ERUUF Sermons & Readings

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Rev. Deborah Cayer  

Life happens and we have a choice. We can meet whatever comes, or avoid it in any number of ways. What happens when we pay attention? What happens when we face real life?

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Holly Lux-Sullivan

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Rev. Deborah Cayer

On July 29 I’ll be in Phoenix, Arizona as a religious witness along with hundreds of Unitarian Universalists and other people, in solidarity and opposition to Arizona’s new anti-immigration law.  Did we make a difference? What does it mean to stand on the side of love? 

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Rev. Deborah Cayer

The Lakota holy man, Black Elk, once had a vision that left him filled with awe.  “The power of the world works in circles,” he said, “and everything tries to be round.”  Nests, campfires, stars, planets, the sun and the moon are all round.  What deeper meaning and significance did he find in this pattern?  And what meaning might circles hold for us?   This morning Deborah Cayer and Kacey Zucchino explore the concept of ERUUF’s new Neighborhood Circles (what are they? what aren’t they?) and how simply being there for each other in simple ways can be fundamental for our spiritual lives.  

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Rev. Deborah Cayer

Every year in late June, Unitarian Universalists gather together for a long weekend of inspiring worship, singing, lectures, discussions, presentations, and to conduct the business of our Association of Congregations.  We gather because we have promised one another that we will do this.  What keeps us coming back, is that despite the rigors of travel and the tedium of Roberts Rules, the time we spend together leaves us full of hope and promise.  Several people from ERUUF who attended GA will share their experience of UU General Assembly.

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Rev. Eric Kaminetzky (guest preacher)

Eric writes,"I preached Part I of this sermon at ERUUF a number of years ago.  During the time that has passed I have become a fellowshipped UU minister. I'll be speaking about the journey toward vocation and I'll reference Parker Palmer's, Let Your Life Speak.” Eric is a home-bred, life-long UU making a transition from practicing attorney to called minister.  He’s been a member of ERUUF since 1994 and recently served as Assistant Minister with the UU Fellowship of Raleigh in NC.  This past June he accepted a call to serve the Edmonds UU Fellowship in Edmonds, WA.

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Rev. Deborah Cayer

An Enlightenment ideal…an elusive dream…a mystery to explore.   In this Service for All Ages,  Arnold Lobel’s friends, Frog and Toad, will lead us through an exploration of Happiness. (And with any luck, they’ll leave us there!) Helen Wolfson and Rev. Cayer join Frog and Toad in this Intergenerational Service about life, liberty and happiness.

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Rev. Deborah Cayer

In his last speech to striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said that it was fine to talk about fine robes and crowns in heaven, but we also need to talk about shoes, coats and dresses for working people in this world. What are some of the pressing justice issues of today, and what in this world can we do?
 

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Rev. J.D. Benson

The disease of heterosexism has prevented justice from being done in the case of marriage equality. Families are hurt each day we delay. What are we called to do, as Unitarian Universalists, to set things right?