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    July, 6, 2025 Transformation: UU Values and Personal Change

    Worship Leader: Ginger Hemingway
    Worship Associate: Julia Bell
    This service explores the theme of personal transformation and change, emphasizing its importance within the Unitarian Universalism (UU) tradition and individual experiences. I will share insights on how transformation can manifest in various aspects of life, encouraging self-reflection and growth.
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    June 29,2025 "An Atheist in Seminary

    Worship Leader: Rev. Everett Howe
    Worship Associate: Rev. Ian W. Ridell and Bryna Blum
    In the first of his five services at UUCOD this summer, Rev. Everet will talk about his upbringing as a humanist, and how becoming a minister has influenced his relationship with theism in general and with Christianity in particular.
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    June 15, 2025: Making Meaning Out of Chaos

    Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
    Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff
    How do we make sense of all that's happening in the world? What lenses will help us see more clearly? We will explore finding ways to make meaning of the mess.
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    June 8: The Little Engines that Move the World

    Worship Leader: Jack Fitzsimmons
    Worship Associate: Walter Gendell
    What can pollinators - bees and butterflies, moths and mosquitoes - tell us about our own lives, our own challenges, and our own opportunities?
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    June 1: AMA: Ask (Your) Minister Anything

    Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
    Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank
    Do you have a question you really want Rev. Ian to answer? About theology? social justice? fascism? knitting? Unitarian Universalism? ministry? Now’s the time. Throughout the service Rev. Ian will strive to answer the question you’ve asked
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    May 25, 2025: How Civilizations Heal: The Role of the Artist in the Face of the World

    Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
    Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff

    What is the role of the arts and artists in celebrating, protecting, and healing the chaos of the world? How does art help us resist?
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    May 18, 2025: A Strong Path Forward

    Service Leader: Bryna Blum
    Guest Speaker: Ryann McMillon

    From living in cars and cycling through 13 different schools as a child of domestic violence, Ryann McMillon's life was dramatically transformed by Shelter from the Storm, providing the crucial foundation that enabled him to break every cycle of his troubled past to become who he is today.
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    May 11, 2025: Songs of Hope, Love, and Inspiration: Music Sunday

    Worship Leaders: Rev. Ian W. Riddell and Jim Tong, Choir Director

    Join our UUCOD Choir and other musicians as we celebrate and inspire hope through song and reflection
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    May 4, 2025: May the Fourth Be With You: Resistance in the Context of Community and Covenant

    Worship Leader: Julia Alberg-Burbank
    Worship Associate: Walter Gendell

    How might the philosophy and practice of a space-faring band of monks and some more-contemporary religious thinkers inspire us to strengthen and ground ourselves in love and community to do the work of resistance?
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    Reading Lists

    At times Rev Ian publishes a reading list of sources that he used in his sermons.

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    Printed Sermons

    May 4, 2025:  May the Fourth Be with you:  Resistance in the Context of Community and Covenant by Julia Alberg-Burbank.

    This talk includes the ten W’s created by Diana Butler Bass, a Christian Minister.  These practices, Julia states, can strengthen ourselves and deepen the community we have here.

     

     

    June 25, 2023 GA Assembly Worship Service

    Ever Willing: Becoming the People Our World Needs

    The pandemic has wrought change and created uncertainty for institutions, like our Unitarian Universalist congregations, and our wider world. Who and what are we becoming, individually and collectively? Our GA Sunday service explores these themes as we gather in community to celebrate the best of who we UUs are.

    Link to the UUA website to view the recorded service.

    July 2, 2023: We The People

    Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
    Worship Assistant: Joni Padduck

    As we celebrate our nation’s birthday, we take a look at the state of our democracy and wonder together how to stay true to our values while resisting hatred, fear, and prejudice.

    *Note:  Since there was no sound on the recording we are providing the text of the sermon in this document.

    We the People Sermon