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.

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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

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• 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)

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• 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