2021/22/23 Sermons
Topical Sermon Archive
In addition to the chronological order below, also see our Topical Sermon Archive, which organizes all of Rev. Carl's sermons by category.
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Chronological Sermon Archive
| January 29, 2023 | "Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?: Unexpected Adventures in Philosophy" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 22, 2023 | “How Rights Went Wrong”: On the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 15, 2023 | Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Martin Luther King Jr. & Thich Nhat Hanh | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 8, 2023 | What Should You Do in This New Year? Trusting Your Gut & Trusting the Data | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 1, 2023 | New Beginnings: Becoming and Renewal | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | Video | |
| December 25, 2022 | UU Christmas Day Service (Option 1)
UU Christmas Day Service (Option 2) |
UU Chesapeake Congregations
UU Minister Collaborative |
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| December 24, 2022 | How UUs Helped Invent Christmas | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| December 18, 2022 | Rest Is Resistance | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg Irene Glasse | Recording | Text | Video |
| December 11, 2022 | For Such a Time as This: How Do We Sustain Our Attempts to Change the World? | Dr. Terry Anne Scott | Recording | Video | |
| December 4, 2022 | “How William James Can Save Your Life”: Peak Spiritual Experiences, Psychedelics, & Consciousness Research | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| November 27, 2022 | Innovations in Ministry: Creating Communities of Care | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | Video | |
| November 20, 2022 | Indigenous Wisdom & Experience | Tom Wardell | Recording | Video | |
| November 13, 2022 | Imaginable: How To See the Future Coming | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| November 6, 2022 | A Brief History of Equality: Reflections on the State of Our Democracy | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| October 30, 2022 | Is There An Antidote to Bad Faith? How Minds Change & Deep Canvassing | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| October 23, 2022 | The Power of Stories: The truth about stories is that stories, changing, growing, learning, hopeful are all we are | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | ||
| October 16, 2022 | Recent Scientific Discoveries of Galaxies Far Far Away from a UU Perspective | Rev. Dr. Sara Zimmerman | Recording | Text | Video |
| October 9, 2022 | Somatic Abolitionism | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| October 2, 2022 | Perceptual Worlds: Insights from Animals about the Hidden Realities Around Us | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| September 25, 2022 | Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| September 18, 2022 | Strength to Strength: How to Find Lifelong Purpose | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| September 11, 2022 | Growing Up Absorbed: Lifelong Religious Exploration | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| September 4, 2022 | Labor Day Insights from the People Who Brought You the Weekend | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| August 28, 2022 | Progress in Racism & Anti-Racism: On the Anniversary of the Lynching of Emmett Till | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| August 21, 2022 | Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| August 14, 2022 | Contemplative Cross-Training: Six Ways to Meditate; or, How Do You Know If You Are Making Progress in Meditation? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| August 7, 2022 | Traveling as a Spiritual Practice: Lessons from Our National Parks | Steve Buckingham | Recording | Video | |
| July 31, 2022 | What Really Matters? | Nichole Hodges-Abbasi, DRE | Recording | Video | |
| July 24, 2022 | What We Nurture | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | Video | |
| July 17, 2022 | Creativity Matters in Love and Justice | Lora Powell-Haney, M.Div. | Recording | Video | |
| July 10, 2022 | Spiritual Practices of Service & Leadership | Irene Glasse | Recording | Video | |
| July 3, 2022 | “Quantum Physics and the Buddhist Heart Sutra: On the 10th Anniversary of the Higgs Boson Discovery” | Rev. Dr. Sara Zimmerman | Recording | Video | |
| June 26, 2022 | “Where Does It Hurt? Ruby Sales, Black Folk Religion, and White America” | Bob Clegg, M.Div. | Recording | Video | |
| June 19, 2022 | Watergate Revisited: The Changing Seasons of Journalistic Accountability | Rev. Mike Morse | Recording | Video | |
