Sermons-First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco

Liberation, Again and Again Some messages endure, are worthy of revisiting, because they are forever relevant in new wa... Read more

Seeing Whiteness? (February 24, 2019) Our Board said an overarching goal at this summer’s Board Retreat — to seek and s... Read more

"Gifts of God" 450 years ago the Edict of Torda proclaimed that faith is "the gift of God." That was the beginning of U... Read more

Not Knowing - The Resistance to Certainty Rev. Sonya, now Minister to the UU Congregation of Tuolumne County in Sonora,... Read more

In An Ideal World (January 6, 2019) Let's be real, living up to our ideals isn't easy, sometimes it's downright dangero... Read more

Sitting in Limbo We've all found ourselves lost in the state of limbo at some point in our lives, caught between its bo... Read more

What Do A Billion Muslims Have To Teach Us About Unitarian Universalism? Islam, the second largest religion in the worl... Read more

Two Types of Religion Despite the tremendous diversity in the U.S. religious landscape, there are really only two kinds... Read more

The Deep Song of Our Lives (July 22, 2018) What can we in our time and place learn from a mild-mannered poet who was th... Read more

Happiness is.... (November 17, 2019) Ancient philosophers have talked about happiness. Religions have weighed in on wha... Read more

Surrender to the Weight of Being Healed Surrender to the Weight of Being Healed: what does it mean to bear witness and... Read more

Sports and Spirit: What being a jock can teach us about life. (May 20, 2018) This week is our Bay to Breaker’s Sunday s... Read more

"Religious Experience and the Ascent of Mount Ventoux" (January 12, 2020) Fourteenth Century poet and scholar, Frencesc... Read more

Strange Foolishness: Meditations on Political Correctness “Strange Foolishness: Meditations on Political Correctness.”... Read more

Loving America (July 1, 2018) How do we hold onto what is good about our country, given its past wrongs and present str... Read more

Authenticity and the Price of Being Most Fully Human and Yourself (November 10, 2019) Later this month on November 20th... Read more

Pilgrimage (August 12, 2018) There is a long History across cultures of people taking pilgrimages, often to places of r... Read more

Summer Stillness and Silence (August 19, 2018) Anne LeClaire hears the call to "Sit in Silence." What happens over the ... Read more

Community as Sanctuary . . . and moreThe mission statement of UUSF says that we exist “to be a sanctuary for individual ... Read more

"I Do, I Do: A Sermon on Relationships" (February 9, 2020) After all these years of doing weddings, and watching marria... Read more