Past Sermons

2021

• Perspective – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, January 3, 2021

 

2020

• Reasons and Seasons  – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, December 20, 2020
• The Beloved Community – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, December 6, 2020
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• Special 5th Sunday Program: “The Anchor of Hope,”, Joe Mazza with Special Music by Becky Reardon, November 29,2020
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• Screening: “Nurturing the Spirit of Life”, a film about UCOT by Sally Savage, November 15, 2020
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• Annual UU Day of the Dead Service – Marsha & Chuck Fawns, November 1, 2020
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• October Surprises – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, October 18, 2020. Special Musical  Guest  Michael Virga  of The  Second  Wind  Endeavor
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• The Question Box – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, October 4, 2020
• The Natural World – A special presentation by Becky Reardon and Susan Cerulean, September 27, 2020.
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• Ancestral Ways – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, September 20, 2020
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• Voyagers – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, September 6, 2020
• Just What Is Normal, Anyway? – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, August 16, 2020
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• Oh, Olympia! – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, August 2, 2020
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• Power Laws – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, July 19, 2020
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• Calvin, Hobbes, and the Meaning of Life – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, July 5, 2020
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• Stormy Weather – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, June 21, 2020
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• Feed Your Head – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, June 7, 2020
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• Down and Out – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, May 17, 2020
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• Love Without Limits – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, May 3, 2020
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• Oracles of Concord – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, April 19, 2020
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• Love in the Time of Corona – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, April 5, 2020
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• Healing the Wounds – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, March 1, 2020
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• Sola Scriptura, Sola Fides – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, February 16, 2020
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• Annual UCOT Meeting – February 2, 2020
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• Heretics? – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, January 19, 2020
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• Dreams and Epiphanies – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, January 5, 2020
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2019

• Four Hundred Sixty-Three – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, December 15, 2019
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  • Special Music – Madison Taylor performing “My Favorite Things”
• Original Blessings – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, December 1, 2019
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  • Special Music – Elaine Nelson, saxophone and Chris Burton, guitar
• Not by Bread Alone – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, November 17, 2019
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  • Special Music – Madison Taylor
• Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) – Marsha & Chuck Fawns, November 3, 2019
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• The Beautiful– The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, October 20, 2019
• Mary Cassatt and the Spiritual Journey – The Rev. Gary Kowaslki, October 6, 2019
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• I Will Come Visit You in a Coconut, Haitian Vodou From the Sacred to the Profane, a 31-Year Perspective – Bill Waters, PhD, September 29, 2019 (5th Sunday Talk)
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• Silken Ties of Love – The Rev. Doug Inhofe, September 15, 2019
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• Martin Luther King and the Legacy of Organized Labor – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, September 1, 2019
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• The True – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, August 18, 2019
• What To Do When Your World Turns Upside Down – The Rev. Gary Kowalski,        August 4, 2019
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• The Good – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, July 21,2019
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• The Question Box – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, July 7, 2019
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• I Sing the Body Electric – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, June 16, 2019
• The Natural Life – The Rev. Jean Darling, June 2, 2019
• Our Faith as Spiritual Practice – The Rev Munro Sickafoose, May 19, 2019
• Cinco de Mayo – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, May 5, 2019
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• One Nation, Many Gods and Goddesses – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, April 21, 2019
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• One Big Soul – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, April 7, 2019
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• The Metaphysics of Place – Barbara Scott, March 31, 2019  (5th Sunday Talk)
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• Uncle Sam and the Goddess – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, March 17, 2019
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• Songs of the Soul – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, March 3, 2019 
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• Dead Presidents – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, February 17, 2019
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• Variations on the Theme of God – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, January 20, 2019
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• What Is Democracy? – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, January 6, 2019
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2018

