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Joshua speaks at Chautauqua: From Fear to Freedom
Heart Mind Spirit | Exploration - June 19, 2023 01:00 - 30 minutesPastor 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? Wher...
Reimagining the Serenity Prayer
Heart Mind Spirit | Exploration - April 11, 2022 01:00 - 44 minutesIn 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...
Feb. 20, 2022 Drawing the Circle Wider: New Animisms
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - February 24, 2022 19:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAs the UUA's Article II commission explores the inclusion of our 8th principle it is simultaneously exploring an expansion of our 1st principle to include the inherent worth and dignity of all beings. In our faith with no dogmatic tests, what new avenues of spiritual growth might emerge were we ...
1.30.22 We Circle Around
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - January 31, 2022 18:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOur theme this last year has been “Widening the Circle,” in keeping with our denominational call to grow the diversity of our communities. Using drums as a model for understanding how we call one another into the circle of community, we ask what ‘widening the circle’ means for each of us and fo...
January 23, 2022 Fasting
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - January 30, 2022 00:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFasting has long been a practice that has religious or spiritual significance. In modern times the health benefits of various fasting practices have been touted. If you are considering giving it a try, what do you need to know before you start, how long should you fast for, and what can you exp...
January 09, 2022 Reproductive Justice: Health, Human Rights, and Healing Our Communities
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - January 11, 2022 15:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOn December 31st, the Planned Parenthood of East Tennessee clinic was totally destroyed by fire. It is unclear how the fire started, though the building was being renovated. This event, paired with the upcoming anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision, have Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Jus...
December 12, 2021 This Little Light
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - December 12, 2021 21:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt is the season of lights. Around the world, in many different cultures and ways, we greet the darkness that settles on the northern hemisphere with celebrations that involve bringing in light. Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Divali, and Yule or the Winter Solstice--all of these traditions invi...
December 5, 2021 Enter, Rejoice and Come In
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - December 10, 2021 17:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt has been nearly 21 months since we last gathered indoors in our sanctuary for worship together. We welcome one another back to a familiar place, but in unfamiliar times, and we may be anticipating both risks and rewards as we return to our church home. How is this a metaphor for our larger ...
November 28, 2021 Thanksgiving Bread Communion
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - November 28, 2021 19:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJoin us on YouTube, and prepare your bread and wine or grape juice. We will give thanks for the miracles of this life and take communion "together" from where-ever we happen to be.
10.31.21 A Bit of Magic: Samhain and Modern Halloween
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - October 31, 2021 20:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHalloween, as we know it today, is a day of candy and costumes, and a day to indulge our beliefs in the unseen or the unknown. With its roots in the Celtic tradition of Samhain, the haunted holiday has transformed from a day of protection to one of revelry. Join us as we explore what this day c...
October 24, 2021 Nothing Gold Can Stay
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - October 24, 2021 18:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRobert Frost's poem evokes the transitory nature of the things we love. As we gather to mark the coming observance of All Souls' Day (which will occur on Tuesday, November 2), we pause to remember those who have passed, and to honor the beauty and magic of their lives. We will share poems and ...
October 10, 2021 Intention and Committment
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - October 10, 2021 18:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIntention and Commitment Presented by Rev. Carol Bodeau The core of Unitarian Universalism is our 7 Principles, which guide our decision-making and actions. We say that we “covenant to affirm and promote” these values, but what does it mean to put those values into action? There are lots of w...
October 3, 2021 All Creatures and Critters: Animal Blessing
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - October 03, 2021 17:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAll Creatures and Critters: Animal Blessing Presented by Rev. Carol Bodeau Our service begins at 10 a.m. Outdoors at Westside Live streamed to Zoom Coffee Hour to follow on Zoom, ≈ 11 a.m. Animals are a part of all of our lives. Whether we have personal pets or not, we all encounter living cre...
September 26, 2021 Draw the Circle Wide
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - September 26, 2021 19:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGordon Light's well-known song encourages us to 'draw the circle wide, draw it wider still' so that 'no one stands alone.' How wide are our circles of community, care and action? Today we kick off a year of answering the call from our denomination to draw the circle wider, and we begin by expl...
September 12, 2021 Times Like These
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - September 12, 2021 18:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn December of 1776, Revolutionary activist Thomas Paine published the first of a series of pamphlets which, all together, were called "The American Crisis" (or sometimes just "The Crisis"). They were designed to rally the American people and the Continental army during the hard beginning of th...
