Sermon Category: Guest Minister

Led by UUCM member Ghana Hylton, our service will ask what does faith mean for a Unitarian Universalist within this community and in relationship with our world?

“God Matters” - led by the Rev. Abhi Janamanchi, who will share his own journey with God and how it has impacted his own learning and growth. Janamanchi currently serves as senior minister of Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church in Bethesda, Maryland. Born and raised in Southern India, Abhi moved to the United States in 1994. He is a third-generation member of the Brahmo Samaj, a Unitarian Hindu reform movement with ties to Unitarian Universalism and he graduated from Meadville Lombard Theological School in 1998 and received an honorary doctorate from Meadville Lombard in 2018.

This sermon spotlights liberation theology and the role of progressive religion in the fight against systemic oppression.

How do we respect our independence and individuality while also honoring the ways that we are all interdependent on each other?

Amid these holidays/holy days, candles are kindled, trees twinkle, a star shines in the East, and legends of light illumine our hearts and warm our imaginations—as if the very Universe has proclaimed: “Let there be light.”