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165 episodes
August 31, 2025 Echo Christensen, Jim Powers, Kathleen LaFlamme - Summer's End
We stand at the end of one season, looking back at the warm, carefree days of Summer, not quite ready to say goodbye but knowing that just around the corner is a new season with all its challenges. The beginning of the school year, the beginnin...
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25:04

August 24, 2025 Kat Prince Kosmos - The Revolutionary Act of Self-Love
This Sunday, join us as we explore the radical power of loving ourselves in a world that often thrives on our self-doubt. Together, we’ll reflect on how nurturing compassion for our own bodies, minds, and spirits can ripple outward—challenging ...
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17:28

August 10, 2025 Christine Hinderer - It's All Curriculum
The most important part of our religious education curriculum for children, youth, and adults is our church community, our congregation, our church building, and everyone in it or connected to it in person or virtually. Who we are is what...
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10:57

August 3, 2025 Kim Stein - Self-Care: It's All About Connections
Have you found yourself exhausted of late? Are you finding it difficult to relate to those with different views, or even to foster your close relationships? We’re going to explore the importance of self-care—connecting with yourself...
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19:29

July 27, 2025 Matt DePlois - Bodily Autonomy and the Need to Trust Each Other
Affirming the inherent dignity and worth of every person is the 1st principle of UUism, but how do we live that principle? What does it mean to really affirm another person’s humanity and inherent dignity? How do we act like we trul...
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11:58

July 20, 2025 Kym Lamb - Everyday Mystics
When we hear the title of Mystic, we tend to think of gurus, solitary monks or enlightened spiritual leaders, but a mystic is simply someone who is seeking to find the sacred in ordinary life events. Using Mirabai Starr’s teachings, let’s...
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14:12

July 13, 2025 Scott Lindstrom - More Than Not
Without dogma, we may seem spiritually untethered. But our freedom to believe compels us daily to seek deeper meaning for ourselves and our community. Join us as we explore becoming more than what we don’t choose to believe. A...
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10:09

July 6, 2025 Jenn Crowell - Disability Allyship and Activism: Defending the Worth and Dignity of All
Disability allyship reflects the worth and dignity of every person, while disability activism allows us to put our UU values in action in a society that frequently devalues disabled people even in a post-ADA world. Come learn how you can ...
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8:01

June 29, 2025 Rev. Lauren Levwood - The Magic of the Empty Space
If there is water filling half of a glass, do you see it as half full, or half empty? Whichever way you see it, what's the matter with the empty space? Maybe that's where the magic is... in the space that has room to be filled. ...
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18:35

June 22, 2025 Kathleen LaFlamme - Summer Solstice: Rise, Fall, Rise
The sun is at its highest point in the sky and the longest, hottest days of the year greet us. Ancient peoples celebrated this day as part of a sacred cycle of the continuing rise and fall of power. These are long days, but they wil...
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11:57

May 11, 2025 Rev. Lauren Levwood - Mothering in our Bones
Mother's Day can be a complicated holiday, and mean many different things for each one of us. In fact, every individual likely has numerous experiences and vantage points of mothering in their lives. However, one thing is true: we a...
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16:22

May 4, 2025 Darolyn Wylie - Reframing the Journey
The number of people in the U.S. aged 100 or older jumped 44% between 2000 and 2014. As we live longer, healthier lives how can we make intentional choices along the journey so our lives continue to be meaningful? And how do we chan...
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20:50

April 27, 2025 Rev. Lauren Levwood - Climate Justice Revival
Throughout religious history, revivals have marked periods of resurgence in people’s commitment to their faith traditions. Classic American tent revivals took people out of the four walls of the church and into the world. They broug...
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15:05

April 20, 2025 Diane Larson - Flower Power
Gary Kowalski, delivered by Diane LarsonFlower Communion symbolizes the light and color and fragrance of many creeds, many cultures, and many races joining together in a bright, living bouquet. It is a testament to the power...
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10:37

April 13, 2025 Rev. Lauren Levwood - Buoyed by Joy
It is said that laughter is the best medicine… let’s find out if that’s true! April rings in with its first day heralding pranks and silliness. Come and enjoy a fun-filled Sunday with silly music, playful rituals, and some surprises...
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12:17

April 6, 2025 Jon Biemer - The Three C's of Sustainability
Jon Biemer will share Three C’s of Sustainability – and how we can make use of them. He draws stories and insights from his books Our Journey to Sustainability: How Everyday Heroes Make a Difference (2024) and Our Environmental Han...
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28:48

March 30, 2025 Scott Lindstrom - We Celebrate Dandelions
Like UUs, Dandelions are persistent, often flamboyant, and rooted in a growing future. Join us and Ms Bloom as we consider spreading the seeds of our community.
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7:35

March 23, 2025 Rev. Lauren Levwood - Be Still and Get Going
The meditation practice, “Be Still and Get Going,” was created by Rabbi Alan Lew, and can be found in his book by the same name. This practice weaves together the tradition of Zen Buddhism with Judaism, merging the wisdom of these spiritual tea...
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23:35

March 16, 2025 Rev. Catharine (Qira) Clarenbach - Tender Changes: Persistence and Gentleness
In my 20 years as a spiritual director, I have found nothing so effective in fostering personal change as gentle persistence and persistent gentleness. As adrienne maree brown says, "Small is all." When we treat ourselves with love ...
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17:30

March 9, 2025 Rev. Lauren Levwood - Ode to Rest
Resting is the seedbed that blooms with the fruit of subversive imagination… and we must water this seedbed tenderly and disruptively. In the words of Nap Minister Tricia Hersey, “We are deeply committed to dismantling white supremacy and capit...
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25:20

February 23, 2025 Rev. Lauren Levwood - What We Can Learn from "Wicked" (...about love and fascism)
Since the beloved broadway musical "Wicked" hit the big screen, fans have taken a deep dive back into the music, and meaning, of the story. Come to UUCCWC on Sunday, February 23rd, and enjoy a Wicked-themed service, complete with music fr...
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26:02

February 16, 2025 Lisa Lake - Love Is Like a Box of Chocolates
Join us for lots of chocolate and love. Sometimes, you have to just stop and enjoy a piece of chocolate during hard times. Join us for a look into how our love differs, just like a box of chocolates, and how we can hold that box as a tool to gi...
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12:10

February 9, 2025 Rev. Lauren Levwood - The Forests in Our Hearts
Join us for an embodied exploration of trees as we honor Tu B'Shvat, the Jewish "New Year of the Trees," and uplift the legacy of the great tree planter and ecofeminist Wangari Maathai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for mobilizing African women...
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26:24

February 2, 2025 UU Pagans - Imbolc
Join us for a special Imbolc celebration with the UU Pagans! This service honors the turning of the season as we celebrate light, renewal, and new beginnings. Imbolc, a time of hope and transformation, invites us to reflect on our inner growth ...
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16:23

January 26, 2025 Rev. Lauren Levwood - From Rainbows to Montgomery
Every January, we honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, the great leader of our Civil Rights Movement. And, too, there were other voices in the chorus of that movement that built, shaped, and sustained it. Join us for a morning of story...
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