Sermons – UUCM

Just Like Me

October 19, 2025: Compassion says, “I am with you in your pain and I will help.” It may be easy to say for someone we view as similar, but less easy when someone looks different from the outside. […]

Ya, But…

October 12, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) Both empathy and compassion begin as inside jobs, empathy being our feeling of what someone else is feeling, and compassion being the action we take in response to those feelings. This Sunday, we cultivate […]

Talking to Strangers

October 5, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) Many of us were taught to be cautious of strangers. As we go about our day, we usually interact with family, friends and coworkers. These relationships can help us feel cared for and connected. But what if […]

Serving with Grace

September 28, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) Erik Walker Wikstrum writes, “Common wisdom holds that people come to church for a sense of belonging, and that getting involved with a committee or task force is a great way to meet people and feel more connected.” But what if […]

Belonging to Place

September 21, 2025: Our ‘sense of place’ is foundational to our well- being for a place can protect, inspire, comfort and ground us. Perhaps it is where we were born or a site in nature? Perhaps our UUCM sanctuary? Our sense of place lives in our hearts and bodies. […]

“Building” Belonging

September 14, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) Picking up on the themes of the previous Sunday’s service, we ask more deeply why it matters that UUCM is here, why being part of such a community matters now in particular […]

Don’t You Need a Welcome?

September 7, 2025: We enter this month’s theme of “Building Belonging” by recognizing the powerful significance of belonging, especially in the midst of so much public “othering.” Come, whoever you are. Come, build a place of welcome, of hope, of compassion as well as power. […]

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