Meredith Guest's Easter Sunday Sermon: "And the Stone Rolled Away"

Our archive of selected sermons delivered at UUP over the past several years has just gained a wonderful new addition: UUP member Meredith Guest's talk from March 23, 2008, entitled "And the Stone Rolled Away: Easter and Resurrection."

Daily Kos Links to UUP Sermon Archive

Neat. I was looking at our website stats for the past week, and noticed a fair number of hits via The Daily Kos. Take a look at the interesting essay about UU author Kurt Vonnegut--it links to a UUP sermon given back in April 2003.

Our sermons have built up, over time, into a significant archive of good content, and they often lead the count in ongoing hits to our website. Maybe once in a while, someone decides to visit UUP, or another UU congregation, as a result of being intrigued by ideas they read on our site in our sermon archive. If so, then all the effort of posting the sermons is worthwhile.

Our top sermon ever, in terms of web readership, garnering 559 hits in the course of 2006 and 2007 (so far), was Elisabeth Hathaway's "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

"I think such a community could move mountains"

Meredith Guest's sermon, "Charting the Course," is now available on the web. It's a thought-provoking and powerful talk about her experience as a member of Church of the Savior in Washington, D.C.

An excerpt:

What would I expect such a community might do?
I think such a community could move mountains. I would especially hope it might move the twin peaks of homophobia and heterocentrism and set my people free, probably the last group of people for whom hate, prejudice and discrimination are officially and morally sanctioned and where, with the exception of a few states, discrimination is codified in the law.
I think it might shake the foundations of hell and tear to bits the altar to the gods of war upon which we keep sacrificing our children, especially the children of the poor.
It would heal the sick of heart.
It would restore sight to those who are blind to the ways we misuse and abuse this beautiful and incredible planet on which we live.
Those crippled by terrible childhoods, it would help walk.
It would raise the dead to life anew.
It would do these things and more.
That’s what I imagine.
What do you imagine? What do you hope for? What do you want? And what are you willing to give?