delivered Sunday, September 13, 2015 at the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos
Rev. John Cullinan
Category: sermon audio
delivered at the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, 13 March 2011
delivered to the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, 9 January 2011
Occasionally, the times demand I go back to the “greatest hits” file.
What We Talk About When We Talk About God
delivered at the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, 12 December 2010
(With apologies to Raymond Carver for the title.)
This sermon owes much to the work of sociologists Paul Froese and Christopher Bader, two of the primary researchers behind the Baylor Survey of Religion and their book, America’s Four Gods: What We Say about God–and What That Says about Us
The notion of being stuck in the “apple system” comes from a brief comment by James Martin, SJ, in his book The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
delivered at the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, 5 December 2010
I feel my powers of title-fu failed me on this one, but I’ll take that if the message is strong. Here in Los Alamos, we’re facing a crisis in charitable giving. The National Laboratory has altered its annual giving drive in such a way that more and more money is leaving not just our community but also the state of New Mexico. Our local United Way, which has administered the funds to local agencies in the past, is expecting a fifth (or less) of what they’ve received for local use in the past. Self Help, Inc. — our congregation’s longest-lived outreach partner — is just one agency that is looking at severely reduced funding for the coming year, which means severely reduced assistance to some of our people who are most in need.
While I advocate for local giving in the sermon, I would also ask anyone reading to consider a charitable gift to Self Help this season. Thank you.
How to Be An Armchair Theologian: Being Human
delivered at the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, 14 November 2010
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
delivered to the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos
10/31/2010
A reflection on heroes, super and otherwise.