Wavelengths: A WUU Podcast

Come listen to a WUU service! UU principles call us to "a free and responsible search for truth and meaning." In this time of "fake news" and lying for the sake of power, how can we contribute to rebuilding a culture of truth? Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister Austen Petersen, Director of Religious Education Dave Robbins, Assistant Director of Music, Piano The YouTube version is here . Thank you...

Come listen to a WUU service! Come celebrate with our high school seniors at our annual "Bridging" service! Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister David Hopkinson, Worship Associate Austen Petersen, Director of Religious Education Dave Robbins, Assistant Director of Music, Piano Emma's Revolution, "Swimming to the Other Side" The YouTube version is here . Thank you for listening. For more information...

Come listen to a WUU service! Each of us can tell the personal stories of our lives. But we're also held in the much larger stories of culture, religion, and the cosmos itself. On this 60th anniversary of the merger between the Unitarians and the Universalists, we'll celebrate the liberating stories of our historic faith...and tend to their shadow sides. Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister Nicki Pe...

Come listen to a WUU service! Please join us virtually in our annual May Day Gathering! We will be celebrating Spring, flowers and gardens. Please share photos and short videos of your gardens, family, outdoor movement, color, joy, flora! Come let us blossom together! Liz Wiley, Worship Associate Dave Robbins, Assistant Director of Music, Piano Hayda Jinmaku-Brown, Offertory Music The YouTube vers...

Come listen to a WUU service! Social worker JoLillian Zwerdling writes, "From Starfish I have learned that if we keep our core intact, we can regenerate. We can fall apart, lose limbs, and re-grow them as long as we don’t let anyone threaten that central disc’s integrity." How can we keep our own center strong in this time when so much change and creativity is needed? Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Min...

Come listen to a WUU service! It's human nature to create new things--crafts and tools, arts of all kinds...and, in the last 150 years, industrial technologies that, along with their many undeniable gifts, have also brought our planet to the brink of collapse. On this Earth Day Sunday, how can we shift our dreams of "more and better" toward being content with what is sustainable? Rev. Laura Horton...

Come listen to a WUU service! All around us we see signs of new life emerging from the stark landscape of winter. Flowers, birdsong, the drone of bees. The world is coming to life again. In the Northern hemisphere, spring happens to align (helpfully) with the Christian celebration of Easter - the essential and foundational event of the Christian community. Easter is really a story about new life -...

Come listen to a WUU service! It has been a long, hard year...but in this season of Easter and spring, hope is rising at last. Today we celebrate the new life awakening in us and beckoning us forward. Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister Susan Marcinkus, Worship Associate WUU Choir, directed by Dr. Jamie Bartlett, Director of Music Austen Petersen, Director of Religious Education Kaya O’Brien-James,...

Come listen to a WUU service! What if to "side with love" meant making bold, faith-full choices? What if it were even a little bit scary? This worship service brings together worship leaders and musicians from across the country to offer hopeful, moving, challenging reminders about what we, as Unitarian Universalists, are called to do, and BE, in the world. Side with Love is an interfaith public a...

Come listen to a WUU service! Today we celebrate the story of Rev. Olympia Brown, the first woman to be ordained a Universalist minister, and her most famous congregant: the one and only P. T. Barnum, creator of the Greatest Show on Earth--and staunch supporter of his Universalist congregation. And though we might not have tightrope walkers or flame-swallowers here at WUU, we'll still cheer for ev...

Executive Producer Jonathan Newby as interviews Jodi Fisler of WUU about her efforts with UU the Vote, a Unitarian Universalist initiative to promote voting and expand voter rights. Learn more about WUU at wuu.org.

Come listen to a WUU service! Unitarian Universalists have long valued our spiritual freedom. But freedom has a shadow side: it's easy to walk away rather than stay and do the hard work of working it out in community. Today we'll explore what the ancient monastic virtue of stability might have to teach us today. Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister Susan Marcinkus, Worship Associate Austen Petersen,...

Come listen to a WUU service! Do I have a right to be comfortable in church? What about when my comfort means someone else's exclusion? Today we celebrate the power of covenant to help us move through discomfort toward deeper community and justice for all. Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister David Hopkinson, Worship Associate Austen Petersen, Director of Religious Education Dave Robbins, Assistant...

