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
Unitarian Society of New Haven April 29, 2018 Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner Reading: Untitled by Jason Shinder (http://claviclecollective-blog.tumblr.com/post/3366402801/untitled-by-jason-shinder) Sermon: Accounts vary, but some say that Joan of Arc was 13 years old when she first began hearing voices and seeing visions that she believed carried messages from God telling her, first, to … Continue reading Sermon: Spirituality That Surprises Us
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
March 25, 2018 USNH Lay-led Service “Balancing Acts” Homily: In Praise of Imbalance Sue Linsley Reading In Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There, Syvia Boorstein writes “Equanimity doesn’t mean keeping things even; it is the capacity to return to balance in the midst of an alert, responsive life. I don’t want to be constantly … Continue reading Reflections: Balancing Act
By Jesse Greist There are so many people that have opened hearts and changed our minds So many heroes whose brave faces fill our books and films and signs But we must also remember everyone who dared to came along Who filled the crowds and shouted loud whose voices sang the songs So I … Continue reading Message for All- March 18, 2018
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