• How to Be Happy – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, December 16, 2018
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• Begin Again in Love (Lighting Candles) – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, December 2, 2018
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• Fall Harvest Feast & New-Member Welcoming / Choosing Gratitude con Mucho Gusto – The Rev. Doug Inhofe, November 18, 2018
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• Living in the Sky – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, October 21, 2018
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• Blessing of the Beasts – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, October 7, 2018
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• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, September 16, 2018
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• The Participatory World – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, September 2, 2018
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• The Personal and the Political – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, August 19, 2018
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• The Question Box – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, August 5, 2018
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• The Divinity School Address, 180 Years On – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, July 15, 2018
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• The Zen of Unitarianism – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, July 1, 2018
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• Celebrating Our Humanity: A Vision of Play and Possibility – The Rev. Doug Inhofe, June 17, 2018
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• All Together How – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, June 3, 2018
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• The Theology of Mister Rogers – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, May 20, 2018
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• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, May 6, 2018
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• Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr.? – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, April 15, 2018
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• Holy Fools, Crazy Wisdom – The Rev. Munro Sickafoose, April 1, 2018
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• Hatching Miracles – The Rev. Gary Kowalski, March 18, 2018
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• Conflicts of Conscience – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, March 4, 2018
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• Faith of a Modern Man  – Rev. Gary Kowalski, February 18, 2018 
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• The Bible as Poetry  – Rev. Gary Kowalski, January 21, 2018
• Rambling in the Weeds  – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, January 7, 2018 
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2017

• Sex, Sin, and the Birth of Jesus  – Rev. Gary Kowalski, December 17, 2017 
  • Opening – Audio Clip 
  • Sermon – Audio Clip 
• The Complexity of Hope  – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, December 3, 2017 
• Being and Belonging  – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, November 19, 2017 
• Care of the Soul  – Rev. Gary Kowalski, October 15, 2017 
• Being Human in Uncertain Times  – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, October 1, 2017 
• Walden Revisited  – Rev. Gary Kowalski, September 17, 2017 
• The Power and Poetry of Place  – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, September 3, 2017 
• One Love, All In  – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, August 6, 2017 
• The Question Box  – Rev. Gary Kowalski, July 16, 2017  
  • The Question Box Audio Clip 
• (Still) Standing on the Brink  – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, July 2, 2017
  • Smokey the Bear Sutra 
• Juneteenth  – Rev. Gary Kowalski, June 18, 2017
• Free Speech, Free Minds, Free Religion – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, June 4, 2017
• America’s First Feminist  – Rev. Gary Kowalski, May 21, 2017
• The Red and the Green – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, May 7, 2017
• Practice Resurrrection – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, April 16, 2017
  • Link to Wendell Berry poem: http://www.goodnaturepublishing.com/poem.htm
• Spiritual Intelligence – Rev. Gary Kowalski, April 2, 2017
• To Tell The Truth – Rev. Gary Kowalski, March 19, 2017
• One Step Closer – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, March 5, 2017
• Einstein’s God– Rev. Gary Kowalski, February 19, 2017
• Active Hope, Sacred Anger, Radical Joy – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, February 5, 2017
• Turning Into the Skid – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, January 15, 2017
• Spiritual or Religious? – Rev. Gary Kowalski, January 1, 2017

2016

• Hanukkah and Hope – Rev. Gary Kowalski, December 20,2016
• Who Am I To Be Somebody? – Rev. Gary Kowalski, December 4, 2016
• Ancestors – Rev. Gary Kowalski, November 19, 2016
• The Once and Future Faith – Rev. Gary Kowalski, October 16, 2016
• UCOT-Labor-Day-2016-Sermon – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, September 4, 2016
• BandaidsChickenSoupandOtherWonderDrugs – Rev. Gary Kowalski, August 21, 2016
• Choice—The Force That Shapes Our Destiny — Barbara Scott, July 31, 2016
• Praise Then Darkness and Creation Unfinished – Rev. Munro Sickafoose, July 17, 2016
• Delight, Joy,  Triumph, Exalation: The Religion of John Adams – Rev. Gary Kowalski, July 3, 2016
• The Story of  My Life – Rev. Gary Kowalski, June 19, 2016 
• Question Box — Rev. Gary Kowalski, May 15, 2016
• Love Your Mother – Rev. Gary Kowalski, April 17, 2016
• Let’s Dream Together – Rev. Gary Kowalsi, April 3, 2016         
• What Would Jesus Eat– Rev. Gary Kowalski, March 20, 2016
• Love and Rockets – Munro Sickafoose, March 6, 2016
• Lincoln’s Bible – Rev. Gary Kowalski, Feb. 21, 2016
• Not Quick To Anger – Rev. Gary Kowalski, Feb. 7, 2016
• The Soul of Islam – Rev. Gary Kowalski, Jan. 31, 2016

