Sermon Code (the green letters after some sermon titles):
C.
Christian.
Sermons for people from Christian backgrounds,
helping them to make the transition from
Christian roots to UUism.
D.
Discussion.
Subjects appropriate for group discussion, panels, etc.
We all have experiences, thoughts, questions, & stories on these
themes.
N.
Newsworthy.
These subjects are so current and perhaps controversial
that the local news media might be invited
to cover the event.
O.
Outreach.
Sermons especially appropriate for a Sunday
on which you intend to advertise for visitors
from the general public,
people who have never before attended a UU
service.
These talks presuppose no previous knowledge
of UU thinking or traditions.
And they address subjects already alive in
the minds
of people on the verge of becoming Unitarian Universalists.
If
you click a title that appears in
blue,
you will see a synposis and/or outline of that sermon
---and sometimes the complete text of that sermon.
If
the following list were the table of contents
of a magazine,
which articles would you turn to immediately?
2. Spirituality for Humanists: Six Capacities of Our Human Spirits D O
4. Looking for the Meaning of Life
WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?
1. Beyond the Life
of the Body, the Heart, & the Mind .
2. Ways to Expand
Our Spirits .
3. Self-Transcendence, Self-Criticism, & Altruism .
4. Freedom:Transcending Enculturation and Choosing for Ourselves .
5. Creativity: Making Something Genuinely New .
6. Love: The I-Thou Encounter, Discovering Other Persons of Spirit .
7. The
Disclosure of Existential Anxiety
and
other Manifestations of Our Existential Predicament .
8. Glimpses of Joy and Fulfillment .
1. Our Existential Predicament and Its Solution
2. Loneliness of Spirit: Deeper than the Reach of Love
3. Being Depressed in Spirit: Deeper than Psychological Depression D
4. Existential Anxiety: Angst D
5. Existential Guilt: Deeper than Pangs of Conscience C D
6. An
Existential Understanding of Death:
A Phenomenology of Ontological
Anxiety
2. Emerging (or Recovering) from Conventional Religious Beliefs C D O
3. The College Campus as Our Mission Field
4. An Existential
Interpretation of Christian
Mythology:
Demythologizing the New Testament
C O
5. Christmas without
Angels:
How Did the Birth-of-Christ Narratives Arise? C
N O
6. The Logic of Belief: Science/Pseudo-Science, Critical Inwardness/Dogma C
7. From
Rule-Morality to Rational Ethics:
Debating the Ten Commandments
C D
8. Why I Am A Unitarian Universalist
9. The Next 1,000
Years of Spiritual Progress:
The Future of Unitarian
Universalism
10. Sex-and-Gender
Minorities, Sexology,
and the Unitarian-Universalist
Movement
WHICH GODS DO NOT EXIST?
11. No Gods Created the Universe
13. No Gods Can Save Us from Death
14. No Gods Are Watching Our Behavior
2. Loving
without Needing:
Seven Pre-Existing Needs and How to Transcend Them D
3. Growing
in Love:
21 Ways to Become Less Dependent and More Authentic D
4. Romantic Jealousy: Cause and Prevention D
5. Romantic Love is a Hoax! Exploring Emotional Programming D N
6. Designer Marriage: Write Your Own Relationship Contract
7. Sources of Sexual Fantasies D N
8. I-It Sex versus I-Thou Sex: How Spirit Can Transform Sex D
9. A New Way of Loving: Non-Comprehensive Relationships D
10. I AM a Women's
Libber—But I'm Not a Woman!
Men's Place in the Women's Movement D N
11. Masculinity/Femininity: Loving Beyond our Gender-Personalities D N
12. Four Ways to Achieve Same-Sex Marriage D N
13. The Future of Love & Marriage D
14.
Sex-and-Gender
Minorities, Sexology,
and the
Unitarian Universalist Movement D N
2. Becoming More Authentic: The Positive Side of Existentialism
3. Simplify, Simplify: The Advantages of Voluntary Poverty D N
4. Turning Points in the Second Half of Life D
5. New Meanings for the
Second Half of Life:
Re-Creating Ourselves after Children and Work D
2. The Right to Die: Voluntary Death and Merciful Death D N
3. Ten Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions D N
4. Three Differences between Irrational Suicide and Voluntary Death D N
5. The One-Month-Less Club: Live Well Now and Omit the Last Month D N
6. Your 'Living Will': Decide Your Ethics and Write Your Medical Directive D
7. When is a Person? Pre-Persons and Former Persons D N
8. The Living Cadaver: Medical Uses of Permanently Unconscious Bodies D N
9. Twelve Ways to Reduce Health-Care Costs D N
10. Scientific and Philosophical Questions about Life after Death C D
4. Let's License Parents—And Solve Many Problems at Once D N
5. To What Degree Are We Still Racist? D
6. Religious Cults and Street Gangs D
7. The War on Drugs: The New Prohibition? D N
8. Prison Reform: 3 Kinds of Sentences and 10 Levels of Prison D N
9. The Reversible
Income Tax:
Replacing Social Security, Welfare, & Deductions D
N
10. Disarming America: Let's Eliminate All Private Guns D N
All subjects can be adjusted to
suit your
particular group.
To arrange a talk, sermon,
panel, etc. for your group
on any of these themes (or others you suggest),
call or write:
James Park
Lofts on Arts Avenue #218
1829 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
phone: (612) 871-7275.
e-mail: <PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU
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