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Rev. Darcey Laine: February 2015
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Sermons preached at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Athens and Sheshequin and Towanda Universalist Unitarian Fellowship. Monday, February 23, 2015. Evolving Together (February 22, 2015). Finding Beauty in a Broken World. By Terry Tempest Williams. In 1950 government agents proposed to get rid of prairie dogs on some parts of the Navaho reservation in order to protect the roots of sparse desert grasses and thereby maintain some marginal grazing for sheep. He could have been talking about the story we...
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Rev. Darcey Laine: September 2014
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Sermons preached at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Athens and Sheshequin and Towanda Universalist Unitarian Fellowship. Monday, September 29, 2014. It Is What It Is (September 21, 2014). Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and others. These values undermine fanaticism and ignorance. After all, the universe is mostly dark dotted by islands of light. Learning the age of the earth, or the distance to the stars, or how life evolved, what difference does it make? Cosmos: a Spacetime Odyssey.
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Rev. Darcey Laine: May 2015
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Sermons preached at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Athens and Sheshequin and Towanda Universalist Unitarian Fellowship. Monday, May 11, 2015. Not So Simple (May 10, 2015). Reading- Solving for pattern. Sermon- Not So Simple. To quote Berry: “There is, first, the solution that causes a ramifying [ii]. So if the problem that we are trying to solve is where to store LPG, we have set up the discussion so that issues like the effects of leaks on water or air or agricultural soil or other industries like...
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Rev. Darcey Laine: When Faiths Meet (March 22, 2015)
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Sermons preached at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Athens and Sheshequin and Towanda Universalist Unitarian Fellowship. Monday, March 23, 2015. When Faiths Meet (March 22, 2015). From Rev. Rebecca Parker's Introduction for 2015 Starr King President Lecture. 8221; His answer, “anyone who has been baptized can take communion here” left us with even more questions like “does a UU dedication count as a baptism for purposes of taking communion? We decided it probably didn’t. What is our role? If you tur...
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Rev. Darcey Laine: Telling Our Story (April 26, 2015)
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Sermons preached at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Athens and Sheshequin and Towanda Universalist Unitarian Fellowship. Monday, April 27, 2015. Telling Our Story (April 26, 2015). After Harry Thor’s retirement a student minister, Janelle Curlin-Taylor came to be our intern. This was a tumultuous time for the church, and when Janelle left the church was in a time of conflict. In 2002 Lee declined to renew his contract after his third year. Conflicts lingered in the congregation. In January 2003 we h...
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Rev. Darcey Laine: March 2015
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Sermons preached at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Athens and Sheshequin and Towanda Universalist Unitarian Fellowship. Monday, March 23, 2015. When Faiths Meet (March 22, 2015). From Rev. Rebecca Parker's Introduction for 2015 Starr King President Lecture. 8221; His answer, “anyone who has been baptized can take communion here” left us with even more questions like “does a UU dedication count as a baptism for purposes of taking communion? We decided it probably didn’t. What is our role? If you tur...
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Rev. Darcey Laine: December 2014
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Sermons preached at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Athens and Sheshequin and Towanda Universalist Unitarian Fellowship. Thursday, December 18, 2014. Uncovering the Names of God (December 7, 2014). Do you mean what I mean by god? Or do you mean what the preachers on the family life network mean by god? The one who leaves. That one word is so full of meanings, of implications. One who brings new life into the world. The one who leaves. What about “Friend”? Perhaps if I had been an Islamic mother, or ...
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Rev. Darcey Laine: Dreams Big and Small (April 12, 2015)
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Sermons preached at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Athens and Sheshequin and Towanda Universalist Unitarian Fellowship. Thursday, April 16, 2015. Dreams Big and Small (April 12, 2015). Consider the North star, also called the Pole Star or “ Polaris.” Our friends at “E arthsky. When Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous “ I have a dream. But we dreamed that dream anyway, and it came true. It’s hard to dream something that seems impossible; it’s scary because we know we might be disa...Visioning is ...
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Rev. Darcey Laine: April 2015
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Sermons preached at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Athens and Sheshequin and Towanda Universalist Unitarian Fellowship. Monday, April 27, 2015. Telling Our Story (April 26, 2015). After Harry Thor’s retirement a student minister, Janelle Curlin-Taylor came to be our intern. This was a tumultuous time for the church, and when Janelle left the church was in a time of conflict. In 2002 Lee declined to renew his contract after his third year. Conflicts lingered in the congregation. In January 2003 we h...
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Rev. Darcey Laine: Not So Simple (May 10, 2015)
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Sermons preached at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Athens and Sheshequin and Towanda Universalist Unitarian Fellowship. Monday, May 11, 2015. Not So Simple (May 10, 2015). Reading- Solving for pattern. Sermon- Not So Simple. To quote Berry: “There is, first, the solution that causes a ramifying [ii]. So if the problem that we are trying to solve is where to store LPG, we have set up the discussion so that issues like the effects of leaks on water or air or agricultural soil or other industries like...
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