First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis

Don’t miss Revs. Kelli and Jé in this love and beauty duet, a different kind of Sunday morning experience, with story, poetry, and dance. With beautiful music by the Eclectics.

Both Unitarian Universalism and Humanism are products of the nineteenth century idea that all religions come from a common source–perhaps a god, perhaps the human mind. There is a dark side to this conviction.  Text of Talk (PDF): Getting All Meta About It

The great Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa wrote, “Where there are humans / You’ll find flies / And Buddhas.” Our theme for the month of May is Nurturing Beauty. Who doesn’t love beauty, but too often the nurturing part gets onerous.  Text of Talk (PDF): Seedbeds and Worms (Buddhas and Flies)

Let’s give Rev. Jim a send-off filled with joy and gratitude! Message from Rev. Jim Foti.

Let’s give Rev. Jim a send-off filled with joy and gratitude! Message from Rev. Dr. David Breeden.

Let’s give Rev. Jim a send-off filled with joy and gratitude! Message from Rev. Kelli Clement.

Join Rev. Kelli and members of the Climate Justice Team as we celebrate Earth Day. Plan to process to Thomas Lowry Park after Assembly.

One of the devices the great Octavia Butler uses in her fiction is awakening. A character awakes to an unexplainable new reality only to discover that it is like the old reality. Butler uses this device to discuss the Black experience in America and so much more.  Text of Talk (PDF): Waking and Waking Again

It appears that ranking things comes naturally. Good. Better. Best. When learning a language, words for ranking are some of the first we learn. Ranking, however, artificially creates a better than rather than a different from.  Text of Talk (PDF): Wake, Woke, Enlightened

During the pandemic many have felt a strange sense of time. Faster? Slower? Usually both. Our perceptions of time are not merely an annoyance. The perception of time is a key to how consciousness works. A talk from David Breeden Text of talk (PDF): Time is the Trickster

“Committing to the Seasons and the Change” with Rev. Dr. David Breeden. Human religions have marked the seasons most likely since the beginning of human consciousness. But it isn’t the seasons that frighten us so much as the change. Text of Talk (PDF): Committing to the Seasons and the Change

“Committing to the Seasons and the Change” with Rev. Dr. David Breeden. Human religions have marked the seasons most likely since the beginning of human consciousness. But it isn’t the seasons that frighten us so much as the change. Text of Talk (PDF) Committing to the Seasons and the Change

In a world full of daunting challenges, it can be grounding to remember to what and to whom we are most committed – and why. Join us for Rev. Jim’s second-to-last talk at FUS. Text of Talk (PDF): Whose Are We?

A talk from Rev. Dr. David Breeden: The Modernist poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) wrote those words as an admonishment to his generation of writers to be “modern.” It’s not bad advice for living a life, either, lest, as Pound wrote, “And life slips by like a field mouse / Not shaking the grass.” Text of […]

Revs. David & Kelli will share the talk to discuss how we draw the circle wider still, both within and beyond our congregation.

Revs. David & Kelli will share the talk to discuss how we draw the circle wider still, both within and beyond our congregation.

The video “Baby Shark” is the first on YouTube to cross the ten billion views milestone. Ten billion? We are living in what the World Health Organization terms an “Infodemic.” Information is everywhere. How much of it can one person absorb? How can we avoid the “noise”? Text of talk (PDF): Signal and Noise

Text of talk (PDF): The Venn Diagrams of Community Most individuals belong to more than one kind of community, with each of us at the center of our very own Venn diagram. But what might we do about all the circles that don’t overlap, and the forces that keep people apart?

with Rev. Dr. David Breeden Text of talk (PDF): One of Degree and Not of Kind: Darwin Widens the Circle In his book The Descent of Man, 1871, Charles Darwin wrote, “The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.” We still grapple with […]

with Rev. Dr. David Breeden Text of talk (PDF): Intentionality and the Big Fix Scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote, “All of humanity’s problems stem from our inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” That is probably a bit of an over-simplification, yet our avoidance of boredom and solitude may well be why so few […]

with Rev. Dr. David Breeden, Christopher D. Sims, and music by Ted Olsen. Text of talk (PDF): A Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Spoken Word and Music

A talk by Rev. Dr. David Breeden Text of talk (PDF): Living with Intention: Theory and Practice Pt. 2

A talk by Rev. Jim Foti

A talk by Rev. Dr. David Breeden Text of talk (PDF): But I Didn’t Mean To! with Rev. Dr. David Breeden

A talk by Rev. Jim Foti