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By Stander, Standing By

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The Uses and Abuses of Scripture

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“Hello, Frank!” in honor of the feast of St Francis which is on Oct 4.

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Healing and Hope: A sermon on forgiveness and beyond

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We Are All the Same.... and Not: A service of celebration and reflection on being in community

106

Good Job!

107

Connection Through Sharing

108

La Dolce Vita in Motion

109

Living Joyfully

110

The Quick Fix: A conversation about what is lost when we attempt to rush reconciliation.

111

Worth and Dignity

112

Lessons on Community from Nature

113

WEAV: What is it?

114

Setting Boundaries

115

Big Music Sunday

116

Our Authentic Selves

117

Life is Pure Jazz

118

Extravaganza!

119

Nap Ministry

120

A Sacred Choice: Reproductive Justice

121

Little Did I Know

122

A May Day Convergence

123

The Problem with God

124

Heartbeats

125

What Prepares us for Sunrise?

126

You Are Loved

127

What Need One?

128

From Special Creation to Kin

129

A Hermit's Life

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Greatness

131

Some of What I Learned on My Sabbatical: Reclaiming Time and Empathy At a recent trip to the DeYoung Museum, to see the exhibit by Black South African artist Lhola Amira, I was made aware of (at least) two parts of the righting of the heart and mind around our shared human history. Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister; Sam King, Worship Associate; Shawnette Sulker, Soprano; Mark Sumner, Songleader; Jon Silk, Drummer; Wm. García Ganz, Pianist Shulee Ong, Camera; Eric Shackelford, Camera; Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Joe Chapot, Live Chat Moderator; Thomas Brown, Sexton; Carrie Steere-Salazar, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher; Ralph Fenn, Les James, Tom Brookshire, Zoom Coffee Hour LIVESTREAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DnikWdJ1E8 OOS: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IbTftR9ipv2nkL6lYUEkuA7uZbUU_i67/view?usp=share_link PLAYLIST: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGWIRF9PinfwPGOdVb00NNSJaAgz3MasT

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Mourning and Celebrating At a recent trip to the DeYoung Museum, to see the exhibit by Black South African artist Lhola Amira, I was made aware of (at least) two parts of the righting of the heart and mind around our shared human history. Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister; Sam King, Worship Associate; Shawnette Sulker, Soprano; Mark Sumner, Songleader; Jon Silk, Drummer; Wm. García Ganz, Pianist Shulee Ong, Camera; Eric Shackelford, Camera; Jonathan Silk, Communications Director; Joe Chapot, Live Chat Moderator; Thomas Brown, Sexton; Carrie Steere-Salazar, Flowers; Linda Messner, Head Usher; Ralph Fenn, Les James, Tom Brookshire, Zoom Coffee Hour LIVESTREAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DnikWdJ1E8 OOS: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IbTftR9ipv2nkL6lYUEkuA7uZbUU_i67/view?usp=share_link PLAYLIST: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGWIRF9PinfwPGOdVb00NNSJaAgz3MasT

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Keeping Love Alive

134

Gongxi Gongxi: A Will to Hope in the Lunar New Year

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A Religious Center With a Civic Circumference: Unitarians in San Francisco Since 1850

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Gaining Vision at the Edge of the Miraculous

137

Once to every Soul and Nation…

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A People Without Vision Shall Perish

139

Annual Hanging of the Greens Service

140

What I want for Christmas?

141

Oh, Family

142

Little Things Mean a Lot

143

After the OObleck" - A Forgiveness Ritual

144

The Double-edged Sword of Faith

145

Across the Veil

146

Living with the Trouble

147

What Fuels These Fools?

148

Being Alive

149

Whose Land Is This?

150

A Hope Worth Fighting For

151

Are We Normal?

152

The Tasks of Life

153

The River of Life: An Ingathering

154

Birthing a New World

155

The Arc of the Universe

156

Transforming Perfection

157

Ordinary Days

158

Retraining the Dragon

159

Good Trouble

160

What am I going to do?

161

Coffee in the Desert

162

The Living Tradition

163

The Perfect Body and the Ladder (Rebroadcast from December 6, 2020)

164

What is Fatherhood?

165

I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together

166

Finding Out Who We Are

167

Remembering the Future

168

The Nike Solution

169

A Time of Transition, part II: The Place In Between

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The Loving and the Letting Go

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A Time of Transition

172

Elephant Company: an Earth Day service

173

Never What You Imagined

174

An Especially Big and Important Music Service

175

Word After A Word After A Word Is Power

176

What's Going On?

177

The Question of Legacy

178

Rites of Passage Service: Big Life Questions

179

"The Ecology of Generosity"

180

To Change the World, with Love

181

To Sondheim, with Love

182

To Relationships, with Love

183

Weaving Waters: Regional Assembly Worship

184

The Many Faces of Leadership

185

Some Joy Please

186

History is not History

187

'God' is not God's name

188

Right Belief or Right Living

189

Kwanzaa

190

Being Alive

191

Big Music Sunday

192

A String of Gratefuls

193

What the Pecans have to Teach?

194

The Pursuit of Radiance

195

We are the Thousand Winds that Blow

196

The Costumes We Wear

197

The Land of Memory

198

"Right Thinking, Right Feeling and Right Relations"

199

"Who is Earth to Me?"

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"Higher Love: Installation Service"