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A House for Hope, Part 2
August 29, 2010 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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A House for Hope, Part 1
August 22, 2010 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Kicking the World to Pieces
August 15, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Imagining a Post-Nuclear World
August 8, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Cultivating the Intention to Practice Forgiveness
August 1, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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A Dialogue About Disabilities
July 25, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson in Conversation with Ms. Cynde Soto, Ms. Lillibeth Navarro, Mr. Jerry Kulhavy and Ms. Lillian Schase
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Biblical and Theological Affimrnations in Relation to Immigration
July 18, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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The UCC - Church as a Team Sport
July 11, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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An Independence Day Sermon - The Two Americas
July 4, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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A Healthy Balance
June 27, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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A Journey of Faith
June 20, 2010 - The Rev. Canon Gwynne Guibord, Consultant for Interfaith Relations for the Episcopal Church USA
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Incognito in the Metro Station
June 13, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Searching for Prayer Rooms in Airports
June 6, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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A Room Called Remember
May 30, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Being Confirmed - Beginning a Journey
May 23, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson and the Rev. Libby Tigner
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My Journey into the Pride Parade
May 16, 2010 - The Rev. Robert Stapp and the Rev. Linda Silas
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Mourning Our Losses
May 9, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Guest Speaker
April 25, 2010 - Ms. Aziza Hasan, Government Relations Director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council
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Saved. From What? For What?
April 18, 2010 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Feeling Rejected
April 11, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Easter Meditations
April 4, 2010
From the Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Get a Life - a Real Life
March 28, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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A Centurion's Servant, a Child in a Well, and Beethoven's Third Symphony
March 21, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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An Empty Locker and Shaya's Home Run
March 14, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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The Kind of Sharing in Which We Can Take Pride
March 7, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Sermon in Song
February 28, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Leggett
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Amazing Grace and Moral Outrage
February 21, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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The Purple Hibiscus and the Litmus Test
February 14, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Diving into Life with Abandon
February 7, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Penny and the Med Students
January 31, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Thinking Theologically
January 24, 2010 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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King's God - The Unknown Faith of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 17, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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The Danger of the Single Story
January 10, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Which Dog Do We Feed the Most?
January 3, 2010 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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For the Time Being
December 27, 2009 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Christmas and the Pursuit of Perfection
December 24, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Christmas Stories
December 20, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson and the Rev. Libby Tigner
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Bringing Shug's God to Church
December 13, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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A Season of Waiting
December 6, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Twilight Time
November 29, 2009 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Lessons in Gratitude - and Getting the Bonus Miles As Well
November 22, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Responding to Fear and Anger - Contrasting New Ground with Glenn Beck
November 15, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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A Conversation about the Future of the United Church of Christ
November 8, 2009 - The Rev. Jane Fisler Hoffman, the Rev. Jerry Stinson and the Rev. Libby Tigner
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Saints, Solar Ethics and The Giving Tree
November 1, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Women of Defiance: Miriam and the Pharoah's Daughter
October 25, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Women of Defiance: Shiprah, Puah and Yochebed
October 18, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Guest Speaker
October 11, 2009 - Cantor Steven Puzarne
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Colonial Quakers Putting Faith into Practice
October 4, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Guest Speaker
September 27, 2009 - Ms. Milia Islam-Majeed, Executive Director, South Coast Interfaith Council
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Lessons Learned in the Hot Dog Line
September 20, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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A Community of Extravagant Welcome
September 13, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Fear, Hope and the Affirmation of Life
September 6, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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A Different Kind of Hospitality/Justice Ministry
August 30, 2009 - The Rev. Harold Sutherland
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Saving Paradise
August 23, 2009 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Illogical Laughter
August 16, 2009
- The Rev. Mary Ellen Kilsby
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Which Is It?
August 2, 2009 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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The Word Made Flesh
July 26, 2009 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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The Sabbath Day as a Time of Radical Equality
July 19, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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The Sabbath Day as a Day of Regeneration
July 12, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Progressive Christian Politics and a Possible New Covenant with America
July 5, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Being Aware of Someone Else's Pain
June 28, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Do You Want to Be Whole?
June
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2009 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Can We Hold Both Anger and Hope?
June 14, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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An Early Church Image of God's Farming
June 7, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Important Learnings from an Ancient Story
May 31, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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A Valley Riddled with Light
May 24, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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This Is Who I Am
May 17, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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The Church, Keeper of Myths, Including the Conventional Family
May 10, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Amor Fati
May 3, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Act Locally, Change Globally
April 26, 2009 - First Church Youth
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The Bishop of Auschwitz—Moving Past Remembering Nightmares in Order to Begin Creating Dreams
April 19, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Easter Hope for a Wounded World
April 12, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Show Me the Wounds
April 9, 2009 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday
April 5, 2009 - The Rev. Libby Tigner and the Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Some Theological Reflections About a Minister’s First Hospitalization
March 29, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Isaiah's Mosquechurchagogue
March 22, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Stories My Mother Never Told Me
March 15, 2009 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Sagdluk, Zeidel and the Killer Minister
March 8, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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What Will You Give Up?
