June 21, 2015 | Nurturing the Interdependent Web | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne and Beacon’s Board |
June 14, 2015 | Critters and Humans | MP3 | Beacon Youth Group and Rev. Debra Thorne |
May 31, 2015 | Moral Beauty | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
May 24, 2015 | What Is Your Word For Beauty? | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne and Marilyn Meden |
May 17, 2015 | The Beauty of Music Mole Music: by David McPhail, read by Joan Morris, accompanied by Derek Darling on violin |
MP3 | Peggy Lunderville with one of her favourite songs from the Joyce Poley Song book: Open the Door; Glenn Wootton with his favourite song from Singing the Journey: Blue Boat Home; Michael Scales with his favourite song from Singing the Living Tradition: Follow the Drinking Gourd; Katie Stein Sather with her favourite song from Singing the Living Tradition: Touch the Earth, Reach the Sky! Service Coordinator: Joan Morris |
May 10, 2015 | From Nothing to Something | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne and Terry McComas |
April 26, 2015 | Courage and Transformation | Michael Bradshaw | |
April 19, 2015 | Anyone Can Slay a Dragon | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
April 12, 2015 | Demystifying Islam: A Canadian mother’s perspective | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne, with Guest Speaker Taslim Jaffer |
April 5, 2015 | The Courage of our Convictions | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
March 29, 2015 | A World in Art Music credits: The song, Same Love (clip of 3rd verse played) was created by artists: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, featuring Mary Lambert; There is a Time (sung by Sue Sparlin) is copyrighted and used in this service with special permission of the composer, Carolyn McDade. |
MP3 | Speakers in order of presentation: Franci Louann, Teresa Morton, Chris McKerracher, Judy Villett, Sue Sparlin |
March 22, 2015 | Back to the Garden: Joni Mitchell in the Canadian Landscape | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
March 15, 2015 | A World of Experience | MP3 | Jessica Lawless, Anne McLeod, Susan Millar, and Al Sather |
March 8, 2015 | I Have a Dream: Prophetic life of Martin Luther King | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
March 1, 2015 | What do you mean by God? | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
February 22, 2015 | Different Like Me | MP3 | Anna Isaacs |
February 15, 2015 | Pssst! What’s a CUC? | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
February 8th, 2015 | Identity and Disability | MP3 | Sita Sahasrabudhe |
February 1st, 2015 | Breaking the Gender Barriers | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
January 25, 2015 | Evolution of a Textile Artist This recording is provided for personal, non-commercial use only. Maureen’s beautiful fabric art can be viewed on her website at www.maureentempest.com |
MP3 | Maureen Tempest |
January 18th, 2015 | Bumps in the Road | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
January 11th, 2015 | To Question is the Answer | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
January 4, 2015 | The Arc of a Life | MP3 | Allegra Sloman |
December 28th, 2014 | Making Light in the Dark | MP3 | Marilyn Medén Rose Matovich |
December 14th, 2014 | World of Wonder | MP3 | Rebecca Burns, Jean Donaldson, Bev Lock, Terry McComas, Ev Morris, Rev. Debra Thorne |
December 7th, 2014 | Will Wonders Never Cease? | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
November 30, 2014 | The Future is Now | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
November 23, 2014 | Starting Over This recording is provided for personal, non-commercial use only. The right to publicly play content from this recording is not granted. The right to create derivatives from this service is equally excluded. All music is copyrighted by Edith Wallace. For more information please visit http://www.edithwallacemusic.com . |
MP3 | Edith Wallace, Sue Sparlin |
November 16, 2014 | Re-imagining a Church for our Future | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
November 9, 2014 | A Rational Look at Rationality | MP3 | Jim Stephenson |
November 2, 2014 | Riding the Silver Tsunami | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
October 19, 2014 | Party at the Big House: It’s Stewardship Sunday!!! | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
October 12, 2014 | Mother Earth | MP3 | Alina LaFlamme |
October 5, 2014 | Divided No More | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
Sept. 28, 2014 | Grandmothers’ Dreamings | MP3 | Rose Matovich, Joan Morris |
Sept. 21, 2014 | Circle of Life | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
Sept. 14, 2014 | Sharing the Plate: New View Society | MP3 | Susanna Walden |
June 15, 2014 | Inspire – Connect – Transform | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
June 1, 2014 | Whole Wide World | MP3 | Rebecca Burns and Rev. Debra Thorne |
May 25, 2014 | Fighting to Connect | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
May 18, 2014 | Inspired by Movies, the Opera, Books! | MP3 | Nancy Rupert, Denis Probst, Jean Donaldson |
May 11, 2014 | Theology at the Movies | MP3 | Allegra Sloman |
