Guide to Meg’s Sermons
2022 Sermons
| You’re going to Pray for me? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Flower Ceremony and Farewell | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Pumpkins Promise | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| The fire of anger | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Curiosity and Respect | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Being Present with one another | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Coming to life again | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| What is the Eighth Principle? | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Grasshoppers in Indra’s Glittering Net | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Water Ceremony 2022 | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| How to eat a car | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| A Good Goodbye | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| What if you were really loved | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Connected to All Creation | Rev Meg Barnhouse |
2021 Sermons
| 2021 Christmas Eve Service | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| 2021 Christmas Pageant | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Perils of Perfectionism | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Dealing with difficult people (and trying not to be one) | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Right Concentration | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Using Our Voices | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Be Present in your Life | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| All Souls and All Saints | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Healing Power of Truth | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Great Big Celebration Sunday | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Third Principle | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| So Much Wasted Effort | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Resilience | Rev Meg Barnhouse & Rev Chris Jimmerson | |
| Down to the River to Pray | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Right Livelihood | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Inherent Worth and Dignity of every Person | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| One coming out story | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| In the stream of your life | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| What did you just say? | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Just a Reminder | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Flower Communion 2021 | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Why should I believe that? | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Abandon Hope and Fear | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Blues Theology (Revisited) | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| History – It’s complicated | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| When Harold Hatcher gave up, He grew | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Third Lap in a Four Lap Race | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Power of Our Words | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Need a Little Mercy Now | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| To Corinth with Love | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Blessing the Animals 2021 | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| In praise of the dark | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Wish you were here | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| 2021 Burning Bowl | Rev Meg Barnhouse |
2020 Sermons
| Guidance | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| 2020 Christmas Pageant | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| What’s so Funny ’bout Peace, Love, and Understanding | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Poetry as Meditation | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Falling in love with what is | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Science, Imagination, and Magic | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| All Souls | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| American Civil Religion | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Lessons from the Garden | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Have smaller fights | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Forgiveness | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Celebration Sunday | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Be a stream and not a swamp | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Chalice Circles: Deepening Connection | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Radicals v Respectables | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Using your Anger, Holding on to your Hope | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Question Box Sermon | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The History of American Policing | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Useful Ignorance and Beginner’s Mind | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Flower Communion | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Living with Brain Trauma | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| All will be well – Really? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Punk Theology | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| A Trip to the Underworld | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Losing My Religion | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Social Distance, not Spiritual Distance | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Two Parables of the Beloved Community | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Sugar: What is enough? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Milk and Butter: Creativity within constraints | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| How not to break a horse | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Salt | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Heat & Transformation | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Burning Bowl | Rev. Meg Barnhouse |
2019 Sermons
| When God was a baby | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Perfect Miracles | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| What happens in families | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| How to comfort someone who is suffering | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Jedidiah Morse and the Battle for Harvard | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Room on the Broom | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Protected on the Journey | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Concord Genius Cluster | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| This Apple | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Celebration Sunday | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| How to Change Minds | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Many Rivers to Cross | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| What does that pin on your backpack mean? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Walking Toward the Deep End | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| In My Life | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Out from Silence: Writing your Life | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Being a blessing to the children | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Beautiful ‘Flower Girls’ | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Playing ball on running water | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Fiery and Fearless | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| How to grow a seed | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The power of story | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| If I needed you | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Kindness Connection | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Celtic Christianity | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Promise and the Practice | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Magic of Music | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Blues Theology | Rev. Meg Barhouse | |
| Animal Blessing | Rev. Meg Barnhouse |
2018 Sermons
| Lessons and Carols | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Spray it Gold and post it on Instagram | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Live from Pflugerville | Rev Meg Barnhouse | |
