Sermons
by Reverend Frank A. Hall
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Index 
- Googling God - January 22, 2012
- Prayer - January 15, 2012

- The Future of Faith - January 8, 2012

- Beginning Again…and Again - January 1, 2012
- Learning to Give - December 11, 2011

- My Morning Walks With Me - November 27, 2011
- "Getting to the Promised Land" - November 13, 2011

- Crossing the Street To My Neighborhood Circle - October 23, 2011

- The Face of God or a Face in the Crowd - October 9, 2011

- Compassion – the common ingredient in all religion - September 25, 2011

- The Gods We Worship - September 18, 2011

- Reflections on 9/11 - Homecoming 2011, September 11, 2011
- “The Religious Impulse” - Chautauqua July 10, 2011
- The Challenges of 2011 Commencement Speakers - June 12, 2011
- Religious Maturity - May 22, 2011
- Finding God in the Silence - May 15, 2011
- Forgiving Mothers - May 8, 2011 - Mother’s Day
- Earth Day 2011 - May 1, 2011
- Easter 2011 – This is the Sun's Birthday - April 24, 2011
- Good Grief -
April 17, 2011
- Generosity as a Spiritual Practice - Canvass Sunday, April 10, 2011
- Between the Pulpit and the Pew - April 3, 2011
- Celebrating Our Success and Working for More - March 27, 2011
- Gift From the Sea -
March 20, 2011
- The Buddha’s Way - February 20, 2011
- Living and Loving in the Right Hemisphere - February 13, 2011
- Used Books - January 30, 2011
- What is Required of Us? - January 16, 2011
- Credo quia absurdum - January 9, 2011
- Starting Over - January 2, 2011
- Epiphanies, Large and Small (Extra Large also available) - December 26, 2010
- Scrooge Woke Up on Christmas Day - December 19, 2010
- Negotiating the Holiday Season - December 12. 2010
- Invasions of Privacy - November 28, 2010
- On Becoming Unitarian
Universalist - November 14, 2010
- Supplies to Virtue - October 24, 2010
- “It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” - October 17, 2010
- Report From Kenya - ‘The Pitcher Cries for Water’ - October 10, 2010
- The Mission - September 26, 2010
- God’s
Questions to the Adam’s Family -
September 19, 2010
- “A Faith Statement” - Homecoming - September 12, 2010
- Savoring the Summer Sabbath Season - June 13, 2010
- Does God Listen to Prayers? - May 30, 2010
- Naming Names - May 16, 2010
- On Becoming the Buddha - May 2, 2010 (audio only)
- We’ve Only Begun (to Love the Earth) - Earth Day, April 25, 2010
- What It Takes to Keep This Place Going - April 18, 2010
- Rolling Away the Stone, Again and Again - Easter, April 4, 2010
- Pharaoh’s Heart Was Hardened - March 28, 2010
- Give Them Not Hell But Hope and Courage - March 21, 2010
- The Fine Art of Failure - February 21, 2010
- "What is This Thing Called Love?" - February 14 2010
- What I Learned on Sabbatical - February 7, 2010
- The Religious Impulse - January 24, 2010
- The Bucket List - January 10, 2010
- The Journey Home - January 3, 2010
- The Good Life - December 27, 2009
- “Sparks
of the Divine” - Christmas Eve 2009
- The Case for God - December 6 2009
- Job Was a Serious Man - November 15, 2009
- Promises to Keep - November 8, 2009 - 9:00 am
- Promises to Keep - November 8, 2009 - 11:00 am - Coming of Age Service
- Peace in the Heart, Peace in the
Nation, Peace in the World - November 1, 2009
- The Evolution of God - October 25, 2009
- The Man Who Carried Apples in His Shoes - October 11, 2009
- Mary Oliver’s Theology - October 4, 2009
- Rugged Individualism and Gentle Connecting - September 27, 2009
- Our Jewish Heritage: Celebrating the High Holy Days - "Why the Temple Gets Destroyed" - September 20, 2009
