Latest Universalists Podcast Episodes
"Feeling Together" with Rev. Tamara Lebak
All Souls Unitarian Church - March 20, 2023 00:14 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsWe cannot understand religious authority without understanding our relationship to consent. What is our relationship to our own consent? What does it feel like to be fully bought in? What do we do when we feel someone else is not fully bought in? How do we work with the parts of ourselves that ar...
"Inner Voices of Authority" with Carlton D. Pearson
All Souls Unitarian Church - March 12, 2023 21:51 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsHow do we manage all of the roles we play in our lives — and does playing a role make us inauthentic? This Sunday, Carlton Pearson explores the what it means for us to remain authentic as we inhabit all of the pressures that surround what we hold to be precious. There are so many versions of us...
"What Is A Woman?" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
All Souls Unitarian Church - March 05, 2023 20:26 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsAre you ever afraid you might say the wrong thing or ask the wrong question? Do you wonder what to think about current debates, such as the ones about Transgender issues? Are you unsure where and when you can raise your concerns and receive a respectful and well-considered answers? This is a mes...
"Civil Rights vs. Civil War" with Carlton D. Pearson
All Souls Unitarian Church - February 28, 2023 23:02 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsHow do we manage the contradictions inherent in our group identities? Can we authentically agree to disagree, or does going along to get along actually fracture our authenticity? The answers to these questions are never static, but it matters that we get ahead of the questions — it’s better to ...
"Black Music & The Soul" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
All Souls Unitarian Church - February 20, 2023 00:45 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsCome for the music and stay for the message! The soundtrack of our lives is infused with influences from African American musicians and creators. To distinguish between American music and Black Music would be impossible. In the same way, it is impossible to distinguish between American History an...
"Black Like Me" with Randy Lewis
All Souls Unitarian Church - February 13, 2023 01:27 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis Sunday, Randy Lewis challenges our understanding of race through the lens of black and white by exploring the simple fact that none of us are actually black or white — we are all simply varying shades of very light to very dark brown. A black/white dichotomy sets up false archetypes that ser...
"Fractured Stories" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
All Souls Unitarian Church - February 05, 2023 22:35 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsHave you ever acted on an incomplete story and paid the price for it? Every story has multiple sides depending on where we sit. As we launch our theme of “Freedom” and celebrate Black History, this month, we will examine the power of the stories we tell and how they can bless or curse our life. S...
"Let's Stay Together" with Randy Lewis
All Souls Unitarian Church - January 29, 2023 21:31 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsPerhaps nothing is more desirable for humans than healthy community to hold us, to make our lives more meaningful and bearable, so why is it so hard and rare to find this community? The scarcity of beloved community only highlights our profound need for it. So what does it take? At All Souls, we ...
"Co-Creation Is It" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
All Souls Unitarian Church - January 22, 2023 22:49 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsWhat does it mean for a myth to be true? Does it have to be literal and factual in order for us to glean meaning from it? This Sunday, Rev. Marlin explores the value of myth in our lives and in our world. It might require us to expand our imagination and interpret - indeed, to co-create the unive...
"Inescapable Web" with Rev. Gerald Davis
All Souls Unitarian Church - January 15, 2023 22:23 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." — Frederick Douglass As we celebrate and learn from the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. this MLK Sunday, Rev. Gerald Davis reflects on the "santa-clause-ification" of MLK, a process in which we remember him as a...
"Dear Universe" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
All Souls Unitarian Church - January 11, 2023 19:50 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsJoni Mitchell famously sung "We are stardust... and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden." What does it mean for us to be made of stardust, floating around on a speck of a speck in the vastness of the cosmos? Does it provoke a sense of wonder that we are here at all? Or maybe a sense of ...
"The 'God' of Small Things" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
All Souls Unitarian Church - December 11, 2022 21:45 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsIn his book, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics, Richard Rohr, wrote: The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection — and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth… The s...
"They Have Become Like Us" with Carlton D. Pearson
All Souls Unitarian Church - December 04, 2022 20:16 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsIn the Bible, there is a moment when God says about humans, "they have become like us." Well, who exactly is "us" there, and what does it mean to become like gods? As humans, we have immense power to create and destroy, but perhaps the thing that makes us *most* like "the gods" is our ability to ...
"Agreeing to Disagree" with Carlton D. Pearson
All Souls Unitarian Church - November 27, 2022 21:03 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsDo we have to agree in order to get along? Or maybe it's more accurate to say we agree *to* get along. The Greek word "symphoneo," from which we our English word "symphony" simply means "to sound together" — not necessarily to sound alike. It's likely impossible for us to ever find someone who...
"'Til Death Do Us Part" with Randy Lewis
All Souls Unitarian Church - November 13, 2022 22:01 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis Sunday after the United States midterm elections, Randy Lewis reflects on what it takes to stay in relationship with those we love, and those we might love, across all of our differences and as we change. We may disagree about so many things on the surface, but beyond that there might be a g...
