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

We've been collecting audio recordings of sermons since 2013 and video recordings since 2020. Visit our sermons library to explore sermons by year.

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***We are currently in the process of uploading our audio recordings of older sermons.***

Oct 27: Service of Remembrance

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Led by Rev. Jim Parrish. Attendees were invited to bring a photo or memento of someone (pets are people, too!) you have lost and wish to hold in your heart during this very special time of year. An altar was set up for placement of the items, so that we could all share in the special remembrance, as a community of love and support.

Oct 6: The True Creation Story.

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Religion is about our relationships, and the stories we tell ourselves about those relationships matter. There are many creation stories, as many as religions and some even scientific in nature, informing folks of what their relationship with the world/universe might look like.

Led by Rev. Jim Parrish, we explored some of the meanings and outcomes of “Creation Stories.”

Aug 25: Meditation & Change: A Reflection on the Monkey Mind

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Led by Rev. Jim Parrish.

Religious (and non-religious) folks talk about having a “spiritual practice” quite a bit, a practice of connecting with your inner self, or a sense of connecting with “something larger” than the self. A spiritual practice can be as simple as being fully present to the washing of dishes, walking in nature or, as referenced in this service, learning a meditation technique. I practice Vipassana meditation taught by S N Goenka from a line of Buddhist teachers – India to Burma and back to India. It is a mind/body integration kind of meditation that I find foundational to my spiritual practice. There are many other Vipassana practices that I think are very useful as well, and I’m going to explore them more. However, I do recommend this particular practice as a starting place. It is not easy to learn, the training using nine days of silence to build the practice, but it is thorough. I find that indeed, it can bring balance and equanimity to my thinking/feeling about life and its many vicissitudes, so I might make better decisions and not take things so personally. It’s not perfect, but as human systems go, meditation is a pretty good tool for getting along. Enjoy.

This is a link to the video shared demonstrating Anapana, or a breath meditation technique that is used to train for the full SN Goenka Vipassana technique. And this is a link to the Vipassana Center website.