May 4, 2014 | The Wisdom of the Shire | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
April 27, 2014 | A Practice of Gratitude | MP3 | Rev. Samaya Oakley |
April 20th, 2014 | Summary to Lorax Presentation | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
April 13, 2014 | A Species with Foresight | MP3 | Jim Stephenson |
April 6, 2014 | Seeds of Growth | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
March 30, 2014 | How art feeds my soul… | MP3 | David Hamilton, Tom Poiker and Ev Morris |
March 23, 2014 | Making Art | MP3 | Joy Kirkwood |
March 9, 2014 | Art as Spirituality | MP3 | Allegra Sloman |
March 2, 2014 | God in Everything: The Art of Emily Carr | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne and Sue Sparlin |
February 23, 2014 | The Art of Bridge-Building | MP3 | Rev. Don Grayston |
February 16, 2014 | A Compelling Vision | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
February 9, 2014 | “Justice & Transformation”: Consultative decision-making & moral-spiritual development | MP3 | Harold Rosen |
February 2, 2014 | Kick at the Darkness: The prophetic life and work of Bruce Cockburn | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
January 21, 2014 | Emotion as Perturbance, Draft of ACT in Three Acts (Performed) “This recording is provided for personal, non-commercial use only. The right to publicly play content from this recording is not granted. The right to create derivatives from this service is equally excluded. “Orly”, “To see a friend in tears”, “Marieke” and “Mathilde” are copyright Arnold Johnston; these songs are derived from songs by Jacques Brel. The two short stories and homily, excluding Arnold Johnston material are copyright Luc Patrick Beaudoin (spelt B-E-A-U-D-O-I-N.) For more information and permissions please visit the CogZest.com web site” |
MP3 | Luc Beaudoin: Author and Speaker Joan Morris: Service Leader Carol Woodworth: Story Reader Sue Sparlin: Reader/Singer of Jacques Brel songs |
January 12, 2014 | Talking about dying won’t kill you | MP3 | Wanda Morris |
December 29, 2013 | Making Light in the Darkness | MP3 | Marilyn Meden |
December 22, 2013 | A Winter Solstice Celebration | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
December 8, 2013 | Winter Waiting | MP3 | Coordinators: Joan Morris & Donna Hamilton |
November 24, 2013 | Oneness | MP3 | Dayna Kneeland |
November 17, 2013 | Standing on Turtle Island | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
November 10, 2013 | The Platinum Rule | MP3 | Rev. Meg Roberts |
November 3, 2013 | Un-Becoming | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
October 27, 2013 | Tricks and Treats | MP3 | Sue Sparlin |
October 20, 2013 | Sustainability as Spiritual Practice | MP3 | Rev. Debra Thorne |
October 6, 2013 | Sustainability: On Sacred Ground | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
September 29, 2013 | Lonely Town | MP3 | Paul Singh |
September 22, 2013 | Building Our Future: Foundations | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
September 15, 2013 | Communities Embracing Restorative Action [CERA] | MP3 | Gurinder Mann |
September 8, 2013 | Building Our Future: Vision Quest | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
September 1, 2013 | Water In-gathering Ceremony | MP3 | Sue Sparlin |
May 26, 2013 | New Voices, New Songs | MP3 | Joyce Poley |
May 19, 2013 | Poems From Our Lives | MP3 | Franci Louann |
May 12, 2013 | Complicated Creative Mothers | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
May 5, 2013 | Beacon Choir Spring Concert | MP3 | Marnie Jennings |
May 5, 2013 | Angels, Aids & Imagination | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
April 28, 2013 | Oneness | MP3 | Dana Kneeland |
April 21, 2013 | The Edge of Knowing: Mystery and Knowledge | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
April 14, 2013 | Gratitude: What, Why, and How | MP3 | Karl Perrin |
April 7, 2013 | The Edge of Knowing: Humanism in the 21st Century | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
March 31, 2013 | This Human Life: Birth/Rebirth | MP3 | Amber Strocel |
March 24, 2013 | This Human Life: Loss | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
March 17, 2013 | This Human Life: Community, or QE/DE — A heavy Medal Celebration! | MP3 | Don Hauka |
March 10, 2013 | This Human Life: Aging | MP3 | Charles James |
March 3, 2013 | This Human Life: Fear | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
February 24, 2013 | This Perfect Moment | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
February 23, 2013 | Beacon 30th Anniversary | MP3 | Don Hauka and the Carry The Flame Players |
February 17, 2013 | Members’ Memoirs | MP3 | Congregation members |
February 10, 2013 | Frolicking in Mystery (Making Sense of the Spiritual) | MP3 | Rev. Robert Latham |
February 3, 2013 | Growing Up | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
January 27, 2013 | Active Democracy and Love | MP3 | Leslie Kemp |
January 20, 2013 | By Example | MP3 | Marilyn Medén, and Allegra Sloman |
January 13, 2013 | The Passions of Leonard Cohen | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
January 6, 2013 | Compost Communing — An Intergenerational Service | MP3 | Debra Thorne & Laura Redmond |
