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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 SOURCES OF THOUGHTFULNESS AND THANKFULNESS - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - November 18, 2007 What are the abiding sources for our thoughtfulness and thankfulness? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IN THE MYSTICAL REALM - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - November 11, 2007 A experiential sermon (with two preceding readings) that explores the mystical basis of faith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE TAKES PRACTICE - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - November 4, 2007 Most people yearn for peak experiences, moment of great insight. Religion teaches us that practice is a pre-requisite to a life of such experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website THE STILLBORN GOD - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - October 21, 2007 Starting with Mark Lilla's theory of historical political theology, do we detect a failure of western democracy to find a viable substitute compelling unifying vision for the religious one which was removed in the Great Separation? Or, in other words, are the politics which flow from the enlightenment a deadend because they do not have a passionate, rallying spiritual vision? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CRITICAL RELIGION or RELIGION OF PRAISE - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - October 14, 2007 Which is Unitarian Universalism - a Critical Religion or a Religion of Praise? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO REALLY DISCOVER AMERICA - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - October 7, 2007 I count seven America's - six in history and one in vision. What are they? And when will WE discover the 7th? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EXPLORING THE JESUS MYSTERIES- the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - September 30, 2007 As the meaning of the many alternative gospels are explored and expanded following discoveries of ancient scrolls and texts, where do we place the central story of Christianity in the context of similar religious mystery stories? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HOLDING OUR LIVES IN THE BALANCE - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - September 23, 2007 On the occasion of the Autumnal Equinox, an exploration of balance. Should life be lived with by keeping a balance between the good and the bad, by seeking a balance through moderation, or something more essential and visionary? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WORKERS OF THE WORLD - UNITE(D): A Labor Day Sermon - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - September 2, 2007 What does it mean to be a worker? Is work about achieving things or achieving self or achieving the commonweal? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RE-THINKING LIBERAL RELIGION - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - August 12, 2007 Preached at the UU Congregation of Utica, NY. Isn't it time to ask what liberal religion needs to be if it is to not only survive but thrive into the 21st century? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website THREE MEASURES OF LIFE- the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - July 22, 2007 What simple three measures, borrowed from education, might help us evaluate our lives? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HARD LESSONS FROM GOOD DECISIONS - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - July 15, 2007 A Bastille Day sermon. What lessons can we really learn from the French Revolution? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website THE GREAT DISSENTERS - the Rev. Dr. Randolph W.B. Becker - July 8, 2007 How a book found as a teen ("The Great Dissenters") has shaped my life, and my perspective on what it means to be a dissenters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website THE REAL RELIGION OF OUR NATION'S FOUNDERS - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - July 1, 2007 How dare the religious right claim that the United States is a Christian nation when its founders would roll over in their graves at such an assertion? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NO EXIT - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - June 10, 2007 From Sartre's Edwardian Drawing room "hell," consider what liberal religion has to say to life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PRIDE GOETH BEFORE IT ALL - A PrideFest 2007 Sermon - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - JUNE 3, 2007 If you want to oppress someone, rob her/him of pride! If you want to liberate yourself, find and live your pride! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WE REMEMBER THEM - A Memorial Day Sermon - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - May 27, 2007 How does human memory function and why? How do we use this gift of memory to honor those who have gone before us? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WHAT IF LIFE HAD A SOUND TRACK? - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - May 20, 2007 If you could decide a soundtrack for your life, what would it be? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website THE STORY OF A STORY - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - May 19, 2007 A sermon preached at the annual Men's and Women's Day Celebration Service of the Cornish Memorial AME Zion Church of Key West. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O, MOTHER! - Pam Strother, Barb Dreher, Elissa Bishop-Becker, Cliff Saylor, Marilyn Smith - May 13, 2007 A Mother's Day Celebration of the Complexity of Motherhood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CHURCH and STATE: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - May 6, 2007 In remembering the development of the separation of church and state, maybe it is time to rethink what the relationship should be. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ECOLOGICAL THEOLOGY - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - April 22, 2007 What theology might treat our environment better than either dominion or stewardship? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PROPHETS, DREAMERS, SAGES, and SEERS - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - April 15, 2007 We usually lump these descriptive terms together, as if they were all the same. But, they are not! Which one would we rather be? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EASTER 2007 - LET ALL PEOPLE LIVE - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - April 8, 2007 Why are the various accounts of the Easter experience so different? What were people trying to preserve in their accounts of the empty tomb? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LET MY PEOPLE GO - A Passover Sermon - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - April 1, 2007 What is often overlooked in the story of the Passover? What is the difference between freedom and liberty? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HEY, TAKE IT EASY - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - March 25, 2007 When was the last time you went to sleep without anything on your "to do" list? How do we fill life with something more than activities? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF TRANSCENDENTALISM - Robert Richardson - March 18, 2007 HOw was transcendentalism more than just a philosophy? World renown Emerson and Thoreau scholar RObert Richardson seeks out the larger implications of this movement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LIVING WITH TIME - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - March 11, 2007 What is this thing we call "time"? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YOU DIDN'T LOSE IT - YOU JUST NEVER HAD IT! - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - February 18, 2007 TV's "Deal or No Deal" is a paragon of the contemporary propensity to grieve over things we don't have rather than over things we have actually lost. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website THE STRANGE TWIST OF HERESY - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - March 4, 2007 How do we create a community that allows us to really know each other?> Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GETTING TO KNOW YOU - the Rev. Dr. Randolph WB Becker - February 4, 2007 How do we create a community that allows us to really know each other?> Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MATTERS OF WAR and PEACE - the Rev Dr Randolph WB Becker - November 12, 2006 When we pause to honor those who have served their country, we are called upon think about the choices and responsibilities of war, and also of peace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CHARACTERS OF RELIGION: PROPHETS - the Rev Dr Randolph WB Becker - October 22, 2006 Who are the "prophets" and what role do they play in religion? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5 CHALLENGES OF ETHICAL LIVING - the Rev Dr Randolph WB Becker - October 15, 2006 We all strive to live ethical lives, but in doing so we face five major challenges. Ironically, any single religion often fails to deal with more than one of these challenges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKING A PROFOUND DIFFERENCE - the Rev Dr Randolph WB Becker - October 1, 2006 Remember people who made a profound difference in our lives, and our obligation to pass that difference on to a world hungering, thirsting, yearning to be changed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website THE CHARACTERS OF RELIGION: Gods and Goddesses - the Rev Dr Randolph WB Becker - August 27, 2006 First in a series of sermons on the various characters found in the usual script of "religion." Let's start with gods and goddesses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WHO NEEDS THIS PLACE ANYWAY? - the Rev Dr Randolph WB Becker - June 4, 2006 Modernism claimed that it would eliminate the need for religion. What happened? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website