- Coming Home Again…and Again - September 13, 2009
- Summer – the Sabbath Season - June 21, 2009 - Father’s Day
- "He" - May 24, 2009
- The Lanyard Mother’s Day - May 10, 2009
- Reflections On a Peach Seed Monkey - May 3, 2009
- "On Being Responsible" - Earth Day, April 19, 2009
- Phoenix Rising – the Easter Story - April 12, 2009
- Now, More Than Ever - April 5, 2009
- Between the Monster and the Saint - March 22, 2009
- The Ten Commandments, Redux - February 15, 2009
- Freedom's Fifty Faces - February 1, 2009
- Unfinished Work - Jauary 18, 2009
- New Eyes - January 4, 2009
- They Returned By a Different Way - Christmas Eve 2008
- "Presents and Presence" - December 21, 2008
- "Through the Eyes of a Religious Liberal" - December 7, 2008
- The Transcendentalists - November 9, 2008
- "Time is Too Precious to Waste" - November 2, 2008
- "The Wild Braid" - October 12, 2008
- For Shame - October 5, 2008
- A Noble Spirit - September 21, 2008
- Living in the Layers - September 14, 2008
- What They Dreamed Be Ours To Do - September 7, 2008 - Homecoming
- Spirituality For the Skeptic, Chautauqua - July 6, 2008
- Time Out - June 15, 2008
- Faiths of the Founders - May 25, 2008
- “Two Hands” - Celebrating Mother’s Day - May 11, 2008
- Stand By Me - May 4, 2008
- What Sustains Us - Earth Day, April 20, 2008
- "The Force of Character" - April 13, 2008
- “Check, Please” - April 6, 2008 Canvass Sunday
- Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant - Easter, March 23, 2008
- “It Was All a Big Misunderstanding” - Palm Sunday, March 16, 2008
- Spirituality for the Skeptic - February 10, 2008
- "The Assault on Reason" - February 3, 2008
- Helping to Build the Dream - January 20, 2008
- Making Membership More Meaningful - January 13, 2008
- Epiphanies, Great and Small - January 6, 2008
- "The Messiah" - December 9, 2007
- "The Pursuit of Happiness II" - December 2, 2007
- Does the Universe Have a Purpose? - November 11, 2007
- Paying Attention - November 4, 2007
- Beyond the Confines - October 14, 2007
- "Forgive Me!" - October 7, 2007
- The Art of Aging - September 23, 2007
- Looking in the Distance - September 16, 2007
- "The Human Dilemma" - Homecoming, September 9, 2007
- Joseph Was a Dreamer - June 17, 2007
- "Turning Points" - June 10, 2007
- Credulity: Why We Believe - May 13, 2007
- Credo: I Believe - May 6, 2007
- Be Bold - Canvass Sermon - April 15, 2007
- "Lifted from the NO of all Nothing" - April 8, 2007
- The New Testament as Jewish Text - March 18, 2007
- "Bad Words" - March 11, 2007
- "The Art of Listening" - February 25, 2007
- "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - February 11, 2007
- Letting Go - February 4, 2007
- "To Speak the Truth in Love" - Ordination Sermon for Leela Sinha - January 28, 2007
- Spiritual Calisthenics - January 21, 2007
- What Really Counts - January 7, 2007
- Do the Right Thing - December 10, 2006
- "What They Dreamed Be Ours To Do" - December 3, 2006
- Forgive Our Trespasses - November 12, 2006
- A World in a Grain of Sand - November 5, 2006
- The Human Heart in Conflict With Itself - October 15, 2006
- A Faith to Live By - October 8, 2006
- The Silver Strand - October 1, 2006
- Tartuffe, the Hypocrite - September 17, 2006
- "Nouns, Verbs and Pronouns" - September 10, 2006
- “When Dad Was Superman” - June 18, 2006
- Deciphering the Da Vinci Code - June 11, 2006
- Faiths of the Founders - May 21, 2006
- What My Mother Told Me - Mother's Day - May 14, 2006
- Remember the Trees; Family Service - April 23, 2006
- The Circle of Life - Easter, 2006
- What Jesus Said - April 9, 2006 - Palm Sunday
