First Universalist Church of Minneapolis Sunday Service Podcast

2012-09-23 Rev. Jen Crow/Tending the Spirit 26.09.2012 25:38 ↓

This month we explore the spiritual practice of radical connection between body and mind, external and internal, subject and object, private and institutional, public and personal. We will endeavor to widen our personality, as individuals and a church, so we might answer our calling to create a greater good, and grow the beloved community by cultivating presence.

2012-08-19 Rev. Michael Dowd/The Story Big Enough to Hold Us All 19.08.2012 30:28 ↓

Michael Dowd shows how a meaningful, science-based view of big history, human nature, and death can offer a realistically hopeful and inspiring vision of the future and help people live happier, healthier, more on-purpose lives.

2012-08-12 Rev. Jen Crow/In Cupped Hands 14.08.2012 21:10 ↓

In her first sermon as Minister of Program Life, Jen will explore the image of our cupped hands and the many ways that our Universalist heritage of love and hope calls us to use our hands to hold and heal the world.

2012-08-05 Ruth MacKenzie/Two Percent 07.08.2012 21:41 ↓

The poet Rilke writes: "Take your well-disciplined strengths and stretch them between two opposing poles. Because inside human beings is where God learns." Join us this Sunday to explore the ways in which we can use our strengths, as people of faith, to build bridges, to reach across chasms of hurt or misunderstanding. This is how we build the beloved community. This is where God learns.

2012-07-29 Laura Smidzik/A Pivotal Moment 30.07.2012 32:09 ↓

Some people call this the "Minnesota marriage moment." Unitarian Universalists and a broad group of people of faith began organizing against the anti-marriage amendment the day it was voted to be on the ballot. UUs can make history by taking a stand. Each of us has the potential to make a difference.

2012-05-27 Rev. Justin Schroeder/Memory & Hope 05.06.2012 23:21 ↓

There may not be any big parades if I ever make it back As I come home under cover through a world that can't keep track Of the heroes who have fallen, let alone the ones who won't. -- Arlo Guthrie, "When A Soldier Makes it Home"

2012-04-29 Rev. Kate Tucker/Love and Legacy 01.05.2012 25:49 ↓

"It's not the weight you carry but how you carry it - books, bricks, grief - it's all in the way you embrace it, balance it, carry it, when you cannot, and would not, put it down." -- Mary Oliver Join us Sunday, when Rev. Kate Tucker explores the ways in which we carry our loves, our losses, our legacies.

2012-04-15 Rev. Justin Schroeder/The Good News 25.04.2012 32:20 ↓

What is the "good news" of Unitarian Universalism? Where do we fit in the landscape of other religious traditions? What's so important about our message?

2012-04-01 Ralph Krog/The Donkey and the Dogwood Tree 04.04.2012 16:48 ↓

How to do we find the poetic in the pragmatic? What is the holy tension found between fact and fiction? Our Ministerial Intern, Ralph Krog, tells two old stories of faith and their relevance in daily life.