Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington's Podcast

Continuing in a February theme, Rev. Brian Chenowith brings us a sermon on haiku, and a variety of haiku authors. Poets to visit and read are Santoka Taneda, Hosai Ozaki,  Jack Kerouac, Den Sute-jo, and Madoka Mayuzumi (Listed in order of appearance). 

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It's the first Sunday of Black History Month, a topic that is brought up often in February, but where people erroneously only speak to some of the larger and most notable names. In this week Rev. Brian Chenowith speaks to the impact of some less well known people who also deserve recognition for their tireless efforts and struggles. Related readings from this service include Pauli Murray's Dark Testament. And I would encourage research of the topic of today's Black History Moment: Dr. Carter G. Woodson. 

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For the final service in January, Rev. Brian Chenowith delivers a message on something which is often underappreciated and under utilized by adults: Imagination. When was the last time you checked in on your imagination?

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This Week's sermon was recorded live during our Zoom service. We had visitors from several congregations around Kentucky. Rev. Brian Chenowith reminds all of us that our faith is not one that is beholdent to any fixed dogma. This is both a strength and a weakness of Unitarian Universalism. It only remains a strength when we work to adapt and accept change. 

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For Martin Luther King day weekend, a day that would normally be punctuated at the end by many of us meeting in person to march downtown. This year we will not be making a presence there as a church, and instead are pushing to do service in other ways. This sermon also features a recording of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, whose advice holds up, as always. 

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It has been a strange week, like so many of those before it. For this week our minister Rev. Brian Chenowith delivers a sermon live to Zoom, rather than a more rehearsed and more streamlined video message. 

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For the first service of 2021, Rev. Brian Chenowith brings a story that might be familiar. But the message it carries bears repeating. 

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For our final church service of December, and 2020, we have a guest from our congregation to speak. Nathaniel Hocker has been a member of UUCL since 2019, and has started down his own path to ministry since that time. There is a full introduction before he delivers his sermon. 

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There was no podcast last week as that service was the Surprise Holiday Pageant reading and would not have translated well to audio. This week, part in acknowledgement of Yule, and of Christmas also approaching in the next few days, we hear a story from an unlikely voice. This is a story from the Warao people, who live in the Orinoco River Delta in Venezuela. Though our world is very different from theirs, as always there is wisdom we can take from their teachings. 

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This weeks beginning of December service brings us to a strange and under celebrated creature in our local climate, the humble American opossum. Rev. Brian Chenowith shares a story of an encounter with one of these marsupials and what lessons we can take from them. 

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