- Finders Keepers - April 2, 2006
- When Christians Were Jewish - March 12, 2006
- "An Invitation to Meditation,
Prayer and Reflection" - February
5, 2006
- This I Believe - January 22, 2006
- "Writing an Ethical Will" - January 15, 2006
- Running Into a New Year -
January 1, 2006
- Christmas Eve -
December 25, 2005
- 'Tis a Gift to be Simple' -
December 4, 2005
- “Grappling With
God, Alone” November 13, 2005
- Opening The Question
Box - November 6, 2005
- Gramma's Trinity -
October 16, 2005
- Belonging - October
9, 2005
- "Job’s Friends
Failed" - October 2, 2005
- God's IQ - September
18, 2005
- Noah Built an Ark -
September 11, 2005
- Chautauqua Lectures -
July 4 - 8, 2005
Lecture
1 -“Through the Fire
of Thought”
Lecture 2 - The Anatomy of a
Religious Liberal
Lecture
3 - “The Evolution
of God”
Lecture
4 - “Struggle
of the Two Natures in Man”
Lecture 5 - The Hero in
American Culture: The Legacy of Christopher Reeve
- Father's Day 2005 -
June 19, 2005
- The Return of the Ivory-billed
Woodpecker - June 12, 2005
- Getting What You Came
For - May 22, 2005
- "Credo" -
May 15, 2005
- The Delicious Burden of
Loving - May 8, 2005
- Becoming the Buddah -
May 1, 2005
- Between Bondage and the
Promised Land, Passover - April 24, 2005
- "As You Did It to
one of the Least of These..." - April 17, 2005
- "Connections" -
April 10, 2005
- "Restoring the Soul" -
April 3, 2005
- "A Succession of
Eternities" - Easter - March 27, 2005
- "Stepping on Fresh
Leaves" - February 27, 2005
- Rivers and Tides: Working
With Time - February 13, 2005
- In The Blink of an Eye -
February 6, 2005
- To Err is Human - To Forgive
Divine - January 16, 2005
- Tsunami: Nature's Wrath -
January 9, 2005
- The Day Scrooge Laughed -
December 19, 2004
- "The Anatomy of
a Religious Liberal" - December 5, 2004
- Necessary (and unnecessary)
Losses - November 14, 2004
- "Going Out To Play" -
November 7, 2004
- Christopher Reeve: A
Life for All Seasons - October 31, 2004
- Biro Mihaly's Sermon -
October 10, 2004
- "What's the Message?" -
October 3, 2004
- "Struggle of the
Two Natures in Man" - September 19, 2004
- "To
Arrive Where We Started" - September 12, 2004, Homecoming Sunday
- "To Squeeze the Universe
into a Ball, to Roll it Toward Some Overwhelming Question." -
June 20, 2004
- Spiritual Personality
Types - May 23, 2004
- Abu Ghraib, What Went
Wrong? - May 16. 2004
- Nurturing a Sense of Humor -
May 9, 2004, Mother's Day
- "Women's Voices of
Freedom" - April 25, 2004
- "Alive Again, Today" -
April 11, 2004
- "Gibson's God: That Old-Time
Religion" - March 21. 2004
- "In Praise of Christianity" -
February 29, 2004
- "The Denial of Abundance" -
February 22, 2004
- Faces of Freedom - February 8,
2004
- "The Unbroken Circle" -
January 11, 2004
- What Are the Questions? -
January 4, 2004 - May 18, 2003 9 a.m.
- "Away in a Manger" -
Christmas Eve, 2003
- "I Stand Corrected" -
November 16, 2003
- The Good Divorce -
November 9, 2003
- Money Matters -
November 2, 2003 (Canvass Sermon)
- Carved in Stone (part
II) - October 19, 2003
- Carved in Stone (part
I) - October 12, 2003
- Part II "The Evolution
of God" - September 28, 2003
- God Evolves, Too -
September 14, 2003
- A Renewable Faith -
September 7, 2003
- Chautauqua Sermon - "The
Sum of All known Reverence" - July 27, 2003
- "Journey to the
East" - June 8, 2003
- “The Pursuit of
Happiness" - May 18, 2003 9 a.m.
- "Seasons of Love
and Laughter" - May 11, 2003 Mother's
Day
- "Virtues: God's
Hiding Places" - May 4, 2003
- “Turn Mourning
Into Praise” - April 20, 2003
- The Sum of All Known
Reverence - March 23, 2003
