Sermons & Newsletter – UU Church of Rutland

Nancy Kimball, who is an active member of the UU Congregation of Glens Falls, has been licensed to rehabilitate injured birds and other small animals for many years. Most of them are released once they’re healed, but Nancy has several owls and other raptors that have become permanent residents due to injuries which are so severe that they can no longer survive in the wild. She’ll tell us about her work and she’ll bring a few birds with her (probably an adorable saw-whet owl and a kestrel). You’ll learn about a fascinating part of the ‘interdependent web of which we are a part’!

To hear the sermon click the arrow below:

Your obituary is often where a summary description of your life is found. That description of your legacy may rest in the hands of  your survivors or you may have written it before passing on. How would you like to be remembered or how might others remember you?

To hear the sermon click the arrow below:

This is about a non-profit recovery center that provides a safe, friendly, fun, and substance free environment. All people in recovery, and their family and friends, can meet here for recovery support, meetings, social activities, recovery coaching, education, and advocacy. The Turning Point Center respects all paths to recovery.

Click the arrow below to hear the sermon:

This is a combination Easter/Earth Day sermon that Rebecca wrote for a congregation in Austin, TX. Rebecca wrestles with the spiritual wound that is climate change, considering themes of death and rebirth, despair and hope, freezing and fecundity, brevity and eternity. Human behavior causes environmental destruction, yet humans are part of and subject to nature. Is it too audacious to speak of redemption?

To hear the sermon click the arrow below:

We live surrounded by textiles, and we live surrounded by wear and tear. Things come apart, from seams to hearts to communities. Bringing together threads of history, community, practicality and spirituality, we weave an interdependent web to help mend ourselves and our world.

To hear the sermon, click the arrow below:

“Hope is the thing with feathers/ that perches in the soul/ and sings the song without the words/ and never stops at all” — poem by Emily Dickinson.  What are symbols of rebirth and renewal for you? Longer days? New leaves? Flowers? Recovering from an illness? Bring something if you like that serves as a reminder to you of hope and rebirth and renewal. 

To hear the sermon click the arrow below:

Old age comes with the fragile ecstasy of being alive; it need not be the tragedy of life.

To hear the sermon click the arrow below: