts from “Eclipse” by Angela Jackson We carry the news with us. It sits in the eyes Like cold tears, like the lake at midnight And in the dark thick and cold we say we … Continue reading Sermon: Blessing of the Backpacks: What’s in Your Backpack?
Unitarian Society of New Haven May 20, 2018 Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner Reading: “When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel” Michelangelo: To Giovanni da Pistoia Translation: Gail Mazur Sermon: The pen strokes astounded me: 500-year-old lines and curves and hash marks made by the one known as Il Divino, The … Continue reading Sermon: “Michelangelo and Creative Process”
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
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
Unitarian Society of New Haven Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner April 8, 2018 Last Saturday, I was here early in the morning to prepare for the memorial service of Hu Woodard, beloved patriarch of this congregation. I pulled in expecting an empty parking lot. But there was a car next to the building and as … Continue reading Sermon: The Emergent Congregation
Easter Sunday Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner and Jesse Greist There once was a little swallow who loved to greet the rising sun. As soon as the first hints of light appeared on the horizon, she would offer up her song. One morning, she was sitting on her nest, singing, when she heard someone approaching. It … Continue reading Story: Ancient Wisdom; New Life
Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner Unitarian Society of New Haven March 18, 2018 Call to Worship: Community Means Strength By Starhawk Reading: Prerequisites for Preservation by Naima Penniman Sermon: Balancing You, Me, and Us Imagine you are escaping. Your persecutors are on your trail. You and your comrades come across a boat on the shore … Continue reading Sermon: Balancing You, Me, and Us
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
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
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
