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Rev. Dr. Dorothy May Emerson offers a range of ministerial services, including guest preaching, pastoral counseling, and celebrating important events in your life.

UPCOMING SERVICES

DOROTHY EMERSON’S SERMONS

TO BIRTH A NEW VISION

• Be Thou My Vision
• Call From Within
• Threshold of Change
• A Time for Turning (fall theme)
• Living Your Soul's Purpose

BUILDING COMMUNITY

• Radical Hospitality
• Called to Community (about community ministry)
• Don't Be Nice, Be Kind (Random Acts of Kindness)
• Gratitude (Thanksgiving theme)
• House of Hope (having hope in difficult times

MONEY AND JUSTICE

• Ending Poverty: Step by Step
• Money and the Meaning of Life
• Creating a Just Economic Community
• Let Justice Roll (MLK Sunday)
• Investing with Justice
• Save Us! Save Our Children!

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ROLE MODELS

• Standing Before Us: Four women from Massachusetts who changed the world
• In Body and Spirit: Margaret Fuller’s legacy for us
• Learning the Art of Peace: UU women peacemakers

FAITH IN ACTION

• Proud to be a Unitarian Universalist
• Let Peace Begin with Me
• Love Acts (about Jesus)
• The Call to Be Peacemakers
• Resurrecting Love (Easter theme)
• Bless the Earth Everyday (Earth Day theme)
• Building a Rainbow World

Learning the Art of Peace
Many of us long for peace but wonder what difference we can make in a world that only knows war.· This sermon explores the peace-making work of some fascinating Unitarian Universalist women whose stories can empower our own efforts to make peace possible.

Investing for Justice
The way we use money leaves a mark on our communities and the ecosystem.· We may not think about it often, but our financial transactions have an effect on the interdependent web of existence of which we are a part.· The choices we make and the actions we take about money constitute our economic footprint.· This sermon explores ways we can align our use of money with our values and put our money to work for justice.

Ending Poverty: Step by Step
In this economically divided world, how is it possible to work for greater economic justice for people living in poverty?· This sermon explores ways Unitarian Universalists are putting their money to work to establish village banks around the world and invest in community development at home.· These grassroots strategies for ending poverty work--and provide hope and a positive future for all those involved.

Called to Community
The community ministries that are currently emerging within Unitarian Universalism have the potential to vastly expand the impact of our movement.· What do we need to do to support and develop these new ministries in their efforts to bring healing and justice to the world?

Opening Channels for Streams of Love
This sermon explores the implications of marriage equality as a way to·make love·more visible and active in·the world, including a report on legal same sex marriages in Massachusetts.· After all, isn't love what we all need?

Women in Transcendentalism: Crucible of Social Change
This sermon explores the lives, ideas, and lasting influence of women who participated in the primarily male, idealistic world of Transcendentalism, particularly Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Peabody.

Any of these sermons can be adapted for talks and workshops.· Other topics available upon request.