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  • The Big Answer Series: Taoism – The Way and its Power
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein, March 9, 2003, sixth in the series
  • The Big Answer Series: Buddhism: Being Compassion
    - by Rev. Michael McGee, March 2, 2003
  • The Beginning of a Circle is Also its End:  Change and Transition for the Congregation
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein, Rev. Michael McGee, Rev. Linda Olson Peebles, Bob Rosen, February 2, 2003
  • The Big Answer Series: Hindusim – Many Paths, One Truth
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein, January 26, 2003
  • The Big Answer of Christianity: Seeking Salvation
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, December 15, 2002
  • What is There About December?
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein, December 8, 2002
  • Giving Our Thanks Away
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, November 24, 2002
  • 3. Native Religions - Alive With Spirit
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein , November 17, 2002, Third in the series, The Challenge of Religious Pluralism: The Big Answers.
  • The Shape of Our Lives
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, November 10, 2002
  • A Web of Blessings: Why Should We Care?
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, October 27, 2002, Working Together Weekend
  • Akhenaten, Radical Pharoah: News From the Tomb!
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein , October 20, 2002
  • Islam: Submitting to the Divine
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, October 13, 2002, second in The Big Answer series:
    The Challenge of Religious Pluralism.
  • The Most Dangerous Church in America
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, October 6, 2002
  • Judaism – Living in Covenant
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein, September 22, 2002, first in The Big Answer series, The Challenge of Religious Pluralism: The Big Answers.
  • Working Together: Can We Restore the World?
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, September 16, 2002
  • The Catholic Crisis
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, July 21, 2002
  • Let it Shine
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, General Assembly Sunday, July 14, 2002
  • Who Should Live and Who Should Die?
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, May 26, 2002
  • ISO Mom! What to Do When You Don’t Have A Mother?
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein and Henry Ticknor, Ministerial Intern, May 12, 2002
  • Buddha Seeds and Karma Weeds
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, May 5, 2002
  • Big Question 6 - Can Humanity Survive?
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein, April 28, 2002
  • How Transylvania Can Help Bring Peace to the Middle East
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, April 7, 2002
  • Big Question 7- Why Do We Suffer?
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, March 31, 2002
  • Big Question 6 - What Does it Mean to be Human?
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein, March 3, 2002
  • Learning To Pray
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, February 24, 2002
  • Leave No Child Behind
    - by Henry Ticknor, Intern Minister, February 17, 2002
  • The UnMasking
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, February 10, 2002
  • How Do We Face Death?
    - by Rev. Michael Mcgee, February 3, 2002
  • It’s a Wonderful (Virtual) Life: A Theology of Information Technology
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein, January 27, 2002 -
  • Can Robert Downey, Jr. Be Saved? And Who Cares?
    -     by Rev. Michael Mcgee , January 20, 2002 - Sermon - Zip File (self_extracting)
  • A Newer America; A Newer Pluralism
    -     by Rev. Joan Gelbein, January 13, 2002 - Sermon - Zip File (self_extracting)
  • Exploring the Big Questions: 4. How Do We Know What We Know?
    -     by Rev. Joan Gelbein, January 6, 2002
  • The Door Is Opened -- Light Out of Darkness Comes
    -     by Rev. Michael McGee, December 16, 2001, Solstice & Hanukkah Sunday
  • The Door Is Opened -- A New Reality Waits at the Threshold
    -     by Rev. Joan Gelbein, December 9, 2001
  • Why Evil?
    -     by Rev. Michael McGee, December 2, 2001, Big Question 3
  • Getting Into the Void: A Rambling Reflection on NOTHING at all!
    -     by Rev. Joan Gelbein, November 25, 2001
  • Exploring the Small Questions: Living with the Little Stuff
    -     by Rev. Joan Gelbein, November 11, 2001
  • Why Do We Need Religion?
    -     by Rev. Joan Gelbein, October 28, 2001, Big Question 2
  • Why Do They Hate Us?
    -     by Rev. Michael A. McGee, October 21, 2001, Social Action and UN Sunday
  • A. Powell Davies -- To Grow A Soul
    -     by Rev. Michael A. McGee, October 14, 2001
  • A Matter of Randomness? Or Fate?
    -     by Rev. Joan Gelbein, October 7, 2001
  • Why Are We Here?
    -     by Rev. Michael A. McGee, September 28, 2001
  • The Power of Imperfection
    -     by Rev. Rev. Olson Peebles, September 23, 2001
  • A Service of Healing and Witness
    -     by Rev. Michael A. McGee and Rev. Joan Gelbein, September 17, 2001
  • What Is Your Message?
    -     by Rev. Michael A. McGee, September 2, 2001
  • Unitarianism -- We Are One!
    -     by Rev. Michael A. McGee, August 12, 2001
  • How many seas must the white dove sail?
    -     by Rev. Linda Olson Peebles, August 5, 2001
  • Spirit and Substance
    -     by Rev. Joan Gelbein, July 22, 2001
  • The Delegates Speak!
    -     by Rev. Joan Gelbein and GA Delegates, July 8, 2001
  • A Hidden Changing World View – Yours and Mine?
