Sunday, August 11, 2013

A Retreat with Pema Chodron

Rev. Peg Morgan

August 4, 2013

This past nine months our congregation’s spiritual study group has been attending, via DVDs, a retreat with Pema Chodron, Buddhist teacher/nun of Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. Today Rev. Peg will share some of the teachings that our group has found most helpful in deepening our spiritual lives, both in our relationship with ourselves, and our relationship with others.  Today’s sermon will be one of a series of sermons based upon this Buddhist retreat and will focus on the spiritual practice of nurturing our natural goodness, starting where we are, and observing what is happening when our hearts close down. 

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Combating Apathy: Everything I Needed to Know about Changing the World I Learned from Superman

Marcus Green, author, speaker, and friend of our Congregation

July 21, 2013

Another high-profile “Superman” movie is due out this summer. Marcus will comment on the idea of a world not changed by an extraordinary man or woman but by ordinary men and woman with a willingness to do the extraordinary. The real life heroes we often admire, King, Tubman, Gandhi, Milk and others, possessed the same raw ingredients that all of us possess if we so choose to use them.

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Under the Unitarian Universalist Umbrella

Rev. Peg Morgan and three members

July 14, 2013

Unitarian Universalism is a non-creedal faith which allows us the freedom to search for truth on many paths .Unitarian Universalists discern our own beliefs about spiritual, ethical, and theological issues under an umbrella of shared principles. We draw inspiration from Atheism, Agnosticism, Buddhism, Christianity, Humanism, Judaism, Earth Centered Spirituality, other religious or philosophical traditions, as well as from science.

This sharing service will be led by Rev. Peg Morgan, and will offer theological or spiritual perspectives of three of our members: Steve Burrows, Atheism, Cecelia Hayes, Earth Centered Spirituality, and Keo Capestany, Agnosticism.

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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Question Box Sermon

Rev. Peg Morgan

June 2, 2013

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Good News for Mothers Day

Rev. Peg Morgan

Let’s begin this Mother’s Day by hearing some feel good stories…Our disposition is largely determined by where we set our gaze. So let’s set our gaze today on good news. It’s really tempting for Unitarian Universalists to gaze at what is wrong because we want to fix it. But our strength has to begin from a foundation of joy brought about from good news stories. If you have a story for me to consider including, let me know!

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Albert Einstein: Glimpses of Light

Rev. Peg Morgan

May 19, 2013


Albert Einstein can teach us much about relying on our intuition and about the evolution of religious thought and sentiment. He was in many ways, a disguised theologian.
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Convicted of Being a UU

Rev. Peg Morgan

April 28, 2013

What if we lived in the 1500’s when it was not safe to be Unitarian? Or alternatively what if you were required to prove from your life that you are a Unitarian Universalist? How would you?

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