Unitarian Society of New Haven Sunday, September 23, 2018 “With Vision, The People..” Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner Reading: Cataclysm and Songs by Conceição Lima Happy what’s left of me after I’m gone If only one of the songs sung Lives beyond the person singing in me now. Yet I would not save from the slaughter … Continue reading Sermon: “With Vision, The People..”
Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner September 16, 2018 Unitarian Society of New Haven Reading: The Ways I Kept Myself Alive Today by Hanif Abdurraquib Sermon: My daughter, Arden, got her first bee stings this week. Yes, stings, plural. She has given me permission to share this story with you. We got a note from … Continue reading Sermon: A Vision of the New Year
18.9.2 Sermon-Seeing Ourselves A Sermon for the Unitarian Society of New Haven by Rev. Claudia Elferdink September 2, 2018 Seeing Ourselves Reflected in Each Other’s Eyes: American and Transylvanian Unitarians This is the time of return. However you spent your long warm days, inevitably the question arises, “What did you do this summer?” I was … Continue reading Sermon: Seeing Ourselves Reflected in Each other’s Eyes: American and Transylvanian Unitarians
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?
What’s In Your Backpack?
Sermon by John Pawelek audio link What I am about to present is part evidence, part fantasy. It is a bit like theater in that you need to suspend disbelief. Surely the vast majority of us are not fans of the fact that we are going to die. By and large, the world’s major … Continue reading Sermon: Is There an Afterlife?
Two poems Rev. Erica Richmond used in her service on 1 July. Please experience and enjoy them again. Rich Stockton —– Forwarded Message —– Here is the poem eleven by Sandra Cisneros. And then here is the link to the poem from the meditation: http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/main-blog/vahavta Eleven by Sandra Cisneros “What they don’t understand about birthdays … Continue reading Excerpts from July 1st Service
Sermon: Proud Unitarian Society of New Haven June 24, 2018 10:30 AM Proud, written by Deborah Pascale I’d like to begin by reading a poem written by my 8 year old granddaughter, Isabella Marie Sullivan Go in my shoes See the world differently Be Me See Me I’m different in ways I can’t even … Continue reading Sermon: Proud
June 3, 2018 Unitarian Society of New Haven Blessings in This Guise by Jesse Greist Rafael’s parents had high hopes that he would be a doctor, or a lawyer, an architect or an engineer. They got him legos and construx for his birthday, a real working stethoscope and a copy of Grey’s Anatomy for Christmas, … Continue reading Message for All- Blessings in This Guise
Unitarian Society of New Haven Jim Peters May 27, 2018 USNH Sermon: Never Forget: Re-Membering on Memorial Day Weekend Reading: An excerpt from “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom (©️1997, Doubleday) I look back sometimes at the person I was before I rediscovered my old professor. I want to talk to that person. I … Continue reading Sermon: Never Forget: Re-Membering on Memorial Day Weekend