December 23, 2012 | Joy to the World: a Winter Solstice Service | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
December 16, 2012 | A Love for All Seasons | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
December 9, 2012 | Annual Christmas Pageant — The Great Debate | MP3 | RE Department |
December 2, 2012 | Faith in Doubt | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
November 25, 2012 | A Creative Interchange | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
November 18, 2012 | Om is where the Heart is: My Personal Spiritual Journey | MP3 | Donatella Clignon |
November 4, 2012 | Native Spirituality | MP3 | Aline LaFlamme |
October 28, 2012 | Power of the People | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
October 21, 2012 | Beacon and the Food Bank | MP3 | Sandy Burpee |
October 14, 2012 | Sharing the Plate | MP3 | Laura Watamanuk |
October 7, 2012 | In the Belly of a Whale | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
September 30, 2012 | Intersecting Circles: The Integration of Modern Paganism | MP3 | Fritz Muntean |
September 23, 2012 | The Holy Void | MP3 | Rev. Phillip Hewett |
September 16, 2012 | What in the World Are We Doing?! | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
June 17, 2012 | Endings & Beginnings | MP3 | Debra Thorne |
May 20, 2012 | Join, Dammit, Join | MP3 | Rev. Ev Morris |
May 13, 2012 | Arise, then, women of this day! | MP3 | Don Hauka |
April 22, 2012 | A Unitarian Universalist Look at Earth Day | MP3 | Amber Strocel |
April 15, 2012 | After the Resurrection, the Laundry | MP3 | Rev. Ev Morris |
April 8, 2012 | King Jesus | MP3 | Allegra Sloman |
April 1, 2012 | How Do you Live as a Unitarian Universalist? | MP3 | Sue Sparlin |
March 18, 2012 | Listen, Listen, Listen | MP3 | Rev. Ev Morris |
March 4, 2012 | Beacon Home Companion | MP3 | Don Hauka |
February 26, 2012 | Peak Oil | MP3 | Allegra Sloman |
February 19, 2012 | If Not Now When | MP3 | Rev. Ev Morris |
January 22, 2012 | A Man Called Qoheleth | MP3 | John Slattery |
Nov 13, 2011 | The House Blessing | MP3 | Marilyn Meden |
Nov 6, 2011 | What You and I Can Learn from Servetus | MP3 | Rev. Phillip Hewett |
May 15, 2011 | Rumi Speaks | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
May 1, 2011 | Voting Your Heart | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
April 10, 2011 | Is it a Big T, or a little t? | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
March 27, 2011 | Seeking Justice | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
March 13, 2011 | An Idea Whose Time Had Come | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
March 6, 2011 | Things I Learned from Photography | MP3 | Elva Atha |
February 27, 2011 | Our Unitarian Theologians — James Luther Adams | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
February 20, 2011 | Pizzicato on my Skylight | MP3 | Denis Probst |
February 13, 2011 | Standing on the Side of Love | MP3 | Allegra Sloman |
January 30, 2011 | Dying With Dignity | MP3 | Wanda Morris |
January 23, 2011 | Steps from the Transylvanian Pilgrimage | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
January 16, 2011 | Body, Mind, and Spirit | MP3 | Rev. Stephen Atkinson |
January 9, 2011 | Everything is Connected | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
December 19, 2010 | Story of Toys | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
December 5, 2010 | In My Heart Is My Religion | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
November 28, 2010 | Making Sense of Change | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
November 14, 2010 | Educating the Soul: Sophia Lyon Fahs | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
October 31, 2010 | Tend and Be Friends | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
October 17, 2010 | Likeness to God—William Ellery Channing | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
October 10, 2010 | Cognitive Bias and Congregational Life | MP3 | Allegra Sloman |
October 3, 2010 | Ministry Is All We Do Together | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
September 19, 2010 | Created happy: Classical Unitarian-Universalist theology series—Hosea Ballou | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
April 25, 2010 | CUC Who? | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
April 11, 2010 | Passages of Our Lives | MP3 | Lay Chaplaincy Committee |
April 4, 2010 | Hope Springs Eternal | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
March 28, 2010 | Why We Matter | MP3 | Bennett Mitten |
March 21, 2010 | Earth Awakes Again | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
March 7, 2010 | Celebrating Strong Women (for International Women’s Day) | MP3 | Ivy Hubbard, Marcy Green, and Amber Stroecel |
February 28, 2010 | God Is She | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
February 21, 2010 | My Journey Thus Far | MP3 | John Slattery |
February 14, 2010 | This I promise… | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
January 31, 2010 | By their fruits… | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather |
Sermon Archive
All I Want for Christmas | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | December 24, 2006 |
Beyond Feminist Theology | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | October 19, 2008 |
