Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign

Recorded live February 21, 2016. Handwriting on the Wall, Part 1, by the Reverend Dr. Janet Newman

We want more soul, a higher cultivation of spiritual faculties. We need more unselfishness, earnestness, integrity of high and lofty enthusiasm, and beacons of light and hope. People ready and willing to lay time, talent, and money on the altar of freedom.

– adapted from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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Recorded live February 21, 2016. Generational Reflections: Honoring our Sexagenarians and Septuagenarians, by the Reverend Dr. Janet Newman

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Recorded live February 14, 2016. Unmentionables, Sermon by the Reverend Doctor Janet Newman.

With a title like this, what do you think of? What is unmentionable to you? Could it be (gasp) money? My sermon will risk offending as I speak directly about UUCUC, the Unitarian Universalist Association, and their spiritual connection to our lives.

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Recorded live February 7, 2016. Celebrating Our Caring Congregation, presented by the Care Core Committee.

In loving memory of Holt Babbitt, Peri Ceperley, and Carolyn McMahon

 "I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy.  I woke and I saw that life is all service.   I served and I saw that service is joy."                                   - Kahlil Gibran

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Recorded live January 31, 2016. Mission: As Fire Exists by Burning, sermon by the Reverend Dr. Janet Newman

"The church exists by mission as fire exists by burning." - Emil Brunner

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Recorded live January 24, 2016. Moving Forward, presented by Sam Beshers and the Worship Committee

"Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring." - Henry Miller

" Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." - Niels Bohr 

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Recorded live January 17, 2016. The Humanity of Heroism:Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. , sermon by the Rev. Dr. Janet Newman

This sermon will explore the words of Dr. King in the context of a work of fiction by Ernest J. Gaines titled A Gathering of Old Men. Both thinkers have much to tell us about race relations in our time.

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Recorded live January 10, 2016. Generational Reflections:Honoring Octogenarians and Nonagenarians, Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Janet Newman and others

This is the first in a series of homilies in which congregants in different generations – beginning with the eldest one – will speak about their insights and observations through their years. We will learn from the wisdom of these elders this month, and other months will feature other generations. 

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Recorded live January 03, 2016. For the Time Being, Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Janet Newman

"Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let it go;Ring out the false, ring in the true."- Lord Alfred Tennyson, adapted from "In Memoriam"

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Recorded live December 27, 2015. The Poetry of Winter, presented by Beth Cobb and the Worship Committee  

"The pine stays green in Winter ... wisdom in hardship."- Norman Douglas

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