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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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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?
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.
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
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?
Reading Lists
At times Rev Ian publishes a reading list of sources that he used in his sermons.
Printed Sermons
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.