Apr 27, 2026
These messages were delivered on Sunday, April 26, 2026, at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by our graduating seniors. Violet Voelker, Anjelita Letterman, Nate Gillispie, Cassius Clark,Gary Mize, Emerson Shankle-Knowlton, and Carter Viles all spoke.
Together, these voices ask: What do we owe each other? What does it cost to be ourselves? And what does it look like when a community actually holds you?
What does it mean to live a truly successful life? To face the thing you fear most — and survive it? To leave behind everyone you love, and discover you're still okay?
In these seven senior sermons, young people on the edge of adulthood grapple with questions that don't have easy answers. One discovered that the only way past fear is through it — fencing, debate, and all. Another grew up outside every box society offered and found that difference isn't something to fix. A young person living with ADHD reflects on what support actually looks like — and what it means to finally feel like you belong. One asks a question that has haunted generations: how should a life be spent, if not in service to others? Another had their worst fear come true at 16 — and learned something unexpected about what comes after. And one delivers their sermon from across an ocean, describing what it felt like to hold hands in public without fear for the very first time.
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