Religious Naturalism: Let the Mystery Be a sermon by Rev. Kevin Tarsa UU Community of the Mountains Grass Valley, CA December 9, 2018 Opening Words by Chet Raymo “I have a friend who speaks of knowledge as an island in a sea of mystery. Let this then, be the ground of my faith: All that […]
Thanksgiving Memories Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains A sermon delivered November 25, 2018 “All life is a gift, which we are called to use to build the common good, and in so doing, make our own days glad.” What has the Thanksgiving holiday meant to you over the course of […]
Wake, Now, My Conscience: Rebellion, Revolution and the Vulnerability of Democracy Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains A sermon delivered September 23, 2018 What Do We Want? [holding up a blank protest sign] What do we want?!! …well, we didn’t talk about or agree upon a focus for that chant. But […]
Wake, Now, Compassion Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains A sermon delivered September 16, 2018 “. . .to see, with open eyes, is a spiritual practice and thus a risk, for it can open you to ways of knowing the world and loving it that will lead to inevitable consequences. . . […]
Letting Your Life Speak Sermon UUCM 9-2-18 Rev. Kevin Tarsa Letting Your Life Speak Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains A sermon delivered September 2, 2018 A reading from the Letter of St. Palmer to the Roamers: Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what […]
Wrestling with “God” Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains A sermon delivered August 26, 2018 Reading “Couples Counseling” from Love Like Thunder by Jess Reynolds Reading From Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott(see http://thenervousbreakdown.com/tnbnonfiction/2012/11/excerpt-from-help-thanks-wow-by-anne-lamott/) Wrestling with “God” by Rev. Kevin Tarsa Jacob’s Story – Genesis 32:22-31 In the first […]
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“Oxygen, Soda Water, Gunpowder, and You” by Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains July 29, 2018 Time for All Ages “Joseph Priestley” from the Tapestry of Faith “Miracles” curriculum by Adrianne Ross, Chris Jablonski, Miriam Smith, & Susan Lawrence. https://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/multigenerational/miracles/session-4/joseph-priestley Sermon “Oxygen, Soda Water, Gunpowder, and You” by Rev. Kevin Tarsa […]
FREE THE PRODIGAL SELF By Bev Lyon Part I – The Hostage Self I love stories of all kinds, and one of my favorites is the story of the prodigal son. You may know it. A man has two sons, one who leads a disreputable life in the city and one who stays […]
A More Perfect Union a sermon by the Rev. Kevin Tarsa delivered July 1, 2018 to the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains (Preceded by an excerpted reading of Langston Hughes’ poem, “Let America Be America Again.”) “The happiness of governments like ours, wherein the people are truly the mainspring, is that they […]
