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Dawn Daniels served the UUFCM as Worship Director from July 2008 through July 2013. Following a year away for full-time seminary study at the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana, she returned to the UUFCM to serve as Minister from August 2014 until January 31, 2019.

The following sermons are available in PDF format. They require Acrobat Reader to view them.
​If you do not have Acrobat Reader, download it here for free.
Sermons by Dawn Daniels:
  • A Harvest of Gratitude - November 18, 2018
  • Seeking Sanctuary - October 7, 2018
  • The Vision of the Bricklayer - September 30, 2018
  • Sweet Darkness - September 23, 2018
  • To Dream, To Labor - September 2, 2018
  • ​Risking Creativity - May 6, 2018
  • Born and Reborn - April 29, 2018
  • What Emerges When We Choose to Bless the World - April 15, 2018
  • The Grandness of Uncentering Our Being - April 8, 2018
  • Imperfect Being, Seeking Balance - March 11, 2018
  • What Holds the Center? - March 4, 2018
  • What I Learned Falling to Earth: Habits of Resilient People - February 18, 2018
  • Love Doesn't Make Us Stupid – It Makes Us Brave - February 11, 2018
  • To Persevere – To Sustain – To Persist - February 4, 2018
  • The Gift of the Good Question - January 28, 2018
  • The Intentional Act of Going to Church - January 21, 2018
  • What They Dreamed Be Ours to Do - January 14, 2018
  • Intention vs. Resolution - January 7, 2018
  • Meditation on Hope in the Dark Season - December 10, 2017
  • Flawed Abundance - November 26, 2017
    - “The Way Under the Way” - a poem by Mark Nepo
  • At the Threshold - An All Hallows Reflection - October 29, 2017
  • On Being Co-Conspirators – Not Allies - October 15, 2017
  • The Courage to Resist Cynicism - October 8, 2017
  • Courage Is a Heart Word - October 1, 2017
  • Learning to Welcome Conversations About Race - September 24, 2017
  • On Being a Guest House - September 17, 2017
  • The Welcome Table: On Creating Brave Space - September 3, 2017
  • The Stories We Choose to Tell Matter - August 27, 2017
  • To Wake, To Rise - August 20, 2017
  • Kindness Over Niceness - July 30, 2017
  • A Bright Golden Thread - July 23, 2017
  • On the Trinity of Promise -  June 18, 2017
  • The iChurch Revealed -  June 11, 2017
  • The Soul Of The Whole -  June 4, 2017
  • On Mortality and Memory: The Meaning of Memorial Day -  May 28, 2017
  • On Being Long Haul People -  March 12, 2017
  • How the Light Gets In -  March 5, 2017
    - “The Cracked Pot” - a folktale from India
  • To Be an Agent of Compassion - February 15, 2017
  • On Reclaiming Church - February 12, 2017

  • Toward Healing the Heart of Democracy - October 30, 2016
  • Invitation to Reverence - October 23, 2016
    - Resources
  • What Protagoras Meant - October 16, 2016
    - Reading from Mary Oliver
  • Reverence: The Forgotten Virtue - October 2, 2016
    ​- Thanks to the Imam - Reading
  • Where Radical Welcome Begins - September 25, 2016
    - Black Lives Matter Banner Dedication - September 25, 2016 following service
  • Return to the River - The Water Service - September 18, 2016
    - Higgins: A Drop with a Dream - Reading
  • An Invitation to Holy Disruption: Radical Hospitality as Spiritual Practice - September 11, 2016 (audio below)

  • Behaving Believing, Belonging - November 15, 2015
  • Imagine Ourselves Turned Inside Out: Re-Imagining Unitarian Universalism​ - November 1, 2015
  • Getting Serious about Unitarian Universalism - October 25, 2015
  • The Hunger for Meaning - October 18, 2015
  • Finding Abundance - October 11, 2015
  • Scarcity in the Land of Plenty - October 4, 2015
  • Why Black Lives Matter Matters - August 30, 2015
  • Choose to Bless the World - March 15, 2015
  • What It Means to Be Here - August 24, 2014
  • A Cauldron of Changes - August 17, 2014
  • Shared Ministry - April 10, 2011
    • Stone Soup (story) - April 10, 2011
    • Readings for Three Voices - April 10, 2011
  • That Which Sustains - August 3, 2008
    • Sowing Peace (story) - August 3, 2008
Dawn Daniels, UUFCM Minister

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