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2021 Sermons

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Our recordings include sermons given by our own ministers, intern ministers, lay leaders, and special guests. Play these podcasts on our website, or download them to listen later.

We've been collecting audio recordings of sermons since 2013. Visit our sermons library to explore sermons by year.

November 28 – “Holiday History: Victorian Christmas”

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Led by Renée Janski. Did 1840’s Victorian England invent Christmas as we know it today? Did the Royal Family invent the Christmas tree? Why are there dead birds on Victorian Christmas cards? All this and *more* explained!

Hooray! Sunday 11am Services are now open to a limited number of in-person audience members (all must register to save a seat in the sanctuary). The virtual option for joining will continue into the foreseeable future as well. CLICK HERE to register to attend this service in-person at UUFF. * To join us via zoom on Sunday morning at 11am, you may CLICK HERE. *

You can view the Order of Service by clicking here.

November 21 – “UUFF’s Bread Communion Service”

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Tis the season for our Annual Bread Communion Service! We’ll invite Dr. Sevin Gallo to speak to us about the culture of food. Dr. Gallo is an NWACC professor of World Civilization, and her teachings include an Honors class that focuses on food around the world. This is the first service since the summer that will allow a limited in-person audience to gather back in the Sanctuary, and the virtual option for joining will continue to be offered into the future as well! Everyone should BYOB (bring your own BREAD), whether you are joining the service remotely or in-person, so that we can enjoy it together during the Bread Communion part of the service!

If you’d like to attend in person, please CLICK HERE to register. The form will stop accepting submissions automatically when capacity is reached. NOTE: There are rules that must be followed if you are planning to attend in person. Please read your weekly email before you register to attend (access in the “This Week” section below). To join us remotely via zoom, PLEASE CLICK HERE.

To view the Order of Service, you can CLICK HERE.

November 7 – “Once Upon a Time”

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Rev. Rhett Baird, who served as UUFF’s Minister from 1994 to 2004 and was later given the title of Minister Emeritus, joins us this Sunday via zoom. His visit will be a facilitated interactive engagement, and he will share some carefully selected stories from his life journey and ministry. Stories that some would call holy and sacred and others might call poignant and memorable. We all have such stories stored in our memory. They have helped to shape who we are. They can remind us of our capacity to learn. Some remind us of our resilience and inner strength. Some can inspire us. Some fill us with awe and wonder. Some invite gratitude, forgiveness, and acceptance. All enlarge our world. All seem to be connectional. And they are.

To view the Order of Service, CLICK HERE.

October 10 – “The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter”

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Please join us this Sunday, as we host special guest speakers, Dr. Amanda Nell Edgar and Rev. Dr. Andre E. Johnson, co-authors of the book The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter. The publisher states, “This book ties together online and offline, national and local, and personal and political to understand one of the defining social justice struggles of our time.” Dr. Edgar and Dr. Johnson will speak about their research and its implications for our involvement in society. There will be time allotted for Q & A.

To view the Order of Service, CLICK HERE.

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September 26 – “The 5 Smooth Stones, Part 1”

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Join Renée Janski in an excursion back to the fascinating roots of UUism as we dive into the 5 Smooth Stones of Liberal Religion as identified by James Luther Adams and what it means to us that “Revelation is ongoing.” Also, the music for the “5 Smooth Stones” sermon series will evolve through the periods. For this first service of the series, we’ll showcase music from the Renaissance period (1400-1600). Brenda will play for us authentic music from the period, and because our hymnals don’t have these styles, we have chosen hymns in Latin for Stephanie to lead, because all church music was in Latin during the Renaissance! And hey – the Protestant Reformation also began during the Renaissance! See where this is going?

To view the Order of Service, CLICK HERE.