Archive for March, 2006

Turn Before Last Verse

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

This building was erected in 1814, and dedicated in January, 1815, at the same time the congregation installed John Burt Wight as minister. There are about a thousand UU congregations in North America, with about 160,000 adult members and about 60,000 registered children and youth. The largest concentrations of Unitarians abroad are in [...]

The Great Becoming: A Canvass Sermon

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

OPENING WORDS
The religious community is to the single self what the belly of a guitar is to the single string. The single string unconnected, isolated, alone, is twangy and weak, somewhat pitiful. But when tied to a good frame and resonating with others it becomes, in Browning’s words, “not a fourth sound but a star.”
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