Sermons

Sunday, June 1, 2025, reading followed by the sermon by Rev. F. Vernon Wright V Reading Go out into the highways and by-ways. Give the people something of your new vision. You may possess a small light, but uncover it, let it shine, use it in order to bring more light...

Sunday, May 11, 2025, reading followed by the sermon by Rev. F. Vernon Wright V Reading Darwin recognized that evolution is fundamentally about “survival of the adequate.” It’s not about “survival of the fittest,” despite this becoming a popular (but entirely...

Sunday, April 13, 2025, reading followed by the sermon. Reading In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all these people, that they were mine and I theirs,...

Sunday, April 6, 2025, a reading followed by the sermon by Rev. F. Vernon Wright V Reading ...if walking down the street I notice some people turning back and looking at me with grins on their faces, the normal thing to do is immediately to start worrying: “Is there...

March 30, 2025
As you know Trans rights are under attack right now. Trans rights are human rights however, and where one person’s human rights suffer, all our human rights suffer. At the heart of this issue is the social construction of gender. If others deny us the freedom to discern for ourselves how we wish to construct gender, than we cannot truly know freedom. Even the ancients knew this.

Below is a reading followed by the sermon, March 23, 2025, by Rev. F. Vernon Wright V Reading What then is sanctuary?  The sanctuary is often something very small.  Not a grandiose gesture, but a small gesture toward alleviating human suffering and preventing...