SERMONS-OF-THE-MONTH

ORGANIZED BY SUBJECT


    The following is a complete listing of the sermons-of-the-month
published by this service, which was originally RURAL-L.
In January 2007 it was merged into Smalltalk.

    A listing presented in the order in which they were published:
Historical list of Sermons-of-the-Month.

    The sermons already presented
are organized into the following subject-areas:

RELIGION
SPIRITUALITY
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
PERSONAL GROWTH
MEDICAL ETHICS & DEATH
TERRORISM, WAR, & PEACE
MISCELLANEOUS



RELIGION

Islam: Submission to God
November 2003

God---What's in a Name?
January 2004

The Religion of the Circle
March 2004

WHICH GODS DO NOT EXIST?

No Gods Wrote Holy Books
February 2004 & March 2008

No Gods Created the Universe
March 2005 & February 2008
 
No Gods are All-Powerful
August 2005 & May 2008

No Gods Are Watching Our Behavior
September 2005 & April 2008

No Gods Can Save Us from Death
October 2005 & June 2008

God-Talk Might Be a Way of Expressing our Spiritual Dynamics
July 2008

The Next 1,000 Years of Spiritual Progress:
The Future of Unitarian Universalism

May 2005

Why I Am A Unitarian Universalist
June 2005

Sex-and-Gender Minorities, Sexology,
and the Unitarian Universalist Movement

June 2009


Ultimate Questions
December 2005

IF I WERE GOD:
I Would Keep Up with Modern Science
March 2010

IF I WERE GOD:
I Would Issue New Commandments
July 2010

A New Name for Unitarian Universalism?
April 2010




SPIRITUALITY

WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?

1.  Beyond the Life of the Body, the Heart, & the Mind .
April 2004

2.  Ways to Expand Our Spirits .
December 2003

3.  Self-Transcendence, Self-Criticism, & Altruism .
May 2004

4.  Freedom: Transcending Enculturation and Choosing for Ourselves .
June 2004

5.  Creativity: Making Something Genuinely New .
July 2004

6.  Love: The I-Thou Encounter, Discovering Other Persons of Spirit
August 2004

7.  The Disclosure of Existential Anxiety
and other Manifestations of Our Existential Predicament
September 2004

8.  Glimpses of Joy and Fulfillment
October 2004

Loneliness of Spirit:
Deeper than the Reach of Love

December 2004

Existential Guilt:
Deeper than the Pangs of Conscience

January 2005

Being Depressed in Spirit:
Deeper than Psychological Depression

November 2006

Introducing Existential Spirituality
November 2010

Passionate Inwardness:
Surrendering Self

December 2010




LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS

The Future of Love and Marriage
February 2006

Romantic Jealousy: Cause and Prevention
April 2007

Loving in Freedom
May 2007

Four Ways to Achieve Same-Sex Marriage
November 2008



PERSONAL GROWTH

Your Unique Contribution to the World
Fall 2006

Becoming More Authentic:
The Positive Side of Existentialism

December 2006

Becoming More Free
January 2009




MEDICAL ETHICS & DEATH

Voluntary Death by Dehydration
February 2005

Advance Medical Directives:
24 Important Questions to Answer

April 2005

Four Differences between Irrational Suicide & Voluntary Death
November 2005

Four Differences between Mercy Killing & Merciful Death
January 2006

The Living Cadaver:
Medical Uses of Permanently Unconscious Bodies

March 2006

When Is A Person?
Pre-Persons & Former Persons

Spring 2006

A New Way to Secure the Right-to-Die:
Laws against Causing Premature Death

February 2007

Two Approaches to Right-to-Die Laws:
Granting Permission and Banning Harms

September 2008

The One-Month-Less Club:
Live Well Now, Omit the Last Month

March 2007

Choosing Your Date of Death:
How to Achieve a Timely Death
—Not too Soon, Not too Late
May 2010

God Will Decide When Life Will End:
We Should Not 'Play God'

June 2010


Medical Futility Monitor:
Avoiding the Million Dollar Death

July 2009

Voluntary Rationing of Health-Care
August 2009

Nine Ways to Reduce Health-Care Costs
September 2009


Taking Death in Strive
February 2009

Voluntary Execution:
Better than Capital Punishment?

October 2009

One Million Chosen Deaths per Year?
January 2010



TERRORISM, WAR, & PEACE

Deprogramming Osama bin Laden
November 2004

Peaceful Muslims & Violent Muslims
July 2005

Religious Prisons to Rehabilitate Islamic Terrorists
March 2009


Exit Strategy for Iraq:
Arabic-Speaking Peace Keepers

July 2006

Policing Mutual Genocide:
Not a War on Terrorism, Not a Civil War

August 2008

Lessons from Iraq
October 2008


World without War
January 2007

Blessed Are the Peacmakers
December 2008

World Peace Force100 Years for Transition
May 2009


WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
Separate the Arabs and Jews
April 2009

WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
When National Governments Collapse
November 2009

WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
Disarm All Sides in Afghanistan
December 2009


MISCELLANEOUS
Media Science, Advocacy Science, & Real Science
February 2010

I am an Immigrant
August 2010

IMMIGRATION REFORM:
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS:
Keeping the UU Debate Constructive

January 2011

Born in the USA:
The Easy Way to Become a US Citizen

September 2010

Sex-Balanced Senate
October 2010




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