Beyond God | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | September 21, 2008 |
Beyond Welcoming | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | April 27, 2008 |
Called to Build—Schools, Bodies, and Spirits | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | April 5, 2009 |
Called to Go? Called to What? | Text | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | November 9, 2003 |
Can Supernaturalism Survive? | MP3 | Conrad Hadland | October 28, 2007 |
Climate Change—a Moral Issue? | Text | Gwenda Woodbury | April 15, 2007 |
Come to the Edge | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | February 11, 2007 |
Companions On the Way | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | March 5, 2006 |
Courage in Little Boxes | MP3 | Rev. Brian Kopke | May 27, 2007 |
Don’t Be Afraid of Some Change | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | May 24, 2009 |
Earth and Spirit | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | March 25, 2007 |
Eat, Pray, Laugh | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | October 26, 2008 |
Faithful Fools—Reflections from the Street | MP3 | Rev. Laura Friedman | November 18, 2007 |
Faithful Giving | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | October 30, 2005 |
Garbage Day | MP3 | Allegra Sloman | February 4, 2007 |
A Gathering of Tricksters | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | April 2, 2006 |
Go 4 It! A Look Ahead | MP3 | Mary Bennett | November 5, 2006 |
Good News Worth Shouting About | MP3 | Anne McLeod | February 5, 2006 |
Hear the Earth Call | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | January 8, 2006 |
The Heart of the ICUU | MP3 | John Slattery and Joy Silver | February 26, 2006 |
I Have a Dream | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | January 20, 2008 |
I Shall Not Want | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | April 8, 2007 |
In Defence of the F Word | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | March 11, 2007 |
It’s That Time of the Year—Leftovers! | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | December 10, 2006 |
Language of Reverence | Text | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | September 25, 2005 |
Learning Lasts a Lifetime Learning Lasts a Lifetime |
MP3 Text |
Rev. Katie Stein Sather | October 2, 2005 |
Life Legacies | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | November 30, 2008 |
Life—My Sense of the Holy | MP3 | Rev. Dr. F. Everett Morris | September 17, 2006 |
Living on the Margin | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | January 29, 2006 |
Money and Me | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | October 22, 2006 |
Movin’ On—Together! | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | October 21, 2007 |
Mr. Scrooge’s Redemption | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | December 7, 2008 |
Of Tats and Body Mods | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | April 6, 2008 |
Oh, We Give Thanks | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | November 2, 2008 |
Partners in Religion | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | November 29, 2009 |
Reflections on Shalom | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | December 9, 2007 |
Remembering from a daughter’s perspective | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | November 8, 2009 |
Rumi: Poet of the Heart | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | February 19, 2006 |
Sharing Our Faith and Our Hope | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | March 9, 2008 |
Skepticism and Wonder | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | January 7, 2007 |
This I Believe—Unitarianism | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | October 14, 2007 |
Time Out | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | May 13, 2007 |
Turn the Starwheel—Fall Equinox | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | September 20, 2009 |
Water Ingathering | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | September 7, 2008 |
Water Ingathering: We’re coming home… | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | September 6, 2009 |
What Holds us Together | MP3 | Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson | November 20, 2005 |
What If Enough Isn’t Enough? | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | May 4, 2008 |
What We Say “Yes” To | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | October 16, 2005 |
Where the Heart Stands | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | Febrary 10, 2008 |
Where there is faith—there, there is no need Where there is faith—there, there is no need |
MP3 Text |
Rev. Katie Stein Sather | September 24, 2006 |
Why I Go to Church | Text | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | September 7, 2003 |
Why We Are Here | MP3 | Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson | November 22, 2009 |
Will Love Win? | Text | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | April 10, 2005 |
Winter Solstice | MP3 | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | December 20, 2009 |
Moving Up | Text | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | February 20, 2005 |
Playing With God | Text | Rev. Katie Stein Sather | February 6, 2005 |