Sunday Sermons: Summer 2018
* All services begin at 10am unless noted otherwise.
June 3 The Wisdom of Flowers (Flower Communion)
As a community, we grow by opening our hearts to each other and sharing our wisdom, our music, our laughter and our silence. Flower Communion is a symbol of that relationship and covenant, and we invite all to join us in celebrating our free church. We encourage each person to bring a small live potted plant (herbs, vegetables, flowers or anything else growing which represents what you bring to our community) to add to the communion- at the end of the service everyone can choose a plant to take home with them. If you can’t bring a plant, please come and join in anyway–there will be enough for everyone to participate!
As a community, we grow by opening our hearts to each other and sharing our wisdom, our music, our laughter and our silence. Flower Communion is a symbol of that relationship and covenant, and we invite all to join us in celebrating our free church. We encourage each person to bring a small live potted plant (herbs, vegetables, flowers or anything else growing which represents what you bring to our community) to add to the communion- at the end of the service everyone can choose a plant to take home with them. If you can’t bring a plant, please come and join in anyway–there will be enough for everyone to participate!
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June 10 Is Death a Dirty Word? –Chris Prange-Morgan, Shannon Finger and Sue Andrews
This is the April 15 service that was canceled due to snowy, slick roads. In our language and our funeral practices we show that in this culture we are quite uncomfortable with the reality of death. Chris Prange-Morgan is hospital chaplain and Shannon Finger is a hospice chaplain. They will bring stories to show that letting death into life can be a blessing to our lives. We will think about how to get more comfortable with death in a society in which death is a dirty word. |
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June 17 Father’s Day: “Father Is a Verb” –Rev. Shokan Mui (Erich Moraine)
Father is more than a noun in a genealogy chart. To father is to engage the world with focus, determination, courage, and wisdom. To father is to answer one of the highest callings of humanity. Father is a verb.
June 24 To Know the Difference –Paul Fackler
Reinhold Niebuhr created what is commonly called the Serenity Prayer around 1934. In it, he proposes that wisdom is needed to to distinguish between the things we cannot change and those we can. We are going to explore this proposition to see what we can learn from it.
Father is more than a noun in a genealogy chart. To father is to engage the world with focus, determination, courage, and wisdom. To father is to answer one of the highest callings of humanity. Father is a verb.
June 24 To Know the Difference –Paul Fackler
Reinhold Niebuhr created what is commonly called the Serenity Prayer around 1934. In it, he proposes that wisdom is needed to to distinguish between the things we cannot change and those we can. We are going to explore this proposition to see what we can learn from it.
* July: Rev. Amy will be back in the pulpit beginning July 8.
July 1 - Liberation from Ourselves: The Power of Empathy –William Esty
With the modern world so politically and emotionally charged, it can be easy for us to get stuck in our ways of thinking and lose the empathy necessary for us to truly understand one another. Compassion requires that we do one of the hardest things possible for us to do: admit that we might be wrong, and step outside ourselves.
Rev. Amy is back from her leave as of July 1. She’ll be Will’s worship associate for this service. There will be a picnic after the service, so come and welcome Rev. Amy back.
Will Esty is going into his senior year at the University of Evansville where he studies theatre performance (a fancy way of saying he's getting an acting degree). He grew up with LCUUC, and loves the opportunity to bring a younger voice to the pulpit and share the findings he's made on his own spiritual journey!
July 8 - Freedom Now –Rev. Amy Shaw
What would it look like to be free of all the things that bind you in ways you do not want? Come and explore growth, liberation, and freedom with Rev. Amy Shaw.
July 15 - You Can’t Always Get What You Want –Rev. Amy Shaw
You can’t always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need. We are not free until everyone is free- this service explores privilege and loss.
July 22 - Is Liberation Theology UU? –Sue Andrews and Lois Remeikis
Liberation Theology begins with an awareness of oppression, a getting “woke” to oppression. This awareness is coupled with the conviction that Jesus stood with the oppressed, that the Gospel is a liberation gospel. Liberation theology has been met with outrage and labeled as Marxist. How well does it fit with Unitarian Universalist core values? We’re liberal but are we Liberation?*
July 29 - Making a Way (Out of No Way) –Rev. Amy Shaw
Our liberal faith is built on generations who refused to be bound by convention. This service is a celebration of those who made a way out of no way.
*Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley: "What liberalism and liberation have in common is that each is engaged in a project to extend human freedom, but liberalism's approach is inadequate, in part, because of its tendency to view freedom in the abstract — without exploring a critical question: freedom for whom to do what?" (Essex Conversations, 28-9)
July 1 - Liberation from Ourselves: The Power of Empathy –William Esty
With the modern world so politically and emotionally charged, it can be easy for us to get stuck in our ways of thinking and lose the empathy necessary for us to truly understand one another. Compassion requires that we do one of the hardest things possible for us to do: admit that we might be wrong, and step outside ourselves.
Rev. Amy is back from her leave as of July 1. She’ll be Will’s worship associate for this service. There will be a picnic after the service, so come and welcome Rev. Amy back.
Will Esty is going into his senior year at the University of Evansville where he studies theatre performance (a fancy way of saying he's getting an acting degree). He grew up with LCUUC, and loves the opportunity to bring a younger voice to the pulpit and share the findings he's made on his own spiritual journey!
July 8 - Freedom Now –Rev. Amy Shaw
What would it look like to be free of all the things that bind you in ways you do not want? Come and explore growth, liberation, and freedom with Rev. Amy Shaw.
July 15 - You Can’t Always Get What You Want –Rev. Amy Shaw
You can’t always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need. We are not free until everyone is free- this service explores privilege and loss.
July 22 - Is Liberation Theology UU? –Sue Andrews and Lois Remeikis
Liberation Theology begins with an awareness of oppression, a getting “woke” to oppression. This awareness is coupled with the conviction that Jesus stood with the oppressed, that the Gospel is a liberation gospel. Liberation theology has been met with outrage and labeled as Marxist. How well does it fit with Unitarian Universalist core values? We’re liberal but are we Liberation?*
July 29 - Making a Way (Out of No Way) –Rev. Amy Shaw
Our liberal faith is built on generations who refused to be bound by convention. This service is a celebration of those who made a way out of no way.
*Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley: "What liberalism and liberation have in common is that each is engaged in a project to extend human freedom, but liberalism's approach is inadequate, in part, because of its tendency to view freedom in the abstract — without exploring a critical question: freedom for whom to do what?" (Essex Conversations, 28-9)
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