Sermon Podcast

Kevin DeBeck will show some of Dr. Seuss’s work to illustrate why the term “America First” is as dangerous today as it was 70 years ago.

We will explore why Unitarian Universalism may be more needed now than ever.

Enjoy the story of Gluscabi as he and grandmother muskrat demonstrate how to live in balance and harmony with our mother earth.

Bring your ears and your voice to our interactive spring music service.

We will explore how the heartbreak calls us into community and into action.

On this Easter Sunday, we will celebrate new life and resurrection through readings and song.

Our annual Poetry Service will explore the bond of human experience through spoken and written word.

Rev. Rachel and People’s people will reflect on the great things happening at People’s Church.

In this service, we will explore Persian Muslim mystic poets and the mystic approach to religious knowing.

The word ‘Islam’ literally means ‘submission’ or ‘surrender.’ What might we learn from engaging with these ideas?

People’s people will share what they do to stay woke, stay present, and stay engaged.

How can men join the #MeToo conversation as allies?

We will explore stories from The Zhuangzi, one of the core texts of Taoism.

We’ll explore how we might incorporate the wisdom of water, spontaneity, and flow into our lives.

Bring you questions and Rev. Rachel will do her best to answer them on-the-spot during the service.

Rev. Fred Campbell will share a sermon based on Isaac’s trip to the sacred mountain.

This Sunday, we will celebrate this edict, which granted religious freedom to Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists and Unitarians.

At this turning of the year, we will explore how we might move forward into a brighter year.

We will gather together to reflect on our learnings from the year.

We will mark the winter solstice with song, story, ritual, and reflection.

We will discuss Jesus’s parable about The Good Samaritan.

Music selections will include holiday favorites and other pieces that capture the aspirations of the season.

For this service, all are invited to be in The Commons for the whole service.

Korea is the most Confucian culture in the world. How has its history manifested in its current approach to world affairs?

What can Confucianism teach us about relationships?

How can the emphasis of learning found in Confucianism spur on moral development?

If you could design a worship service from scratch, what might it look like?

How might we better live into our values of love, justice, and respect for the inherent worth of all people?

How do we distinguish between what is true and the experiences, language, teachers, and texts that help us learn what is true?

Rev. Dannison is the Senior Minister of the First Congregational Church and is a fierce advocate of social justice and benevolent localism.

Director of Religious Education Diane Melvin will share how the daily religious practice of meditation and Lojong has been transformative in her life.

Let us celebrate and bless the animals in our lives and in our world.

Rev. Rachel will share the story of Arjuna from The Bhagavad Gita, a sacred Hindu text.

What wisdom does Hinduism hold for us about aging?

Please bring a small container of water to join together in this intergenerational service.

Please bring a flower to share at this intergenerational service.

People’s Church youth will reflect on their spiritual journeys and what People’s Church has meant to them.

In our annual Memorial Day observance, we remember those who we have lost.

What might the practice of democracy in our congregation have to teach us about democratic process in our wider society?

What does it means to belong to a religious community in an era when ‘none’ is the fastest growing religious affiliation?

We join with 500 UU congregations in answering the call to talk about white supremacist culture.

We will experience music in new ways and reflect on how making music together helps us create community.

As we celebrate Earth Day, we will explore what it might mean to live with ‘just enough.’

In this intergenerational service, we will celebrate the rhythms of the agricultural year.

On this Palm Sunday, Rev. Rachel will tell Michael Servetus’s story—and the story of the prophet Jesus who also gave his life for the truth as he understood it.

Why do we covenant?

How can we find ways to build and sustain courage and commitment in these politically charged times?

How can white people participate in movements led by people of color?

What has People’s Church done to advance pure and practical religion in the community? What lies ahead?

How might The Book of Esther in the Hebrew Scriptures inspire us to act with courage today?

Rev. Rachel will share the story of how the modern Gay Pride movement began.

On this Sunday, Rev. Rachel will answer your submitted questions.

Rev. Rachel will reflect on Sabbath practices, how holy rest is different than sloth, and what she has learned from her own Sabbath practice.

What wisdom does the virtue of ‘Prudence’ hold for us today?

