Forgiveness
A summary sermon by Rev. Bode of numerous sermons on the theme of forgiveness. Click here to listen to the reading and sermon. Click here to read the reading and sermon.
Speaker: Rev. Bruce Bode
i who have died am alive again today (Easter & Flower Communion)
Our Easter Sunday service begins with a “Flower Communion” ceremony (please bring a flower to the service to share). Rev. Bode reflects on the words of e. e. cummings’ poem, “i thank You, God for most this amazing,” which our choir also sings. Click here to listen to the introduction and sermon.
Good Friday Service
This service, held in the middle of the day in our sanctuary, adapts and universalizes the Good Friday tradition. In a culture that forever wants to be up, this service provides the rare opportunity to drop down. Both Rev. Bode and Rev. Lore will give meditations on the Good Friday theme. If you would like … Continue reading Good Friday Service
Poetry, Poets, and Religion: Personal Glimpses
A sharing of personal stories by Bruce Bode and Joseph Bednarik about their engagement with poets in their respective careers and their sense of the place of poetry in liberal religion and at QUUF.
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Pledge Sunday)
Borrowing a sermon title from a book by Carl Jung, on this Pledge Sunday I look back at my time at QUUF, the vision I had when I arrived, the shape that vision took in my mind while I’ve been here, and what potential I see in the future for the Fellowship.
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A Conversation between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nineteenth century poet Margaret Fuller died in a tragic way in 1850. And it was the writer Ralph Waldo Emerson who was perhaps most devastated by the loss. Bruce Bode portrays Emerson and Kate Lore portrays Fuller in a conversation imagined by Kate.
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Speaking of ‘Love’
“Love” is, indeed, “a many splendored thing” … particularly in the English language where it is used as an umbrella word to cover our positive feelings of everything from our links to inanimate objects to our most intimate human relationships. This sermon will attempt to distinguish some of our different types of love, with a special look, on this Sunday following Valentine’s Day, at “romantic love”.
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The Part and the Whole
The relationship of the part and the whole is, as I think of it, the central concept in my personal religious philosophy. This sermon is an attempt to say how this is so.
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Eight Considerations in Re-Making Yourself
In Marcia Lewton’s novel, Hello Gorgeous, one of the characters, Bess Kingman, is portrayed as follows: “Despite the continual commercial touting of the notion that a person can make herself into whatever she wants, Bess knew a few important things.” This sermon, as we bid goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year, will be a commentary on the “important things” that Bess had learned about re-making herself.
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Christmas Eve Candlelight Services
Since Christmas Eve fell on Sunday this year, there were no services Christmas Eve Sunday morning. However, there were three services in the evening. At the 5pm service, geared to children, their parents and grandparents, each child received his or her own candle for the service. At the 7pm and 7pm services, both Rev. Bode … Continue reading Christmas Eve Candlelight Services