The Unitarian Church of Quincy, Illinois

The Unitarian Church of Quincy, Illinois

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The Unitarian Church of Quincy, Illinois episodes

  • What Am I to Myself Which Must Be Remembered?
    Meditation is a solitary pursuit. Rarely do
    we get it "right." Carol shares her meditation
    techniques with us. It is no insignificant task to use
    words to teach us how to deal with the ceaseless flow of
    words at the root of our existential
    selves.
    36 min
  • How Our Children are Saving Unitarian Universalism
    As UU's, we understand faith as a
    process that is continuously transforming; a process of how
    we come to understand something larger than ourselves
    through the questions we ask of life. We wrestle with
    questions, we don't answer them. Sometimes we practice
    our faith in a way that makes it unavailable to our
    children. Our children need experiential ways, embodied
    ways to be in their faith.
    43 min
  • Living the Incarnation
    In celebrating Christmas, we often forget
    the origins of many of this season's traditions.
    Significantly, Christmas is celebrated near the Winter
    Solstice. We decorate trees and our homes with lights. For
    all, it is a time for re-awakening.
    23 min
  • The Unseen in Our Lives
    For many of us, Religion is like an
    abstract painting, or a piece of music. What we believe
    about it is something that comes from within us. Our
    tolerance for all deeply held beliefs is rooted in that
    same something within us. After all, isn't that the
    space we slip into when we fall into music or into
    art?
    24 min
  • Carefully Taught
    Life changed in St. Louis when Michael
    Brown was killed. As a white Unitarian Universalist
    community minister recently moved to St. Louis from New
    York City, Julie wasn't sure how to connect. This
    sermon tracks the path that brought Julie to join the cry,
    "Black Lives Matter."
    39 min
  • Our Alliances: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
    Honoring Veterans Day on November 11, we
    focus on the anniversary of World War I, which began in
    1914 with the shot that was heard around the world and
    ended in 1918 with millions dead and empires toppled. What
    lessons can we draw for our time from this century-old war
    that was to end all wars?
    31 min
  • A WW II Chaplain's Letters Home
    In 1943, Reverend Gerald Fletcher Miller
    put his life on hold, as so many Americans did, and went to
    war. His weapons were Bible, hymnal and communion vessels;
    he brought to battle his faith, compassion, and skill in
    counseling. He left a parish ministry in East Arlington,
    Vermont, to serve a congregation of soldiers, doctors and
    nurses, returning at war's end to a parish in North
    Waterford, Maine. He left his wife and three children, and
    returned two years later to his wife and four children. His
    son reads some of his letters home.
    35 min
  • The Rest of the Story
    When we are telling the stories that
    illustrate our lives, we often select versions of the
    narritive that present us in the way we wish to present
    ourselves. What we should look out for is what is not being
    confessed. For the greater value is in seeking to
    understand others rather than insisting upon being
    understood.
    25 min
  • On Belonging
    One of the deepest needs of human beings is
    to belong. We like to know where we belong, to whom we
    belong, and what it asks of us. We instinctively look for
    our tribe. Sometimes this helps us be better human beings,
    sometimes there are consequences. Being a person of faith
    asks us to look within and beyond our tribe as we seek to
    realize our yearnings for wholeness.
    40 min
  • Hope, True and False
    Often the difference between changing the
    world and just shaking your fist at it, is having the
    intestinal fortitude to keep going even when failure seems
    certain. So where does that persistence come from?
    Throughout history, one way people have kept going when the
    odds were stacked against them has been to have optimism
    built into their worldview. The Truth will
    out.
    30 min

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