Sunday Messages Podcast

From our service on January 15, 2023, Ken Taylor gives a message, "Who ARE You? The Reflections You Present."

For this episode, we welcome guest speaker Olivia Meikle, who teaches Women's & Gender Studies at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and also co-hosts the podcast What'sHerName. Olivia's message is titled, "Dreams of Peace: Judith Sargent Murray and Hope in Times of Hopelessness."

From our service on Sunday, January 1, 2023, CVUU member and past president Heather Flory gives her message, "Finding Our Center at the CVUU."

From our Christmas Eve service on December 24, 2022, Pastor Emma Peterson gives her homily, "A Star in the East: Signs, Certainty, and Mystical Revolutions of the Heart."

In a message from the service on Sunday, December 4, 2022, several members and friends of our congregation reflect on the 7 Unitarian Universalist Principles.

From our service on October 23, 2022, Pastor Emma Peterson delivers her message, "What's a Gadfly? The 2019 General Assembly Shake-Up and Healing What's Broken." This is the fourth and final installment in the series on the fight for racial justice within Unitarian Universalism.

From our service on October 16, 2022, Pastor Emma Peterson delivers her message, "The UUA Hiring Controversy, Efforts of Reparative Justice, and the Path Forward." This is the third installment in the series of messages on the fight for racial justice within Unitarian Universalism.

From our service on August 7, 2022, Pastor Emma Peterson delivers the message "Journeying Toward Spiritual Wholeness: The Proposed 8th Principle and the Backlash Against It." This is the second installment in the series on the fight for racial justice within Unitarian Universalism.

From our service on July 17, 2022, Pastor Emma Peterson delivers the first of four messages in a series about the fight for racial justice in Unitarian Universalism.

In celebration of the full moon on October 9, 2022, Karen Impola and Floralyn Groff bring us a message and a guided meditation on the moon.

From our Labor Day service on September 4, 2022, Pastor Emma Peterson delivers a message, "Shaping the World: The Modern Day Labor Movement and the Hope for a More Equitable Future."

From our kickoff Sunday, September 11, 2022, Pastor Emma Peterson delivers a message for the start of the new program year, called "New Growth from Deep Roots."

From May 2022, Pastor Emma Peterson delivers a message, "Good and Faithful Allies: Examining the Most Recent Assault on LGBTQ and Women's Rights, and What Unitarian Universalists Can Do About It."

From our Coordinator of Children's Religious Education, Kate Dembinski Flynn, comes a message from May 2022, "Myth-Making/Myth-Breaking."

Our member Dennis Harbaugh talks about science -- what it is, what it isn't, and why that matters for Unitarian Universalists.

From our service on Easter Sunday 2022, Pastor Emma talks about lotus blossoms, COVID-19, and resurrection.

From our service on March 27, 2022, our member Karen Potter, talks about how to be present and experience your life without overthinking it.

From our annual Stewardship Sunday, Pastor Emma Peterson talks about our circles of connections and how we can draw the circles wider.

Pastor Emma Peterson sits down with CVUU member and retired Hospice nurse Nancie Groszkruger in this conversational message that they have called "Living Your Best at End of Life: On Mortality, Hospice, and the Transforming Power of Compassionate End-of-Life Care."

From our service on February 20, 2022, Dr. John Burnight of the University of Northern Iowa talks to us about the early life of the Buddha.

From Valentine's Day weekend 2022, Pastor Emma Peterson delivers a message, "Love, Sweet Love: How the Romantic Relationship Became the Ultimate Goal and How That Harms Us."

From our service on February 6, 2022, a message for Groundhog Day and the coming spring.

From January 30, 2022, Pastor Emma Peterson talks about the loneliness epidemic and what we can do about it.

From our service on January 23, Heather Flory brings a message and meditation about gratitude.

Guest speaker Clark Porter talks about the lessons we can learn from water, in "Lessons from the Streambank."