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Recent Sermons

Music is the Doorway
Rev. Joyce Palmer and James Galasinski
Description: In this intergenerational service we will celebrate the power of music to inspire and comfort.
Prayer
Rev. Julie Forest
Description: What happens when we pray? What do we want to happen and what do we need to happen?. Why pray? How do we pray? Come and find out.
Sermon: Language of the Heart
Pam Rumancik
Description: As liberal religious people we are very good at looking at the world through the lens of reason.
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Sermon: Preparing Our Hearts for Democracy
Rev. Julie Forest
Description: We will not find democracy in our country, if we do not find it in our hearts. As the fall elections ramp up, we need to prepare our hearts.
Spiritual Drought and the Desert of the Soul
James Galasinski, Student Minister
Description: From time to time we go through spiritually dry times, which can be likened to a desert.
Who Am I
Rev. Julie Forest
Description: Beneath all the stories of our past, beneath our joys and sorrows, we have within us an essential nature that is whole and unbroken.
Music is the Doorway
Rev. Joyce Palmer and James Galasinski
Description: In this intergenerational service we will celebrate the power of music to inspire and comfort.
Prayer
Rev. Julie Forest
Description: What happens when we pray? What do we want to happen and what do we need to happen?. Why pray? How do we pray? Come and find out.
Sermon: The Fire of Commitment
Janet Nortrom
Description: We are honored to welcome the 2011 recipient of the 2011 Frank Zeidler award.
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Sermon: Standing up for Truth and the Ethic of Risk
James Galasinski, Student Minister
Description: Standing up for what is right most often involves engaging in confrontation, whether in our daily relationships or in the political realm.
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Thanksgiving, The Movie
Rev. Julie Forest and Rev. Joyce Palmer
Description: Find out what happens when the director and the writer have two different versions of what should happen in this Thanksgiving m
Who Am I
Rev. Julie Forest
Description: Beneath all the stories of our past, beneath our joys and sorrows, we have within us an essential nature that is whole and unbroken.
Jainism and Extreme Non-Violence
James Galasinski
Description: The principle of non-violence, ahimsa, is very strong in Jain teaching, and influenced Mahatma Gandhi.
Coming of Age
Senior Youth Group
Description: The Senior Youth group of UCN will lead us in worship and share with us their theological perspectives. This begins our one s
Sermon: The Not-So-Secret Life of Native Plants
Liz Warner
Description: Liz will share her thirty-year ministry with native plants and share the history of the work that has been done on the land UCN sits on.
Sermon: Standing up for Truth and the Ethic of Risk
James Galasinski, Student Minister
Description: Standing up for what is right most often involves engaging in confrontation, whether in our daily relationships or in the political realm.
Thanksgiving, The Movie
Rev. Julie Forest and Rev. Joyce Palmer
Description: Find out what happens when the director and the writer have two different versions of what should happen in this Thanksgiving movie reader’s theat
Theodore Parker and the Arc of the Moral Universe
James Galasinski, Student Minister
Description: Parker was ahead of his time in terms of the social causes he supported and the expansiveness of his religious insight.
Jainism and Extreme Non-Violence
James Galasinski
Description: The principle of non-violence, ahimsa, is very strong in Jain teaching, and influenced Mahatma Gandhi.
Freedom, Improvisation, and the Meaning of Jazz
James Galasinski
Description: Jazz, much like Unitarian Universalism, is essentially an improvised democratic process that is constantly changing and evolving.
Sermon by Dennis Merritt, PhD.
Dennis Merritt, PhD.
Description: Dennis is a member of First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee.
Sermon: Mirror, Mirror
Rev. Julie Forest and Rev. Joyce Palmer
Description:  The Jewish High Holy days invite us to reflect honestly about what we see when we look into the mirror, where we fall short and how we can
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101 Questions
Rev. Julie Forest
Description: At every Path to Membership class, I ask the participants to write down any questions that they have for the minister.
Theodore Parker and the Arc of the Moral Universe
James Galasinski, Student Minister
Description: Parker was ahead of his time in terms of the social causes he supported and the expansiveness of his religious insight.
How Shall I Live, Knowing I will Die
Rev. Julie Forest
Description: Easter Sunday with its stories of life, death, and life beyond death, is the perfect day to think about what we give our life to.

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