We will explore the cause and effect relationship between life and its varied, mysterious, healing and poetic expression.

Rev. Rachel will explore the topic of envy.

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend we will look back at the tidal wave of justice of the Civil Rights Movement.

What is life calling People’s Church to be?

At this service, there will be dancing, music, and ritual to rid ourselves of what we don’t want to carry with us into 2017.

Join us for a simple, intergenerational service where we will celebrate and share the joys of the holidays in story and music.

“Miss Jayne” is a one act play about how we might honor someone who has made a profound difference in our life.

In this intergenerational service, members and friends of our community will be acting out the fictional story of Duke Dwayne’s attempts to outlaw jellybeans (and other things).

At the First Council of Nicaea, Saint Nicholas slapped a Unitarian Christian priest. What might this story teach us today?

Rev. Dennis McCarty will explore with us “A Kinder, Gentler Atheism.”

Rev. Rachel will explore the sin of gluttony and the complicated relationships we have with our food.

With the election over, how do we look forward? Who is the world calling us to be?

As UUs, how do we show our commitment to respect the inherent worth and dignity of every person, no matter what, no exceptions?

How could we become as comfortable talking about money as we are talking about sex?

Rev. Rachel, members of the People’s Church Social Justice Coordinating Committee, and other church members will explore the virtue of justice.

As we mark Indigenous People’s Day, Rev. Rachel will tell the story of a little-known piece of our denominational history.

Let us celebrate and bless the animals in our lives and in our world! Please bring your well-behaved pets, pictures of beloved animals (living or dead), and/or your favorite stuffed animals.

Anger can eat us alive or fuel us to do good and important work in the world. How do we harness this powerful force?

As Unitarian Universalists, how do we hold answers lightly and live a faith without certainty?

At this service we will dwell in that tension between saving and savoring this world. Please bring a small container of water from somewhere that is meaningful to you.

At this intergenerational service, we will celebrate the beauty and impermanence of flowers—and each of us. Please bring a flower to share.

At this service incoming freshman will be bridged into the youth group while seniors will share some reflections on their experiences growing up at People’s Church.

On this Memorial Day Weekend, we remember those we have lost—in war and not in war, in our congregation and in the wider world.

We’ll explore how we might imbue our everyday tasks with spiritual grounding.

Rev. Rachel’s official installation as People’s Church’s minister will happen on Saturday, May 21 at 3 p.m. At this special service, we will celebrate our call to Rev. Rachel to be People’s Church’s minister.  There will be special music, preaching, and rituals.  Installations are a rare occurrence in the life of the church–this is […]

Come enjoy the sound of People’s own voices as we share heartfelt poetry together.

Why does our church include comprehensive sexuality as a core part of religious education?

We’ll reflect upon reverence and where and how we come to know our highest values.

We will mark the holidays of Earth Day and Passover while we reflect on the idea of ‘promised land.’

This Sunday, we will explore the importance of living together in community through story, song—and a dance party.

This political primary season has brought into view a variety of prejudices that persist in our culture. As UUs, how are we called to respond?

This Sunday we will hold a conversation between Rev. Rachel and Mr. Palmer on the nature of truth by using excerpts from a sermon made 61 years ago.

How might we practice resurrection?

What has People’s Church accomplished, and what lies ahead?

Can Unitarian Universalists believe anything?

Why do we need superheroes?

What opportunities does grief offer us?

What steps can People’s Church take to become an antiracist organization?

On this Valentine’s Day, how might we learn to love better and bring more love to our relationships and our world?

What can an 18th century religious revival teach us about the Super Bowl?

How do you heal a broken heart?

We will explore a vision of our shared covenant today, a vision that faces the risk, the fear, the uncertainty of life, and offers a path for all of us to return home.

We will explore how Unitarian Universalists have been allies for racial justice in the Civil Rights era of the 1960s and the #BlackLivesMatter movement of today.

We will trace the history of the flaming chalice from its origins in the radical reformation through today as the official logo of our faith.

We will host our co-religionists from the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Southwest Michigan, to remember the stories of a 1914 truce and the stories of the first Christmas.