Sam’s Old Sermon Server
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| 2023 | |||
| 1/22 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Article II Part 2: Shared Values and Commitments | |
| 1/8 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Article II Part 1: Not Enough Verbs | |
| 2022 | |||
| 11/6 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | God is Change | |
| 10/2 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Courageous Accountability | |
| 10/2 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Beyond Tribalism | |
| 9/18 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Belonging in Community | |
| 4/10 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Living with Hopelessness | |
| 4/3 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Insights from the Cushion | |
| 1/16 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Sum of Us | |
| 1/9 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Zero Sum Dilemma | |
| 2021 | |||
| 12/12 | Rev. Sam Trumbore |
Presence of Joy in the Holy |
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| 12/5 | Rev. Sam Trumbore |
The Peaceful Joy of Frozen Ground |
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| 11/28 | Rev. Sam Trumbore |
Transcendentalist Roots of Justice |
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| 11/14 | Rev. Sam Trumbore |
The Minority Opinion |
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| 11/7 | Rev. Sam Trumbore |
Truth Matters |
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| 10/24 | Rev. Sam Trumbore |
Impasse |
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| 10/10 | Rev. Sam Trumbore |
Climate Change, Pipelines, and Indigenous People |
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| 10/3 | Rev. Sam Trumbore |
Communal Asperations |
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| 09/26 | Philomena Moriarty |
The Art of Listening |
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| 05/23 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | No Last Chapter in Our UU Story | |
| 05/02 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Danger of a Single Story | |
| 03/28 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Commitment to Action | |
| 03/21 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Commitment to Peace | Video |
| 03/14 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Commitment to Justice | |
| 03/07 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Commitment to Love | |
| 02/07 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | The Evolution of Community | |
| 01/24 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Queer Theology | |
| 01/17 | Rev. Sam Trumbore & Jaye Holly | Racial Healing | |
| 01/03 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Imagine What Could End, Resume, and Begin! | |
| 2020 | |||
| 12/13 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Nature’s Stillness | |
| 12/06 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Remembering To Be Still And Know | |
| 11/08 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Healing Our Nation | |
| 10/28 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | What Democracy Looks Like | |
| 10/18 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Democracy Under Threat | |
| 10/04 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Listen Within for Beyond | |
| 09/27 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Return to Love … Again | |
| 08/09 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Socially Engaged Buddhism and Racial Justice | |
| 03/08 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Valuing Truth More Than Power | |
| 01/12 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Beloved Community | |
| 01/05 | Rev. Sam Trumbore | Reflecting Backward, Planning Forward | |
2019
| January 20 | Love and Power | video |
| February 3 | Earning Trust | |
| February 24 | Intersectionality, Trust, Community | |
| March 3 | The Road to Jerusalem | |
| March 10 | What Will You Pack? | |
| March 24 | Pilgrimage | |
| March 31 | Encountering the Unexpected | |
| April 14 | Stuck in Brokenness | |
| September 15 | Stop Human Extinction | |
| November 11 | Cost of Homelessness | |
| December 8 | Graceful Delight |
2018
| January 7 | Intention Does Not Equal Impact | |
| January 21 | Collapse of the Enlightenment Era? | |
| February 4 | Order, Disorder, Reorder | |
| February 11 | The Joy of Fasting with Eileen Casey-Campbell | |
| February 18 | Why Did You Doubt? | |
| March 18 | A More Perfect Union | |
| April 29 | Emerging Hope: Glimpses of the Promised Land | |
| September 16 | Finding Truth and Meaning on the Margins | |
| September 23 | The American Tradition of Dissent | |
| September 30 | How to Keep Our Heart Open … In Hard Times | |
| November 4 | America: The Minority Repor | |
| November 11 | America: The Glorious Vision |
2017
| January 8 | Tongues of Fire | |
| January 22 | Our UU Prophetic Message | |
| February 5 | Strong Identity Supports Diversity | |
| February 12 | Faith in Group Selection | |
| February 19 | Rescuing a Jesus for Liberals to Love | |
