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- Resilient Community with Rev. Steve Sieck
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What does resilience look like in community? Join us this Sunday as we explore stories of communities that have faced remarkable challenges and found ways to spring back, let go, and transform.
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16 min - Embodying Resilience with Mike Smith and Barb Royal
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Age, wisdom, experience, with reflections from the congregation
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21 min - The Problem with 'Should' with Rev. Steve Sieck
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As we deepen our exploration of resilience, what role do our expectations play in our ability to adapt and respond to life’s challenges?
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20 min - Bending and Breaking with Rev. Steve Sieck
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As we begin our February theme of Embodying Resilience, we look at the nature of resilience and how it differs from resistance. In a world that frames most conflicts in win-lose zero-sum terms, how might embodying resilience improve our lives?
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17 min - It's Great to Meet You, Episode 11: Gabby Guerra, Executive Director, Al Éxito
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- Righting the Ship with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Join us as we honor Rev. Dr. King and lift up the ongoing work to build the Beloved Community. As we work to resist racism, what might each of us have to change?
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23 min - It's Great to Meet You, Episode 10: Courtney Dufford, Lead Organizer, AMOS (A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy)
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15 min - The Calculus of Resistance with Rev. Steve Sieck
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In the abstract, it’s always right to resist injustice or harm. In reality, it can often be risky, even dangerous, to resist. How do we navigate these daily decisions? How might our UU values guide us through the thorny calculus of resistance?
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22 min - Holding Your (Moral) Ground with Rev. Steve Sieck
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As we begin our January theme of Practicing Resistance, we acknowledge that “resistance” is a term and set of practices used by many different people to justify many different actions. What makes resistance good or bad? This service includes a special Turning of the Year ritual to release 2025 and welcome 2026.
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About First U Think
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First U Think is a podcast designed for you, just as you are. We're bringing you weekly talks about the topics that matter. Living with values. Caring about the world and the people in it. Making a…
difference. Learning about prophetic people and their work. Want to change the world? First you think. First U Think is brought to you by the First Unitarian Church of Des Moines IA.