Channing Church
Worship Services

Services are held each Sunday at 10:00 AM
Dress: Casual - Child Care - Hearing Assist Devices - Handicap Accessible

Please see our newsletter, the Catalyst, for upcoming Sunday service themes. Services are listed on the last page of the newsletter, as well as in the weekend edition of the Newport Daily News.

Below you will find the text of selected sermons from our Sunday services. Simply click the service title to open the sermon. Print copies of many sermons are also available on the table located to your right as you enter the sanctuary. The Rev. Amy B. Freedman's Newport Daily News Clergy Corner column and blog is available online.

Sermon Archive
2008  
3/16 Rev. Amy Freedman
and Rick Osborne
Atheism in our Liberal Faith
Reflection by Rick Osborne
2/17 Rev. Amy Freedman Darwin's God
2/8 Chris Yalanis and
Dennis Greene
Disney in Newport (Yalanis)
Keeping up the Good Work (Greene)

1/20

Rev. Amy Freedman

Peacemaking

2007  
11/4 Rev. Dr. Carl Scovel

Ikons
Sermon dedicating portrait of William Ellery Channing.

10/27 Rev. Amy B. Freedman All Souls: What is a Soul?
9/30 Rev. Amy B. Freedman Five Smooth Stones of Liberal Religion

9/23 Rev. Amy B. Freedman Wisdom of Insecurity
9/16 Rev. Amy B. Freedman Creating a Life Vision
9/2 Amy Wright Glenn What Unitarian Universalists have to learn from Shia Islam
8/26 Rev. Amy B. Freedman Mister Rogers: A Life of Ministry
8/19 Rev. Amy B. Freedman Theodore Parker: A Life of Reform
8/12 Rev. Amy B. Freedman Frida Kahlo: A Life of Passion
2006  

6/11

Rev. Amy B. Freedman

The Da Vinci Code - Who Was Mary?

6/4

Rev. Amy B. Freedman

The Da Vinci Code - Revealing Secrets

4-16 Rev. Amy B. Freedman

Becoming a Faithful Fool

4-9 Rev. Amy B. Freedman

Telling Our Story, Sharing the History of ChanningChurch

3-5 Rev. Amy B. Freedman
Lent: Voluntary Surrender
1-15 Rev. Amy B. Freedman

Reclaiming Moral Values

2005
12-4 Rev. Amy B. Freedman
Rachel Balaban, Sondra Gold, Bev Green, Sally Hanchett & David Pedrick

December Dilemma- Ideas from Interfaith Families

David Pedrick's reflection

10/ 23

Rev. Amy B. Freedman

Our World Community: Unitarian Universalism and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals

10/16

Rev. Amy B. Freedman

Prayer and Spiritual Practice

6/19

Rev. Amy B. Freedman

Thoreau as Spiritual Guide

5/15

Rev. Amy B. Freedman

Torture, a ticking time-bomb

4/24

Rev. Amy B. Freedman

Time to Remember

4/17

Rev. Amy B. Freedman

Thoughts on Ministry
3/13

Rev. Amy B. Freedman
and Peter Bowden

Confessing Your Faith

2-27

Rev. Amy B. Freedman

Awakening Compassion

1-16 Rev. Amy B. Freedman

Unitarian Universalist Gospel

   
2004
10-17 Rev. Amy B. Freedman Good God!
10-03 Rev. Amy B. Freedman Faithful Democracy
08-22 Rev. Amy B. Freedman Anger and Courage
06-06 Rev. Amy B. Freedman Sacredness of the Ordinary
05-16 Rev. Amy B. Freedman The Quest of a Religious Liberal
04-18 Rev. Amy B. Freedman Crossing the Threshold
04-11 Rev. Amy B. Freedman Easter Sunday Reflections
04-04 Rev. Amy B. Freedman Jesus and Judaism
2003     2002     2001     2000