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By The First Unitarian Church of ChicagoReligion & Spirituality
First Unitarian Church of Chicago episodes
- Now Boarding Flight 5650 - Rev. David Schwartz
“Universalists are often asked to tell where they stand,” minister Lewis Fisher wrote decades ago, “The only true answer... is that we do not stand at all, we move.” It's a time of moving at First Unitarian, and this Sunday we'll board a metaphorical airplane to the future of this congregation, complete with safety cards, flight attendants and in-flight entertainment.
15 min - Are We Complicit? - Rev. David Schwartz
Strength to stand against the tide when the world pulls you along with it.
13 min - Why Are We Here (in Church)? - Rev David Schwartz
We recreate a 90-year old order of service to ask why we gather in a house of worship in the current age.
11 min - Beyond Understanding - Rev. David Schwartz
The solstice season of long nights is an opportunity in darkness to feel ourselves as small parts of a vast and ancient story.
17 min - Thanksgiving Myths - Rev. Teri Schwartz
We tell the story of Thanksgiving as if the European settlers are at the center of it. Just like that story transforms radically when it stops being, at its core, about Europeans, how do the myths we tell about our world change when we stop putting our own experience at the center?
23 min - Healing is a Team Sport - Rev. Teri Schwartz
Writer and physician, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, writes: “We heal each other all the time and don’t even realize we’re doing it. Healing comes out of a very simple relationship—knowing your life matters to another person and connecting to something larger and unseen.” We'll continue our October worship theme of healing and explore how we might heal one another—whether that's two people or a whole community.
18 min - Trans Lives Matter - Rev. David Schwartz
Simply and directly: trans lives matter. Trans folks: you are whole, you are seen, you are held in community.
20 min - Black Lives Matter - Rev. David Schwartz"Black Lives Matter" is not synonymous with "white people are not victimized by the state" or "racism is the only form of injustice" or, for that matter, with "police are bad." There is an intersection of different kinds of privilege and different kinds of oppression. What the Black Lives Matter movement is trying to do is not to solve every type of injustice, nor to advance an ideology that racism is the only or the root of all oppressions, nor to claim that anti-Black racism is the only kind of racism there is. Its aims seem more focused and as a result more powerful. Simply stated: systematically this country does not treat Black lives as if they are truly of equal value with white lives.23 min
- Change Everything but Keep It All the Same - Rev. David Schwartz
The congregation is in a season of change that will span years. It's a moment to ask a question which has been hard to give institutional attention to: who are we and what are we about? How are we to really live our mission as a community? How are we to open those doors as wide, as wide as possible. How are to grow our souls and serve the world?
26 min - Transform Your Pain or Transmit It - Rev. David Schwartz
If you don't transmute your pain, you transmit it: a service of rebirth and transformation for Easter Sunday.
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