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October 4, 2021 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

“Believing, Belonging and Being” – October 3, 2021 (video and PDF available)

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. “So you’re a preacher” he said. It was late, about 9:30, in Chicago and it was cold, the January wind tearing at my jacket. I was standing on a train platform waiting for my two-hour commute back to northern […]

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May 2, 2021 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

“The Way of Stories” – May 2, 2021 (video and PDF available)

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Long before I developed claustrophobia and attendant anxiety, I went spelunking that is cave exploring. I was in my early 40s with a young family and we were on vacation in West Virginia which has some of the most […]

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April 25, 2021 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

“We Become More” – April 25, 2021 (video and PDF available)

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. I imagine that most of us didn’t expect our life to turn out the way it did. Mine didn’t. When I was teenager I thought I wanted to be an airline pilot, you know see the world, make a […]

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April 4, 2021 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

“We Become” – April 4, 2021 (PDF available)

CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Roberta Bondi teaches church history at Candler Theological School at Emery University in Atlanta. In the midst of the mass shooting of Asian American spa workers in Atlanta, she speaks of what our perceived differences can mean in a time such as this. What we become […]

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March 28, 2021 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

“Committed to a New Path” – March 28, 2021 (PDF available)

CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. I was raised on the kind and warm Jesus portrayed in Unitarian Sunday schools that loved and welcomed birds and little children. The Jesus I knew as a kid cared for living things taught us to care for our friends and performed some really neat tricks […]

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March 7, 2021 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

“The Fire of Commitment” – March 7, 2021 (video and PDF available)

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. For hundreds of years, our forebears, the Unitarians and Universalists who have been part of this country since its founding, devoted their lives to the creation of a religion dedicated to building a better world. Above all, they wanted […]

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February 28, 2021 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

“The Journey Toward Interdependence” – February 28, 2021 (video and PDF available)

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. The Principles that guide our faith are not creeds. They are not faith statements that we must adhere to. But they are aspirations. When we covenant to value and promote such things as the inherent worth and dignity of […]

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February 21, 2021 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

“Beloved Community as Spiritual Practice” – February 21, 2021 (video and PDF available)

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. My first foray into the American Baptist church came as an invitation from a good friend of mine. I was 28, in the middle of a messy divorce and I was spending more nights than I should at the […]

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February 14, 2021 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

“Adam and Eve and Us” – February 14, 2021 (video and PDF available)

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. You all know the story, don’t you? Or do you? On the sixth day God created man and woman; he created them, except it didn’t happen that way so fast did it. There are actually two stories of the […]

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February 7, 2021 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

“Creating Beloved Community” – February 7, 2021 (video and PDF available)

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. I have been in the community building business for over three decades. Early on in my ministry I had spent some time with a few monks at an abbey where I had gone to retreat. The oldest abbot there […]

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