Saltwater Church
A Unitarian Universalist Congregation
25701 14th Place South
Des Moines, Washington 98198
(253) 839-5200
info@saltwaterchurch.org


" Nurturing the Spirit of the Individual and the Common Good of the World"

Quotation for Reflection

"This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, argue, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide and seek. To seek: to embrace the questions, be wary of answers." - - Terry Tempest Williams, naturalist and author


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Selected Sunday Morning Sermons of Reverend James Kubal-Komoto

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2007

"Living Courageously" (January 7, 2007)
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"Remembering a Unitarian Universalist Hero: The James Reeb Story" (January 21, 2007)
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"Atheist, Agnostic, or Believer?" (February 25, 2007)
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"Your Life Is Happening Now" (March 18, 2007)
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"Attack of the Atheists" (April 1, 2007)
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"Love Incarnate: An Easter Sermon" (April 8, 2007)
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"Living with Exuberance" (May 5, 2007)
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"Remembering Kurt Vonnegut" (May 27, 2007)
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"Stories of Redemption" (September 16, 2007)
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"Learning To See Differently" (September 30, 2007)
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"Guilt-free Living" (October 7, 2007)
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2006

"How to be a More Spiritual Person in 15 Minutes a Day (or Thank God I'm Not a Penguin)" (January 8, 2006)
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"Religiously Liberal Political Conservatives"  (January 15, 2006)
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"Sacred Choices: 33 Years after Roe v. Wade" (January 22, 2006)
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"Hope and Healing: Why Hope Matters When We're Sick" (February 12, 2006)
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"The Gift of Solitude" (February 19, 2006)
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"The Dangers of Faith: The Clash of Religion and Reason in the 21st Century" (February 26, 2006)
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"Imagining Immortality" (March 12, 2006)
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"Sermon on The Mound" (April 2, 2006)
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"Sharing the Good News of Unitarian Universalism" (April 9, 2006)
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"The DaVinci Code: Untangling Fact from Fiction" (April 16, 2006)
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"Do We Welcome the Stranger? A Liberal Religious Perspective on Illegal Immigration" (May 21, 2006)
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"Spirituality and Religion: Why We Need Both" (September 3, 2006)
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"A More Abundant Life" (September 10, 2006)
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"Why the World Doesn't Need Superman, Jesus, or Even God" (September 17, 2006)
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"The Long, Hard, Winding Road to Forgiveness" (October 1, 2006)
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"What Men Really Want" (October 8, 2006)
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"Taking Back Our Time" (October 22, 2006)
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"Reflections on War" (November 12, 2006)
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"Endbeginnings"  (December 10, 2006)
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2000-2005

"I Was A Teenage Mall Santa" (December 2000)
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"The Second Week of January" (January 2003)
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"Jesus: American Idol" (April 2005)
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"What's Religion All About, Anyway?"
(August 2005)
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"A Not So Intelligent Design" (September 2005)
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"What's So Amazing About Grace?" (November 2005)
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