January 2017 Sloop's Log
on January 19th, 2017
Read the January 2017 Newsletter here.... Read More
0
Reminders of Who You Are - January 8, 2017
on January 8th, 2017
"Perhaps the most important contribution we as a Unitarian Universalist community have to offer today is our good news of the inherent worth and dignity of each individual. Let us preach the gospel of light and love, the good news that each person is precious and loved and must be treated with loving care. " Read the whole sermon here:... Read More
0
Fear Not! - Christmas Eve 2016
on December 24th, 2016
"What might living without fear mean in your life and in our world? As we head into a new year with possibilities that scare many of us, as we ponder whether peace ever can “over all the earth its ancient splendors fling,” even as we deal with family tensions over the holidays, the good news the angels offer us is that the only way for “the whole world to send back the song which now the angels s... Read More
0
Be the Light - December 11, 2016
on December 11th, 2016
"One of the things I love about our Unitarian Universalist tradition is that we don’t shift the weight or the light to someone else. From our roots in early Christianity we have proclaimed that Jesus was not God but a human being, and that his good news was not that he had made things right with God for all people in all times but that he taught and lived a model of how humankind could make thing... Read More
0
Turn Out the Light (and See the Stars) - December 4, 2016
on December 4th, 2016
"This is the spiritual path of the mystics. Christians call it the Via Negativa, Buddhists, the way of No-thing. Instead of pushing to find the light, the positive, in all situations, we recognize that life contains sadness as well as joy, that to find our way we must lose it, that we gain insight when we realize we know not, that doubt and uncertainty open the door to greater trust and faith. "... Read More
0
Sloop's Log December 2016
on December 1st, 2016
Click Here to Read December 2016 Sloop's Log... Read More
0
Hope - November 13, 2016
on November 13th, 2016
Our tradition tells us that we are rooted in Deep Love, which some call God. When we live out of that Deep Love, we walk in the ways of justice, peace, and mercy; when we fail to live out of that Love, fear, division, and violence prevail.This election does indicate that many among us are afraid – afraid of not having enough, afraid of change and loss. And while the election results call us to s... Read More
0
Talk about Fear! - October 30, 2016
on October 30th, 2016
Rod Serling's stories gave the women and men of the late 20th century a way to see their fears and talk about them. Were you worried about the pressure to conform, the prospect of vigilante violence, the power of greed, society’s emphasis on beauty, or the down-side of self-reliance? There’s an episode for that. The stories give words to nameless fears and bring people together in naming and di... Read More
0
November 2016 Sloop's Log Newsletter
on October 27th, 2016
Read about our November worship services, programs and plans for the Snowflake Fair here... Read More
0
Who Is the Other? - October 23, 2016
on October 23rd, 2016
How often do you do that – look at someone else and judge them in a waythat bolsters you? I found myself doing it in a yoga class this week... Continue reading:... Read More
0
When the Canoe Overturns - October 16, 2016
on October 16th, 2016
Every year in June, the church I served in Maine goes canoeing for a daydown the Saco River. I came to love this trip and miss it every spring, but I didn’talways look forward to it with pleasure. In the pictures taken in my first year inSaco, I’m easy to pick out. I’m the one in the life jacket.Seeing me so apprehensive, my congregation assumed I couldn’t swim.But in fact I swim just fine and I l... Read More
0
Who Tells the Story? - October 2, 2016
on October 2nd, 2016
Why am I telling you all this about a long-ago king of a far-off land? What do his life and possible crimes have to do with ours? As we think about Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, when the books of life lie open and deeds of goodness and wrong-doing recorded, when people think about their lives and the stories they want to leave behind, and as we do all that in the setting of this election yea... Read More
0
Recent
Archive
2024
2023
September
October
November
December
2022
January
February
September
2021
February
March
September
October
November
December
2020
January
February
March
April
June
October
2019
February
March
April
When Lawyers Hear Stories - a sermon by the Rev. Ms. Anne Robertson, March 31, 2019Weekly What's Happening - April 3, 2019In Debt to Life - April 7, 2019Weekly What's Happening - April 10, 2019Weekly What's Happening - April 17, 2019We Are the Parade - Easter Sunday April 21, 2019Weekly What's Happening April 24 - May 4
May