First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston Podcast

First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston Podcast

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First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston Podcast episodes

  • "Transforming Holidays, et al"
    Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen wrote ". . . as Unitarian Universalists, our journey is to transform the big and the small, to transform ourselves, and to transform the world." How might we transform the world by transforming our observance of holidays?
    23 min
  • "No Other Teacher: Swami Vivekananda"

    The Hindu monk and philosopher Swami Vivekananda was a key figure in introducing yoga to the United States. A close friend of the Unitarian and Universalist movements of the early twentieth centuries, he helped move our tradition more fully towards religious pluralism. In this month's installment of "Lives of the Spirit" we consider how he might continue to inspire us.

    23 min
  • "Feeling Human"

    An exploration of what it means to be embodied beings.

    Guest Preacher Rev. Tania Márquez is an ordained UU community minister currently serving as a hospital chaplain in San Diego, CA. Rev. Marquez is also a Spiritual Director with a passion for poetry, beauty, art, and community. Her ministry is informed by her Mexican, immigrant, and fronteriza experience as well as for a passion towards collective healing. She believes in the healing power of words, community, movement, and ritual.

    23 min
  • The Next American Revolution: Grace Lee Boggs
    We will celebrated May Day with a service devoted to April's subject for "Lives of the Spirit," the spiritual activist Grace Lee Boggs. A seminal figure in the urban agriculture movement, a lifelong community organizer, and a philosopher, she believed that social transformation did not come from one big revolution. Instead, it would arrive through many small ones. How might her revolutionary thought inform our own practice?
    33 min
  • "Wendel A. White: Difficult Histories"
    First Unitarian Universalist is once again a participating space for the FotoFest Biennial. This year we are featuring selections from Wendel A. White's Manifest (2009–present) and Red Summer (2011–2019) series. Manifest presents in classic still life fashion individual objects found in collections, public and private, from African American history. In his montage series Red Summer, White, ties the past to the present using early twentieth-century news clippings and contemporary landscapes. In our service, as in our exhibition, we will consider how art can be a force for social change and the preservation of memory.
    30 min
  • "United for Love and Action"
    We launch our annual stewardship campaign with the theme United for Love and Action. In our service we'll consider what it means to come together as a religious community and why membership in a Unitarian Universalist congregation can be a spiritual practice.
    35 min
  • "Easter: Trembling and Bewildered"

    The oldest Christian texts of Easter end not with visions or encounters with Jesus but with an empty tomb that left his followers "trembling and bewildered." What does the empty tomb mean for us today, some two thousand years later?

    27 min

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The First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston podcast presents sermons, interviews and programs that highlight our attempt in making the world a better place for everyone and everything.