76 sermons transcribed, indexed & archived · 2022–2024 · permalink: https://divining.app/church/first-unitarian-universalist-church-of-houston-podcast.html
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Jun 21, 2024 · reason and sound thinking
Unitarian Universalist IdentityGender & Sexuality / InclusionMatthew
“You have Pride, I hope, in that you were involved in a sinner or program that helped because in an article written last year by Sherman to it talks a…”
Jun 13, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityResurrection & EasterAbraham & Isaac
“That ministerial Fellowship committee has been come clear both about the damage that clerical and discretion are the consequences for a clergy who?”
Jun 6, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
“Beauty of each is magnified by the beauty of this is the challenge that our flower celebration offers.”
May 30, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeFaith & DoubtCrucifixion & Atonement
“We then continue down Madison Pike to the courthouse where we played the March representing each of the Armed, the final event of the school year.”
May 23, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifePoverty & CompassionChurch Life & Membership
“After its time at the parliament, he traveled throughout the United States lecturing and sharing something of his yogurt practices.”
May 13, 2024 · human moral beliefs
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & DoubtSin & Repentance
May 9, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Suffering & PerseveranceFaith & Doubt
“What role do happiness and pleasure play in a meaningful life?”
May 2, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Faith & DoubtRacial JusticeUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Confronting the catastrophe of the hour and building what Martin Luther King called The Beloved Community meant in her words recognizing that we need…”
Apr 25, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityCreation CareSin & Repentance
“I'm going to say no allowed to those daily messages that I get that humans are the most important beings on the and should be able to take whatever w…”
Apr 18, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeImmigration & RefugeSuffering & Perseverance
“It is seeing the landscape of the United States for what it is: a site of profound, ongoing racial violence, pristine.”
Apr 11, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityChurch Life & MembershipStewardship & Giving
“It's the members who elect the settled senior minister.”
Apr 4, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Bible & ExpositionPrayer & DevotionPluralism & Interfaith
“It was well known throughout our movement, indeed throughout the United States.”
Mar 28, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifeEvangelism & Mission
“The other thing I want to do is recognize that today is Palm Sunday, the week before Easter, and the calendar of the Western Christian Church, the Ea…”
Mar 21, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingUnitarian Universalist IdentityChurch Life & Membership
“Of course, this is where I imagine those who feel free to look for meaning in many different places.”
Mar 14, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Creation CareUnitarian Universalist IdentityPoverty & Compassion
“You are the one whose spirit is present in the dappled Joy harjo, former United States, put remember of the Muskogee wrote those words about an tell.”
Mar 7, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Bible & ExpositionUnitarian Universalist IdentityChurch Life & Membership
“Might wreck, blessing each other, serving a stand in Grand, helping each other out when times are visiting one another in the hospital, potlucks, Mem…”
Feb 29, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticePoverty & CompassionThe Exodus
“Karen, listen to what Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Civil Rights activist and long-time Delegate for Washington DC to the House of Representatives, had…”
Feb 22, 2024 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Sin & RepentanceJosephThe Trinity
“I don't believe God is alternative power or omniscient, which are second reading gave a user-friendly in which kind of blows a hole in that whole Cal…”
Feb 15, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityChurch Life & MembershipHeaven & Hell
“The following Sunday, a resolution was offered, duly seconded and adopt is that the trustees be instructed to send, in the name of the church, frater…”
Feb 13, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Creation CareParenting & ChildrenFaith & Doubt
“I love my Unitarian universalism as we are right now.”
Feb 8, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Friendship & BelongingPluralism & InterfaithUnitarian Universalist Identity
“As most of you know, each of my parents passed away in December.”
Jan 25, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Fear & AnxietyImmigration & RefugeCrucifixion & Atonement
“While living in Exile, he had been forced out of Vietnam in the 1970s for refusing to take a side and the conflict between the Communists and the US…”
Jan 22, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFriendship & BelongingInterdependence & Nature
“Share presence and are generosity, connect to one another in relationships of interdependence and mut.”
Jan 18, 2024 · unitarian universalism
The Prodigal SonUnitarian Universalist IdentityBible & Exposition
Jan 18, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Advent & ChristmasPoverty & CompassionBible & Exposition
“Did you know that the Christmas tree was introduced to the United States by the Unitarian Minister Charles, or that It Came Upon a Midnight Clear ori…”
Jan 18, 2024 · unitarian universalism
Immigration & RefugeUnitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & Civic Life
“In response, more than 500 religious across the United States, like First Unitarian, organized what amounted to an underground railroad to assess ref.”
Dec 5, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Bible & ExpositionWorship & PraiseImmigration & Refuge
“Around your Thanksgiving, the world began learning about HIV AIDS in the early 1980s, the same time as I was coming out as gay and graduating.”
Dec 5, 2023 · hope and light, the beloved community
Beloved CommunityPoverty & CompassionThe Road to Emmaus
Dec 5, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Poverty & CompassionLoneliness & IsolationUnitarian Universalist Identity
“His church became non-denominational and was renamed Community Church of New York in Maine.”
Nov 9, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityCrucifixion & AtonementChurch Life & Membership
Oct 26, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
“That's how the Civil Rights Movement, the fight for Democratic rights, change this country.”
Oct 19, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeCreation CareUnitarian Universalist Identity
“In the 15th, these documents created a theological and legal framework to justify the expropriation and division of indigenous, first between Spain a…”
Oct 18, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeCreation CareUnitarian Universalist Identity
“In the 15th, these documents created a theological and legal framework to justify the expropriation and division of indigenous, first between Spain a…”
Oct 5, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityWorship & PraiseCreation Care
“In a couple of years of moving to this lot, the congregation expanded so much that some religious education classes had moved off site and tell the b…”
Sep 28, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Abraham & IsaacRacial JusticeUnitarian Universalist Identity
“A biographical sketch of this man, Abraham Joshua heschel could so named the mud of falsehood and Malice, which beset the country 50 years ago and co…”
Sep 13, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Work & VocationChurch Life & MembershipRacial Justice
“People will not say: look, here it is or there it is, because the kingdom of God is the Beloved Community, the world.”
