Past Sermon Contest Winners

2024–2025 Contest Winner

Katie Williams of the UU Church of Muncie, Indiana submitted the winning entry for 2024–2025: Honoring the Interdependent Web: Finding Our Way Back to Kinship.

2023-2024 Contest Winner

Lorna Steele of the First Unitarian Church of Providence, Rhode Island submitted the winning entry: Article II and The Care of All Beings.

2022-2023 Contest Winner

Juliette Moore submitted the winning entry for 2022–23. Read or watch her sermon: Veganism and the 7th Principle.

2021–2022 Contest Winner

Rev. Dr. Joel Tishken of the UU Community Church of Hendricks County in Danville, Indiana, submitted the winning entry for 2021–2022: Nature of the Beast.

2020 Contest Winner

Rev. Dr. J. Carl Gregg of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick, MD, submitted the winning entry for 2020: Thoreau, Animal Emotions, & Us.

2019 Contest Winner

Elizabeth DeCoux submitted the winning entry for 2019. Read or watch her sermon: Seeing Animals