"Beyond Hope and Fear: Staying (mostly) positive in abruptly disturbing times" - Michael Dowd, 2021
Michael Dowd delivered this online sermon August 2021 for Community Unitarian Universalists of Brighton, Michigan. Following Michael's death in October 2023, the service leader of that sermon (Terry Sharik) and I (Michael's widow, Connie Barlow) decided in 2024 to edit and post this sermon as a legacy piece.
As video editor, I extracted the sermon from the full church service video — and lo and behold discovered that I myself told a Story for All Ages during the service. So that is included too. The story was titled "Helping Forests Walk", and I moved it from near the beginning of the service to the end of this video. So it is Michael's sermon that begins right away.
For a well-organized and linked list of all of Michael Dowd's videos during the last half of the 18 years he and I lived on the road, visit the archival webpage I created for exactly that purpose. Its title: "Michael Dowd: Postdoom Pastor": https://thegreatstory.org/michaeldowd...
And absolutely do visit the Postdoom.com website that Michael founded in 2019. The new leadership since Michael's death have been greatly improving the website graphics, accessibility, and resources for serving the community for which it was designed. Bravo!