"Our Promise to America" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
All Souls Unitarian Church - November 06, 2022 21:32 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsOur country is built on a promise we make to each other as citizens. It is far from a perfect system, but at its best it is guided by core values articulated in the Declaration of Independence regarding liberty and justice for all. As we head into an extraordinary election week, in America, peopl...
"The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly" with Randy Lewis
All Souls Unitarian Church - November 02, 2022 17:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis Sunday, minister Randy Lewis explores the uniquely American problem with violence — particularly gun violence — and what it means to protect ourselves, not just from physical threats, but from corrosive positions in our own hearts. Is there a political stance that can elevate us out of our ...
"The Right to Read" with Cory Lovell & Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
All Souls Unitarian Church - October 24, 2022 02:55 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThe importance of accessibility to a broad range of literature has been held up over the course of our democracy by American luminaries as broad across the cultural spectrum as Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Ronald Reagan and Laura Bush. These individuals each spoke of the intellectual free...
"The Science and Saga of Good and Evil" with Carlton D. Pearson
All Souls Unitarian Church - October 16, 2022 20:24 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThe word conscience (or "con-science") roughly means "with knowledge." What, then, does it mean for us to have a conscience about good and evil? How do we learn about what is evil, and how do we know it's true? In this message, Carlton Pearson reflects on his own journey of understanding of what ...
"Why Good People Do Bad Things" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
All Souls Unitarian Church - October 03, 2022 01:11 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis message was delivered on Sunday, October 2, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar in the 10 am service. Description: Perhaps more harm has been done in the world by foolish people who think they are doing right than by people who deliberately act w...
"Feed Your Soul" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
All Souls Unitarian Church - September 25, 2022 22:22 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis message was delivered on Sunday, September 25, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar in the 11:30 am The Point Humanist Hour service. Description: Irish poet John O'Donohue once said of the soul that "there is a part you that has never been wounded...
"I Can See Clearly Now" with Randy Lewis
All Souls Unitarian Church - September 18, 2022 20:41 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis message was delivered on Sunday, September 18, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Randy Lewis in the 10 am service. Description: Our lives are made up of stories. Every day we are telling stories to ourselves about ourselves and others. Stories about what will happen to...
"It's Time to Dream Again" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
All Souls Unitarian Church - September 11, 2022 19:32 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis message was delivered on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar in The Point Humanist Hour service. Description: As the world continues to open back up following the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all left to reckon with everything ...
"The Power of Imagination" with Carlton D. Pearson
All Souls Unitarian Church - September 04, 2022 19:42 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis message was delivered on Sunday, September 4, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Carlton D. Pearson in The Point Humanist Hour service. Description: Our imaginations are our gateway into our worlds. Our past, present, and future all has to go through an interpretive len...
"Kindness is Contagious" with Randy Lewis
All Souls Unitarian Church - August 28, 2022 20:29 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis message was delivered on Sunday, August 28, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Randy Lewis in The Point Humanist Hour service. Description: What does it mean to have emotional intelligence, and how might we increase it? Why would we even want to? This Sunday, Randy Lewi...
"Risking Freedom" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
All Souls Unitarian Church - August 21, 2022 23:45 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis message was delivered on Sunday, August 21, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar in The Point Humanist Hour service. Description: Salman Rushdie, who has spoken twice at All Souls in Tulsa, was violently attacked, on stage, last week. One of our c...
"Watch What You Watch" — a message by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
All Souls Unitarian Church - August 14, 2022 20:50 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis message was delivered on Sunday, August 14, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar in The Point Humanist Hour service. Description: How are you feeling right now? Happy, anxious, depressed, or maybe even numb? Or perhaps there is a fear or uncertain...
"Six Degrees of Gratitude" — a message by Rev. Barbara Prose
All Souls Unitarian Church - August 07, 2022 21:12 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis message was delivered on Sunday, August 7, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Rev. Barbara Prose Description: "One expression I will take with me when I leave All Souls is 'I appreciate you.' It’s one of the ways I’ve learned to say thank you here. Those words express t...
"RESPECTING ALL OF YOU" — a message by Rev. Tamara Lebak
All Souls Unitarian Church - July 31, 2022 21:16 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis message was delivered on Sunday, July 31, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Rev. Tamara Lebak Description: Maybe there is a part of you that wants to come to church and a part of you that wants to stay home. Maybe there is a part of you that wants to flee the country a...
'THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION' — a message by Carlton D. Pearson
All Souls Unitarian Church - July 28, 2022 19:11 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis message was delivered on Sunday, July 24, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Carlton D. Pearson. Description: What does it mean to become more inclusive toward ourselves? As we venture into radical inclusivity, sometimes we are surprised to find old parts of our stories...
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