The Search for Living Prophets
68 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA series for activists who want to work for change in a spiritually grounded, healing-transformative way. Inspired by sermons from Christian leaders, universalist ministers, mennonites, UMC, and other liberal religious voices.
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The fierce ugency of now – Rob Hardies
October 09, 2017 06:06 - 18.1 MBRob Hardies – The fierce ugency of now (sermon at All souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Washington, DC) is about the Treyvon Martin story and how it relates to the 1963 march on Washington, when a pastor at this very church was killed in Selma Alabama – James Reeb. Lessons for today.
What is Peace, really?
October 09, 2017 03:58 - 22.9 MB“They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” Pastor Deniece Mason explains what this means in a modern context. She points out that Memorial Day wasn’t a holiday before 1971. And long before that, it’s origins come from women in Mississippi who, while decorating the graves of their ancestors in […]
03.01.19 Most Durable Power
October 08, 2017 05:00 - 17.4 MBThis sermon explores what some call the roots of religion: awe and humility. How does our particular faith, Unitarian Universalism, address these two large concepts? Can we learn to say, “We don’t know?” with awe and humility? The Rev. Barbara Wells serves as co-minister (with her husband, Jaco ten Hove) at Paint Branch UU Church […]
Creating sanctuary after Trump
October 07, 2017 11:23 - 18.7 MBIn the days after the 2016 election with a surprising Trump victory, many in the congregation were shocked and horrified and despondent. Rob Hardies’s sermon struck a perfect balance between accepting the results and preparing All Souls Church as a “sanctuary” for the times ahead. He reminded us that the church’s bell, crafted by Paul […]
How Hope – faith in the future – Transforms and Sustains
October 07, 2017 01:17 - 21.3 MBFrom the Gospel story of the woman who sneaks through the crowd to touch Jesus’s robe because she believes she can be healed, Deniece Mason explains why there is more to the story of a nameless, sick, ostracized woman than it first seems. This story is about coping with and hoping through tragedy in our […]
I choose you – Yahweh, Moses, and a burning bush
October 06, 2017 00:23 - 17 MBThe burning bush in the desert was not something amazing, but rather something sublime that only a careful observer of the world could have noticed. And Moses, at nearly 80 years old, did not fit the mold of an activist or revolutionary. What mattered was that he was paying attention, and receptive, and didn’t turn […]
Beyond the Moment and the Movement: Spiritual Transformation in Times of Division and Fear
October 05, 2017 02:02 - 14.7 MB“Not a moment but a movement,” has become a popular slogan in progressive circles, a reminder that our social justice work must go beyond mere resistance to the immediate political crisis, and strive to build a lasting movement for justice and equality. As people of faith committed to building beloved community, we understand this. Yet […]
Bill Quigley – Message on Law and Social Justice
October 02, 2017 04:42 - 5.6 MBDr. Martin Luther King’s message is not for the faint of heart. You must BE WILLING TO BE UNCOMFORTABLE, because questioning our laws will make other people uncomfortable. … We must NEVER CONFUSE LAW AND JUSTICE. What is legal is often not just. 100 years ago children were employed in dangerous industries. Women and African […]
05.10.02 Choose To Bless The World – Rob Hardies
October 01, 2017 18:31 - 1 ByteAs Hurricane Katrina has reminded us, inspite of our ‘melting pot’ national image, race still matters. As we strive to be an ‘evermore diverse’ congregation, how do we see and talk about the differences between us? Sunday, October 2, 2005 at 10:50am: ‘Choose to Bless the World’ — Rev. Robert M. Hardies
Henry David Thoreau – Essential excepts from Civil Disobedience
September 29, 2017 00:42 - 3.93 MB“I heartily accept the motto, ‘That government is best which governs least:’ I believe, ‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.” “It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation […]
04.06.06 Found In Translation.mp3
September 27, 2017 05:03 - 8.83 MBWhat’s on my mind these days? What do I see in the world? What does it mean? Sunday, June 6, 2004 at 10:50am: ‘Found in Translation’ — Rev. Robert Hardies
Rob Hardies – A train through Trumps America (2017)
September 25, 2017 03:07 - 17.9 MBRev Rob Hardies of All-Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Washington DC shares an open letter to his 5-year old son. Journeying from San Francisco to Chicago on the day after the violence in Charlottesville, a gay dad and his multiracial son board a train for a trip across Trump’s America. Why? In part because his […]
Holy Ground – our land in the image of God who is, was, shall be
September 21, 2017 01:55 - 8.79 MBUnitarian Universalist Megan Lloyd Joiner speaks about America of 2017. A nation just beginning to become the vision set out 200 years ago in documents. An invitation to create a world that offers everyone hope and joy. The original name for God, YAHWEH, is a conflation of the Hebrew words for “I was”, “I am”, […]
Mennonite sermon on the loaves and fishes
September 15, 2017 18:58 - 25.9 MBThe two best preachers I’ve heard are David Miller (University Mennonite Church, State College PA) and Rob Hardies (All Souls Unitarian in Washington, DC). Here is one of David’s. Download – David Miller Mennonite sermon on loaves and fishes
03.03.23 Coalition Of The Willing.mp3
July 19, 2017 18:00 - 1 ByteOn March 30 and April 6, our candidate for associate minister will preach. You can meet the candidate after church and throughout the week. On April 6, we will vote on whether to call the candidate. Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 10:50am: The Coalition of the Willing — Rev. Robert Hardies
03.03.16 Smooth Stones.mp3
July 19, 2017 18:00 - 1 ByteWe’ve heard a lot of talk this week about a so-called "coalition of the willing." But the coalition that Rev. Hardies speaks about would work to break down the barriers that divide the human family, locally in our neighborhoods as well as in our ever-shrinking and more complex global village. Sunday, March 16, 2003 at […]
I will be who I will be
January 16, 2017 14:07 - 22.9 MBHow would our understanding of God change if we took the season seriously and understood God not as the cause of all things, but as the possibility in all things? Repeated at the 11:15 service. Quoting Rob Hardies: God says to moses, a slave, “I have seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I […]
William Barber II Moral Movement Watch Night Sermon (Dec 31, 2016)
December 31, 2016 07:17 - 22.5 MBRev William Barber is the today’s leading moral religious voice for a pluralistic society that provides all people with the rights that Martin Luther King Junior struggled to enshrine through the civil rights movement. Given December 31st, 2016 – In response to a fearful America who is not sure how to respond to the changing […]