Sermons by Rev. Dr. Tom Owen-Towle

Unitarian Universalism is increasingly a world of seniors. There exists a deep hunger to engage the difficult yet enlivening homestretch challenges of solitude and quest, joy and service, surrender and legacy. Tom is a bona fide elder who will share his notes. He has been a parish minister since 1967 and guest minister at many churches over the years. He also volunteers at nursing and youth homes and at his local San Diego homeless center.

Thanksgiving is one of the greatest holidays because it honors not military prowess but spiritual freedom. Gratitude is a foundational virtue.

2022 is the 54th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death. And as our country reckons mightily with our history of racism, we must come to grips with this brave and inconvenient hero. If King’s radical message remains vigorously alive, we must seriously ask what it truly demands of us right here, right now in America.

Dear Siblings, we Americans are truly inspired by the words of the Inaugural poet, Amanda Gorman, as we aspire to grow more hopeful lives and world in 2021.