Aug 31, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityCreation CareImmigration & Refuge
“He is of the climate crisis.”
Aug 24, 2023 · unitarian universalism
MarriageUnitarian Universalist IdentityFear & Anxiety
“Just recently, I moved this summer from my Midtown apartment about a mile East, into a condo- a transition from apartment living to home ownership- a…”
Aug 17, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityShame & GuiltSuffering & Perseverance
Aug 10, 2023 · power between ideas
Faith & Civic LifeIdentity & WorthFaith & Doubt
“Here are some ideas: closing your eyes for 10 minutes, a longer, slower, meditating on the couch for 20 minutes, daydreaming and staring out a window…”
Aug 3, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Salvation & GraceGender & Sexuality / InclusionBible & Exposition
“Oftentimes in July and August we have a lot of people who Church looking for a religious community.”
Jul 27, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityEvangelism & MissionPentecost
“There have been Sundays this late June and July where we've had more people in the play Christmas services- mind blowing to me, not at the 9:30, you…”
Jul 20, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Reason & Free InquiryUnitarian Universalist IdentityInterdependence & Nature
“And there was the same force that had breathed into the first person: a great unifying force that flows through all interdependent web of all existen…”
Jul 17, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Earth-Centered SpiritualityUnitarian Universalist IdentitySuffering & Perseverance
“Joy or sorrow sick?”
Jul 6, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Joy & GratitudeHope & EncouragementGrief & Lament
Jul 3, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityRacial JusticeGrief & Lament
“But it wasn't long before gay, lesbian and transgender folks were encouraged and ordained into you Ministry and significant numbers we know.”
Jun 22, 2023 · unitarian universalism
The Kingdom of GodFaith & Civic LifeGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“1782 Congress, enacted the second prefiguring the Emancipation Proclamation and enslaved persons become forever free of their servitude as soon as th…”
Jun 14, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Joy & GratitudeUnitarian Universalist IdentityThanksgiving & Harvest
“But for our second reading is from Galen Gingrich: the way of gratitude, a new spirituality, unlike pleasure and happiness, the experience of joy has…”
May 31, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifeGrief & Lament
“At the day of mourning for victims of gun violence, which we held on April 15th to coincide with the NRA National Convention, Excuse Me, artist Sarah…”
May 24, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityRacial JusticeFaith & Civic Life
“In case you were not hear that Sunday or you appreciate a refresh, it's worth recalling the 3 weeks after the United States Supreme Court issued its…”
May 16, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Doxology & BenedictionSovereignty & ElectionJoy & Gratitude
“After shaking the sexist language from my ears, what I first noticed was the linking of a particular system of being in community, meaning the Democr…”
May 10, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Faith & DoubtGod the Father / CreatorUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Our beliefs are diverse and inclusive and, rather than a Creed, we share a covenant based on a set of seven principles that describe how we will trea…”
May 3, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist Identity
Apr 25, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityCreation CareJoy & Gratitude
“Our beliefs are diverse and inclusive and, rather than a Creed, we share a covenant based on a set of seven principles that describe how we will trea…”
Apr 18, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Gun Violence & SafetyFaith & Civic LifePrayer & Devotion
“I know that some of you have lost loved ones due to gun, and others of you have spin victims of gun violence.”
Apr 13, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionUnitarian Universalist IdentityPoverty & Compassion
Jan 10, 2023 · families and relationships
Faith & DoubtFear & AnxietyRacial Justice
“It's Not Unusual for me to be flummoxed by postings on social media.”
Jan 10, 2023 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentityAdvent & ChristmasFaith & Doubt
“During the past month and a half we've been presented with endless, not so subtle, the idea that we can buy or app ourselves to a state of.”
Nov 17, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Creation Care1st Principle: Inherent Worth & DignityShame & Guilt
Nov 14, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist IdentitySpiritual Growth4th Principle: Free & Responsible Search
“These include the free and responsible search for truth and meaning, the inherent worth of dignity of every person and the knowledge that we are part…”
Apr 21, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Salvation & GraceNoah & the FloodSabbath & Rest
“Together, we create a force more powerful than one person or one belief are.”
Apr 15, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Faith & DoubtDavid & Goliath4th Principle: Free & Responsible Search
“The readings are an excerpt from an interview with Alec Guinness and an excerpt from the five smooth stones of liberalism by James Luther.”
Apr 7, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Doubt1st Principle: Inherent Worth & Dignity
Mar 31, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Beloved CommunityFaith & Doubt1st Principle: Inherent Worth & Dignity
“Unitarian universalism is a faith where you can bring your whole self, your full identity, your questioning mind, your expansive heart is Unitarian u…”
Mar 24, 2022 · unitarian universalism
1st Principle: Inherent Worth & DignityUnitarian Universalist IdentityFaith & Doubt
“Unitarian universalism is a faith where you can bring your whole self, your full identity.”
Mar 18, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Joy & Gratitude1st Principle: Inherent Worth & DignityFear & Anxiety
“The word of the Holy One to Elijah was: get up, go to seraphim, which is part of sidon, and settle their watch.”
Feb 10, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Unitarian Universalist Identity4th Principle: Free & Responsible SearchFaith & Doubt
“A set of these include the free and responsible search for truth and meaning, the inherent worth and dignity of every, in the knowledge that we are p…”
Feb 1, 2022 · unitarian universalism
Faith & DoubtNew Year & Watch NightUnitarian Universalist Identity
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