| June 12, 2022 | Awkward, Brave, & Kind: A Valediction from Brené Brown | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| June 5, 2022 | Ablaze, But Not Consumed | Rev. Dr. Rob Hardies | Recording | Video | |
| May 29, 2022 | A Tale of Two Declarations: Doing the Impossible | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | Text | Video |
| May 22, 2022 | “Imagining How a More Just World Might Feel”: The Life & Legacy of Woody Guthrie | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| May 15, 2022 | Shifting Your Mindset: How Do You Encourage Spiritual Growth? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| May 08, 2022 | Founding Mothers of UU: The Doctors Blackwell & Reproductive Justice | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| May 1, 2022 | Dharma Talk | Bhante Sujatha | Recording | Video | |
| April 24, 2022 | "How to Be a Good Ancestor" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| April 17, 2022 | "How Do You Make Sense of Easter Today?: Progressive, Mystical, Humanist" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| April 10, 2022 | "The Short Life & Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| April 3, 2022 | "Racial Reconciliation" | Rev. Michael Hughes | Recording | Video | |
| March 27, 2022 | “Dream a Little Before You Think”: Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Transformative Power, & the Ripple Effects of Community Activism | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| March 20, 2022 | Building a New Mythology (Women's History Month) | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| March 13, 2022 | World Community: Peace, Liberty, & Justice for All | Youth Group
Dawn Morgan Neary, R.E. Assistant |
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| March 6, 2022 | The Revolutionary Love of our Time | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | Video | |
| February 27, 2022 | "The Gospel of Unitarian Universalism: Two Kinds of Good News" | Dr. Michael Franch | Recording | Text | Video |
| February 20, 2022 | An Afro-Indigenous History of the U.S.--Past, Present, & Future | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| February 13, 2022 | The Evolving Story of Evolution | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| February 6, 2022 | The Words That Come Before All Else: Wisdom from an Indigenous Practice of Giving Thanks Every Day | Peter Brooks & Michael Nephew | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 30, 2022 | How Chinese Philosophies Can Change Your Life | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 23, 2022 | Social Progress, Religion, & Law | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 16, 2022 | Messages from the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, & James Baldwin | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| January 9, 2022 | Into the Woods with Ralph Waldo Emerson | Rev. Dr. Sara Zimmerman | Recording | Video | |
| January 2, 2022 | Because Survival Is Insufficient: What Will You Do with Your Four Thousand Weeks? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| December 26, 2021 | Kaleidoscopes & the Seasons: How Rest Supports Change | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | Video | |
| December 24, 2021 | What Gift Do You Need? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Video | ||
| December 19, 2021 | Postmodern Buddhisms & American Dharmas | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| December 12, 2021 | Wisdom of the Elders | Elayne Bond Hyman | Recording | Video | |
| December 5, 2021 | After Jesus, Before Christianity | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| November 28, 2021 | The End of Blue Boat Home...But not Yet | Rev. Mike Morse | Recording | Text | Video |
| November 21, 2021 | The Past, Present, & Future of Thanksgiving | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| November 14, 2021 | What's In a Worldview? Everything | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | Video | |
| November 7, 2021 | Post-traumatic Growth | Seth Pollack, UUCF Member | Recording | Text | Video |
| October 31, 2021 | “Samhain: A Special Halloween Service” | Frederick Covenant of UU Pagans | Recording | Text | Video |
| October 24, 2021 | “We Are Freer Than We Think”: Power/Knowledge & Tools for Resistance-- Insights from Foucault for Today | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| October 17, 2021 | On the Frontlines of Climate Justice | Brooke Harper, Maryland State Director for the Energy Foundation | Recording | Video | |
| October 10, 2021 | Reimagination, Decolonization, & Indigenous Peoples' Day | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| October 3, 2021 | Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? And Beyond Intersectionality to Animality | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| September 26, 2021 | The Body Is Not An Apology
