Archive for February, 2011

“Heaven and Hell are Here and Now, Not Later”

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

“HEAVEN & HELL ARE HERE AND NOW, NOT LATER”
The Sermon at the First Parish in Wayland, Massachusetts
By the Rev. Ken Sawyer
On February 20, 2011

Realized eschatology. Probably some of you have been waiting impatiently for me to finally get around to preaching on “realized eschatology.” But the phrase had not even occurred to me [...]

Standing on the Side of Love

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

 
Standing on the Side of Love emerged as a uniting slogan for people of faith here in Massachusetts during our early efforts for same sex marriage rights. The Unitarian Universalist Standing on the Side of Love Campaign was launched in 2009, inspired by the shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, and the response [...]

You Have Arrived

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

“You Have Arrived”
The Sermon at the First Parish in Wayland, Massachusetts
By the Rev. Ken Sawyer
On February 6, 2011

I was in Chicago for the first part of this past week. There was a meeting of a committee I have served on for the last few years. It was the last meeting of this committee, [...]