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
Unitarian Society of New Haven Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner February 21, 2018 Reading: “The Cure” by Albert Huffstickler We think we get over things…. We don’t get over things. Or say, we get over the measles But not a broken heart. We need to make that distinction. The things that become a part … Continue reading Sermon: Resilient Hearts
Nevertheless, Persist! CMR Royce James February 4, 2018 Unitarian Society of New Haven 9am Reflection: “Black Lives Matter: A Personal Perspective” Everyone please rise as you are able. Only remain standing if you have ever had a child, teenager or younger, be a significant part of your life, that you think about more … Continue reading Sermon: Nevertheless, Persist!
Unitarian Society of New Haven Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner January 21, 2018 Readings: One Love by Rev. Hope Johnson Genesis 7: 11-23, 8:6-12, 9:8-17 Sermon: Why are you preaching on Noah’s Ark? You hate Noah’s Ark! You’ve always hated on Noah’s Ark! That’s my Dad. He’s here, today visiting, actually. Told … Continue reading Sermon: Rainbows and Olive Branches
Unitarian Society of New Haven Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner The night before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King, Jr. was sick (literally, with a sore throat)[i] and he was tired. Threats had been made on his life. He was in Memphis, Tennessee supporting striking sanitation workers who were facing violence from police and a legal … Continue reading Sermon: What He Saw…
Unitarian Society of New Haven Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner January 7, 2018 Reading: What If You Put It Down by Susan Frybort Sermon: Barbara Rohde tells a story of staying in a small hotel in Bergen, Norway. For the first two days of their trip, she and her husband took the elevator from the lobby … Continue reading Sermon: Cherished Wonder
As Unitarian Universalists, we hear a lot of amazing, inspirational stories, some as old as language itself, others that may be finding their way to our ears for the first time ever. We love stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. We listen with open minds and hearts to the teachings of religious and social … Continue reading Message for All: Young Martin Luther King Jr.
Christmas Eve Reflection Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner Unitarian Society of New Haven December 24, 2017 Reading: Kids’ Stuff by Frank Horne December, 1942 The wise guys tell me that Christmas is Kid Stuff . . . Maybe they’ve got something there—— Two thousand years ago three wise guys chased a star across a … Continue reading Sermon: Christmas Eve Reflection
December 17, 2017 “Our Spirals” by Jesse Greist This piece is meant to be read while this video plays Time is a spiral, a synthesis of the circle and the straight line. Each moment is new, each day unlike any other that has come before Yet, we overlay the newness of experience on gently … Continue reading Our Spirals
