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The Dr. Duncan Howlett Sermon Collection

 

1960's

The sermons in this collection are organized in chronological order.  For a list of titles available in each year, click on the year below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
     

1960                                                                                                                                            Back to Top

January 3, 1960

Portents for a Decade

January 17,1960

What Kind of Person are You?

January 24, 1960

Jericho - the Bible Contradicted

January 31, 1960

Sodom and Gomorrah - the Bible Confirmed

February 7, 1960

Qumran - the Bible in Perspective

February 21, 1960

Shall Unitarians and Universalists Unite?

February 28, 1960

That Air Force Manual

March 6, 1960

The Dimensions of the Chessman Case (Sermon notes for and printed sermon)

March 13, 1960

Escape to Reality

March 20, 1960

The Fortress of Self

March 27, 1960

Deep Freeze in the South

April 3, 1960

The Gospel According to Thomas

April 10, 1960

The Eternal Protest

April 17, 1960

The Ultimate Affirmation

April 24, 1960

A Matter of Self Discipline

May 1, 1960

Standing up to the Religious Issue

May 8, 1960

One Man in Three Billion

May 15, 1960

What About Spies (Sermon Notes for a printed Sermon)

May 22, 1960

On Being Sophisticated

May 29, 1960

On Earth, Not in Heaven

June 5, 1960

The Belief of an Unbeliever

June 12, 1960

The World's Stake in American Politics

June 19, 1960

Theodore Parker Today

July 31, 1960

Religion Without Revelation

August 21, 1960

Matthew 6:16-24

August 28, 1960

Religion and Law

September 25, 1960

Danger and Promise in the United Nations

October 2, 1960

The Discovery of Suffering

October 9, 1960

No Meeting of East and West

October 30, 1960

The Uses of Prejudice in Religion and Politics

November 27, 1960

No Retribution

December 4, 1960

The Demise of the City Beautiful

December 12, 1960

Goals for the Nation by Commission

December 18, 1960

Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh

December 25, 1960

The Miracle of Life Itself

 

1961                                                                                                                                            Back to Top

February 2, 1961

Thirty Days in Jail (Notes for printed sermon)

February 5, 1961

Radio Talk

February 5, 1961

Obscenity and Censorship

February 26, 1961

The Deadline Everyone Meets

March 5, 1961

Education Without Discrimination

March 12, 1961

The Untold Story of the Sit-Ins

March 19, 1961

Not Another New Bible

March 26, 1961

Jesus the Man

April 2, 1961

The Valley of Decision

April 16, 1961

As it was in the Beginning

April 23, 1961

The Tragedy of an Unwanted Child

April 30, 1961

The Mirror of Life

May 7, 1961

Fear, Frustration and Folly

May 21, 1961

Our National Scapegoat

May 28, 1961

Today's Meanings for Yesterday's Memorials

June 4, 1961

Our Shifting Values

June 11, 1961

The Nostalgic Truth

June 18, 1961

Trip to the Moon (Sermon notes for printed sermon)

July 30, 1961

Man's Search for Meaning

September 10, 1961

What Khrushchev Wants

September 17, 1961

When Parents Advise Cheating

October 1, 1961

No Atheists in Foxholes or Bomb shelters?

October 8, 1961

The scandal of the Ecumenical Movement

October 22, 1961

What Shall we do about Mississippi?

October 29, 1961

If the World Cared Enough

November 5, 1961

The Onus of our Puritan Heritage

November 12, 1961

The Creed of a Creedless Church

November 19, 1961

The Right to Die in Peace

December 10, 1961

God and Gideon

December 17, 1961

Our Over Stimulated Minds

December 24, 1961

Open Season on Santa Claus

 

1962                                                                                                                                            Back to Top

January 7, 1962

Our Juvenile Court

February 4, 1962

Battle Hymn

February 11, 1962

The Psychological Power of Unadorned Worship

February 25, 1962

What are we Testing?

March 4, 1962

The Family Reappraised

March 18, 1962

Right Turn to Violence

March 18, 1962

Shall We Feed the Chinese?

