Peg Duthie - UU activities

Peg Duthie
Unitarian Universalist activities

SERMONS

For the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Cookeville, Tennessee

"Introversion and Community," 8 June 2008
"Stubbornness: All I Cannot Save," 18 May 2008
"Telling Someone They're Wrong," 9 March 2008
"Pink Ribbons and Chocolate," 17 February 2008
"The Holiness of Holidays and Everydays," 24 June 2007
"To All On Earth," 27 May 2007
"The Poetry of Inconvenience," 22 April 2007
"Earth Is Given As A Garden," 11 March 2007
""Harder Still Is This," 25 February 2007
"Freedom Has Its Rules, But What Are They?" 17 December 2006
"Stars Keep the Watch: An Advent Sermon," 26 November 2006
"Listener's Choice?", 29 October 2006
"The Sweetness (and Scariness) of Fixing the World," 24 September 2006
"The Inherent Worth and Dignity of Every Person," 13 August 2006
"Hyphens and Acronyms," 23 July 2006
"Wrestling with the Angels and Demons of Community," 25 June 2006
"Bearing Witness for the Earth," 28 May 2006
"On Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and Why Gay Marriage is Good for Business," 23 April 2006
"Joseph Priestley: Clergyman, Chemist, and Revolutionary," 12 March 2006
"Lovers of the Republic: Lincoln's Admirers and Their Legacies," 12 February 2006
"Who is the 'Who' in 'Whoever You Are'?" 22 January 2006
"What is Believed and What Is Received," 27 November 2005
"Ambisexuality," 25 September 2005
"Of Books and Faith: Frederic G. Melcher," 28 August 2005
"Death is Not the Opposite of Life: Planning Now for the Beyond," 24 July 2005
"Getting to (and from) the Heart of Texas," 26 June 2005
"In the Wake of the Santa Maria," 10 October 2004
"Mingling," 28 September 2003
"A University for the Soul: Why Go to Church?" 24 August 2003

For the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville, Tennessee

"Unicorns, Hippogriffs, and Bisexuals," 22 July 2007
"Was Thomas Jefferson Really One of Us?" 4 July 2004
"The Patterns We Obey, The Patterns We May Use," 25 November 2001

For the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Pleasant Hill, Tennessee

"Joseph Priestley: Clergyman, Chemist, and Revolutionary," 23 April 2006

For the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tullahoma, Tennessee

"(Dis)owning Jefferson and Outing Lincoln?" 27 February 2005

ESSAYS

"Hendrik Willem van Loon," Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography, January 2005
"Was Thomas Jefferson Really One of Us?" UU World, November/December 2004

WORSHIP, MUSIC, AND SERVICE (at FUUN)

  • Trustee, 2008-present.
  • Director-at-large, 2003-2006. Recipient of the President's Award.
  • Chair, Committee on Administration, 2003-2006.
  • Ensemble singer, The Fire of Commitment, released January 2005. See under "Audio" at Jason Shelton's website to hear samples and/or to order.
  • Delegate to General Assembly, 2003 (I'm the Asian woman at the mic on this page).
  • Lay leader, hymn leader, and singer (adult and chamber choirs), 2001–present.
  • Member, worship committee, 2001–2002.
  • Volunteer, Room in the Inn, 2006-present.

  • STEWARDSHIP

  • Communications director for "The Future of First UU Is In Your Hands" (2006 campaign).
  • Co-writer, The Fear of Commitment (three-act play for FUUN's 2003 Canvass Dinner)


  • Unitarian Universalist Association
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