Topic: Interdependence

What Do Animals Ask of Us? The Blessing of the Animals

This sermon invites us to examine our relationship with animals through the lens of Unitarian Universalism’s 7th Principle—honoring the interdependent web of all existence. Drawing from Indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge, it challenges the dominant worldview that treats animals as property. Themes from anthropology, evolutionary biology and psychology support the idea that our bond with … Continue reading What Do Animals Ask of Us? The Blessing of the Animals

A Meditation on Kindness

Especially in challenging or difficult situations, our responses to the need we normally have in less troubled circumstances for a measure of kindness can be shunted aside. Today we take a closer look at what role kindness can and does play in our lives. Six-year congregation member John Fisher is a retired Episcopal priest and … Continue reading A Meditation on Kindness

We Hold It, Together

We are in a time of risk and fear and grief for ourselves and those we love. We gather together to be present to one another and to create sanctuary for one another. We can feel all these feelings. As “Black Liturgies” author Cole Arthur Riley has written: “INHALE This is too much to hold. … Continue reading We Hold It, Together

What Listening Does

Today we explore listening as a spiritual practice and as a liberal religious practice. What is it to listen? What does listening do for someone? What does listening do to us?   Sermon audio Sermon What Listening Does Rev. Joe Cleveland October 13, 2024   On one of his walks, the poet William Wordsworth happens … Continue reading What Listening Does