Saved by Love
By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras
Westminster Unitarian Church
April 22, 2018
http://www.westminsteruu.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/4.22.18.mp3
First Reading
Our first reading is a set of quotes:
The first is from a 2015 sermon by UU Minister Rev Catie Scudera. She writes: The World Wildlife Federation warns that … read more.
Reaching for Freedom
By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras
Westminster Unitarian Church
March 26, 2018
First Reading: By Rev. Kathleen McTigue
Each of us knows a little about what it means to be lost in the wilderness. We know the awful disappointment, akin to despair, of being suddenly … read more.
http://www.westminsteruu.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Becoming-Who-You-Are-1-21-18.mp3
Becoming Who You Are
By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras
Westminster Unitarian Church
January 21, 2018
First Reading
With goals, the future is always the focus: Are you going to reach the goal? Will you be happy when you do? What’s next? Setting intention, at least according to Buddhist … read more.
An Invitation to Brave Space
by Rev. Ellen Quaadgras
Westminster Unitarian Church
October 15, 2017
Reading Courage by Sri Chinmoy
http://www.poetseers.org/poem-of-the-day-archive/poems-about-courage/index.html
Reading Empower me by Ted Loder
http://www.how-matters.org/2011/08/26/ted-loder-poem/
Sermon (Listen to the sermon here.)
There are some issues that, simply when mentioned, raise tension. There are some words that have … read more.
Courage of the Heart
Led by Rev. Ellen Quaadgras
October 8, 2017
http://www.westminsteruu.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Courage-of-the-Heart-10-5-2017.mp3
Chimes
Welcome & Announcements:
Good morning, my name is Ellen Quaadgras, I am the minister here at Westminster and I’d like to welcome all of you to our service today where our theme … read more.
One Service at 9:00am in Smith Hall – “No one ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they are not the same person.” So wrote ancient Greek Philosopher Heraclitus. As we prepare to celebrate our Water Communion, we … read more.
Unitarian Universalism 101
By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras
Westminster Unitarian Church
August 13, 2017
Reading
What’s your theology? You try to say the world the way it means to you. You look at what you live and try to speak it; and the mystery turns into a search for language to … read more.
From Aging to Saging
by Rev. Ellen Quaadgras
Westminster Unitarian Church
August 6, 2017
http://www.westminsteruu.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/8-6_Service.mp3
Video: https://www.facebook.com/radiocbc/videos/10153583038166913/
Reading: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2010/06/12
Sermon:
Three weeks ago, I was at the Lifespan Religious Education conference on Star Island off the coast of New Hampshire. On Friday of that week, at 4:55 am, I was … read more.
Neale Donald Walsch once said that “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” I wonder whether this month’s theme of revelry – marvelous, joyful exuberance – begins there too. We spend so much of our energy making sure things are “okay” and that … read more.
“You are, in my estimation, the church of the new millennium,” writes Diana Eck, professor of religion at Harvard, “in a world divided by race and by religion and ideology, … [it] is a beacon.” Unitarian Universalism offers us a powerful inheritance: a mind-opening take … read more.
