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Note: Out of respect for the copyrighted work of others, we will no longer be publishing most readings and supplementary materials along with sermons. Instead, we provide citations for any relevant supplementary materials with the sermon text.

Reverend Nancy McDonald Ladd

"Passing Over", April 20, 2008

"Community, Commitment, and the 2004 Red Sox", April 13, 2008 Listen

"Guilty as Charged", March 16, 2008 Listen

"A Plain Old Ordinary Day at BRUU", March 9, 2008 Listen

"Religion in Civil Society", March 2, 2008 Listen

"Mormonism: An American Faith", February 17, 2008 Listen

"Sacred Spaciousness", February 10, 2008 Listen

"Servant Leadership", February 3, 2008 Listen

"By Heart", January 27, 2008 Listen

"To Be Transformed", January 20, 2008 Listen

"Solstice: A Spiral Instead of a Line", December 23, 2007

"The Rise of Fundamentalism", December 2, 2007 Listen

"Finding Faith", November 18, 2007 Listen

"Losing Forward", November 11, 2007

"The Great Awakening", November 4, 2007 Listen

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"Association Sunday: Nothing Less Than This", October 14, 2007 Listen

"A Buddhist Perspective on Suffering", October 7, 2007 Listen

"Surprised by Joy", September 30, 2007 Listen

"Puritan Heritage", September 23, 2007 Listen

"Another Look at Forgiveness", August 26, 2007 Listen

"God in Quiet Places", August 19, 2007

"Like Family", August 12, 2007 Listen

"Faith and Logic Go to Therapy", [BRUU Young Adults] July 22, 2007

"Remaining Unsettled", July 1, 2007

"Painting Lilies", June 17, 2007 Listen

"Giving as Sacrifice", May 27, 2007 Listen

"Thinking As Prayer", May 20, 2007 Listen

"Pilgrimage", May 6, 2007 Listen

"Bloom Where You Are Planted", April 29, 2007 Listen

"We Are The Gold", March 18, 2007 Listen

"Reaching Beyond the Aisle", March 11, 2007 Listen

"Unitarianism and Universalism: Our Dual Heritage", February 18, 2007

"Compassion: Abide with Me", February 11, 2007 Listen

"The Remoteness of the Promised Land", February 4, 2007 Listen

"Creating the Kin-Dom", January 28, 2007 Listen

"Finding Soul", January 7, 2007 Listen

"Waiting", December 24, 2006 Listen

"Silence: The Limitation of Words", December 10  Listen

"Prayer:A Pillar of Islam", December 3  Listen

"Breaking Bread Together", November 26  Listen

"Transformed Nonconformists", November 12  Listen

"Guest Musician Joe Jinks", November 5  Listen

"Testimony: A Pillar of Islam",  October 29   Listen

"Celebrating Marriage", October 8   Listen

"Founders' Day Service",  October 1, 2006  Listen

"A Sense of Place",  September 24, 2006  Listen

"The Spirituality of Saying No",  September 17, 2006  Listen

"I Never Did See Shanghai",  September 3, 2006  Listen

"Trusting the Catcher",  August 27, 2006  Listen

"Drawing Pictures of God",  May 21, 2006  Listen

"Creating One Another",  May 14, 2006  Listen

"Life Without Fred",  May 7, 2006  Listen

"What is Legislation For?",  April 30, 2006  Listen

"An Atheist With an Open Heart",  April 09, 2006  Listen

"Standing on the Side of Love",  April 02 , 2006  Listen

"Many Notes, One Song: Stewardship Sunday",  March 19 , 2006

"A Woman Who Keeps on Singing",  March 05, 2006

"Coming Alive",  February 05, 2006

"Pointing the Way",  January 29, 2006  Listen

"This Glorious Heresy",  January 22, 2006  Listen

"Sharing Liberation",  January 8, 2006  Listen

“Telling a New Story”,  December 11, 2005   Listen

“ Don't Sit Under the Bodhi Tree With Anyone Else But Me” ,   December 4, 2005

“Why Church Matters”,  November 27 , 2005    

“A Gaze of Blessing”,  November 20 , 2005    

“Small Wonders”,  November 6, 2005    

"Telling the Truth" ,  October 30 , 2005    

"BRUUnitarian BRUUniversalists" ,  October 16, 2005     Listen

