Sermon: November 23, 2025 . Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Dieguito In recent years, we have been inundated with the message that perhaps we shouldn’t be happy on Thanksgiving. As we awaken to the realities and lasting effects of the colonization of the land the native people here lived on, we realize they were forever negatively affected by the actions of our white supremacist forefathers. The movement toward Thanksgiving enlightenment that started in the 1970’s ha

Sermon: November 2, 2025 . Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Dieguito Today is All Souls Day, the day the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest, when we let ourselves entertain the thought that maybe communication across the veil is possible, that maybe we can reconnect with those we have lost.  Many cultures and religions have a special time of year when they connect with their dead. Christianity has All Souls Day, All Saints Day, Dia de Los Muertos,

Sermon: October 26, 2025 . Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Dieguito Growing up, I always admired women who were considered graceful. I specifically remember seeing pictures of Princess Diana and thinking that I wanted to grow up to embody her graceful beauty. Because she and I share the same birthday, I thought we might have had a special connection and that embodying her grace was a legitimate possibility. As a young child, I didn’t realize that what I was admiring

Sermon: September 28, 2025 . Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Dieguito Kat Armas , theologian and author of the book Sacred Belonging, encourages us to " refuse to let isolation be a tool of our undoing. Because we were never meant to carry this weight alone." And yet that’s how we often feel, alone. Or at least different or other. No matter where we go in the world, there are really only two locations we can be sure of, where I am and where I am not. Inside of me and