UUMKE Sunday Service Podcast

Destruction is embedded in the heart of creation, hidden under the banner ‘change.’ All of life depends on growth, change, and death, which means life and death are not opposites, but siblings in the dance of being. Join us for this worship service where we explore the balance between life and death in this interdependent web of all existence, which includes the spider.

The interdependence of all life is a given; denial of our interconnections is dangerous. We must depend on other humans, other species, a network of beings to survive and to thrive. Who and what do you depend on? Who and what depends on you? Join us this Sunday as we reorient ourselves to live with humility in our connections, thereby unlocking awareness, abundance, and gratitude.

As Spring returns and slowly transforms the earth, we are once again confronted with the mysteries of life and death. On this Easter Sunday, we will explore how to find hope in the tomb, how to find agency in loss and death, and how to just be present with the unknown. Join us for this Easter worship service where we sit with the truth that we don’t know how this all turns out.

At our best, we human beings are life-long learners. We grow and change at each developmental stage, and the more we commit to learning throughout our lives, the more we will change. Choosing to learn gives us agency in that change, and allows us to direct our growth. Join us for this worship service where we explore how life-long learning nourishes individual spirits and also strengthens the bond...

There is a fair bit of mucking around when we are going through a process of transformation. In some types of bodywork and psychotherapy, you might feel worse before you feel better. How do we hold ourselves and each other when we are ‘in between,’ neither here nor there? Join us this Sunday when we explore the gifts and challenges of liminal space.

In today’s world, making change for good can feel scary and isolating. Where do we have agency in larger society? What tools can we use together to be part of bending the arc of the universe towards justice? Join us for this worship service where we explore practicing our agency and doing our part to make the world a better place

In worship this month, we’ll explore the theme of “Transformation.” Change can be incremental until it reaches a tipping point and becomes an order of magnitude larger: transformation. Like a hungry caterpillar, we gather the resources we need, make a cocoon, become a mess, and then transform into a butterfly. Join us for this worship service where we explore the conditions that allow small change...

This Sunday is our annual youth service, a time for our young people to create a service reflecting their hearts and minds. This year our youth are curious about exploring the BIG questions in life. What do we believe about the nature of the universe? What is good and evil? Why are we here and how should we live? Is there hope for our future and life after death? Join us on this philosophical jour...

As we explore justice and equity this month, we turn next to visions of the future. What is your dream for the world in 2100? How does Unitarian Universalism guide the way we shape these visions? What must be gained and what must be given up to bring about such a world? Come imagine a just and equitable vision of the future.

As we explore justice and equity this month, we turn next to visions of the future. What is your dream for the world in 2100? How does Unitarian Universalism guide the way we shape these visions? What must be gained and what must be given up to bring about such a world? Come imagine a just and equitable vision of the future.

In worship this month, we’ll explore the theme of “Justice and Equity.” How do we understand justice as a community? How do we relate to it as part of our faith tradition? As Unitarian Universalists, we seek a quality of justice that is about joy, care, and mutual thriving. Join us for this worship service where we explore the relationship between justice, faith, equity, and mercy.

Liberating love can free us from demands that we be anything other than we are. Liberation for everyone means the opportunity to live in a society that includes everyone’s unique gifts and shares labor fairly. We would be able to co-create a world of mutual thriving. How can we make small moves, together, towards that world? Join us for this service where we explore how liberating love and deep tr...

Society offers many ideas about love and liberation. To find an earnest way forward one must carefully navigate these internalized messages. The path to liberating love is winding and wild, requiring wisdom and patience to free us from oppression. What decisions can we make each day that center love while offering liberation for ourselves and others? What are the known and unknown barriers before...

What would the world look like if we truly knew that all children are our children? If love were the primary force at work in our institutions, from our classrooms to our courtrooms, from our hospital rooms to our board rooms, what would life be like? Cornel West famously said, “Justice is what love looks like in public.” Join us for this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day service where we explore how a...

Seeing people as human beings separate from their governments is a humanitarian practice many find challenging in times of war. Releasing stereotypes and searching for the humanity in the other side is hard work. Our faith calls us to practice it in our families, friendships, neighborhoods, communities, and even politics. We might not solve world peace, but we can love the person in front of us.

New Year’s Eve is a popular time for new resolutions. How does Unitarian-Universalism guide us in making resolutions centered in our values? How do we hold our inherent worthiness in productive tension with our call to help in the healing of the world? Join us for a service of value-centered hope for 2024.

A More or Less True Christmas Story

The beginning and end of life are two of the biggest mysteries we know: what happens before we are born, and what happens after we die? And what is the point of what happens in between: why are we here at all? Unitarian Universalism is surprisingly comfortable with questions, including the biggest ones. Join us for this service where we explore life’s biggest mysteries, and some tools that help us...

We don’t know how this story will end, which means there’s room for an enormous amount of surprising love and beauty. Because we are alive, we are all still learning and growing, so there’s hope for us yet. The mysteries of the world contain so much space for wonderful change. Join us for this service that explores the hope embedded in the mystery of the universe. What’s the best that could happen...

In this season of thanksgiving, as we celebrate our relationships with loved ones, where do we put the not-so-helpful relationships? What does gratitude have to do with the teacher who didn’t see our promise, the parent who confused critique with support, or the co-worker whose ambition ran over our work? Come explore how our faith tradition helps us set down this weight and find a spirit of gener...

What have you received, gotten for free, and what have you given away freely? On arrival, we begin contributing to the cycle of giving and receiving from one another and the abundance of Earth. How do our hearts learn to navigate feelings of scarcity and urge to share? How do we teach our children about the blessing of generosity?

Human beings contain an impulse towards generosity that grows when we feed it with empathy. As we increase our sense of connection, we are increasingly moved to share with an expanding sense of “we.” In Unitarian Universalism, and our church, we move democratically, with everyone pitching in and having a voice. Join us for this service that explores the power of generosity to build an ever-growing...

Does altruism really exist? Does it matter? Sometimes generosity includes an assumption or a performance of selflessness. But what if the feedback loop between giving and receiving is natural, and healthy? Join us for this service where we explore the relationship between an abundance mindset, gratitude, and the healthy selfishness of generosity.

We create the heritage of the future intentionally or unintentionally. What’s worth passing on to those who come after us? What did we learn from our ancestors that served us well? What kind of ancestors do we want to be? Please join us this Sunday which will include a gentle ritual to honor our loved ones who have died.

Our nation is struggling to choose how to tell our histories to our children right now. Telling the story of the past tells us a lot about the present. Whose story gets told? Which pieces of our stories do we choose to carry forward, and why? Join us for this service where we explore carrying the stories we tell about our lives, our communities, and our country.