| March 5 | The Altruist’s Dilemma | |
| March 19 | Honoring Agnosticism | |
| April 9 | Money Changers in the Temple | |
| April 30 | Seeking Other Worlds | |
| May 7 | Making the Water Visible | |
| May 14 | Honoring our Foremothers: Margaret Fuller | |
| September 17 | Expanding Our Welcome | |
| October 22 | After 500 Years, is the Reformation Over? | |
| November 5 | A Vulnerable Humanism of the Heart | |
| November 19 | Gratitude to Indian Givers | |
| December 3 | When the Yule Log Won’t Light | |
| December 10 | The Holy Flame of Life |
2016
| January 3 | The Complaint Free Challenge | Introduction of wearing purple bracelets as a way to remind ourselves to change our complaining and criticizing habits. | |
| January 31 | Defiant Heretics | A look at our heretical tradition, its value and its problems. | |
| February 21 | Cultivating Healthy Desire | Exploration of Amanda Palmer’s ideas of generosity and asking. | |
| February 28 | The Fulfillment of Desire | Exploration of Amanda Palmer’s ideas of generosity and asking. | |
| March 6 | Liberation through Cultural and Theological Competence | Examining the parallels between different methods of interfaith dialogue and theories of how to develop greater cultural competence and cross cultural communication. | |
| March 13 | Liberation through Witnessing Impermanence | Using the experience of my meditation retreat experience in February and exploring how impermanence could be helpful in the process of liberation. | |
| March 20 | Liberation through Sacrifice | A challenging sermon looking at Jesus’ decision to go to Jerusalem and his mission to realize the Realm of God on Earth. | |
| April 24 | Climate Change … and You … and Us | Approaching climate change in a moral way rather than as a policy question. | |
| September 18 | The Occupy Movement: 5 Years Later | ||
| October 9 | Healing Through Repentance | ||
| October 23 | American Fear of Islam | ||
| November 20 | Reconciliation Through a Fuller Story | ||
| December 11 | A Path of Presence | ||
| December 18 | The Thread That You Follow |
2015
| January 11 | Fighting For Lost Causes | another social justice themed service that used video clips from the movie, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as part of the presentation. | |
| January 25 | Fulfillment Through Passing the Bucket | Explored the theme of growing through service and included one of the architects of Growth through Service who was visiting for a workshop January 24. | |
| February 1 | Faitheist? | investigated two different UU theological trends, the new atheists’ movement from the angle of those who are not resistant to traditional religious concepts but are atheists | |
| February 22 | Selma: The UU Backstory | There is quite an interesting backstory to UU’s involvement in Selma | |
| March 8 | Pentacostal UUs? | the merger of a Black Pentecostal church with the Tulsa UU congregation and asked if there are lessons for us. | |
| September 20 | What Does Forgiveness Require? | ||
| October 4 | Twenty-First Century Humanism | Two sermons | |
| October 25 | Humanistic Buddhism pdf | on Humanism to stimulate interest and discussion for two classes that followed them that used the same names as titles for the classes | |
| October 11 | Freedom and Fulfillment Through Letting Go | An examination of white privilege and the need to abandon it for everyone’s benefit. | |
| November 8 | The Pluralistic Spirit of the Sacred Harp | We enjoyed guest Shape Note singers from Bennington who performed this music for us. The songs were mixed in with background on this musical tradition and religious connections to it. | |
| December 6 | A Season of Anticipation |
2014
| September 14 | Overcoming Betrayal of Faith | ||
| September 28 | A Second Chance | ||
| October 5 | A Sensual Faith | I showed slides of paintings I photographed in Europe as part of my mini-sabbatical last May. | |
| November 9 | Grace #2: Rescued by Love | ||
| November 18 | Grace #3: Poisoned by Craving | ||
| December 7 | Missing You | ||
| December 14 | The Lamp Will Keep Burning |
2013
- An Evolving Faith, PDF, May 5 2013
- Unitarians and Universalists were among the first religious traditions to accept Darwin’s theories of evolution. Before that, we aligned ourselves with heretics that questioned doctrinal assertions that Jesus didn’t have a human father, was co-eternal with God, performed miracles that violated natural law, and returned from the dead. Come hear how our faith continues to evolve today.
- Loyal Heretics, PDF, May 19 2013
- As a religious tradition that values individual discernment rather than conformity to revealed truth, we sometimes disagree with each other. But disagreement need not be disagreeable. Done well, conflict can stimulate our mutual growth and development as individuals and as a congregation.
- Expanding Gender Identity PDF, February 17, 2013
- Stuck in the “gender binary” enforcement of male and female as our sexual identity? Consider a far more fluid definition of gender beyond the sex a doctor assigns a baby at birth.
Even older sermons (but still good!)
(sermons from Port Charlotte, Florida)