Singers Of Hope

Singers of Life This Easter Sunday is a memorable for many reasons.  It was on this day, the 8th of April, nineteen years ago, that a great American passed out of life and into history. Marian Anderson was arguably the greatest contralto of the last century, but...

Einstein's God

Einstein’s God Albert Einstein’s name has become synonymous with braininess. With his swarm of frizzy, uncombed hair and puppy-dog, twinkling eyes, his face is instantly recognizable, even by the ninety-nine percent of the planet who have no clue about...

A Faith That Chooses Us

A Faith That Chooses Us by Rev. Gary Kowalski Delivered March 4, 2012 at First Parish of Sudbury. Choice is an important value for Unitarian Universalists. One might say it’s a sacred precept. Faith for us is not so much an heirloom handed down as a matter of...

Religion in a Spiritual Age

Religion in a Spiritual Age READING Our reading this morning is an excerpt from a reflection by The Rev. Lillian Daniel, senior minister of the First Congregational Church in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. On airplanes I dread the conversation with the person who finds out I...

Let's Talk

Let’s Talk Everyone has a job to do.  Recently, Susan Stamberg of National Public Radio reported on a character named Miss Lilly, an eighty-one year old woman she encountered in the Luxembourg Gardens of Paris whose specialty is to "parlez vous."...