March 25, 1962

Violence in the Streets

April 1, 1962

The Epicenter of Your Life

April 8, 1962

The Person of Jesus Reconsidered

April 15, 1962

New Estimates of Jesus the Man

April 22, 1962

An Easter that’s Big Enough

May 6, 1962

The Ideals of Our Day

May 12, 1962

The Right to Privacy

May 20, 1962

The Modern Myth of Creation

June 10, 1962

The Enigma of Billie Sol Estes

June 16, 1962

The Pursuit of Pleasure

July 29, 1962

Choosing Among the Religions

July 29, 1962

The Battle of the Assumptions

September 16, 1962

Sterilization and Morality

September 23, 1962

The Foundations of Religious Faith

September 30, 1962

Lessons from Mississippi

October 21, 1962

The Threat in Cuba

November 18, 1962

The Foundations of Religious Faith

November 25, 1962

Saving Yourself

December 2, 1962

Kafka, Kierkegard and Job

December 9, 1962

Advise but Assent

December 16, 1962

The Elder Brother of the Prodigal Son

December 23, 1962

Who were the Wise Men?

December 30, 1962

The Great Horizon

 

1963                                                                                                                                            Back to Top

January 13, 1963

The Loveliness of Virtue

February 3, 1963

Delusions of Grandeur

February 10, 1963

February 1863-1963

March 10, 1963

The Negro in the Nation's Capital

March 17, 1963

Our Needs As People

March 31, 1963

Our Vanishing Wilderness

April 7, 1963

The Measure of Failure

April 14, 1963

The Festival of Hope

April 28, 1963

The Ethics of Freud

May 12 and 19, 1963

Alabama's Lesson to the District

May 26, 1963

Hell

June 2, 1963

Baccalaureate Sermon

June 9, 1963

The New Face of Rome

June 16, 1963

The Finger Now Points to the Senate

August 4, 1963

A Second Look at Adam

August 18, 1963

Peace Situation in Washington

September 15, 1963

Let the Senate Ratify the Treaty

September 22, 1963

The Ominous Sound

September 29, 1963

The Hen-Pecked

October 6, 1963

Why Unitarianism is Growing

October 20, 1963

America Discovers the Funeral

October 27, 1963

The Morals of Science

December 1, 1963

Our Moment of Truth

December 8, 1963

Here Am I: Send Me

December 15, 1963

Love's Great Risk

December 22, 1963

The Night After Christmas

 

1964                                                                                                                                            Back to Top

January 12, 1964

Economy, Equality, Poverty and Peace

January 26, 1964

Poverty in the District of Columbia

February 2, 1964

The Limits of Conscience

February 9, 1964

The Furor After the Fall

February 16, 1964

The Long Shadow of China

February 23, 1964

The New Alignment in American Religion

March 8, 1964

Report From the South

March 29, 1964

The Belief in Immortality

April 12, 1964

The Enduring Significance of Thomas Jefferson

May 17, 1964

The Use of Fatigue

May 31, 1964

The World's Deep Discontent

June 14, 1964

Portents for a Long, Hot Summer

October 4, 1964

What the Warren Report Left Out

October 11, 1964

The Heights and Depths of Life

November 8, 1964

The Faith of Adventure

November 15, 1964

The Art of Postponement

November 22, 1964

The Legacy of John F. Kennedy

 

1965                                                                                                                                            Back to Top

January 3, 1965

Moral Leadership and Civil Rights

January 7, 1965

Life Magazine's Unitarian Bible

January 10, 1965

Need Your Life Be Lived?

January 24, 1965

Bishop Pike's Unitarian Theology

February 7, 1965

Fromm's Unitarian Psychology

February 14, 1965

Teilhard De Chardin's Unitarian Science

February 21, 1965

The Growing Edge of Unitarianism

February 28, 1965

Vortex in Vietnam

March 14, 1965

Report from Alabama and Mississippi

March 21, 1965

The Moral Stature of the Civil Rights Movement

March 28, 1965

Witness in Montgomery

May 16, 1965

The Open Heart

June 13, 1965

Can Thinking Make it So?

July 18, 1965

Adlai Stevenson: Memorial Address

September 12, 1965

The Rule of Law

September 19, 1965

A Letter to the Lonely

September 26, 1965

Escape to Reality

November 3, 1965

White Justice in the Deep South

October 17, 1965

The Road to the Judiciary

November 7, 1965

Is God Dead?

