2014 Sermons
Topical Sermon Archive
Archive of Rev. Carl's sermons at UUCF, categorized by topic.
Chronological Sermon Archive for 2014
| Dec 28 | "Looking Back and Letting Go"
"An Invitation to Abundant Living" | Sea Raven, D.Min
Carole Larsen | Recording
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| Dec 24 | The Christmas Truce | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Text | Video | |
| Dec 21 | Winter Solstice Spirituality: "Learning to Walk in the Dark" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Dec 14 | "Did the Exodus Happen? And What It Means Today" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Dec 7 | "What You Say Next Will Change Your World": Practicing Nonviolent Communication | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Nov 30 | "Dharma Talk from a Buddhist Monk" | Bhante Sujatha | Recording | Video | |
| Nov 23 | "Common Sense Spirituality": Practicing Gratitude | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Nov 16 | "Creating a Culture of Dignity" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Nov 9 | "A Spiritual Journey: From Slavery to Emancipation" | Dr. Robert Jefferson | Recording | ||
| Nov 2 | "Can You Be Both a Religious Liberal and a Political Conservative?" | The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Oct 26 | "Factual Faith: Religion as if Survival Mattered" | The Rev. Michael Dowd | Recording | ||
| Oct 19 | ""Don't Just Do Something, Sit There": The Meaning of the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) for Today" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Oct 12 | "Parables as Deeds Not Creeds: Jewish Readings of Christian Scripture" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Oct 5 | "The Future of Islam" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Sept 28 | How Ordinary Spirituality Can Transform Your Life | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Sept 21 | "Reading the Same Text Differently with Jews & Christians" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Part 1;Part 2 |
| Sept 14 | "Cesar Chavez and Why David Sometimes Wins" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Sept 7 | "Deeds Not Creeds, Behavior is Believable" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Aug 31 | "Comparing Religions: Reflexive Re-readings" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Aug 24 | "Eve Was Framed, the Serpent Was Right: Jeffrey Kripal and Gnostic Reflections on Religion" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Aug 17 | "Tectonic Shifts in the Global Religious Landscape: Looking back from the 100th Anniversary of the Beginning of World War I" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Aug 10 | "Why Does Unitarian Universalism Have Such a Long Name?" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Meditation, Text | Video |
| Aug 3 | "The Secret Six: Violence and Nonviolence in Unitarian Universalism" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| July 27 | "Why Universalism? from 'Denial of Hell in a Next World' to 'Loving the Hell out of This World'" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| July 20 | "Why Unitarianism? from 'The One' to 'one among many'" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| July 13 | "Sounds of Silence: Becoming Prophets" | Rev. Mike Morse | Recording | Video | |
| July 6 | "Find Out How Much Love the World Can Hold': Dispatches From General Assembly" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| June 29 | "Walking on a Star/Singing by the Sea/Long-time Traveling: A Camp History/Connecting, Transforming, Deepening: UU Summer Camp" | Susan T. Holt, Jeff Ingle, and Lora Powell-Haney | Recording | ||
| June 22 | "A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| June 15 | "Feminist Masculinity and Father�s Day #EachEveryWoman #AllMenCan | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Meditation;Video |
| June 8 | "How to Love Your Enemies...In Buddhism, in Christianity, and in Real Life" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| June 1 | "The Sacred in Music" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| May 25 | "Memory, Memorial Day, and Monument Wars" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| May 18 | "Fast Forward/Blessing New Voices" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg and Ben Gaffigan | Recording | Text | |
| May 11 | "Margaret Fuller: Founding Mothers of Our Faith" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| May 4 | "The Right of Conscience and the Crystallization of Conscience" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| April 27 | "Bren� Brown and the Gifts of Imperfections" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| April 20 | "Easter, Earth Day, and Flower Communion: How Did Jesus Become God, and What Does Resurrection Mean Today?" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| April 13 | "Hope" (Youth Sunday) | Youth Group | Recording | Text | Video |
| April 6 | "Darren Aronofsky�s Noah: from 'Hope in Heaven' to 'Hope in Grandchildren'" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| March 30 | "A Journey with Four Spiritual Guides, Part IV: Religious Mystic & Rational Humanist: From Ramakrishna to the Mystical Humanism of Jeffrey Kripal" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| March 23 | "The Legacy of Nelson Mandela" | Rev. Lynn Strauss | Recording | Text | Video |
| March 16 | "A Journey with Four Spiritual Guides, Part III: The Life Tradition versus the Death Tradition in Christianity" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| March 9 | "A Journey with Four Spiritual Guides, Part II: Becoming a Buddha, not a Buddhist" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| March 2 | "A Journey with Four Spiritual Guides, Part I: Krishna" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Feb 23 | "Leaving a Legacy" | Mike Harris | Recording | Video
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| Feb 16 | "Atheism for Lent: The Spiritual Practice of Doubt" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Feb 9 | "Evolutionary Religion" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Feb 2 | "Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Jan 26 | "The I Ching (or Yijing), Jung, and Chinese New Year" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Jan 19 | "Protesting as Prayer & Life as a Work of Art: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Jan 12 | "If You Eat at Restaurants, a Look �Behind the Kitchen Door�" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| Jan 5 | "What Is Yours (Not) to Do" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |