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View the full archive of A View from the Religious Left CHRISTMAS EVE HOMILY - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - December 24, 2008 Some think that Christmas must be hard for Unitarian Universalists because we don't believe the story. I think it is that we don't believe the facts, but we do believe the story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website STOP THE WORLD: I Want To Stay On! a Solstice Sermon - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - December 21, 2008 What does the December Solstice tell us about our own lives? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A DATE THAT SHALL LIVE IN INFAMY - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - December 7, 2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SETTING THE WELCOME TABLE - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - November 23, 2008 At Thanksgiving, we celebrate a storied table set by Pilgrims and Wampanoags (yes, this was long after other days of Thanksgiving in St. Augustine, El Paso, and Charles City, Virginia). History is not worth much if all we do is celebrate the past. How are we challenged by that fabled past toward a brighter future? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RevRANDY's ELECTION SERMON - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - November 2, 2008 Who should we vote for in the upcoming election? Maybe something you already know tells us how to vote. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ATHEISM: The Faith That Dares Not Speak Its Name - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - October 26, 2008 A 2006 study by researchers at the University of Minnesota involving a poll of 2,000 households in the United States found atheists to be the most distrusted of minorities. What makes atheism such an anathema to so many people? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FASTING WITH A MESSENGER OF MOHAMMED - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - September 14, 2008 First in a year-long series of conversations with religious figures. This week, a conversation with a messenger of Mohammed about the nature and meaning of Islam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DARING, NOT RISKY - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - September 7, 2008 Perhaps the way to deal with the anxieties of life is to know the difference between risking living and daring living. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SEARCHING FOR OUR CORE - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - August 31, 2008 Unitarian Universalists often seem obsessed with finding a unique core of our faith - maybe we are looking in the wrong direction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website THE 10 ENCOURAGEMENTS - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - June 1, 2008 What if, when Moses went up the mountain, he had met a different kind of deity? The PowerPoint presentation that accompanied this sermon, of slides from Diane English's drawings (copyright 1996 Diane English) can be downloaded at http://www.uufkw.org/encouragements.ppt . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website REMEMBERING MEMORIES: A Memorial Sunday Service - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - May 25, 2008 Sometimes our losses keep us from remembering what cannot be lost. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - May 18, 2008 What changes when the starting point of action is "What is right?" as opposed to the usual "What is the problem? A PowerPoint presentation of the slides used in this sercive is available at http://www.uufkw.org/appreciative.ppt . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A MOTHERS' PEACE DAY CELEBRATION - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - May 11, 2008 Honoring the initial idea of Mother's Day with its emphasis on mothers as instruments of universal and continuing peace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WHY KEY WEST NEEDS LIBERAL RELIGION - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - May 4, 2008 Five factors which show that Key West (or any other community) needs liberal religion. A PowerPoint presentation of the slides used in this service is available at http://www.uufkw.org/liberal.ppt . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Flaming Stake: DARING DISSENT - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - March 30, 2008 Did Spaniard Michael Servetus' death by being burned at the stake in Geneva for his Unitarian views cement his place in history? But his death was only one point in his life, a life much more defined by something else. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Empty Tomb: FINDING FULFILLMENT - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - March 23, 2008 A central metaphor of Easter is the empty tomb. Why did it need to be empty for the deepest message of Jesus to become realized? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HANDS UP and PALM DOWN - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - March 16, 2008 What can Palm Sunday mean to a religious humanist? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the Beginning: EMBODYING CREATION - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - March 2, 2008 Every religious tradition has a story of creation AND every religious tradition also has a theology of existence. How the stories and theologies match, or don't match, can give us clues of how we might live our own lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SETTING THE WORLD ABLAZE- the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - December 9, 2007 The light calls to us - in tribal fires, in beacon flares, in Menorah candles, in distant stars, in the hearts of all who want to work together to express the human capacity for change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AWAITING THE UNEXPECTED TOGETHER - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - December 2, 2007 In the traditional season of Advent, we remember the human capacity for hope. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website