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Viola Desmond Goes to the Movies

October 1, 2017 by Meghann Robern

Watch and listen to the sermon on Facebook:   I cannot, in good conscience, offer you this sermon today without pointing out that I am a white woman in 2017 speaking to you about the lived experience of a Black woman in 1946. I am claiming her story in the fulfillment of my work, using … [Read more…]

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With a Lion at Her Feet

January 29, 2017 by Meghann Robern

Listen to the sermon here: With a Lion at Her Feet or watch and listen to the sermon on Facebook. Thekla. A young woman, caught up in a culture wherein she is denied all control over her life. Her mother makes her decisions for her, and she is engaged to a man who believes he … [Read more…]

Posted in: Sermons, Worship Elements Tagged: christianity, covenant, ethics, exegesis, fuun, history, humanism, prayer, sj, video

We Were Made For This

November 13, 2016 by Meghann Robern

Listen to the sermon here: We Were Made For This or watch and listen to the sermon on Facebook I’ve gotten lots of questions about what today’s sermon will be about. I’ve deflected all of them — partly because, well, I wanted people to show up. And partly because, I think, I wasn’t sure where … [Read more…]

Posted in: Sermons, Worship Elements Tagged: blm, community, covenant, ethics, fuun, humanism, resistance, sermon, sj, video

The Revelator

September 18, 2016 by Meghann Robern

Watch and listen to the sermon on Facebook The Book of Revelation. It’s a letter written by a person who called themselves John, meant for seven communities in Asia that had gathered around a belief in Jesus Christ. Unlike today, when Christian identity is linked with power and empire, Christian communities (even before they were … [Read more…]

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We Ask the Church

September 4, 2016 by Meghann Robern

Listen to the sermon here: We Ask the Church Or, watch and listen to the sermon on Facebook I used to be a screenwriter. Almost ten years ago, the Writers Guild of America went on strike, right when my career was about to take off. I’d sold a project to a big studio AND it … [Read more…]

Posted in: Sermons, Worship Elements Tagged: audio, blm, chavez, fairwage, fuun, humanism, mlk, sermon, sj, video

Despair for the World (The Rev. Jason Shelton)

July 10, 2016 by Meghann Robern

On July 10th, 2016, in response to a devastating week in the news cycle, the shared leadership of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville decided to change the worship service the day before it happened. Watch and listen to Jason’s sermon interspersed with the readings he asked me to do.

Posted in: Miscellany, Worship Elements Tagged: blm, sj, video

For Orlando

June 14, 2016 by Meghann Robern

This was originally posted to the CUUPS Patheos blog, Nature’s Path, on June 14th, 2016. You for whom the house of love Has become the house of death– I Who am the Goddess of love and death open My arms to embrace you (Excerpt from “Inanna’s Prayer”, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying, Starhawk … [Read more…]

Posted in: Articles & Reflections Tagged: article, cuups, quiltbag, sj

Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain

May 8, 2016 by Meghann Robern

This is the text of a sermon given at First UU Nashville on May 8th, 2016. Listen to the sermon: Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain The Wizard of Oz started out as a harmless showman in our world, one who entertained people with tricks and illusions. Then he crashed, literally and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Sermons, Worship Elements Tagged: christianity, covenant, ethics, fuun, history, humanism, populism, resistance, sermon, sj, universalism

Dec. 29th FUUN Weekly Email

December 29, 2015 by Meghann Robern

So come, Christmas, most needed of seasons. Come with the reminder that love does not depend on Perfection but on willingness to risk connection. Come into the unready manger of our hearts That we may feel the warmth of new life And give flesh to the promise of hope That cries to bring healing into … [Read more…]

Posted in: Articles & Reflections Tagged: christianity, christmas, email, epiphany, fuun, jesus, sj

On A Starry Night

December 10, 2015 by Meghann Robern

He was singing a melody he did not know, and yet the notes poured from his throat with all the assurance of long familiarity. They moved through the time-spinning reaches of a far galaxy, and he realized that the galaxy itself was part of a mighty orchestra, and each star and planet within the galaxy … [Read more…]

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