Sermon Archive
Please note that many sermons by Rev. Dr. Frank Carpenter are available on cassette tape or on paper at the church.
- WADE IN THE WATER: The Spirituality of Martin Luther King (January 20, 2008)
- A CULTURE OF PEACE: Sabbatical Reflections (January 6, 2008)
- Christmas Eve Service (December 24, 2007)
- Keeping the Joy in Christmas (December 23, 2007)
- Inalienable Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (December 9, 2007)
- Give Peace a Chance (November 11, 2007)
- The New Fact on the Ground (November 4, 2007)
- Are You Committed to the Future? (October 28, 2007)
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The Non-Duality of Good & Evil: Reflections on a New Holy
War
guest sermon by David R. Loy (October 21, 2007) - Between Memory and Hope (May 27, 2007)
- Sermon On The Mount (April 8, 2007)
- What Chicken Little Never Knew (March 25, 2007)
- Living the Living Tradition (March 4, 2007)
- Who Are You (February 11, 2007)
- Dreaming of a Green Christmas (December 17, 2006)
- Reverence for Life (October 29, 2006)
- How to Be a Good Person (October 22, 2006)
- The Open Door (October 8, 2006)
- Deeds, Not Creeds (October 1, 2006)
- A Better World (September 24, 2006)
- Coming Home (September 10, 2006)
- Conscience of a Liberal (August 20,2006)
- We Cannot Escape History (August 6,2006)
- Human Rights for All (June 11, 2006)
- Better than Angels (May 28, 2006)
- Parent, Adult Child in Community (April 9, 2006)
- Empowerment and Spirituality (March 9, 2006)
- Emerson and World Religions (February 19th, 2006)
- All Souls Sunday: Innocent Suffering (November 06th, 2005)
- Haunted Church History (October 30th, 2005)
- What Is Greater Than You? (October 16th, 2005)
- Many Mansions (October 10th, 2005)
- Dimensions Of Peace (September 25th, 2005)
- St John's is a Trip! (September 11th, 2005; Opening Sunday)
- The Emperor Has No Clothes (July 4th, 2005)
- Are You Tough? - Enough? (May 29, 2005; Memorial Day)
- Mom And Apple Pie (May 8, 2005; Mother's Day)
- Are You Supposed to be Happy? (February 6, 2005)
- Cruel and Unusual (January 30, 2005)
- Talking with one another (January 23, 2005)
- Single Garment (January 16, 2005; Martin Luther King, Jr Sunday)
- Power of Fantasy (December 12, 2004)
- All Our Hopes and Dreams (October 31, 2004)
- Reading Islam (October 17, 2004)
- The Spirituality of Forgiveness (October 10, 2004)
- A Free Faith for a Free People (September 12, 2004)
- Imagining bin Laden... (August 8, 2004)
- Does America Exist? (July 4, 2004)
- Supporting Our Troops (May 30, 2004; Memorial Day)
- The Signals We Send (April 18, 2004)
- Paths of Renewal (April 11, 2004; Vernal Equinox, Passover, Easter)
- Over There: Celebrating Our Values (March 14, 2004; Partner Church Sunday)
- Separate but Equal? Thinking about Gender and Sex (March 7, 2004)
- Deep River (February 29, 2004)
- The Beloved Community (February 8, 2004)
- Reverencing Human Nature (December 7, 2003; Human Rights Sunday)
- Hope for All (September 7, 2003)
- Praising Leadership (June 15, 2003)
- Pleasures of the Soul (May 11, 2003)
- The Promise of Meditation (March 16, 2003)
- The Difference of Belonging (March 2, 2003)
- Time For a Change (February 23, 2003)
- The Mystery of Love! (February 9, 2003)
- The Feel Of War (February 2, 2003)
- "...forest primeval..." (January 26, 2003)
- What Did He Say? (January 20, 2003)
- Welcoming the New (January 5, 2003)
- Hope in an Era of Terror (November 17, 2002)
- And Fifty More (November 10, 2002)
- Eternal and All Conquering Love (November 3, 2002)
- Church of the Dissenters (October 27, 2002)
- A Quest for Transcendence (October 20, 2002)
- Are You Different? (October 13, 2002)
- One Is Silver, the Other Gold (September 29, 2002)
- Deep the Roots of Our Living Tradition (September 22, 2002)
- Beginnings And Endings (September 15, 2002)
- Come, Build a Land (September 8, 2002)
- The Beloved Community (April 21, 2002)
Please note that many sermons by Rev. Dr. Frank Carpenter andothers not available online are available on paper or cassette tapeat the church.