Sermon delivered by Senior Minister Rev. Alan Taylor on September 25, 2016. The sermon is preceded by a reading given by Membership Director Tina Lewis. Creating healthy beloved community takes a lot of work. There is much to learn from the ministry and leadership of Thomas Starr King, a 19th century preacher who held together not only congregations struggling with abolition but also the nation.
The theme for September is what it means to be a community of covenant. To read about our theme-based ministry, please visit http://www.unitytemple.org/faith-development/soul-connections on our website.
Sermon delivered by Senior Minister Rev. Alan Taylor on September 18, 2016. What binds us together as a community? There’s a lot to criticize about the early Puritans. But their notion of covenant has been at the heart of who we are as a faith community and, for many, as Americans.
The theme for September is what it means to be a community of covenant. To read about our theme-based ministry, please visit http://www.unitytemple.org/faith-development/soul-connections on our website.
Sermon delivered by Senior Minister Rev. Alan Taylor on September 11, 2016. This was homecoming Sunday and the beginning of the 2016-2017 church year. What does it mean to live in covenant with others? This is a fun and poignant response by Rev. Alan Taylor as he addresses a worship for all ages.
The theme for September is what it means to be a community of covenant. To read about our theme-based ministry, please visit http://www.unitytemple.org/faith-development/soul-connections on our website.
Sermon delivered by Heather Godbout on September 4, 2016. Heather has been an educator in public schools for 23 years. She spent the first two decades of her career teaching special education and currently serves as the literacy coach at an elementary school in one of Chicago's south suburbs. Ms. Godbout has also been involved in Unitarian Universalist youth ministry since 1997, currently serving as the youth coordinator for this congregation. She and her wife Amanda and daughter Briana have been members at Unity Temple since 2007.
The theme for September is what it means to be a community of covenant. To read about our theme-based ministry, please visit http://www.unitytemple.org/faith-development/soul-connections on our website.