- On Becoming a (Good)
Person - March 9, 2003
- A Girl's Garden -
February 23, 2003
- Jesus, the Carpenter's
Son - February 9, 2003
- Setting the Moral Compass -
January 19, 2003
- Join Up - January
12, 2003
- Resolutions - January 5, 2003
- From Manger to Mindfulness -
Christmas Eve, 2002
- Family and Friends -
December 1, 2002
- In Times of Trouble -
November 17, 2002
- Money Talks -
November 3, 2002: Canvass Sunday
- Why God Won't Go Away -
October 13, 2002
- The Laws of Life and
Death - October 6, 2002
- One Nation, Easily Divisible -
September 22, 2002
- Faith and Doubt at Ground
Zero - September 15, 2002
- Sacred Space -
September 8, 2002
- One Nation Under God -
Chautauqua, June 30, 2002
- Ride The Chariot -
Readings and Commentary From our Summer Music Service June 16, 2002
- Rowing Toward Ithaka (The
Uses of Poetry in Ministry, by Frank Hall) - Prepared For the Greenfield
Group, Spring 2002
- Arnold: The Lighter
Side - May 19, 2002
- The Natural Prayer of
the Soul - May 5, 2002
- Dear God - April
21, 2002
- Dramatic Diversity -
April 14, 2002
- Unholy Ghosts -
April 7, 2002
- A Place Apart -
Easter 2002
- Rabbi Jesus -
February 10, 2002
- Liberal Religion-Now,
More Than Ever - January 27, 2002
- Last Words -
December 30, 2001
- The Origin of All Poems
(and religions, too) - December 2, 2001
- The World of Words -
November 11, 2001
- Simple Gifts - Canvass
Sunday November 3, 2001
- Three Prophets of Religious
Liberalism - October 21, 2001
- "Yali's Question" -
October 14, 2001
- Subject to Change -
October 7, 2001
- Our Way of Life -
September 23, 2001
- Sacred Silence -
September 16, 2001
- Panning For Gold -
June 10, 2001
- Unitarian Controversies,
Old and New - May 6, 2001
- The Invitation -
April 29, 2001
- Songs of Resurrection -
April 15, 2001
- Creative Interchange -
April 1, 2001
- Meditation, Reflection
and Prayer - March 25, 2001
- The Shadow Knows -
March 18, 2001
- Natural Selections,
Part II - March 4, 2001
- State of the Union 2001 -
February 25, 2001
- Challenges of a Liberal
Faith - February 18, 2001
- The Wall of Separation -
February 11, 2001
- Natural Selections,
Part I - January 20, 2001
- Christmas Eve Candle
Light Service - December 24, 2000
- Making Peace With the
Prince of Peace - December 3, 2000
- Promises to Keep -
November 26, 2000
- On Finding Yourself
in a Place Just Right: Ordination Sermon for Barbara Fast- November
5, 2000, 4:00 P.M.
- What Really Counts:
Canvass Sunday - November 5, 2000
- Roots -
October 29, 2000
- What Makes Life Significant? -
October 23, 2000
- Arguments For the Sake
of Heaven - October 8, 2000
- Miracle Stories in World
Religions - September 24, 2000
- Looking For Bobby McCarthy -
September 17, 2000
- God's Response -
September 10, 2000
- Father's
Day: "Faith
of the Fathers" - June 21, 2000
- Once Upon a TIME -
May 21, 2000
- Christ is Risenan
Easter Sermon - April 23, 2000
- The Test -
April 9, 2000
- Thirty Years in
Ministry - April 2, 2000
- The American
Dream - March 19, 2000
- Demands of the
Age on Our Chosen Faith - February 27, 2000
- Being Real Together -
February 6, 2000
- Basic Buddhism -
January 9, 2000
- Shame, Exposure and Privacy -
May 23, 1999
- Columbine High School
and the Never-Ending Equation - May 16, 1999
- Miseducation at the School
of the Americas - January 17, 1999
- Jesus: the Man, the Myth,
the Master - January 10, 1999
- Compassion, Composure
and Common Sense - December 6, 1998
- Faults,
Failures and Faith - November 15, 1998
- Take
Me Out To The Ballgame -
October 11, 1998
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