Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County - Sermons minister@uucdc.org, Peter Friedrichs

The Winter Solstice was about a week and a half ago. In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the day with the shortest period of daylight and the longest night of the year. Around our area of suburban Philadelphia, that means the longest night was over fourteen and a half hours. That’s a lot of darkness. The … Continue reading Finding Faith in the Darkest of Hours

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The graduate program for your Masters of Divinity is a rigorous one. It takes at least three years, and often longer, to complete. It took me four years to finish my MDiv and all the additional requirements that the Unitarian Universalist Association has for ministers. When you go to seminary, they teach you all kinds … Continue reading Trusting in Us

What’s all this “alleluia-ing” about? And why do so many Easter hymns have so many of them? Well, I’ll tell you: “Alleluia” is an Anglicized version of “Hallelujah,” which comes from the Hebrew expression that mean “Praise the Lord.” Whether you start and end it with an “H” or start and end it with an “A,” it means the same thing: “Praise the Lord.” In most Christian churches, singing “Alleluia” is … Continue reading Alleluia and Hallelujah

If I believed in such things, I would say that my father-in-law, Dan Fitzpatrick, is looking down and laughing at me right now. He would find it at least entertaining if not completely ridiculous that I, with all my fancy degrees, would be standing before you complaining about having to learn things “the hard way.” … Continue reading The School of Hard Knocks

I was sitting in my room thinking of how big liminality is and how I would bring it to you today. I had at least seven different half sermons circulating each with its own merit and open space to develop, yet none of them seemed right. I turned to my phone, in frustration. I was … Continue reading Beauty Betwixt and Between