A Call to the Heart, Mind, and Spirit from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley
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Gearing Up for the Greater Good
A week ago Monday, January 27, Pete Seeger died.
One week later 1000 devoted, grateful lovers of song and social change lined up outside Berkeley’s 400 seat Freight and Salvage Coffee House to honor our great American song leader and peace … read more.
Promise and Possibilities…
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in her beautiful little book Gift from the Sea, gives the reminder that “each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.”
There is a time to plant and … read more.
I had a difficult first year at college. When I went home in the spring of 2008, I signed up to become a volunteer firefighter in my home town of Severna Park, Maryland. My hope was to take a good year off and serve. But … read more.
Thank you for the invitation to join you today! I want to say a special thank you to your ministers and Merrin and all of the other members of your worship team. I’m sure you must realize that it takes a lot of thought and … read more.
… and what will you do with your life?
What does it mean to be human and what will you do with your life?
Now that’s a big title and those are big questions.
It is, I believe, divine to dream, to envision, to want something more, something … read more.
Maybe I should have nine months to prepare for the holidays like Mary had.
Do you feel like you can’t get everything done,
can’t do all you want to do?
It’s all rush and hustle and bustle and I feel so behind.
Who, ever, is ready for … read more.
Darkness fades with the first hint of dawn.
Rise in the cool early morning air. The season is turning.
With each stretch, this way and that, open to compassion.
Light comes with its message of Hope for the new day.
… read more.
He was one of the richest people in town, but you could easily mistake him for a beggar. He thought people are out to rob the rich so he pretended to be poor. Stingy to the core, he went out in his worn-out clothes. As … read more.
“Seek and Find” is the theme for this morning…but I need to make a clarification up front!
I did NOT SEEK out UUCB. My partner, Larry, made me come here. His parents brought him here as a child whenever they visited his grandparents—he was even here … read more.
[Cordell opens with singing from the lectern, “We Shall Overcome”.]
Sermon—Part 1
Good morning. My name is Lonnie Moseley and this is my husband and partner, Cordell Sloan. My sermon this morning is on Race, Diversity and Church life.
It’s scary for me to … read more.