    -     by Rev. Joan Gelbein, July 1, 2001
  • Fathers on Fathers
    -     by Rev. Joan Gelbein, June 17, 2001
  • GodTalk-- Dancing with the Divine
    -     by Reverend Michael A. McGee, May 27, 2001
  • Make Way for Ducklings
    - by The Rev. Linda Olson Peebles, MRE, May 13, 2001
  • The Passion for Renewal - An Adventure of Faith in Action
    - by Rev. Dr. Arpad Szabo, Unitarian Bishop of Transylvania, May 6, 2001
  • Naturalism – The Song of Gaia
    - by Reverend Michael A. McGee, April 22, 2001
  • When Jesus Walked
    - by Reverend Michael A. McGee, Easter Sunday, April 15, 2001
  • When Half-Gods Go
    - by Reverend Michael A. McGee, March 11, 2001
  • Mysticism–a Religion of Love
    - by Reverend Michael A. McGee, February 11, 2001
  • Rebooting Your Life
    - by Reverend Joan Gelbein, February 4, 2001
  • Life Is Relationship
    - by Reverend Michael A. McGee, January 28, 2001
  • A Prophesy for the 21st Century
    - by Reverend Michael A. McGee, January 21, 2001
  • Getting Malajusted
    - by Reverend Michael A. McGee, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 15, 2001
  • Two Lives, One Dream: Theodore Parker and Martin Luther King, Jr.
    - by Reverend Joan Gelbein, January 14, 2001
  • Change Agents in the Church: Mary Daly
    - by Reverend Joan Gelbein, January 7, 2001
  • Come Bearing Gifts
    - by Reverend Michael A. McGee, December 17, 2000
  • Change Agents in the Church: Bishop John Shelby Spong
    - by Reverend. Joan Gelbein, December 10, 2000
  • Safe Harbor
    - by Reverend. Joan Gelbein, November 19, 2000
  • Agnosticism -- Daring to Doubt
    - by Reverend Michael A. McGee, November 12, 2000
  • Who Cares? - Election Sunday
    - by Reverend Michael A. McGee, November 5, 2000
  • Change Agents in the Church: Matthew Fox
    - by Reverend. Joan Gelbein, October 29, 2000
  • The Forgiving Heart; The Hope of Healing
    - by Reverend. Joan Gelbein, October 22, 2000
  • Which Side Are You On?
    - by Rev. Melanie Morel Sullivan, October 15, 2000
  • Atheism: Being Religious with No Invisible Means Of Support
    - by Reverend Michael A. McGee, October 8, 2000
  • September Song - Reflections on Aging
    - by Reverend. Joan Gelbein, September 24, 2000
  • In the Middle of Nowhere
    - by Reverend Michael A. McGee, September 17, 2000
  • Walking the Paths Together: Companions on the Journey
    - by Participants: Robin Brent, Diane Dorius, Sheila Harvill, George Lehner, Kathie Ross, August 27, 2000
  • Look to the Hills!
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein and Ray Killian, August 6, 2000
  • Universalism -- Are You Saved?
    - by Rev. Michael A. McGee, July 30, 2000
  • Unitarianism -- At most, one God!What does it mean to be a Unitarian?”
    - by Rev. Michael A. McGee, July 23, 2000
  • Freedom - An Ideal and An Abstraction
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein, July 2, 2000
  • For the Love of the Sea
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein, May 28, 2000
  • Is GOD in a Quark?
    - by Rev. Michael A. McGee, May 21, 2000
  • What Grace is This That Moves in Me? -- Existential Spirituality
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein, Jane McKeel, Lindsey Harmon, Steve Smith, Mark Knight, May 7, 2000
  • Practice Resurrection!
    - by The Reverend Michael A. McGee, Easter Sunday, April 23, 2000
  • Stages of a Woman’s Life
    - by The Rev. Joan Gelbein, April 2, 2000
  • The Substance of Existence: Quintessence
    - by The Rev. Joan Gelbein, March 26, 2000
  • The Freudian Slip -- Unraveling The Uncounscious
    - by The Reverend Michael A. McGee,Science & Religion III Sunday, March 12, 2000
  • Not To Think Alike But To Love Alike - A Visit From Francis David
    - by The Reverend Michael A. McGee, Partner Church Sunday, March 5, 2000
    To celebrate Partner Church Sunday, we invited the renowned Unitarian from Transylvania, Francis David, to share with us the fascinating story of how Unitarianism was brought to Eastern Europe in the 16th century.
  • Healing the Heart -- Where the Light Comes In
    - by The Reverend Michael A. McGee, Pastoral Associates Sunday, February 27, 2000
  • Listening to What Our Lives Are Saying.
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein, February 20, 2000
  • Working a Relationship for the Long Run.
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein and Abe Gelbein, February 13, 2000
  • We Celebrate Ourselves!
    - by The Reverend Michael A. McGee, Commitment Sunday, February 6, 2000
  • A Vision of the Future Church
    - by The Reverend Joan R. Gelbein, . Sunday, January 23, 2000
  • Where is the Rainbow?
