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Heart Mind Spirit | Exploration

6 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago -

What moves the heart? What occupies the mind? Where does the spirit live? We explore these questions through the work and voices of people with diverse lived experiences. Our search is for meaning, how it's made, and where it's found.

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Joshua speaks at Chautauqua: From Fear to Freedom

June 19, 2023 01:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MB

Pastor Joshua leads worship as the minister-in-residence at the UU Fellowship of Chautauqua. The entire service is 29min 50 sec. The homily called "From Fear to Freedom" starts 9 min 54 sec. The original title was "Freedom and Other 'F' Words." What moves the heart? What occupies the mind? Where does the spirit live? We explore these questions through the work and voices of people with diverse lived experiences. Our search is for meaning, how it's made, and where it's found. This is Joshu...

Reimagining the Serenity Prayer

April 11, 2022 01:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MB

In a series of three sermons, I reimagined Reinhold Niebuhr's Serenity Prayer. The prayer is usually recited as "God, give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Listen to a Jewish Humanist Unitarian Universalist consider these thoughts as I come up with my own interpretation I call the Fortitude Prayer. What moves the heart? What occupies the mind? Where does the spirit live? We explore these q...

The Right to Democracy

July 15, 2021 03:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MB

My colleague and fellow student Ebony C. Peace and I are both students at Meadville Lombard Unitarian Universalist Theological School.  This podcast strays a bit from the usual HMS | Exploration format because it was recorded as the final project for our class, Spirituality and Social Justice Activism in African American Traditions taught by Dr. Pamela Lightsey.  Our assignment was to create a podcast that discusses a current human rights crisis for Black people in America. We chose The rig...

Bearing Witness: An Interview with Deirdre Roney

September 08, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MB

A discussion about how people of privilege can do ally work and bear witness to injustice.

Thoughts on How to Be an Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

June 12, 2020 17:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MB

In my capacity as intern minister at Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Southfield, Michigan, I spoke on Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's book, How to Be an Antiracist.

Becoming Eve

March 30, 2020 17:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MB

Interview with Abby Chava Stein, author of Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman