Welcome to the UUFR Service Archive.

Here you can explore a collection of written talks and sermons presented during past services at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Rappahannock. These reflections, offered by our members, guest speakers, and visiting ministers, represent the wide range of ideas, experiences, and perspectives shared from our pulpit over the years.

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• A Clash of Swords, Religions, and Civilizations — Tom Kinney
• A Garden of Interdependent Delights — Rev. Louis Schwebius
• About Reverence — Betty Kenley
• Adam Smith — David Rowden
• Albert Schweitzer: His Life, His Legacy — Robert Weekley
• Are UUs Buddhists Too — Adele Failmezger
• Autumn Awareness — Robert Weekley
• Babies and Bathwater — Cliff Schelling
• Bagels and Chalices — Sara Mackey
• Body Language — Shirley Kinney
• Buddhist Monks and Their Role in Today’s World — Adele Failmezger
• Christianity and Pluralism — Rev. James McElway
• Consulting the Runes — Shirley Kinney
• Duck Quacks Don’t Echo — Sara Mackey
• Epicurean Renaissance — Robert Weekley
• Ethical Principles — David Rowden
• Faiths of Our Fathers Part I — Robert Weekley
• Faiths of Our Fathers Part II — Robert Weekley
• Giving Up Bananas – Ethical Eating — David Rowden
• God Bless the Skeptics — Tom Kinney
• Growing Nice vs Growing Up — Mark Benson
• Half Empty or Half Full — James Sanderson
• Healthy Wealthy — Tom Kinney
• Here Thar Be Dragons — Shirley Kinney
• History of Unitarian Universalism — David Rowden
• Imagine That — Tom Kinney
• Islam — James Sanderson
• Jesus The Man and The Message — Rev. Ann Buehler
• Letter to My Father — Brown Mobley
• Letters Between Adams and Jefferson – A Dramatic Reading
• Living the Buddhist Life — Adele Failmezger
• Love and Hate in Everyday Lives — Pirkko Graves
• Masking Tape — Shirley Kinney
• My Spiritual Journey — Shirley Kinney
• Mysticism and Religious Conflict — Ken Rose
• Nature’s Back Now What — Tom Kinney
• Near-Death Experience — Shirley Kinney
• Once More with the Dragons, Already — Shirley Kinney
• Path to the World Wide Love Blob — Tom Kinney
• Pele, Petroglyphs, and Places of Power — Ann Kelsey
• Perspectives on the Path — Tom Kinney
• Prayers for UUs — Adele Failmezger
• Process Theology — Tom Kinney
• Protecting the Environment — Barbara Haynes
• Pursuit of Happiness — Andy Kelsey
• Reparations for Slavery — Cyndi Simpson
• Riding the Elephant — Sara Mackey
• Right, Wrong, and God — Tom Kinney
• Salted With Fire — Adele Failmezger
• Science and Spirituality – Complementary or Contradictory — David Rowden
• Search for the Holy Grail and the Struggle for Wholeness — Rudi Gelsey
• Solstice Traditions — Shirley Kinney
• Spiritual Guides — Sara Mackey
• Story of The Cathars — Shirley Kinney
• The Bahá’í Faith — David Rowden
• The Beloved — Cliff Schelling
• The Gift of the Jews — Robert Weekley
• The Living Legacy of Ralph Waldo Emerson — Adele Failmezger
• The Master Weaver — Cliff Schelling
• The Quaker Movement and the Quaker Faith — David Rowden
• The Wisdom of the Buddha — Adele Failmezger
• The Wonder of Us – Smell — Tom Kinney
• The Wonders of Us – Hearing — Tom Kinney
• The Wonders of Us – Taste — Tom Kinney
• The Wonders of Us – Vision — Tom Kinney
• Those Wonderful Women of The Wild West — Rev. Christine Brownlie
• TJ and the Surface Radicals — Tom Kinney
• Trees Need a Forest — Robert Weekley
• Unitarian Universalists and Salvation — Cyndi Simpson
• UU Humor: What Does It Say About Us? — Rev. Louis Schwebius
• Warrior and Pilgrim — Robert Weekley
• Welcoming Congregation — Sara Mackey
• Why God Won’t Go Away — Shirley Kinney
• Yeah, But What About Christmas — Richard Ward
• Yeshua A Profile — Ann Kelsey