| Come, ye thankful people, come | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Fall down7, Get up 8 | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| A Little Mercy | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Those who have gone before us | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Safe Space/Brave Space | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Love is the Spirit of this church, and Service is its law | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| What I Learned from Being a Writer | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| UU101, UU201, UU301 | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Faith Out Loud | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Wade in the Water | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| You are magic | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Let’s talk about depression | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Genderbread Person | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| A feeling for the holy | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| ÊUnitarians and Abolition | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Question Box Sermon | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Does it hurt to Bloom? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Things I Learned From My Mother | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Seeds | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Broken Things | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| A “Foolish” Easter | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Finding our balance | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Faith for UUs | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Be the Spark | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Why do bad things happen? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Love, like a carefully loaded ship… | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Animal Blessing Service | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Power in the #MeToo Movement | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| How to invite changes in your life | Rev. Meg Barnhouse |
2017 Sermons
| Christmas Pageant | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Jesus’ Grandmothers | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Grace | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| My Actions are My Only True Belongings | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Elijah | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Checking out, Falling back, Overwhelmed | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Those who have gone before | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Doing Justice | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Groundbreaking | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Transformation through service | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Birthday of the World | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Gathering in Community | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Truth, Crushed to Earth, Shall Rise Again | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| You have to be carefully taught | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Adventures in Hymnody | Kiya Heartwood | |
| Get it to the size of an Oreo | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Dealing with difficult people | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Right Effort | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Animal Blessing Service | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Trust, The Decor Committee & Citizens United | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Right Livelihood | Rev. Meg Barnhouse |
2016 Sermons
| Christmas Day Service | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Christmas Pageant | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Star of Truth | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| A clear mind and an open heart | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Acceptance and encouragement | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Right speech | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Honoring the ancestors | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Right intention and the 10-10-10 rule | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The final form of love, which is forgiveness | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Mom, He started it | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Abandon Hope and Fear | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Water communion service | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The deep end of the heart | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| What holds us together? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| What I learned on my summer vacation | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Talking to the trees | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| What’s the difference: Venting vs Lamentation | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Make New Mistakes | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Prayer beads for UUs | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| What’s the difference: Trinitarian and Unitarian? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Punk Theology | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Pretty Yellow Flower Day | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The man comes around | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Bee Yard Etiquette | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| What’s the difference: Protestants and Catholics? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| So many songs about love | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Respecting the Fire | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Forgiveness | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| What the difference between Sunni & Shiite Islam? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Burning Bowl | Rev. Meg Barnhouse |
2015 Sermons
| The Christians and the Pagans | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Christmas Pageant | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| An upside-down world: A Hymn of reversal | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Family Life as a Spiritual Path | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The ugly duckling | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| At the threshold | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Dialogue with Conservatives | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Listening to Drag | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Oh, Delilah | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Good Grief | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| All beginnings are difficult | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Choose to enjoy your life | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The first one to try | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Which God don’t you believe in? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Father Earth, Mother Sky | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Juneteenth | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The boy who drew cats | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Goldilocks and Elijah | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Choosing to Bless the World | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Impossible Task | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| How many plagues will it take? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Cellist of Sarajevo | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Palm Sunday | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Question Box Sermon | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Red Shoes | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Book of Love | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Want what you have | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Blessing and being blessed: Animal Blessing Service | Rev. Meg Barnhouse |
2014 Sermons
| Christmas History | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Dirty Water | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Gratitude | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Problem of Evil | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Keep the home fires burning | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Ancestors’ Ways | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Circle Round – Women’s Spirituality Tradition | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Trust and Welcome | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Now THIS is church | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Forgiveness and Repentance | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Give them Hope, not Hell | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Water Communion Service | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Playing ball on running water | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Sacred Spaces | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| My faith is in science, but I try to keep an open mind | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The death penalty, reluctant soldiers & Edward O. Wilson | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Spiritual Growth | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Honor Your Father | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Cherokee Removal | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Rilke’s Swan | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| A Juicy slice of UU history – Michael Servetus | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| May the force be with you | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Jesus’ Grandmothers | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Depression | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| God wants you to be rich! | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Balance/Equinox | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Celtic Christianity/Redemption | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Second Commandment | Rev. Meg Barhnouse | |
