by Rev. David Usher Well, the pressure is on. The other day I was looking at the results in so far of the congregational survey compiled by the Search Committee as part of the process of determining what you most value about this congregation and therefore what qualities and strengths you would most like to […]
by Rev. David Usher Some years ago, I read a wonderful book called Drinking the Rain. It was a memoir by the journalist and author Alix Kates Schulman about the summer she spent in a small, remote family cabin in rural Maine. She was fifty years old at the time, and had just been through […]
by Rev. David Usher A month or so ago I attended the UU Ministers’ Spring Retreat. The program theme for the retreat was death. We talked together in pairs and small groups contemplating the end of our own lives, reflecting on the losses we’ve experienced, and grieving the violence in our nation that disproportionately takes […]
by Rev. David Usher Whose church is this, anyway? Whose would you say it is? One answer is, It’s mine. It belongs to me, the minister. If ever you are having a really slow afternoon, I mean, a really slow afternoon, you might be tempted to read a church history, and if you do you […]
by Rev. David Usher There was once an old farmer, a poor man who had worked his fields all his life, day in, day out, without ever making any money, never doing better than just scraping by. All he had to help him in his labours were his faithful old horse, and his son. One […]
by Rev. David Usher Today marks the official launch of UUCM’s Generosity Campaign. And what is that, do I hear you ask? Well, it is two things. It is the opportunity for you, and you, and you, for each and all of us, together to fund the dream of what we want this congregation to […]
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by Rev. David Usher Sermon from Sunday, December 7, 2014 I wrote this sermon on Thursday. I started the day by walking down the hill to church. There was a brief lull in the rain, and I can always use the exercise. And while I was walking, I was very aware of how totally safe […]
by Rev. David Usher Sermon from Sunday, November 16, 2014 Looking at Things Port Augusta is a dusty, dreary town at the top of Spencer’s Gulf, two hundred miles to the north of my home town of Adelaide, South Australia. It markets itself as the gateway to the north. Gateway to a whole load of […]
