The Unitarian Church of Quincy, Illinois

The Unitarian Church of Quincy, Illinois

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The Unitarian Church of Quincy, Illinois episodes

  • Trees of Life
    Let's take some time to free-associate
    with the word, "tree." Isn't it amazing how
    many different metaphors come to mind; how many different
    images can be conjured; and how often we can find contexts
    in which it is appropriate? Come, play with a word with us
    for a while.
    28 min
  • The Story of Our Deaths
    We live as characters inside countless
    stories that motivate our actions and make meaning out of
    our lives. One way to maintain motivation and meaning is to
    tell death-denying stories about eternal life. Another is
    to live in the moment and put off thinking about death for
    as long as possible. But wise and skillful story-tellers
    have other options.
    33 min
  • Hospitality Pure and Simple
    Hospitality is all about Power! Ethically,
    we search for an understanding of an equality between the
    host and the guest, when the guest enters the boundaries
    maintained by the host. Hospitality is the welcome that we
    offer to the guests in our homes and to those who cross
    national frontiers into a land that is not their own.
    Spiritually, when we find ourselves vulnerable to the
    insults of our hosts, will we find the inner power to treat
    ourselves with the hospitality that we
    deserve?
    32 min
  • Troubles With Sports in Our Football Nation
    Watching football has become our national
    pastime. Characterized by crashing together, falling down,
    then repeating frequently; football is a bruising sport
    which takes a severe toll upon the players' bodies.
    These modern gladiators provide the entertainment for this
    Super Bowl Sunday's afternoon.
    38 min
  • Our Improbable Universe
    The Universe is really big. No, I mean
    REALLY BIG! And it's getting bigger all the time.
    Understanding how Newtonian Physics works is perfectly
    intuitive. But on the cosmic scale, nothing about physics
    has anything to do with human intuition. How could the
    universe have happened? Well, that's the question --
    and we Unitarians, it might even be said that we worship
    the question.
    32 min
  • Liu, Xiaobo, for Example
    The winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize is
    a Chinese man little known in the United States. In this
    talk our Minister helped us better understand the life and
    the character of Liu Xiaobo.
    32 min
  • Keep the X in Xmas - Revisited
    Given that Christmas is a Christian
    Holiday, what is it that Unitarian-Universalists have to
    celebrate? It shouldn't be surprising that an answer
    can be found in nature and in the stories that surround the
    historical Jesus. For us, that "X" is an
    unknowable unknown.
    23 min

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