Speaker: Pastor Kimberley Debus

Postcards

In this multigenerational service, we’ll hear some of the notes from the field where you have had, in different forms, conversations with the world’s religions. Please see Pastor Kimberley’s column, Grace Notes, for more information.  

A Circle of Trust – Readings, Texts, and Resources

Readings and Text Opening Words                                           Laura Esquivel’s novel Like Water For Chocolate: Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us, but we can’t strike them all by ourselves; we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen for example, would come from the breath of the person … Continue reading A Circle of Trust – Readings, Texts, and Resources

Earth Teach Us Resurrection: Multigenerational Celebration – Sermon Text

(Section about Mount Saint Helens was written by Rev. Linda Hoddy, abridged by Pastor Kimberley) Easter may one of the most difficult holy days in all of the world’s religions for Unitarian Universalists. It begs us to set aside our propensity for reason and fact, our disbelief in the supernatural, our suspicion of anything called … Continue reading Earth Teach Us Resurrection: Multigenerational Celebration – Sermon Text

Crazy Wisdom

A Time for All Ages “The Most Peaceful Day of the Week” by Amy Petrie Shaw Today in the service, we’ll be talking about wisdom that comes from things that are funny, absurd, satirical, and witty. Sometimes those things creep in at the worst times, like when a minister just wants a peaceful, meditative start … Continue reading Crazy Wisdom

The Joy of Protest – Text

Introduction                                                                                                             What the heck is going on here? Why are we sitting at tables? Why are there pencils and markers and sheets of poster board? And what’s with all the color? Today is a day of pulling some threads together – threads that seem unrelated. Yes, I’m about to connect a spring festival, some historical … Continue reading The Joy of Protest – Text

Singing About God: The Immanent – Sermon Text

Last week, we started cobbling together our own universal translators. Unlike the Star Trek universe that Gene Roddenberry created, we aren’t equipped to automatically understand the many different languages of many cultures, and even if we were, we wouldn’t always know what people really meant. What we know is that real communication relies not just … Continue reading Singing About God: The Immanent – Sermon Text