Sermons

Guest Speakers

the Rev. Jane Esbensen

• To Live Deliberately - April 25, 2010

Fr. Jacek Soroka

Fr. Jacek Soroka is a hospital/hospice chaplain at Immanuel St. Joseph's - Mayo Health System in Mankato, Minnesota.

• Sister Death, Spiritual Needs at the End of Life
  - Aug. 23, 2009 (AUDIO FILE ONLY)

the Rev. David Danielson

• Echos Of Drude - May 31, 2009

Colleen Tasto

• Trusting Your Truth - Mar. 8, 2009

Marlene Lange
Peer Counselor

• Learning the Lessons of Love, Gratitude & Service - Feb. 8, 2009

the Rev. Ursula Clara Christ
Interfaith Minister

• Friendship Through Difference and Difficulty - Feb. 28, 2010
• Personal Experience and Connection with God - Jan. 11, 2009
• Ego vs. Self - March 9, 2008

Dr. Karen A. Larson
Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies
Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN

• American Culture and Terrorism - Sept. 11, 2005

the Rev. Lisa Friedman
UU Fellowship of Mankato, MN

• Unitarian Universalist Practice - Nov. 14, 2004

Sermons by the Rev. Dana Reynolds
( Minister at Nora from 2008-2009 )

 Sermons by the Rev. Don Rollins
( Minister at Nora from 2004-2008 )

• A Window And A Door: Whose Church Is This? (Jun. 8)
• Pharaoh Finally Gets It ... Sort of (Apr. 20)
• Jeremiah Was A Bulldog (Apr. 6)
• And Now You Know The Rest Of The Story (Mar. 23)
• Jimi Hendrix as Spiritual Guide (Feb. 24)
• Jackie Robinson And Lary Doby As Spiritual Guides (Feb. 17)
• Billie Holiday As Spiritual Guide (Feb. 3)
• Time Flies Like An Eage, Fruit Flies Like A Banana: Does Your Soul Ever Laugh? (Jan. 13)

• A Religious Liberal’s Christmas (Dec. 23)
• Hope Is Dead: Long Live Hope! (Dec. 16)
• Worship: Why We Do What We Do (Dec. 2)
• Fading Light: The Spirit & Seasonal Affective Disorder (Nov. 4)
• Association Sunday (Oct. 21)
• Lyndon Johnson, Peter Benchley & Nora Church (Sept. 16)
• Grief Work (Sept. 2)
• Affirming Faith: Lessons from Lutheranism (Aug. 26)
• Affirming Tradition: Lessons from Roman Catholicism (Aug. 19)
• Iraq: God And War (Mar. 18)
• Aging as Spiritual Guide (Feb. 18)

• Which Christmas Don’t You Celebrate? (Dec. 17)
• Public Education in Crisis (Nov. 5)
• Top 10 Reasons That Liberal Religion Matters (Oct. 1)
• What If? (Aug. 27)
• Faith at Fifty (Jun. 11)
• Questions (Apr. 23)
• Resurrection: The Ultimate Metaphor (Apr. 16)

• Abortion and Liberal Religion (Oct. 23)
• Stories from Church (Oct. 2, 2005)
• Why God Is A Baseball Fan (Sept. 25)
• Unitarian Universalism Simplified (Sept. 18)
• Theism Is Dead: Long Live God! (Aug. 21)
• Mission, Music & Money (Aug. 14)

• Johnny Cash for President: 2008 (Sept. 19)

 Sermons by the Rev. Sarah Oelberg
( Minister at Nora from 1991-2003 )

• Feasting, Fasting and Famine (Nov. 23)
• Deception, Deceit and Dishonesty (Oct. 12)
• The Story of Jonah (Oct. 5)
• Tradition: Blessing or Curse (Sept. 28)
• Drawing On The Divine (Apr. 6)
• Peace On Earth Or Peace Within? (Mar. 23)
• Spirituality Without God (Feb. 9)
• Heroes And Heretics (Feb. 2)

• War And Peace (Nov. 10)
• Roots of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict (Sept. 22)
• It's A Grand Old Flag (Jun. 16)
• Great Emancipators (Feb. 10)
• Whose Side Is God On? (Feb. 3)
• Moral Challenges of Globalization (Jan. 13)

• Dealing With Difficulty (Oct. 7)
• Gathering The Flock (Sept. 9)
• Strange And Wondrous Partners (May 6)

 Sermons by the Rev. Harold Babcock
( Minister at Nora from 1983-1986 )

(Sermons linked with permission.)

• The View from the Heartland
  (Preached at his home church on September 18, 2005.)
• Witnesses to Mortality
  (Preached at Nora church on February 24, 2002.)
• Sightless Among Miracles
  (Preached at his home church on September 17, 2000.)

 Sermons by the Rev. Amandus Norman
( Minister at Nora from 1883-1931 )

• Kristofer Janson
  - As Man, Poet, and Religious Reformer (1931)

 An Address by the Rev. Kristofer Janson
( First Minister at Nora Church 1881-1883 )

• The Religious Views of Bjørnson and Ibsen (1910)

Bjørnson and Ibsen were close friends of our first minister, and this address by Kirstofeer Janson gives us insight into why they are venerated in our church.

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	Henrik Ibsen
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