Latest Sanmarcos Podcast Episodes
August 12, 2018 "Hurry Up and Wait" Minister Krista Weber Huang
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - August 12, 2018 17:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSometimes life comes in fits and spurts. We’ve worked and pushed and focused nearly to the point of exhaustion and then suddenly we’re left waiting, feeling like nothing is happening. But is waiting really that passive? Let’s explore together this Sunday how we can make the most of this often fr...
August 5, 2018 “Caring About Truth: Part II” Rev. Karl Brown
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - August 05, 2018 17:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn 2007 I gave a sermon for SMUUF, “Caring About Truth,” that countered the notion that people in power had the right to decide what the facts are, such as the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq We are now dealing with a President, Political Party, and fanbase that seem to care lit...
July 29, 2018 "Desperate Love" Rev. Valda Jean Combs
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - July 29, 2018 17:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat kind of love would it take to give up everything you hold dear, leaving home and the comfort of the familiar to walk with both terror and temerity into the great unknown?
July 22, 2018 "When All Else Fails, Retreat!" Rev. Betty Skwarek
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - July 22, 2018 17:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIf you are in a war, retreat means you are losing and need to back up. If you are at peace, retreat means going to a place of rest and rejuvenation. Such a difference! When we are overwhelmed by all that goes on around us, how do we find that place of peace that allows us to regroup for a better...
July 15, 2018 "Which Is Worst?" Rev. Marisol Caballero
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - July 15, 2018 16:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSan Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship July 15, 2018 A favorite comedy podcast of mine, Unhappy Hour, has a segment called, “Which is Worst.” (Poor grammar intended.) It’s a silly version of the game, “Would You Rather?,” yet from today’s headlines of national and global evils, I increas...
July 8, 2018 "Interdependence Day: Patriotism for Religious Liberals" Steve Brooks
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - July 08, 2018 17:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFor many, July 4 is a day for brass bands and bombs symbolically bursting in air. For others, grown up in the shadows from Vietnam to Iraq, it’s hard to embrace a rah-rah patriotism. What’s a patriotism for religious liberals, which holds America to her dreams without looking away from her night...
July 1, 2018 "Church as Search for Harmony" Rev. Art Severance
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - July 01, 2018 17:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsChurch, and religion I will argue, could be about a search for meaning, compassion, love and ultimately for a harmony of all humankind with one another and the idea of the Holy, however we define, think, or talk about it. Eastern religion, especially, speaks of it as crucial to a balance of life...
June 17, 2018 "A Complex Fathers Day" Krista Weber Huang
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - June 17, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJoin Krista Weber Huang as we both celebrate Father's Day and remember the tragedy of the mass shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC three years ago. We'll explore together the emotional and complex intersectionality of gender, race, culture, and genes in the nurture vs nature deb...
April 8, 2018 "Whom You Would Change, First You Must Love..." Rev. Dr. Christine Tata
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - April 08, 2018 16:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIf we are dedicated to positive social change, and if we are also dedicated to freedoms of speech and thought, this directive is a provoking and difficult challenge: Whom you would change, you must first love. How do we love those who seem only to hate? And even if we do love them, how does that...
April 1, 2018 "Flower Power" Rev. Betty Skwarek
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - April 01, 2018 16:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat do the flowers say? Ninety-five years have passed since the Reverend Norbert Capek introduced the Flower Communion to his Unitarian congregation in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Much has changed since then, but the Flower Communion continues. What started as a simple exchange of flowers has be...
February 11, 2018 - "What It Takes To Soar" Rev. Pamela Wat
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - February 11, 2018 16:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat is beyond the status quo or business-as-usual? What awesome possibilities can we imagine for ourselves, our community, and the world? Rev. Pamela Wat has served as the minister at Denton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship since 2010. She has a B.F.A. in Related Arts with a concentration i...
February 4, 2018 - "And Let It Begin With Me" Amy DuBose
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - February 04, 2018 16:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEveryone says, "but I'm only one person." Now, more than ever, this myth needs to be debunked. Together, we will explore how we can build a more peaceful and united world. It all begins with one. Amy DuBose has been a member of SMUUF since November of 2012. She has guest ministered at SMUUF b...
January 7, 2018 - "Carpe Diem Mañana" Rev. Art Severance
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - January 07, 2018 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarpe Diem sounds fine for the Type A personality, the minister or corporate giant as CEO, and him or her of the clean desk. But for us, deep down here in the heart of Texas, should we choose mañana and the desk of the creative mind as we look toward 2018? Rev. Art Severance, formerly minister...
December 24, 2017 - "An Unapologetic Merry Christmas!" Rev. Phil Mason
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - December 24, 2017 16:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMight there be a way for everyone to embrace the spirit of love? The Rev. Phil C. Mason is a native of Austin, Texas and a graduate of The Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in the class of 1996. He was ordained in the Diocese of Colorado and served there as priest and rector for ...
December 17, 2017 "Each night a child is born is a holy night"
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - December 17, 2017 16:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe children of SMUUF design and deliver their own complete service, complete with a dedication of three children (with a little help from DRE Laura Haygood and friends).
December 10, 2017 - Rev. Valda Jean Combs "Let Her Live"
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - December 10, 2017 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings"Let Her Live," based on Exodus 1 in the Hebrew Bible, where the midwives acted as revolutionaries to save the babies. The Rev. Valda Jean Combs is an ordained Baptist minister and pastor of Salem United Methodist Church in Tomball, Texas. Her activism in the wake of the deaths of African-Amer...
