First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipeg's Podcast

2025-02-02 Like all elements, love is essential for human survival. We need it to survive and thrive, so why aren’t we taught to hold unconditional love for ourselves? Join Octavia as she speaks to the true power of self-compassion.

Service Coordinator: Cate Ziegler

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This is the third in our series exploring The Elements
The Sunday Services Team started in the fall The Elements, a five-part series about our human connection to Air, Water, Earth and Fire, and the fifth Element – Love. Connecting with each one of these has power to nurture and sustain us, to inspire us and to give us life. A personal exploration of how we connect physically, emotionally and spiritually with these ancient symbols of life.

2024-12-15 In ancient Rome, the state sought to pacify the people by feeding large groups of citizens and then distracting them with entertainment—such as feeding Christians to the lions and other such “sports.”  In his Satire, the Roman poet Juvenal called this practice “bread and circuses.”  How much has really changed since then?

2025-02-16 Since the dawn of human time, people have experienced a close, yet uneasy, relationship with fire. After countless millennia, we find that our efforts at controlling fire are limited at best. Yet fire in many forms continues to be employed, such as in heating our living/working/playing spaces, in cooking, and in ritual and ceremony. So come, let’s play with fire!

This is the fourth of our series on the Elements. Connecting with earth, air, fire, water, and love has power to nurture and sustain us, to inspire us and to give us life. A personal exploration of how we connect physically, emotionally and spiritually with these ancient symbols of life.

2024-12-08 A bend in the road is a recurring motif in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s stories about Anne of Green Gables. “Oh, there’s another bend in the road at their end,” she writes in Anne of the Island. “I’ve no idea what may be around it – I don’t want to have. It’s nicer not to know.” One of Canada’s most acclaimed authors, Montgomery was born 150 years ago, and we will celebrate her life and letters, which had a few twists and turns of their own. The Choir will sing.

Service Coordinator: Norm Cobb
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2024-11-24 David Morrison has worked most of his life caring for and helping people, and currently is a volunteer with Community Helpers Unite. David is a board member of several Indigenous organizations, a Pipe carrier and knowledge keeper. He shares tales of a lifetime of being "surprised by joy."

2024-11-17 “We live stitch to stitch,” writes Anne Lamott. “And maybe the stitching is crude, or it is unraveling, but if it were precise, we’d pretend that life was just fine and running like a Swiss watch.” When things unravel or are torn asunder, we can give up, wait for a miracle, or strive to repair what remains.

2024-11-10 The planned sermon blurb was this: William Henry Channing urged us to “await occasions, hurry never.” How often have we seen that, as the pace of life accelerates, the quality of life declines? At a time when calming zones and red-light cameras are being used to slow down traffic in many communities, perhaps we should reduce the speed limit on the highway of life!

The delivered sermon was instead a reaction to the November 2024 American election and its moral and democratic implications.

2024-10-27 Sometimes we are so anaesthetized to the sounds around us that even the voices of those we love and respect the most become little more than background noise. At other times, we are so focused on formulating our response that we fail to hear clearly what it is that is being said to us in the first place. What would happen if we listened with open hearts?

2024-09-29 In Part II, Steve continues to explore our relationships with trees in all their forms: as beautiful forests, as healthy environments, as lumber and paper, and as the main source of the oxygen we breathe daily.

2024-08-18 Steve explores our relationships with trees in all their forms: as beautiful forests, as carbon sinks, as lumber and paper, as fire, and as the main source of the oxygen we breathe daily.