Past Worship Services
2024 – 2025 (Most recent first)
Sept 29 2024 – Our Lingering Poverty, Our Shared Purgatory / Rev. David H. Messner
Sept 22 2024 – In the Balance / Elizabeth McCreless
Sept 15 2024 – Breaching the Peace / Rev Dr David H Messner
“Breaching the Peace, An Invitation” (Look for the open spaces and plant there the seed borne in your heart. Then give it the freedom to grow and give yourself the liberty to watch in amazement as the rain comes to water it and the sun rises to nourish it.)
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Sept 8 2024 – In-Gathering / Water Communion
Sept 1 2024 – Labor Day Service
Aug 25 2024 – Rev. Denise Cawley on “Friends of Every Age”
Aug 18 2024 – Rev. Dave/”Radical Disagreement and Fundamental Divergence” (A conversation about the virtues of fearlessness, equanimity, and perspective in a neverending season of schismatic politics)
Aug 11 2024 – Rev. Dave/”Return to Center” (Placemaking and the grounding of the spirit.)
Aug 4 2024 — Anne Clough (Wrong name and Title on the video. Rev. Cawley was sick & could not join us that day.)
July 28 2024 – the “Two Way Question Box Sermon” with Dr David R Messner (We’re having a dialogical sermon with Rev. Dave and the gathered congregation. Each of us should come with a few theological, ecclesial, cosmological, philosophical, or socio-political questions and some knowledge in case you are called upon to answer! There will be no cold calling, so be not afraid.)
July 21 2024 “That Which is Indestructible in Us” with Emma Farrell
July 14 2024 – “Community as Context” with Rev Mark Richards WUUSAN
July 7 2024 – “States of Being United” with Rev. Dr. David Messner
2023-2024 Church Year (Services listed in Reverse Order)
June 30 2024 – Rev. Dave Messner / “The Dance of a Grateful Life” (The most important resources for our spiritual life were fully present with us when we were six months old.) Pullman Morris and Sword Dancers. Last Service of the 2023 -2024 Church Year.
June 23 2024 – Virtual General Assembly Service. In-person Worship Service with Rev. Dave Messner and a Virtual GA Preacher.
June 16 2024 Service – “What is Juneteenth to Us?” Rev. Dave (A reflection on long-awaited freedom with echoes of Frederick Douglass). Then Annual Meeting.
June 9 2024 Sunday Service “Humble Pride” with Guest Speaker Madison McClendon followed by the annual BUDGET Meeting
June 2 2024 “Laying Our Flowers on the Altar”/Rev. Dave Messner (The greatest offering is that which we have to give of ourselves)
May 26 2024 Memorial Day Service: “Total War, Total Peace”/Rev. Dave Messner (The tyranny of moral in-betweenness).
May 19 2024 – Rev. Dave/“Your Children Will Prophesy, Your Elders Will Dream”
May 12 2024 – “Hold Everybody Up: Tightening the Weave of Community” – Sunday Service – 05/12/24
May 5 2024
April 28 2024
April 21 2024
April 14 2024 Change of Climate, Change of Mind – with Rev Dr David Messner
April 7 2024 – Rev. Scott Aaseng, Executive Director, Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of Illinois “Interdependence as Solidarity” (Interdependence is not just recognition of a given: that we are connected to and part of each other and the world.)
March 31 2024 Easter Sunday with Rev Dr David Messner
March 24 2024 Sunday Service with Rev Dr David Messner
March 17 2024
March 10 2024 – The Sixth Source with Barbara Jean Walsh and Cheryl Wegner
March 3 2024
February 25 2024
February 18 2024 Refusing to Abandon – with Rev Allison Farnum
February 11 2024
February 4 2024
January 28 2024
January 21 2024
Podcasts of Earlier Services
Spotify (June to September 2023)