November 14, 1965

Immolation

November 21, 1965

The Untarnished Holiday

December 12, 1965

The Death Knell of the Old South

 

1966                                                                                                                                            Back to Top

January 2, 1966

The Parable of the Power Failure

January 9, 1966

Do We Need a New Theology

January 9, 1966

Living with Your Quandaries

January 16, 1966

Snowbound

January 16, 1966

Student Radicals in the West

February 6, 1966

Believing in Your Self

February 27, 1966

The New Morality

March 6, 1966

The James Reeb Story

March 13, 1966

The Purposes of the Heart

March 20, 1966

Has God Died?

March 27, 1966

The World Without God

April 3, 1966

Will God Live Again?

April 10, 1966

The Meaning of the Resurrection Myth

April 17, 1966

Is God Dead?

April 24, 1966

Keeping Faith with Our Heritage

May 1, 1966

The Limits of Liberty

May 8, 1966

Police Protection and Aggravation

May 15, 1966

Life with the Computer

May 22, 1966

Is Christ Dead too?

May 29, 1966

What is Beauty in the City?

June 12, 1966

Marching Thru Mississippi

July 31, 1966

The Duty of Detachment

September 11, 1966

The Church That Decides to Stay

September 16, 1966

Living with a Wife - or Husband

October 23, 1966

Do we Really Believe in the UN?

October 29, 1966

The Fourth American Faith

October 30, 1966

The Next Stage in the Civil Rights Movement

November 3, 1966

The New Alignment in American Religion

November 13, 1966

What Shall Our Tomorrow Be?

November 27, 1966

Adult Underachievers

December 11, 1966

Our Taste for Evil

December 18, 1966

The Festival of Birth

 

1967                                                                                                                                            Back to Top

January 8, 1967

Stonehenge on the Potomac

February 5, 1967

Government by Protest

February 26, 1967

The Obligations of Power How Far Shall we Tamper With Life?

March 12, 1967

Legacy of James Reeb

March 19, 1967

The Open Heart

March 26, 1967

Immortality by Deep Freeze

April 9, 1967

Fear in Our Cities

April 15, 1967

Fosdick to Niebuhr to Cox

April 23, 1967

The Secular, Urban and Suburban

April 30, 1967

Is Secular Religion Possible?

May 7, 1967

What Should the White Man Do?

May 21, 1967

Are you a Social Drop-Out?

May 27, 1967

The Dilemma of Grief

June 11, 1967

The American Commitment

September 17, 1967

The Urge to Master Those We Love

October 1, 1967

Why Not Stop, Mr. President?

October 22, 1967

What Do You Live By?

October 29, 1967

The New Age of Protest

November 5, 1967

The Free Faith in an Age of Turmoil

November 6, 1966

The Secular Church

November 12, 1967

Halloween Apples and Razor Blades

November 19, 1967

Grace

November 26, 1967

The Signpost at Clifton Terrace

December 10, 1967

Fear

December 10, 1967

Unitarians Face a New Age

December 17, 1967

Ode to a Grecian Horse

 

1968                                                                                                                                            Back to Top

January 14, 1968

Who Shall Have Your Heart?

January 15, 1968

The Fourth American Faith

January 21, 1968

The Single Unitarian Dogma

January 26, 1968

The Single Unitarian Dogma

February 4, 1968

The Cost of Claiming the Future

February 11, 1968

New Dimensions in RE

February 18, 1968

Our Moment of Truth

March 3, 1968

Our Glutted Minds

March 17, 1968

What Would Jim Reeb Do?

Easter 1968

Easter 1968

March 31, 1968

Big Bang vs. Steady State Religion

May 5, 1968

Believing in Yourself

May 19, 1968

The Future of Religion

May 26, 1968

The Religion of Adventure

 

1969                                                                                                                Back to Top

March 2, 1969

The Urge to Master Those We Love

March 9, 1969

The Student Confrontation

March 16, 1969

Which Program: Space, Poverty, or the ABM?

March 23, 1969

Don't Bus the Children

March 30, 1969

Dwight Eisenhower - A Reappraisal

April 6, 1969

The Meaning of the Resurrection Myth

April 13, 1969

Facing the Fact of Godlessness

April 20, 1969

Is Godless Church Possible?

April 27, 1969

The Faith of Adventure

May 18, 1969

Big Bang vs. State Religion

May 25, 1969

What Youth Leaves Out

June 1, 1969

Reflections of Thirty - Five Years of Ministry

 

 

 

   
 

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