Sunnyhill Unitarian Universalist
Select sermons from The Unitarian Universalist Church of the South Hills, known as "Sunnyhill". Sunnyhill is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Rev. Jim Magaw serves as minister. This podcast is brought to you by Mike Gravitt and Jen McGlothin. Visit our website: www.sunnyhill.org.
Episodes
11 episodes
Music of the Season
This service will be comprised of holiday-themed music from various Sunnyhill members and friends, including the choir and other individuals and groups of all ages and many different styles. Come celebrate music and the season!
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Choosing Hope in Hopeless Times
Cynicism may be understood as an attempt to protect oneself from the heartache of unfulfilled hopes. While it may be effective in the short term, cynicism ultimately leads nowhere. But how do we go about choosing in hope in what seems like a ho...
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Giving Thanks in Thankless Times
One service at 10:00. The great Christian mystic Meister Eckhart famously said, “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” Of the various kinds of prayers, prayers of thanksgiving might be the most po...
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Bend the Road, Bend the Arc
As we engage in discernment about next steps for Sunnyhill’s “Be the Future” project, we will focus on how we live into two key aspects of our mission: creating compassion and creating justice. How do we go about living into these aspirations?&...
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Building Up in a Time of Tearing Down
The book of Ecclesiastes famously states that there is “a time to tear down and a time to build up.” Sometimes both must occur simultaneously. In the current era of tearing down democratic processes and social safety nets, it is time to build s...
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All Souls
All Souls Day is a time to remember everyone who has died, everyone who has been part of the gathered community. The phrase “All Souls” has a particularly Unitarian connotation because of something that one of our own “saints,” William Ellery C...
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Pirate Theology
While we often trace our Unitarian Universalist concept of covenant back to our Puritan forbears, are there other ways of conceptualizing covenant that might be helpful as we create our own covenant? This sermon will consider pirate covenants o...
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Consumerism vs. Compassion
Jonathan Murray, intern minister. Our addictive American consumer culture has not only negatively impacted our finances and environment, but it has also damaged our spirituality and compassion for others. Can society transition from an endless ...
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Theology of Pumpkins
As we prepare for our Sunnyhill Pumpkin Patch, what are the implied theological underpinnings of this task that builds community within the congregation while also reaching out into the larger community? How might this undertaking represent bui...
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