"I am the Other and the Other is Me" , October 9, 2005      Listen

"Grieving in the Mystery" ,  October 2, 2005      Listen

"The Great Surmise" ,  September 25, 2005      

"Going Home Together",  September 4, 2005     Listen

"A Tale of Two Relationships",  June 19, 2005

"Politics and Religion: Surviving our Cynicism",  May 15 , 2005

"Family Practices",  May 1, 2005

"Practices Being Present",  April 17, 2005

"Letting our Light Shine" and Green Sanctuary Dedication,  April 10, 2005

"Friendship: The Double Bond",  April 3, 2005

"So Far The Crocuses Have Always Come Up",  March 27 , 2005

"Liberal Religious Ethics III: Meriting the Wind We Inherit",  March 13, 2005

"Becoming Ourselves",  March 6, 2005

"Only Human: Liberal Religious Ethics II" ,  February 20, 2005

"Grace Notes" ,  February 13, 2005

"What Do You See When You See Me" ,  February 6, 2005

"Food for the Soul" ,  January 15, 2005

"Liberal Religious Ethics I: Being Good Without God" ,  January 9, 2005

"That Unformed Fear" ,  January 2, 2005

"Letters to Jesus" ,  December 12, 2004

"Along Came the Maccabees" ,  December 5, 2004

"The Great Transparencies" ,  November 28, 2004

"Domo Arigato" ,  November 21, 2004

"The Boundaries of Forgiveness" ,  November 7, 2004

"The Blessed Chaos" ,  October 24, 2004

"No Small Callings" ,  October 17, 2004

"The Corner of Grant and Lee" ,  October 3, 2004

"Holy, Holey, Wholly" ,  September 26, 2004

"Hands Free For Waving" ,  September 19, 2004

"Alone in the Company of the Sacred" ,  April 25, 2004

"Hope Dies Last" ,  April 18, 2004

Lay Presentations

"The Hero's Journey" ,  Greg Rouillard, October 23, 2005

"Who is Labor" ,  Jeanette Rischell, September 18, 2005

"On Being a Welcoming Congregation" ,  Jim Amaral, August 28, 2005

"A Sermon For The Third Of July" ,  Jeffrey M. Freedman, July 3, 2005

"Questioning the Question" ,  Jeanette Rischell, May 29, 2005

"Medicate or Meditate: Coping with the Chaos of Life" ,  Kathleen S. Ellis-Aquilina, July, 2004

"To Read" ,  Karen Fitzgerald, October 26, 2003

"Evidence for the Existence of God" ,  Larry Underwood, October 1, 2003

Reverend Jack Young (former interim minister)

"Get Found" ,  July 25, 2004

"Our Debt to the Sultan" ,  July 18, 2004

"Marriage: A Many Splendored Thing" ,  May 9, 2004

"Homelessnes: Enough Pain to Go Around" ,  May 2, 2004

"Ave Oestre!" ,  April 11, 2004

"The Smell of the Food, The Sound of the Coins" ,  March 28, 2004

"The Demise of Sheriff Meistner" ,  March 21, 2004

"Comments on the Candidate — A Short Message About Packaging" ,  March 14, 2004

"These Things Shall Be. . ." ,  March 7, 2004

"Grow Old With Me - The Best is Yet to Be" ,  February 29, 2004

"The Power of the Non-Event" ,  February 8, 2004

"The Romance of the Superbowl" ,  February 1, 2004

"Mid-term Review of this Interim Year" ,  January 25, 2004

"Confronting An Onion" ,  January 11, 2004

"Our Friend: The Enemy" ,  January 4, 2004

"This Longing..." ,  December 12, 2003

"Freedom as Icon" ,  November 16, 2003

"The Pants Got Too Small" ,  November 9, 2003

"What's in a Face?" ,  November 2, 2003

"The Religious Qualities of Fido and Spot" ,  October 19, 2003

"Do they really Worship Trees?" ,  October 12, 2003

"The Interdependent Web; Mystical Perspective" ,  September 21, 2003

"The Interdependent Web; Rational Perspective" ,  September 14, 2003

"The Nomad Monad" ,  August 10, 2003

"The Missing Sermon" ,  July 24, 2003

"Quo Vadis, Dominii",  July 6, 2003

"On Fishes and Loaves",  June 29 , 2003

"Faith or Belief?",  June 22 , 2003

''Is 'Religion' Only a Noun?",  June 15, 2003

"Not Beyond the Sheriff's Chickenyard",  May 4, 2003

Reverend Kathleen Allan

"Goodbye",  February 2, 2003

"Hunting for Meaning",  January 19, 2003