Sermons
Sermon, Offering Sanctuary
Sunday, September 21, 2025 At our core, we are about welcoming, offering sanctuary to the last and the least, and by extension, to everyone. When we create space for those most in need of dignity and belonging, we build a spiritual home that embraces all who enter....
Sermon, Deeds of Welcome
Sunday, September 14, 2025, A Welcoming Place We are a welcoming place for all who enter our doors. We affirm our identity as a Black Lives Matter church and as an LGBTQ+ welcoming community, and we take pride in being a safe haven for seekers, questioners, and...
Sermon, Waters of Aloha
Sunday, September 7, 2025 By Rev. F. Vernon Wright V The video below begins with the reading Rain Light by W.S. Merwin All day the stars watch from long ago my mother said I am going now when you are alone you will be all right whether or not you know you will know...
Sermon: Visionary Community
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...
Sermon, The Nature of Nurture
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...
Sermon: Rise Up Into Love Consciousness
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,...