Sermon – Cash CultureSermon for 1st Unitarian Society of Denver by Rev. Mike Morran delivered on January 3, 2010 Last summer I told you about a talk I had heard by Rev. Mark Morrison-Reed. Mark is an African American Unitarian Universalist minister, and for this particular presentation he used the wonderful title, The Perversity of Diversity: […]
Continue readingSermon – Anyone or Only OneSermon for 1st Unitarian Society of Denver by Rev. Mike Morran delivered on February 14, 2010 Once, there was a young woman who lived alone. She had a job and all the acceptable though unexciting things that a single woman in the early years of the 21st century would normally possess. […]
Continue readingSermon – Another Narrative Needed Another Narrative Needed: OursA sermon delivered to the First Unitarian Society of Denver on July 17, 2011 by Reverend Betty Pingel This is a truth in marketing announcement: I am not sure if this sermon is a history lesson, a call to arms, or a dream in the making. Maybe you […]
Continue readingCore Circle WSL – SimplicityOpening Reading: “The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to.It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao.In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try […]
Continue readingCore Circle WSL – InsightOpening Reading: Do not ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go and do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman Check In/Sharing Topic: Insight; n. 1. The capacity to discern the true nature of a situation; penetration. 2. The act […]
Continue readingCore Circle WSL – FreedomOpening Words: “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.” – Martin Luther King, Jr Check In/Sharing Topic: Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, political, economic, […]
Continue readingCore Circle – WSL – EconomyOpening Reading: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, Because […]
Continue readingCore Circle WSL – DivinityOpening Words: “A fire-mist and a planet, a crystal and a cell, a jelly-fish and a saurian, and caves where cave-men dwell; then a sense of law and beauty, and a face turned from the sod, — some call it Evolution, and others call it God.” – William H. Carruth Check in/Sharing Topic: “There is […]
Continue readingCore Circle WSL – Common GroundOpening Words: “We do not have to think alike, to love alike.” – From the Unitarian Francis David, 1510-1579 (Suggest following with a moment of silence.) Check In/Sharing Introduction of Topic: There is a certain privacy to a thought. We all have places within where no one else can ever be wholly admitted, where the […]
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