Mindfulness, Heartfulness, Bodyfulness |
Irene Glasse
Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg |
Recording | Text - Irene
Text - Carl |
Video - Irene
Video - Carl |
| September 19, 2021 | My Journey to and with Unitarian Universalism | Intern Minister Kathryn Adams | Recording | Text | Video |
| September 12, 2021 | Reading the Same Stories Differently | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| September 5, 2021 | The Past, Present and Future of Work | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| August 29, 2021 | Crossing the Great Divide | Steve Buckingham | Recording | Text | Video |
| August 22, 2021 | Fierce Self-Compassion | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| August 15, 2021 | Maintaining Hope: Struggle & Our Ability to Thrive | Dr. Terry Anne Scott | Recording | Video | |
| August 8, 2021 | Doubts & Loves: Israel/Palestine, Perspectives, & Peace | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| August 1, 2021 | Yasodhara: The Forgotten Story of the Buddha’s Wife | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| July 25, 2021 | Finding Lughnasadh | Irene Glasse, Eira Mila, Tamara Curry, Raven Rauth, Jack Park | Recording | ||
| July 18, 2021 | From Gold to Collard Greens: Shifting Values, Shifting Our Faith | Lora Powell-Haney, M.Div. | Recording | Video | |
| July 11, 2021 | Boundaries, Healing, & Hope: How to Shift Out of Survival Mode | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | Video |
| July 4, 2021 | "Imagine There's No Countries”: Interdependence Day & Immigration Justice | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| June 27, 2021 | Until Love Wins | UUA General Assembly | Video | ||
| June 20, 2021 | What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Our Relationships with Animals? | Dr. Aysha Akhtar | Recording | ||
| June 13, 2021 | Climate Justice, Courage, & Hope | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| June 6, 2021 | What Really Matters? | Intern Minister Jen Raffensperger | Recording | ||
| May 30, 2021 | The Stories We Tell Matter: Tulsa 1921 & UU History | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| May 23, 2021 | "What Does #DefundThePolice Really Mean? Awakening Our Abolitionist Imaginations" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| May 16, 2021 | "The Mindset List" & "Blessing New Voices" | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg & Nora Farahat | |||
| May 9, 2021 | What Stars are Made Of: Founding Mothers of UU | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| May 2, 2021 | “Workers of the World Unite”: Wrestling with the Life & Legacy of Karl Marx | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| April 25, 2021 | Earth Day: Pathways to Healing & Regeneration | UU Ministry for the Earth | Video | ||
| April 18, 2021 | Demystifying Shariah & Reimagining Islam | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| April 11, 2021 | In the name of the Bee — And of the Butterfly— And of the Breeze: Emily Dickinson | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| April 4, 2021 | “The Cross & the Lynching Tree”: The Life & Legacy of James Cone, Founder of Black Liberation Theology | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| March 28, 2021 | Conscience & Democracy | Youth Group | |||
| March 21, 2021 | Broadway Sunday: Godspell | Intern Minister Jen Raffensperger | Recording | ||
| March 14, 2021 | Loved into Being | Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association | Recording | ||
| March 7, 2021 | Myths, Mirages, & Measuring Time | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| February 28, 2021 | Odetta, Music, & Protest | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| February 21, 2021 | A Black Women’s History of the U.S.--Past, Present, & Future | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| February 14, 2021 | Side With Love | Unitarian Universalist Association | Text | Video | |
| February 7, 2021 | An Evolution of Thinking | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| January 31, 2021 | Love, Rage, & Radical Dharma | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| January 24, 2021 | Another World Is Possible: What Does Prison Abolition Really Mean? | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| January 17, 2021 | Martin & Malcolm & America | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| January 10, 2021 | Sacred Liberty & Desolating Sacrilege: On the Storming of the United States Capitol | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text | |
| January 3, 2021 | How to Find Meaning in Life | Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg | Recording | Text |