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The greatest gift
you can
give another
is the purity
 of your attention.
RICHARD MOSS


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2010 Love Thy Neighbor - Sermon by David Bates and Rachel Shada, Emerson members  
What’s the Big Deal about Gay Rights?  audio file
I Hate Hate Speech  
Emerson on Emerson at Emerson - Sermon by Laura Emerson, a member of Emerson  
Taking Resurrection Seriously  
Buddha vs. Thoreau: Who Had It Right When It Comes to Human Happiness?  audio file
Marching and Dying in a Sacred Cause  audio file
Your Secret is Safe with Me  audio file
Reconciliation  audio file
Recapturing the Dream, Reclaiming the Vision  audio file
2009 No Such Thing as Too Much Christmas  audio file
Comfort
Basic Unitarian Universalism
The Spirituality of the Senses: Touch
Spiritual Courage
Intuitive Spirituality
God? What’s Up with That?
Oh My God! There’s Jews, Muslims, Christians, Atheists, …
The Spirituality of the Senses: Smell
Real Self Esteem
How to Really Change the World (for the Better)
Who or What Is God, Really?
The Spirituality of the Senses: Taste
The Darwinian “Heresy”
Will You Catch Me When I Fall?
The Brain that Changes Itself, Part II
A Post Racist Future
The Brain that Changes Itself, Part I
2008 Unitarian Universalism: The Simple Version
Thanksgiving: A Parade of Gratitude
The Freedom to Be Who You Are, No Matter What—On Transgender Acceptance
Summertime and The Virtues of Being Useless
The Useful Parts of Our Past
Why Is Religions so, Well—Weird?
I Didn’t Want to Bother You
Deep Freedom
Wake Up, Rouse Thyself—It’s Easter
Notes Toward a Universal Human Spirituality
Would We Not Weep?
Our Covenantal Faith
What Kind of Religion Are We?
Going Back to Nature
Nurturing the Spirit, Healing the World
What Disturbs Your Sleep?
Nooses, Epithets and …
2007 Being True to Yourself
What’s Up with Sex and Violence?
The Only Question is How to Love This World
Is That a Chimp on Your Shoulder?
Laying Down Your Burdens
Generosity is a Spiritual Practice
The Great Work of our Time
There’s a Genghis Among Us!
Mere Meandering or Meaningful Movement?
A Profoundly Robust Unitarian Universalism
The Use and Abuse of Intelligence
Why Darfur Matters
2006 Kindle the Lamps: Dispel the Darkness
Illegal Immigration: Barriers to Our Well Being
Wings Unfurled and Headed for Home
The Feminine Face of God
Ever Hopeful Gardeners of the Spirit
2005 The Year the Holidays Were Cancelled: Being At Home in the World
Into Every Life a Little Otis Must Fall; or the Otis I Did For Love; or Love Me, Love My Otis
Heaven Knows Where We are Going: The Basics of Unitarian Universalism
In Katrina's Wake: To Be of Use
The Hate Crime that Changed America
Unitarian Universalist Men I Have Known and Loved
Loss and Love in the Old Testament
Cream Sponge Para Lightfoots: Like Menthol on Your Feet
The Perfect Mothers' Day Sermon?
What If God Was One of Us?
What Happens After the 'Happily Ever After'?
Spiritual Revival in the 21st Century: Inerrant Scriptures—Fundamentalism vs. Fundamentals
Spiritual Revival in the 21st Century: Authenticity
2003–2004 Often Unmerited, Sometimes Amazing and Always Occasioning Thanksgiving: Grace
Faith: The Reasoning of the Heart
If There's No Burning Bush…
You Cannot Change This; You Cannot Erase This
Ch-Ch-Changes
Purposes and Principles and the Inherent Dangers of Belief
  Miles To Go Before I Sleep
  One More Prayer
  Rumors of War
2001–2002 He Was Said to Have Seen God 'Face to Face'
  Strong-Heartedness
  The Lessons of Birmingham
  Consciousness and Racism  
  For the Earth Forever Turning  audio file