Christmas Eve Sermon: All are Broken, All are Holy
All Are Broken, All Are Holy Ana Levy-Lyons Christmas Eve, 2019 First Unitarian, Brooklyn Harry Potter is adopted (reluctantly) and raised in a muggle home – a household of ordinary, non-magical people...
View ArticleLoving the Journey
Loving the Journey Ana Levy-Lyons January 5, 2020 First Unitarian, Brooklyn The philosopher Martin Buber wrote, “Every journey has a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware.” I want to...
View ArticleSermon: Value the Invaluable
Value the Invaluable Ana Levy-Lyons January 19, 2019 First Unitarian, Brooklyn Last week we dramatized an archetypal story of slavery and liberation – the biblical story of the Israelites in Egypt....
View ArticleSermon: Why I Don’t Talk About Trump
Why I Don’t Talk About Trump Ana Levy-Lyons September 22, 2019 First Unitarian, Brooklyn My kids have been wanting a small cabinet to keep their art supplies in. Actually, to be precise, I’ve been...
View ArticleSermon: Priming the Pump
A few weeks ago, I went to visit a friend who lives up in Washington Heights. My kids were at camp and I had some time, so I decided to take a CitiBike from my place in the west 70’s. I thought, it...
View ArticleSermon: The Book of Life
In the Babylonian Talmud, it says this about the Jewish High Holidays: “Three books are opened on Rosh Hashanah. One for the completely evil, one for the completely righteous, and one for everyone in...
View ArticleSermon: Celebrating Our Sacred Spaces
Arts and Inspiration [Spotlight: with Adam Podd, Dawn Elane Reed, and Liz Komar] Structure makes art possible. Artists of all stripes know this. Whether writers or musicians or (I imagine) stained...
View ArticleSermon: Exodus Stories: Basya
Act 1 River: Everyone heard the decree. The Pharaoh has spoken and every male Israelite newborn is to be drowned in the Nile – drowned in me. You ask how I feel about being the agent of death for...
View ArticleGo With the Holy Flow by Rev. Ana Levy-Lyons
Go with the Holy Flow Ana Levy-Lyons September 11, 2022 First Unitarian, Brooklyn Part 1 You don’t really know a river until you swim in it. And you haven’t really swum in a river until you’ve done it...
View ArticleForgiveness is Divine by Rev. Ana Levy-Lyons
Forgiveness is Divine Ana Levy-Lyons October 2, 2022 First Unitarian, Brooklyn Part 1: NASA did an amazing thing this week, something straight out of an 8-year-old’s fantasy: they intentionally...
View ArticleTalking to Strangers by Rev. Ana Levy-Lyons
Talking to Strangers Ana Levy-Lyons September 18, 2022 First Unitarian, Brooklyn Part One Two scenes. Scene one, set in the North Island of New Zealand: a visitor from out of town comes to a Maori...
View ArticleFairytales: The Emperor’s New Clothes by Rev. Ana Levy-Lyons
Fairytales: The Emperor’s New Clothes Ana Levy-Lyons October 16, 2022 First Unitarian, Brooklyn Sermon Part 1 This week a number of you received text messages supposedly from me, asking you to buy...
View ArticleFaxes to God by Rev. Ana Levy-Lyons
Faxes to God Ana Levy-Lyons October 23, 2022 First Unitarian, Brooklyn Part 1: In the year 70, the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. The Romans pillaged it and burned it and by the end, all that was...
View ArticleSermon: The Artist’s Way by Rev. Ana Levy-Lyons
Jan 29, 2023 First Unitarian, Brooklyn Part 1 In the basement of my building, next to the laundry room, there’s a bookcase where people can leave books they no longer want and take books that look...
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