| Heard it through the grapevine | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Failure is impossible | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| What we are worshiping, we are becoming | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Animal Blessing Service | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| The Magic of Music | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Architecture and spirit | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | |
| Burning Bowl | Rev. Meg Barnhouse |
2013 Sermons
| A Sudden Flame, an Extraordinary Journey | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-22-13 |
| Christmas Pageant | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-15-13 |
| A UU Faith Story: John Murray | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-08-13 |
| How did we get the bible? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-01-13 |
| A Juicy Slice of UU History: The Iowa Sisterhood | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 11-17-13 |
| Dismantling Racism | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 11-10-13 |
| Creating Community | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 11-03-13 |
| Mystery, Spookiness, Magic and Wonder | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 10-27-13 |
| Walking between the raindrops | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 10-20-13 |
| I’m a believer | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 10-13-13 |
| Bedrock Values at the heart of humanism | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-29-13 |
| Not so good at mindfullness | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-22-13 |
| What if you can’t keep your promise | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-15-13 |
| Water Communion | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-08-13 |
| Margaret Sanger | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 08-25-13 |
| Life of Pi | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 08-18-13 |
| The Oversoul | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 08-11-13 |
| Defense against the dark arts | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 08-04-13 |
| Like Slow-Growing Trees in a Ruined Place | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 06-30-13 |
| Amazing Grace | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 06-16-13 |
| The Rose | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 06-09-13 |
| Tales of the tribe | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 06-02-13 |
| The right thing to do | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 05-05-13 |
| Fiery and Fearless: Olympia Brown | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 04-28-13 |
| The Gaia Psalms | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 04-21-13 |
| Lies, gossip and fighting words | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 04-14-13 |
| Will you harbor me? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 04-07-13 |
| Only life and death | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 03-31-13 |
| Afri-kin | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 03-24-13 |
| Good question | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 03-17-13 |
| As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 03-03-13 |
| Recovery from Fundamentalism | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 02-17-13 |
| A Juicy Slice of UU History: Theodore Parker | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 02-10-13 |
| God the huntress | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 02-03-13 |
| Abandon Hope and Fear | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 01-27-13 |
| The delicate art of forgiveness | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 01-13-13 |
| Burning Bowl Service | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 01-06-13 |
2012 Sermons
| Blue Christmas | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-23-12 |
| Christmas Pageant | Rev. Meg Barnhouse and Marisol Caballero | 12-16-12 |
| Rekindled | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-09-12 |
| Sweet Honey from old failures | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-02-12 |
| Thank you, I’m going downhill | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 11-18-12 |
| Equilibrium with Elegance: Jazz and UU Theology | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 11-11-12 |
| Kicking the Statue of Shiva | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 10-21-12 |
| A Safe Place | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 10-14-12 |
| Land of Hope and Dreams | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 10-07-12 |
| American Civil Religion | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-23-12 |
| A Relationship of Promises | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-16-12 |
| ÊSetting Sail | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-09-12 |
| Water Ceremony and Ingathering | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-02-12 |
| Bee Yard Etiquette | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 06-17-12 |
| The Real Ten Commandments | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 06-10-12 |
| Gold in the Shadow | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 06-03-12 |
| ÊWhat I learned from my mother | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 05-13-12 |
| Gaia Psalms | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 04-22-12 |
| Grasshoppers in the Glittering Net | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 04-15-12 |
| Quartet for the end of time | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 04-08-12 |
| How many UUs does it take to change a lightbulb? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 04-01-12 |
| What is enough? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 03-18-12 |
| When to take the leap | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 03-04-12 |
| She stirs up the world | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 02-19-12 |
| The man who ate a car | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 02-12-12 |
| Everybody’s got a Hungry Heart | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 02-05-12 |
| Afri-Kin | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 01-29-12 |
| Installation Service of Rev. Meg Barnhouse | Rev. Peter Morales | 01-15-12 |
| A Stone of Hope | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 01-15-12 |
| The Democratic Process | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 01-08-12 |
| Burning Bowl | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 01-01-12 |
2011 Sermons
| Sermon Topic | Author | Date |
| Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-24-11 |
| How to disagree passionately and peacefully | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-18-11 |
| Wisdom Tree | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-11-11 |
| A Juicy Slice of Unitarian History | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 12-04-11 |
| The devil and Martha Stewart | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 11-20-11 |
| Digging a good, deep well | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 11-13-11 |
| There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 11-06-11 |
| Honoring the Ancestors | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 10-30-11 |
| Be a stream, not a swamp | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 10-16-11 |
| We are gay and straight together | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 10-09-11 |
| Repentance, Forgiveness, Reconciliation | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 10-02-11 |
| All the gossip from Concord | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-18-11 |
| Where are the strong? Who are the trusted? | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-11-11 |
| Water Communion | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 09-04-11 |
| A Spiritual Stretch | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 08-28-11 |
| Keeping an Eye on the Demolition Twins | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 08-21-11 |
| Liberty, Healing, Good News | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 05-22-11 |
| Where I come from is like this | Rev. Meg Barnhouse | 05-15-11 |
| Rapture in America | Rev. Meg Barnhouse |
