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 […]
Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains Earth Day, April 22, 2018 Sights and Sounds for Entering this Time – slideshow of nature photography with nature sounds Songs for Gathering #21 For the Beauty of the Earth #1066 O Brother Sun Welcome Gail Johnson Vaughan Prelude Ancient Mother UUCM Family Choir and Congregation […]
“The Promise and the Practice of our Faith for Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism” Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains Grass Valley, CA February 25, 2018 Note: This service was offered in support of an association wide effort to support Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU). BLUU was formed in the wake of several conversations […]
Love is the Water that Wears Down the Rock Sermon delivered Sunday, February 11, 2018 to the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains by Rev. Kevin Tarsa Opening Words attributed to Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu “Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As […]