2015

• Jesus: the Man and the Myth  – Rev. Gary Kowalski, Dec. 20, 2015
• A Most Intimate Decision – Rev. Gary Kowalski, Nov. 29, 2015
• Alanna’s story – Alanna Offield, ACLU field representative from Albuquerque, Nov. 29, 2015
• The Bread of Gratitude – Rev. Gary Kowalski, Nov. 15, 2015
• A Free Faith – Rev. Gary Kowalski, October 18, 2015
• The Glory and Wonder of Ordinary Things – Rev. Doug Inhofe, September 20, 2015
• Laboring for Justice – Rev Gary Kowalski, September 6, 2015
• Our Treasures Are in Our Hearts  – Rev. Doug Inhofe, July 5, 2015
• To Bigotry No Sanction – Rev Gary Kowalski, July 19, 2015
• The Ghost in the Machine – Rev Gary Kowalski, June 7, 2015
• Celebrating Our Kinship To All Creation – Rev Gary Kowalski, May 17, 2015
  (recording from NHPR, 2013)
• Our Congregation’s Ten Years of Parfait Layers – Rev Doug Inhofe, May 3, 2015
• Sing That We Live – Rev Doug Inhofe, Apr 19, 2015
• Tuesdays with Jesus – Rev Gary Kowalski, Apr 5, 2015
• The Arc of the Moral Universe – Rev Gary Kowalski, Mar. 15, 2015
• At Home In The Cosmos – Rev Gary Kowalski, Feb. 15, 2015
• What’s Love Got to Do With It – Restoring Community One Circle At A Time – Rose Gordon, Jan. 4, 2015. (Bibliography for further understanding)

2014

• What if They Gave a War and Nobody Came  – Rev. Gary Kowalski, December 21, 2014 
• Tears and Laughter  – Rev. Doug Inhofe, October 19, 2014 
• UU What Does Prayer Do  – Rev. Angela Herrera, September 7, 2014 
• The Interfaith Idea and the Crafting of Personal Spirituality  – Rev. Hollis Walker, July 20, 2014 
• The Multiple Meanings of Freedom  – Chuck Fawns, July 6, 2014 
• Balak and Truth – Speak Only What You Are Certain is Completely True  – Rabbi Chava Carp 
• An Earthday Query: Are We Just the Keepers of the Zoo?  – Chuck Doughty, April 20, 2014 
• Going to Walden  – Bryan Elwood, April 6, 2014 
• Slaves, Genizaros, and Penitentes in Northen New Mexico – a Cultural Legacy  – March 16, 2014 
• Wrestling with God  – Rev. Julia Older Frankuchen, February 2, 2014 

2013

• What is Marriage For?  – Rev. Angela Herrera, September 1, 2013 
• Living with Ghosts  – Rev. Stephen Papa, August 4, 2013 
• Knights of Faith  – Barbara Scott, July 21, 2013 
• God’s Second Career  – Wade Wheelock and Anne Marsh, April 7, 2013 
• Forgiving Yourself  – Marsha Fawns, March 3, 2013 
• What I Learned from the Sisters  – Rev. Susanne Redfern-Campbell, February 24, 2013 
• Choosing Transformation  – Rev. Hollis Walker, February 3, 2013 
• A Meeting Homily  – Chuck Fawns, January 20, 2013 
• A Quaker Meeting  – Mimi Owensby, January 13, 2013