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Sermon: God Taught Me How To Gargle

God Taught Me How To Gargle Ana Levy-Lyons May 4, 2014 First Unitarian, Brooklyn   A few weeks ago, I was folding a sheet and I asked my 3-year-old daughter, Miriam, if she wanted to help me. To my...

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Sermon: Honor Your Mother And Father

  To make a baby, you need three ingredients according to the ancient Near Eastern understanding of the reproductive process: you need the mother’s seed, the father’s seed, and God. The mother and...

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Sermon: The Expediter

So I’m at a dinner party chatting with the guy sitting next to me who I’ve never met before. He asks me what I do for a living and I tell him, and he’s very interested in that, and we talk for a...

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Sermon: Milk In A Hardware Store: The 7th Commandment, Do Not Commit Adultery

Sigmund Freud says we joke about the things that are most important to us to reduce the tension created by that importance. There are probably more jokes about sex than about anything else in the...

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Sermon: The Triangle Player

Please note: the podcast for this sermon only includes part 2.  You may read the entire sermon below. Part 1: The late George Plimpton was famous for being a “participatory journalist.” This means...

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Sermon: Universalism Ain’t Fair

The parable of the workers in the vineyard in the book of Matthew in the Christian Scriptures: “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his...

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Sermon: The Greenest House

In 1961 Hannah Arendt went as a reporter for The New Yorker to the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann was a Nazi lieutenant colonel who had been responsible for the operations side of the project of...

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Sermon: Put Me In, Coach

One Yom Kippur a Rabbi imagined he stood before God and had the following conversation: God asked him, “Have you studied all you should?” The rabbi said “No.” Then he was asked, “Have you prayed all...

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Sermon: Invitation to the Banquet

  I’ve heard that some of us in this room, if we’re invited to something that we don’t want to go to, have been known to get out of it by making an excuse. I personally have never done that but I’ve...

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Sermon: Moderation in Moderation

Back in the old days, people used to pay for the privilege of sitting in particular pews here. The better pews, front and center, went for more money and the less desirable ones, maybe in the back...

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Sermon: Halloween Unmasked

If an alien came down to earth at Halloween time, it would probably be really confused. Halloween is such a strange holiday. Not typical of earthling holidays. Most holidays are fun happenings about...

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Sermon: Citizens Of Heaven

Citizens of Heaven Ana Levy-Lyons November 9, 2014 First Unitarian, Brooklyn   A rabbi I know tells a story of when he was just starting out in the rabbinate, he visited a maximum-security prison to...

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Sermon: Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor

When Dr. Craig Spencer took his temperature a few weeks ago and saw that it was 100.3, he went to the nearest hospital and was diagnosed with Ebola. You probably know the story: he had recently come...

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Sermon: The Parable Of The Yeast

I have two children and they are both 4 years old. They’re twins named Micah and Miriam. They love each other a lot and they also fight a lot. They want everything to be exactly fair. If you give one...

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Sermon: A Great Miracle Happened There

A kid comes up to her dad and says, “If you don’t believe in God, why do you go to synagogue all the time?” He says, “Oh, people go for all kinds of different reasons. Take my friend Garfinkle. He’s...

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Sermon: Prodigal Son, Prudent Son

Prodigal Son, Prudent Son — Ana Levy-Lyons If life is going to be anything but excruciatingly boring for someone with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, he or she is going to need regular doses...

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Sermon: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate

  When the first Malaysia Airlines plane, flight 370, disappeared last March, it created a feeding frenzy for bloggers, tweeters, and conspiracy theorists. No one could understand why the pilot hadn’t...

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Sermon: Doorman

Doorman Ana Levy-Lyons January 25, 2014 First Unitarian, Brooklyn   A few weeks ago my family and I moved into a doorman apartment for the first time. I’ve become fascinated by the idea of the doorman...

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Sermon: Seeing Your Shadow

Seeing Your Shadow Ana Levy-Lyons February 1, 2015 First Unitarian, Brooklyn On a Saturday back in 2002, Dr. Bennet Omalu pulled into the parking lot at a Pittsburg coroner’s office to do a routine...

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Sermon: The Parable Of The Talents

The Parable of the Talents Ana Levy-Lyons February 8, 2015 First Unitarian, Brooklyn   As modern day religious liberals, I think we’ve been finding that some of the parables of Jesus go down a little...

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