UUAC Sherborn

Sunday, September 17, 2017 Rev Nathan Detering challenges us with the question: "Can we tremble and feel courage at the same time? Together the answer is yes."

Sunday, September 10, 2017 We come back to church not for our own salvation, but to gain strength to help participate in the saving of the world.

April 30, 2017 Rev Nathan Detering's reminds us that we "sing each other's song;" we give respite to one another in a difficult time.

April 9, 2017 Ministerial Intern Otto O'Connor talks about how exploring questions about the universe with children can help us to make meaning in our lives.

April 2, 2017 Rev Heather Concannon and Ministerial Intern, Otto O'Connor offer a sermon in honor of Transgender Day of Visibility, which was on March 30, 2017.

March 26, 2017. Rev Nathan Detering urges us unlearn the prayers of "blame and shame," and to lean toward prayers for a "ministry of with-ness, of showing up, of being together." Because together we can face down anything.

March 19, 2017 Rev Nathan Detering's reminds us that in these difficult times, we all need sanctuary, forgiveness, and to see the altars of sacred around us in the world.

March 3, 2017 Rev Nathan Detering offers a sermon asking us in these hard and challenging times to hold the light for each other. "I need others to hold hope for me. I need for the light to get in."

February 19, 2017 Rev Detering offers a sermon challenging us to look beyond headlines, to confront stereotypes and fears. He challenges us to bridge gaps, to bring peace and wholeness to our world.

February 19, 2017 Rev Heather Concannon offers a sermon on coziness and comfort as a balance to the uncertainty in our world today.

January 22, 2017 Rev. Nathan Detering's sermon explores "what our UU faith looks and feels like over the next four or more years with a president whose campaign was so contrary to much if not all our faith calls us to be."

January 15, 2017. Ministerial Intern Otto O'Connor in his Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend sermon offers reflections on his process of "waking up white." A sermon that pulls no punches, Otto encourages us to examine our unconscious biases, to move beyond them and become active participants in dismantling racial injustices.

January 8, 2017. Rev Nathan Detering's annual recap of the previous year's religious news stories. Rev. Nathan urges us toward "intentional tenderness" as he recaps the joys and challenges of 2016.

January1, 2017. Rev Heather Concannon welcomes in the New Year with a Sermon titled: Return, Release, Renew.

December 18, 2016 The three ministers of UU Area Church at First Parish in Sherborn give a modern take on the Christmas story. Where do you find yourself in this tale of immigration and hope?

December 11, 2016. Rev. Heather Concannon reminds us that beautiful and terrible things are happening in our world. She asks us the question, "What are you going to DO with [your] hope?" and "How have you felt called to a purpose that is larger than yourself?"

December 4, 2016 Rev. Nathan Detering's sermon in which he tells us, "the job I have to do is remind us that hope is a state of mind; it's a dimension of the soul that says that good is worth working for because it is good, and that is reason enough."

November 27, 2016 Ministerial Intern, Otto O'Connor, uses his status as a non-American to remind us that we all have had times in our lives when we have been outsiders. Today with the deep divisions in our country, we need to have hard conversations with our families and friends, to stand up for what we believe in.

November 6, 2016 Rev Heather Concannon, in her pre-election sermon, reminds us that in these uncertain times, times when we are "without a map," we need to let our UU values be our compass, our religious community be our guide. We are not alone as we find our way through the uncertain present into an unknown future.

November 20, 2016. Rev Nathan Detering asks us "How are we supposed to heal?" when our wounds of racism, classism, sexism and bigotry are broken open.

Sunday, Nov 13, 2016 Rev. Nathan Detering urges us to stand fast with each other, with our neighbors against hatred and discrimination. That what we are is enough to heal our world.

October 30, 2016, Rev. Nathan Detering's sermon asks us to move beyond a longing for a romanticized past and recognize that today will be tomorrow's past. Today, we need to ask ourselves "What is the present demanding of you? Who and what is waiting for you to show up?"

October 23, 2016. Sermon by Otto O'Connor, Ministerial Intern. In our highly polarized society, Ministerial Intern, Otto O'Connor encourages us to see beyond our differences. We need to love our neighbors with compassion even when we are angry and we disagree.

Sermon from October 2, 2016. Rev Heather Concannon's sermon, "Where Does It Hurt" is an exploration of

In Rev Nathan Detering's sermon from 9/25/16, he is back on his bike "with Grit and Gospel." Rev Nathan uses his experience of a week long bike race over and through the French Alps as a metaphor for getting up off our couches and out into the world. He says, " the only way over, is though; we can't go around the pain, the only way is through."