March 1, 2009 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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The Worth of Mirth
February 22, 2009 - The Rev. Dr. Ed Bloomfield
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You Are Who You Love
February 15, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Why First Church Means So Much to Me
February 8, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson in conversation with Mr. Peter Wright, Ms. Alison Mitchell, Ms. Deb Buller, and Mr. Edric Guise
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Galatians and the Erasure of Identity
February 1, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Do You Believe in God?
January 25, 2009 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Jeremiah's Struggle with the Fire Burning in His Bones
January 18, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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A Conversation About Communion
January 11, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson and the Rev. Libby Tigner
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Coping with Change
January 4, 2009 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Unfinished Business
December 28, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Child of God
December 24, 2008, 10:30 p.m. service - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Christmas Dreams
December 24, 2008, 6 p.m. service - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Christmas Stories
December 21, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson and the Rev. Libby Tigner
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Sing Joy to the World
December 14, 2008- The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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If Jesus Came to My House
December 7, 2008- The Rev. Libby Tigner
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World AIDS Day Address, Las Vegas
December 1, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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God's Dream
November 30, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Tsamaya Ka Pula
November 23, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Jesus: The Way That Is Open to Other Ways
November 16, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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In My Mind I Am Perplexed
November 9, 2008 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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The Holy Stuff of Life
November 2, 2008 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Will First Church As We Know It Survive for the Next Twenty Years?
October 26, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Five Words at the End of a Story About Jesus
October 19, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Can a Liberal Christian Be Saved?
October 12, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Dalia, Bashir and the House with Two Histories
October 5, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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My Spiritual Journey: Sliding Down the Bannister
September 28, 2008 - The Rev. Dr. Mary Ellen Kilsby, Senior Minister Emerita
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Finding Faith from the Podium to the Pulpit
September 21, 2008 - Rabbi Stephen Julius Stein, Director of the Center for Religious Inquiry at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles
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A Theology of Relinquishment
September 14, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Can a Church Really Weave Together the Threads of Diversity?
September 7, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Labor in the Context of Our Faith
August 31, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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The Liberating Power of Forgiveness
August 24, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Practicing God's Welcome
August 17, 2008 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Credo
August 10, 2008 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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My Faith Journey
August 3, 2008 - Dr. Bob Kalayjian
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A Governor and Jesus' One Exception
July 27, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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You Don't Need a Weatherman
July 20, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Moses, a Kindergarten Teacher and a Numbers Cruncher
July 13, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Why I Care So Much About the Separation of Church and State
July 6, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Lost Luggage
June 29, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Manners, Civlity and the Art of Living with Others
June 22, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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My Spiritual Journey
June 15, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Me to We
June 8, 2008 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Some Defining Characteristics of Liberal Christianity
June 1, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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A Conversation about Race
May 25, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson talking with Wayne Itoga, Clarence Dendy and Alida Montanez-Salas
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Owning Our Homophobia
May 18, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson and the Rev. Libby Tigner
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The Kaczynskis and the Meaning of Family
May 11, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Small Acts of Decency
May 4, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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With Clear Intent
April 27, 2008 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Eric's Spiritual Companion
April 20, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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My Spiritual Journey
April 13, 2008 - Ms. Edina Lekovic, Communications Director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council
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To Ask Is to Give
April 6, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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God as ______
March 30, 2008 - The Youth of First Church
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Cast Your Net Again
March 23, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Entering the Holy City - Then and Now
March 16, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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My Spiritual Journey
March 9, 2008 - The Rev. Dr. Ed Bloomfield
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My Spiritual Journey
March 2, 2008 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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Can I Get You a Drink?
February 24, 2008 - The Rev. Ruth Garwood, Executive Director of the UCC Coalition for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns
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What Matters Most to First Church Members: A Dialogue Sermon
February 17, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson and the Rev. Libby Tigner
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Dr. Booth and the Religion of an Evolutionist
February 10, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Schindler's Transforming Moment
February 3, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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Hospitality
January 27, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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The Night Dr. King's Conscience Left Him No Other Choice
January 20, 2008 - The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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What's in a Name?
January 13, 2008 - The Rev. Libby Tigner
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How Much Music Can We Make With What We Have Left?
January 6, 2008- The Rev. Jerry Stinson
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