Unitarian Universalist Society Of Black Hawk County Sermons

This is our annual remembrance of those who have gone before us. While people around the world in various cultures and religious traditions celebrate the lives of those who came before them, and remember them…we too gather together. To listen to this service click here.

To listen to this service click here.  If you could change one thing to make the world a better place, what would it be? What can you do to make a difference? What do you do to make a difference? Reaching out to others in acts of service helps us to knit together the fragile fabric of […]

To listen as the Rev Eva Cameron helps us explore some ideas about prayer and other ideas for reconnection click here.  Consider that Muslims stop what they are doing five times a day to pray, and reconnect themselves with their values. Some people have given up prayer but there are many ways to pray, and even humanist […]

Reconnection, Part 3: Acts of Love (Yom Kippur) ~~ The Rev. Eva Cameron, Bill Chene (WA) One of the most important ways to reconnect with each other is to love. The Jewish faith teaches us that each year, in order to go forward in love, we must pause and forgive ourselves and each other. To […]

The Festival Team helps us re-connect with the lessons that Mother Nature offers us in the falls season. To listen to some of the highlights of this service click here

The Rev. Eva Cameron reflects, 10 years after the 9/11 attacks on what those experiences offer us to shape our lives. To listen to this podcast click here. We honor the powerful emotions of that moment, and that we utilize our moments together as a religious community to reconnect to that sense of creative, compassionate […]

We enjoy a service of song and a inspiration before our annual Church clean-up followed by an All Church Pot-Luck. To listen to this service click here.

The Festival Team and the Rev. Eva Cameron again brought us the Water Communion ceremony where we each brought some water from our summer travels or experience to join in a communical bowl. To listen to this service click  here. We bring all this water to share, representing the oneness at the center of who […]

Starting from a blog posting by Elise Hanson this winter, Join Elise and Rev. Eva in this conversational sermon about finding beauty in the most unlike of spots. Happy Easter! To listen to this service click here.

Rev Eva Cameron returns from her sabatical and helps us celebrate the story of Jesus’ trumphal arrival into Jerusalem. Is there a message for us today in this ancient story? Rev Eva and Staci Chananie-Hill (Worship Associate) co-preach. To listen to this service click here.

Staci Chananie-Hill one of our Worship Associates brings us the sermon today. She says about today’s sermon, “April is a good month for taking time to sit still. It is the first month where we really welcome back life after the long days of winter. By paying very close attention and resting in stillness while […]

All the major world religions have pilgrimage as part of their ritual practice.  We, too, have been on a journey this year.  Listen to  find out what other religions can teach us about pilgrimage and how we can make our real and imagined journeys sacred.  Click here to listen to this service by lay-minister Sue […]

Spring is a time for new beginnings.  The promise of life becoming more exuberant.  To listen to the Spring Festival Service click here.

Bill Chene guides us thru an exploration of the relationship between happiness and kindness and how it can change our lives. To listen to the service click here.

Stopping to Smell the Roses: Living and Giving in Abundance Staci Chananie-Hill leads us in this celebration of giving.  The Committee on Ministry also recognizes Shanlee McNally for her contributions.  To Listen to this service click here.

One Sunday a year we ask our youth to share with us their thoughts and passions.  each year we are amazed and thankful that these passionate, caring and energetic people will be carrying us into the future.  Click here to hear Linnea, Amanda, Jack, Hanna and ZuZu and the Youth Service.

The first mention of playing card in western history is in the fourteenth century, and shortly thereafter we find evidence of decks with extra trump cards being used for divinatory and magical purposes.  These decks became known as Tarot.  One of the most intriguing cards in Tarot decks is the Fool card.  It is a […]

Neil Martinsen-Burrell and Lara Martinsen-Burell ( Worship Associate). Shamansim refers to a broad class of religious practices regarding communication with the spirit world. A practitioner of these techniques is called a “shaman”. Shamanism exists in a stunning variety of forms in cultures all over the globe. Listen to this service to learn more about the […]

~~ Staci Chananie-Hill, John Miller (WA) As we come into the New Year there is a sense of newness and rebirth.  We plan what we want from our year, some of us make goals—not always realistically.  What is it about this time of year that makes us look at ourselves and perhaps find something lacking, […]

The Infancy Narratives: Infancy Narratives: Infancy Narratives: an Objective Comparison an Objective Comparison ~~ Nathan Callahan, Staci Chananie-Hill (WA) Nathan & Staci review the two infancy narratives of the New Testament, and explore the historical purpose of each; why they tell completely different stories, and are not the same; and why each was written in […]