Conscience and Compromise David R. Weissbard First Universalist Society Central Square NY December 4, 2016 [the Children’s Story was Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes”] The Reading…
Opening Words: #468 We Need One Another Chalice Lighting: #447 At times…. Hymn #134 Our World Is One World Responsive Reading #466 Religion Hymn#323 Break Not the Circle Circles…
Opening Words: #445 The Womb of Stars Chalice Lightings: #452 Life is a Gift… Responsive Reading: #512 We Give Thanks This Day Closing Words: #506 May the glory… Hymns: #67:…
Heroes? Dave Weissbard First Universalist Society Central Square, NY November 6, 2016 [leaders AND context] This is actually a followup to my October sermon on "Heroes, Heroines, Saints, & Exemplars"…
Killer Clowns and Rising Tides The title for this sermon comes from two stories I saw on the front page of the Utica Observer-Dispatch . I’ve forgotten the headlines exactly…
The Starfish Story Original Story by: Loren Eisley One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it…
"Heroes, Heroines, Saints, & Exemplars" David R. Weissbard First Universalist Society Central Square, NY October 2, 2016 The READING “HARRISON BERGERON” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. THE YEAR WAS 2081, and…
Silence, Stillness, Starlight A while ago I read an article about a monastic community which was begun in 1230 in a remote corner of Scotland. The monks feared that feared…
In Praise of Remembering; in Praise of Forgetting How many people here remember where you were on December 7, 1941? How many people here remember where they were on…
“Religious Wars” First Universalist Society Central Square NY by Dave Weissbard 9/04/16 The Reading “Jesus and Jihad” by Nicholas Kristsof New York Times July 17, 2004 If the . .…