Archive for May, 2000

Silent Ministries Within Hearts

Sunday, May 28th, 2000

For the past twenty years, this Sunday just before Memorial Day has been a chance for me to reflect on the lives and accomplishments of some of the public figures who have died in the previous twelve months.
I always get a big hand from Polly Oliver, our Music Director, who tracks down pieces written [...]

Famous Unitarian Women; The First in a Series – Anna Garlin Spencer

Sunday, May 21st, 2000

Today I begin an event I would like to repeat annually.  I will preach on one famous Unitarian or Universalist woman a year.  It’s a not simple mater to be a woman minister and choose to speak on women. There are those who think it stereotypical of a woman to speak on woman.  There are [...]

The Faith of the Failed

Sunday, May 7th, 2000

This is (most of it) a sermon I have given before, more than once. But only once here so far, back in 1986, so it qualified for my yearly oldie sermon. This is part of a deal I struck with a newcomers’ class a few years back. The members reasoned that I must have conducted [...]