August 8, 2021 The Wise Rest
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - August 08, 2021 20:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt is customary in Unitarian Universalist congregations for the minister to take a sabbatical every few years. Rev. Carol has chosen to spread her sabbatical out over the next couple of years to lessen the impact her absence will have on our church resources. This service gives us the opportun...
July 25, 2021 How You and I Still Support Slavery
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - July 25, 2021 18:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMost Americans mistakenly think that slavery is a thing of the past--something that was done away with here in the United States, and generally in most of the western world, in the middle of the 19th century. Of course, many of us are aware that slavery still exists in other countries, but are ...
July 18, 2021 The Song of the Open Road
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - July 19, 2021 00:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSummer is a season for adventure, travel and exploration...and this summer, many of us have been thrilled to get back out there and see and do things that were off-limits over the last year. Travel--whether we go in body or just in our thoughts-- opens the heart and frees the mind from the limi...
The Right to Democracy
Heart Mind Spirit | Exploration - July 15, 2021 03:00 - 45 minutesMy 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 Ac...
July 11, 2021 Helping to Find Hope: CASA of East Tennessee
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - July 12, 2021 00:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCASA stands for Court Appointed Special Advocates, who are trained to represent the best interests of children in juvenile abuse and neglect court cases. CASA is a local, nonprofit organization in communities all across the nation. Since its inception, CASA volunteers have helped more than two m...
June 20, 2021 Transgenerational Colonialism as a Foundation for Collective Empathy presented by Dr. Karel Bouse, Ph.D
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - June 20, 2021 22:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratings“Transgenerational Colonialism as a Foundation for Collective Empathy” is based on the concept that as the descendants of immigrants we are all part of the colonialist system through our ancestors. Their stories live in us through family recountings, cultural institutions and in our DNA. This ta...
June 6, 2021 Time Is On My Side
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - June 06, 2021 21:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHuman beings love to understand our world in terms of time. We mark out the turning of the seasons by days, weeks, and months, all of which have their own particular 'tasks' or activities. We mark out individual days by hourly markers which determine what sorts of food we eat, who we are with,...
May 23, 2021 Whatever You Can Do or Dream
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - May 23, 2021 22:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsScottish mountaineer William Hutchisson Murray wrote the famous (and often misattributed) words: Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it! Most of us have heard this sentiment, but don't really understand its context, or what Murray really mea...
May 16, 2021 Back to the Future
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - May 16, 2021 18:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDuring this past year, our lives were turned upside down--and we faced anxiety, loss and isolation. Many activities and relationships that we believed central to our lives had to be set aside. But now things are beginning to look more hopeful and people are beginning to think about the future...
May 9, 2021 Virtually Home, presented by Chris Edkins
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - May 09, 2021 21:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBefore March of 2020, we may have casually considered using technology to widen the circle of our Westside message, but, since then, like many others, we have been forced willy-nilly into the world of virtual church services. What have we learned that will allow us to better fulfill our mission ...
May 2, 2021 A Testimony: Helen Rivers Cassara
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - May 04, 2021 17:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat does it mean to be a part of a beloved community? For Westsider Helen Rivers Cassara (they/them) it means having an unconditionally loving and safe space to grow into the holy wholeness their gender identity and sexual orientation. Join us this Sunday to hear Helen’s coming out story as it ...
April 25, 2021 A Time For Visibility, presented by Kayla Ringelspaugh
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - April 25, 2021 18:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingspresented by Kayla Ringelspaugh and Westside's Welcoming Congregation Team In a time full of never-ending change and possibility, we look toward chances for visibility within the LGBTQ+ community, and how we can help support those who need it. Like our podcast? Consider donating to our general ...
04.18.21 Stone Soup and Sandwiches
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - April 19, 2021 21:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe traditional story of "Stone Soup" is all about how individual contributions, when pulled together, make something wonderful for all to share. As we move through the weeks of our annual canvass campaign, we have the chance to contribute to the 'soup' that is our shared community. But perhap...
April 11, 2021 Looking Back on a Year of Pandemic Life: David Howell
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - April 12, 2021 16:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFor many of us, the global pandemic drove our lives to a halt. It also gave us a rare chance to be isolated with our families or, in some cases, entirely by ourselves. Longtime Westsider Dr. David Howell offers some reflections on how we got to here--aided by the solitude-provided "thinking tim...
April 4, 2021 A Network of Mutuality
Westside Unitarian Universalist Church Podcast - April 06, 2021 16:00 ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn his Letter From A Birmingham Jail, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said that we are all caught in 'an inescapable network of mutuality.' We depend on one other, and the good of each determines the good of all. In our annual Flower Communion, celebrated on Easter Sunday, we honor the gifts we...
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