The Unitarian Church of Quincy, Illinois

The Unitarian Church of Quincy, Illinois

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The Unitarian Church of Quincy, Illinois episodes

  • Doing Something About Poverty
    We're looking for ways to change the
    picture of Poverty in America. Yes, we can (and should)
    give money. Yes, we can (and should) give of our time. What
    more can we do? Who are these people who are poverty
    stricken? Why are they in poverty? What can be done to
    strengthen their fight to live with
    dignity?
    35 min
  • The Gift of Doubt
    A free and responsible search for truth and
    meaning. It's the fourth of the seven principles of
    Unitarian Universalism. Doubt and Wonder become intertwined
    with what we know and what we don't know. From
    Aristotle and Augustine to Einstein and Hawking; doubt is
    the springboard that propels us into our
    future.
    29 min
  • Reflections From India
    Our minister's daughter is an exchange
    student in India. The parents visited the daughter over the
    Christmas Holidays. Rev. Scott Aaseng recounts the sights,
    the sounds, the smells, the tastes and the spirit of their
    Indian cultural experience.
    34 min
  • What Defines a Church?
    A Centennial reflection. Our congregation
    has attended church in this building for 100 years.
    Consider the relationship between a congregation and their
    building. We, the congregation that we were then and that
    we are now, continue to bring into this building traditions
    of thought, of tolerance and of spiritual sensibility,
    which will survive our present membership, and our present
    building.
    32 min
  • What's the Reason for the Season?
    How many different cultural mythologies
    have instituted a celebration which generally coincides
    with the Winter's Solstice? How is it that the broad
    outlines of stories within one culture are often
    reproduced, with different names and to different purposes,
    by other cultures? What IS the reason for the
    season?
    30 min
  • The Glass Ceiling of Faith
    Jim burns testifies to a religious
    experiece which transformed his fear of the consequences of
    following his conscience. He describes the transformation
    of having faith in the Catholic Church into his faith in a
    new way of viewing the person of Jesus; a new way of
    looking at resurection; a new view of a life of love and
    compassion of all peoples; a new view of the divinity and
    humanity of Jesus; a new view of his own divinity and
    humanity.
    31 min
  • Truth, Justice and the Unitarian Way
    The point of speaking truth is not to find
    or discover truth for its own sake. The purpose of speaking
    truth is to change me, to make me grow; to help me bring
    more beauty and justice and love into our world. The
    purpose of speaking truth is to bring about a better me and
    a better world.
    24 min
  • Our Compost, Ourselves
    Memories from years ago, memories from
    yesterday, sublime poetry and radio jingles, the trivial
    and the profound come to the surface with equal speed and
    ease in our minds. All of our experiences, all of these
    moments, the magnificent and the marvelous, and the utterly
    trivial are fermenting to produce these absolutely unique
    selves which we claim as our own.
    23 min
  • Religion and the Imagination
    Once we give up the pretense that our
    religion is realistic while their religion is fantasy; once
    we realize how important imagination is to everybody; then
    we are in a position to talk about the right issue which is
    the difference between good imagination and bad
    imagination.
    37 min

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