    - by The Reverend Michael A. McGee, Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday, January 16, 2000
  • In(ter)dependence
    - by Dr. Linda Topp, January 9, 2000
  • Apocalypse Later--Are We Out Of Time?
    - by The Reverend Michael A. McGee, December 26, 1999
  • When Wrestling with God, Don't Forget to Dance.
    - by The Reverend Michael A. McGee, Installation Sunday, December 12, 1999
  • Jesus: Social Rebel and Iconoclast
    - by The Reverend Joan R. Gelbein, December 5,1999
  • Ecological Philosophy:A Realignment with our Sensuous Reality.
    - by The Reverend Joan R. Gelbein, November 14,1999
  • Whose Loss Is It Anyway? Grieving and Growing
    - by The Reverend Joan R. Gelbein, October 31, 1999
  • When Worlds Collide – Healing the Cosmic Wound
    - by The Rev. Michael A. McGee, October 10, 1999
  • Journeying Soul: The Art and Practice of Pilgrimage in Our Lives
    - by The Rev. Joan Gelbein , September 26, 1999
  • In The Beginning, There Was A Gawdawful Mess
    - by The Reverend Michael A. McGee , September 19, 1999
  • The Stream Of Life
    - by The Reverend Michael A. McGee , September 12, 1999
  • Does God Have Meaning?
    - by The Rev. Joan Gelbein , August 1, 1999
  • Do Death and Suffering Have Meaning?
    - by The Rev. Joan Gelbein , July 25, 1999
  • In Search of the Wizard
    - by The Reverend Michael A. McGee(Candidate Minister) , May 9, 1999
  • Return to the Most Human
    - by The Reverend Michael A. McGee(Candidate Minister) , May 2, 1999
  • Duke Ellington and the American Dream
    - by The Rev. Paul L'Herrou, April 18, 1999
  • Before the Cock Crows
    - by The Rev. Paul L'Herrou, Easter Sunday, April 4, 1999
    This sermon explores the nature of our commitments to one another, especially when we break our commitments, and how forgiveness and redemption can lead to renewed commitment.
  • Do the Right Thing !
    - by The Rev. Paul L'Herrou, February 28, 1999
  • Religious Education: What we Learn, How We Live
    - by Sue Philley, Director of Religious Education, February 7, 1999
  • Seven Stepping Stones
    - by The Rev. Paul L'Herrou, January 3, 1999
  • Following Yonder Star
    - by The Rev. Paul L'Herrou, December 20, 1998
  • An Attitude of Gratitude
    - by The Rev. Joan R. Gelbein, November 22, 1998
  • The Long Road From Tolerance
    - by The Rev. Joan R. Gelbein, November 8, 1998
  • Bang! Bang! You're Dead
    - by The Rev. Paul L'Herrou, November 15, 1998
  • A Place Just Right
    - by The Rev. Paul L'Herrou October 18, 1998
  • A Journey of a Thousand Miles
    - by The Rev. Paul L'Herrou October 11, 1998
  • Out and About: A Celebration of Solidarity Sunday
    - by The Rev. Joan Gelbein - October 4, 1998
  • How Can We Forgive?
    - by The Rev. Paul L'Herrou September 27, 1998
  • Vision in Progress: Paths to Principles in Practice
    - by The Rev. Joan Gelbein - September 24, 1998
  • The Myth of a Clean Slate
    - by The Revs. Sylvia Howe & Paul L'Herrou - September 6, 1998
  • The Eleventh Commandment
    - by Rev. Paul L'Herrou - May 17, 1998
  • Finding Our Mother's
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein - May 10, 1998
  • The Insistent Onset of Spring
    - by Rev. Joan Gelbein - March 22, 1998
  • Sally and Joe and the Angel of Death
    - by Rev. Paul L'Herrou - March 8, 1998
  • Margaret Fuller - American Renaissance Woman
    - by By Rev. Joan R. Gelbein - January 25, 1998
  • Self-Reliance and Ralph Waldo Emerson
    - by Rev. Paul L'Herrou - January 11, 1998
  • Shuffling Toward Bethlehem
    - by Rev. Paul L'Herrou - December 14, 1997
  • Keeping the Promise
    - by Rev. Paul L'Herrou - October 12, 1997
  • Welfare As We Know It
    - by Rev. Paul L'Herrou - September 21, 1997
  • In Defense Of Odd Numbers
    - by Rev. Paul L'Herrou - September 14, 1997
  • A Theology of the Busy Life
    - By Rev. Joan R. Gelbein
  • The Cloning of the Lambs
    - By Rev. Joan R. Gelbein - March 30, 1997
  • Buddhism: The Way of Wisdom
    - By Rev. Joan R. Gelbein - February 9, 1997
  • Reflections on the Life and Thought of Carl Sagan
    - By Rev. Joan R. Gelbein - February 2, 1997
  • What I Learned From The Celestine Prophecy And Other Coincidences
    - By Rev. Joan R. Gelbein - November, 1995
  • A Theology Shift in Our Denomination? --
    What's Happening to UU Humanism?
    - By Rev. Joan R. Gelbein - October 15, 1995
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