December 3, 2017 - Rev. Michael Nelson Miller "To Pluck Up and Pull Down"
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - December 03, 2017 16:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBased upon an obscure passage from the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible, our sermon is essentially inspired by the proposed "border wall," and is about all of the border walls in our lives. Rev. Michael Nelson Miller presently teaches Mexican Cultural History in the Honors College at Texa...
November 26, 2017 - Lee Legault, UU Seminary Student "Friendly Silence"
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - November 26, 2017 16:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat can the Religious Society of Friends teach us about a beloved community of blessed silence and mysticism at its most unassuming? What can we learn about ourselves when we listen for the spark of the Divine within each of us? We will explore the Quaker faith and experience an abbreviated Qua...
November 19, 2017 - Rev. Marisol Caballero "Running Through Red Lights In Hell"
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - November 19, 2017 16:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWinston Churchill is fabled to have said, "If you're going through Hell, keep going." Where do we find what keeps us going through difficult times? How do we know when to "keep going" and when to pause? Rev. Marisol Caballero is a Tejana from Austin, lifelong Unitarian Universalist, and a grad...
October 1, 2017 "Who Am I?" Rev. Christian Schmidt, UU Church of Berkeley, CA
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - October 01, 2017 16:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOur identities, complex and multi-faceted, affect the way we see the world, how we are treated, and what matters most to us. The first step to forming deep, meaningful, diverse religious community is owning our own personal identities and acknowledging what that means for us, then beginning to u...
September 24, 2017 "Singing For Our Lives" Erin J. Walter, UU Community Minister
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - September 24, 2017 16:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings”Singing for Our Lives” - Drawing upon both UU hymns and the powerful music of the Zomba Prison Project, minister and musician Erin J. Walter will explore the ways music can deepen our understanding of our first principle of Unitarian Universalism, the inherent worth and dignity of every person....
September 17, 2017 “We Forgive Ourselves and Each Other: What We Can Learn from the Jewish High Holy Days”
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - September 17, 2017 18:31 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsUnitarian Universalism does not have a mandatory set of beliefs or a restrictive creed. Each member is free to seek religious and spiritual development according to the dictates of conscience and intellect. Join us each week as our fellowship explores spirituality.
August 20, 2017 “A Joyful Noise” Don Hymel (read by Kathy Feinstein)
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - August 20, 2017 15:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIf we agree there is music that is appropriate for playing in church, just what kind of music is that? This particular church service will include music by the Beatles, Jackie DeShannon, the Romantics, and others. “The Tim and Bob Show”, made up of Kathy & Steve Feinstein and Mary Lou & Don Hy...
August 13, 2017 "Who Are We?" Rev. Betty Skwarek
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - August 13, 2017 15:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsParker Palmer in his book "Let Your Life Speak" writes about living the undivided life. His spiritual discipline is Quaker, but his writings and teachings speak volumes far beyond his chosen faith. He tells about his search for a vocation, for his life’s purpose and the joy that brings. Buddhist...
August 6, 2017 - Reflections from General Assembly “We, the Member Congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association...”
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - August 06, 2017 15:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings“We, the Member Congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association…” Karen Muñoz, Jordan Buckley, Billy Stokes, and Rev. Scottie McIntyre Johnson share their experiences. Unitarian Universalism is congregationally-based; we have been (at least on our Unitarian side) since our Puritan a...
July 30, 2017 "Pines, Ashes, Seedlings and Cypress, Gravel, Grasses" Rev. Nell Newton
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - July 30, 2017 15:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt’s easy to be dazzled by beauty of nature and when we wander into religious naturalism we are apt to spend more time admiring its prettier parts. Our 7th principle asks us to hold “respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.” But that web has some dark strands a...
July 23, 2017 "Big Changes Mean Big Pains" Rev. Phil Mason
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - July 23, 2017 15:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe Rev. Phil C. Mason is a native of Austin, Texas and a graduate of The Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in the class of 1996. He was ordained in the Diocese of Colorado and served there as priest and rector for 13 years. On retirement in 2009 he and his wife Susan moved back to...
July 16, 2017 "In This Refulgent Summer" - Rev. Scottie McIntyre Johnson
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - July 16, 2017 15:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOur 19th century Unitarian ancestor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, opened a famous speech at Harvard Divinity School on July 15, 1838 with those words. Emerson’s address harshly criticized and profoundly altered the nature and character of the Unitarianism of his day. Is the Unitarian Universalism of th...
July 9, 2017 "Toward a More Perfect Union: Liberal vs Conservative Brains" Rev. Karl Brown
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - July 09, 2017 15:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRecent research indicates that differences in our society on issues such as global warming, defense spending, immigration, and gay rights is, to some extent, deeply rooted in neurobiological differences, particularly in regard to the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala. If the brains of libera...
July 2, 2017 “Toward a True Patriotism” Rev. Scottie McIntyre Johnson
San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - July 02, 2017 15:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLiberals and progressives have always been justifiably wary of an uncritical “my country right or wrong” kind of patriotism. But, could it be that our reluctance to “wave the flag” has actually contributed to the rise of the radical right? During these unsettled and unsettling times, it is more ...
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