Sermon Archives

Sermons – 2019

January 2019 – Possibility

• January 6 – Possibly, but Not Yet – Rev. Kathleen Rolenz
• January 13 – Wheel of Life Service (rescheduled because of snowstorm)
• January 20 – Our Civil War – Rev. John Crestwell
• January 27 – Wheel of Life Service

February 2019 – Trust

• February 3 – Trusting Mercy with Rev. John Crestwell, Rev. Kathleen Rolenz and Leika Lewis Cornwell, Intern Minister
• February 10 – The Great Mistake, Leika Lewis Cornwell
• February 17 – Trust, But Verify, Rev. John Crestwell
• February 24 – Thanks for Staying, Rev. Kathleen Rolenz

March 2019 – Journey

• March 3 – I’ve Seen the Promised Land – Rev. John Crestwell
• March 10 – A Great Bundle of Humanity – Francis Ellen Watkins Harper
• March 17 – Journey of Souls – Rev. John Crestwell
• March 24 – Five Things You Need for the Journey – Rev. Kathleen Rolenz
• March 31 – Pele and the Dragon – Leika Lewis-Cornwell, Intern Minister

April 2019 – Wholeness

• April 7 – How We Decide – Rev. John Crestwell
• April 14 – The Road to Freedom – Leika Lewis Cornwell
• April 21 – Not Dead Yet – Rev. Kathleen Rolenz
• April 28 – The Story of Wholeness

May 2019 – Curiosity

• May 5 – A Curious Faith – Rev. Kathleen Rolenz
• May 12 – Why We Sing – Choral Sunday
• May 19 – Face the Fear  – with Rev. John Crestwell
• May 26 – When Statues Move – Rev. Kathleen Rolenz (ONE SERVICE)

June 2019 – Beauty

• June 2 – Coming of Age Service
• June 9 – A Theology for Hot Mess Times – Rev. Kathleen Rolenz
• June 16 – Sleeping Beauty by Reverend John Crestwell.
• June 23 – Joshua Long
• June 31 – Leika Lewis Cornwell

See below for summer services (July & August)

September 2019 – Faith

• September 8 – Let the River Run; UUCA’s annual Ingathering Water Ceremony
• September 15 – Saving Faith – by Rev. Kathleen Rolenz
• September 22 – Faith, Hope, and Cancer – by Rev. John Crestwell (no printed copy; please listen to the podcast.)
• September 29 – What’s a Church For? – Rev. Kathleen Rolenz

October 2019 – Belonging

• October 6 – Jewish Mysticism, High Holy Days and You – Rev. John Crestwell
• October 13 – Swallowing the Stars – Leika Lewis-Cornwell (no manuscript available)
• October 20 – Can We Talk about White Fragility? – Rev. Kathleen Rolenz
• October 27 – The Skeleton at the Feast, Multigenerational – Ministry Team and Julie Burman, Director of Faith Formation

November 2019 – Attention

• November 3 – Rev. Keith Kron
• November 10 –  The Aquarian Gospel, Eschatology and the New Age – Rev. John Crestwell
• November 17 – The Sum of All the Parts – Rev. Kathleen Rolenz
• November 24 – Thanks, but No Thanks – Rev. John Crestwell & Rev. Kathleen Rolenz

December 2019 – Awe

• December 1, 2019 – The New Transcendentalism – Rev. John T. Crestwell, Jr.
• December 8, 2019 – The State of Our Union – a Joint Sermon between Rev. Kathleen Rolenz & Rev. John T. Crestwell, Jr.

2019 Summer Services

Over the summer, UUCA’s own worship leaders, staff and guests offered dynamic sermons.  We will continue to post them as we are given the final copy.

July 21 – Shall We Panic Yet? by Lisa Fleeharty

July 28 – Ritual – A Seventh Inning Stretch by Jane Carrigan 

August 25 – Music as Liturgy or How Music helps us Worship by Thornell Jones

September 1 – Who Do You Think You Are to Tell Me that I Don’t Matter?  by Shauntee Daniels