Memories of Love and Regret
Regrets are illuminations come too late,” writes Joseph Campbell. My sermon on this Memorial Day Sunday will look at regret as a typical part of the territory in relation to memories of love.
Speaker: Rev. Bruce Bode
Healthy and Not-So-Healthy Narcissism
Being connected to your emotional and feeling self is what Swiss psychiatrist Alice Miller describes as a “healthy narcissism” as opposed to “narcissistic disorders” in which one is disconnected from their authentic feelings and perceptions. Listen to the reading and sermon.
The News of the Day
Flower Communion Sunday For months now, the news in our country has been dominated by the 2016 presidential nominating process, with no signs of abating. And, personally, I’ve been hooked, following this nominating process more closely than I ever have before. In this sermon, I share some of my thoughts on the “news of the … Continue reading The News of the Day
Transforming Obstacles into Opportunities: Know Fear and Do It Anyway!
Kimberly Parker is a writer, singer and solo performance artist. She has loved theatre all of her life and holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Boise State University. As she continued to lose her hearing, which resulted in losing confidence, Kimberly stayed away from the stage for 18 years. She also stopped patronizing theatres … Continue reading Transforming Obstacles into Opportunities: Know Fear and Do It Anyway!
How to Clean an Oil-Slicked Penguin
This is perhaps the oddest sermon title I’ve ever used, and I won’t say more. Click here to listen to the reading and sermon.
The Stumbling Stone of Easter
Surprisingly to me, novelist John Updike insisted that for Easter to be true the stone that was moved from the tomb in the Easter story must be a literal stone – “the vast rock of materiality” – and “not papier-mâché.” This sermon will explore a different route to the truth of Easter. Click here to … Continue reading The Stumbling Stone of Easter
A 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. Rev. Bode and Joseph Bednarik each give meditations related to times of darkness and descent.
Songs of Transformation
Songs of Transformation” – For many years, I’ve been struck by the Wild Rose Chorale’s rendering of the Celtic folk song, “Loch Lomond.” For the sermon portion of our service this Sunday, Wild Rose will sing both “Loch Lomond” and “How Can I Keep from Singing,” and I will speak about what I hear in … Continue reading Songs of Transformation
We Are Travelers
On this Stewardship Sunday, I speak about what I see for QUUF’s future and what I don’t see, and I share what I see for myself in the future as a minister at QUUF and what I don’t see. Should be interesting. Click here to listen to a recording of the reading and sermon.
It’s a Miracle! Or Is It?
“It’s a Miracle! Or Is It?” – What’s a “miracle”? Are there “miracles”? If I can make this sermon work, it will be a miracle!
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