Rev. Sam Trumbore's virtual home

  • Unifying Purpose

    Call to Celebration I begin this morning with the words of the Rev. Dr. George Kimmell Beach, Unitarian Universalist theologian and deep thinker on the future of our faith. These words come from an essay he presented to the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association’s Convocation in 1995 in Hot Springs, Arkansas. I was in the audience…

  • Liberating Habits

    Here is the service on habits I did this Sunday to kick off a series of three sermons on Purpose. Call to Celebration The Buddha encouraged his followers to make four great efforts:     to prevent from arising negative states that have not arisen to let go of negative states once they have arisen…

  • Living With Purpose

    I grew up surrounded by people driven by inner purpose. Barbara wanted to be an excellent flute player so she practiced, tried out for the orchestra at Newark High and got picked as first chair. My friend Nick with a beautiful baritone voice auditioned to be one of our high school madrigals. Matt had a…

  • Welcoming All Free Seekers

    Our theme this month is hospitality.  Here is what I had to say on the subject today. Call to Celebration We will be considering the theme of hospitality this morning, so I looked for a suitable nineteenth century etiquette guide for advice on just how we should be hospitable. Fortunately I was able to find…

  • Warm Welcome Home

    The separation between summer and the second Sunday of September as our congregation’s “homecoming Sunday” is fast eroding. This summer, as in previous years, we have had summer services that are not led by me (though initially organized by the Religious Services Committee with my help). I attended many of them after leading the mindfulness…

  • Introducing Mostly Mindful Minister

    While this site isn’t completely ready for prime time, I thought I’d put a first post up so at least the world can begin to link to it.  I’m moving away from my HTML 1.0 web site I started way back in 1994 as a way to distribute my writing called Sam’s Bookshelf and Cafe…