Sermons by Reverend Frank A. Hall

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• 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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