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“Laughter Yoga”: Sherri Durgin-Campbell

Posted by Tim on April 23, 2011

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“Welcoming Our Neighbors”: Rev. Erica Baron

Posted by Tim on April 23, 2011

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Renewing Covenant – by Rev. Erica Baron

Posted by Tim on March 19, 2011

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Reading by May Sarton
A Litany of Atonement by Rob Eller Isaacs
The full text of the Bylaws of the Unitarian Universalist Association
are available at http://www.uua.org/aboutus/bylaws/index.shtml, and
the full text of the Commission on Appraisal’s proposed amendment to
Article II are at
http://www.uua.org/aboutus/governance/electedcommittees/appraisalcommission/119345.shtml.

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Morality and Religion – by Rev. Erica Baron

Posted by Tim on March 19, 2011

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Credits:

Reading from the Bylaws of the Unitarian Universalist Association
Reading from Leviticus 19

Sources Quoted in the Sermon:
De Waal, Frans.  Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why
We Are Who We Are.  New York: Riverhead Books, 2005.

Durkheim, Emile. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Translated by
Carol Cosman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, translation copyright
2001.

Lakoff, George.  Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and
Frame the Debate.  White River Jct.: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2004.

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Answering the Call of my Appointment – by Dr. Francois Clemmons

Posted by Tim on March 19, 2011

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An Ethic of Love – by Rev. Erica Baron

Posted by Tim on February 25, 2011

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Credits: Debra Haffner, “Sexually Healthy Professionals,” presentation to the Northern New England Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association and LREDA Chapters, April 16, 2009.

Michael J. Tino, Sarah Gibb Millspaugh, and Laura Anne Stuart, Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Young Adults, Ages 18-35 (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, 2008), xii-xiii.

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Quakerism: Silence and Speech – by Rachel Van Cleve

Posted by Tim on February 11, 2011

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Quillen Shinn, Universalist Missionary – by Rev. Erica Baron

Posted by Tim on January 25, 2011

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Credits: First Reading: from the sermon “Love Never Faileth” by Quillen Shinn,
reprinted in William Henry McGlauflin, Faith With Power: A Life Story
of Quillen Hamilton Shinn, D.D. (Boston: Universalist Publishing
House, 1912). Second Reading: selections from Isaiah 35, King James Version.

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Martin Luther King Day Service – by Luther Brown, Becky Eno, Bob Burchess, Fredda Mangel, Bruce McNallie and Herb Ogden

Posted by Tim on January 18, 2011

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The Story of Earth – by Rev. Erica Baron

Posted by Tim on January 10, 2011

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Reading from “Hymn to Matter” by Teilhard de Chardin, in Singing the Living Tradition, Reading by Robert Weston, “Out of the Stars,” in Singing the Living Tradition, Quotes in the sermon are from Swimme, Brian and Thomas Berry, The Universe Story (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1992)

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