Come listen to a WUU service! Australian Indigenous activist, Lilla Watson, says, “If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” Join our guest preachers, the Rev. Laura Randall and Heather Vickery of UUSC, as we explore how to create together the beloved community. Rev. Laura Randall, UU...

Come listen to a WUU service! Esther, a Jewish woman who saved her community from annihilation. Maybe, as Esther's uncle tells her, we too are here "for such a time as this." Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister Nan Hart, Worship Associate Austen Petersen, Director of Religious Education WUU Choir, directed by Dr. Jamie Bartlett, Director of Music Dave Robbins, Assistant Director of Music, Piano The...

Come listen to a WUU service! Part 2 of a series on the meaning of beloved community. UUs often ask, do I really have to love everybody? Of course, we can only do our best. But our tradition teaches that everyone is loved by a Love bigger than we are--even the people we think deserve love the least. Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister Nicki Peet,, Worship Associate Austen Petersen, Director of Reli...

Come listen to a WUU service! Our favorite songs, whoever the artist or whatever the style, were created in a strange alchemy of study and inspiration, of strict practice and of letting go. Spiritual Practice is a similar combination of dedication, muscle memory, and perhaps a little divine inspiration. Join us for a musical exploration of learning to risk, building the muscle memory of courage, a...

Come listen to a WUU service! Our favorite songs, whoever the artist or whatever the style, were created in a strange alchemy of study and inspiration, of strict practice and of letting go. Spiritual Practice is a similar combination of dedication, muscle memory, and perhaps a little divine inspiration. Join us for a musical exploration of learning to risk, building the muscle memory of courage, a...

Come listen to a WUU service! The creation stories we grow up with have a powerful impact on how we see the world. Today, inspired by theologian Walter Wink's groundbreaking work on violence in ancient Indo-European creation stories, we'll examine what we learned, and imagine some new stories. Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister David Hopkinson, Worship Associate Austen Petersen, Director of Religi...

Come listen to a WUU service! In times even more fraught than ours, Dr. King believed and preached that "the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice." Today we seek inspiration and renewed strength from his example. Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister Nan Hart, Worship Associate Austen Petersen, Director of Religious Education Dave Robbins, Assistant Director of Music, Piano The YouTube vers...

Come listen to a WUU service! Many cultures teach that dreams are gifts from Spirit, bearers of wisdom, if only we can unravel the meanings of their strange events and symbols. Today we'll learn practical ways to invite our own dreams to reveal their wisdom and healing power for ourselves and our society. Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister Nicki Peet, Worship Associate Austen Petersen, Director of...

Come listen to a WUU service! Where, oh where are Shangri-la, Brigadoon, and the Fountain of Youth? In this service we will examine these idealistic Utopias and discover how we can use them to become re-enchanted with reality. Addie Hirschten, Guest Worship Leader Dave Robbins, Assistant Director of Music, Piano The YouTube version is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFfvL5TkhvA> Thank you fo...

Come listen to a WUU service! Anthropologist Victor Turner spent a great deal of time researching "primitive" communities. He was especially drawn to their life of ritual practice and to fostering "communitas," a continuing practice loving attention for all. Today we will explore this way of living grounded in hope and peacefulness. Rev. Dr. David Tetrault, Guest Worship Leader David Hopkinson, Wo...

Come listen to a WUU service! All are welcome for this contemplative service of music and readings celebrating the Christmas story. Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister Susan Marcinkus, Worship Associate Katrina Landon, Luca BenYishay-Sapalio, Readers Jane Ferguson, Vicki Hall, Renee Kingan & Christine Llewellyn, Recorders Dave Robbins, Assistant Director of Music, Piano WUU Choir, directed by Dr. J...

Come listen to a WUU service! Today we gather to celebrate the Winter Solstice and honor the balance of light and dark as we approach the shortest day of the year. Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister Liz Wiley, Worship Associate Austen Petersen, Director of Religious Education Dave Robbins, Piano Helen Hansen, Share the Plate Merry Guernsey & Angela Surber, New Member Ceremony “For the Beauty of th...