Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington's Podcast

This week marks the beginning of our Stewardship season, where our church asks members to contribute in ways that they feel comfortable. Rev. Brian Chenowith discusses what that sentiment means in these uncertain times, and explores how this shift in our church format has affected this and all other aspects of our church community. 

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This week is a special service that Unitarian Universalists celebrate all over the country, the Water Communion. Rev. Brian Chenowith brings us an anecdote about a spider, and relates that experience to how we are all feeling about the strangeness of the world right now. The reading this week was "Last Night As I Was Sleeping" by Antonio Machado, which is referenced in the sermon as well as inspiring this evocative title. 

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Question Sunday is a popular semi-annual appearance in many UU churches, where the Minister freely accepts questions from the congregation and answers them. This week Rev. Brian Chenowith provides answers for several such questions, selected randomly with the help of everyone's favorite Icosahedron (a twenty sided dice). 

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In this week's episode of the sermon podcast, Rev. Brian Chenowith brings us a call to action, to expand the scope of our virtual service body and the work that we do for each other. 

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In this sermon podcast, from our Sunday service on August 24th, Rev. Brian Chenowith asks how we are coping with all of the complications of life at this point in the year. 
In times like these, the value of developing and improving coping mechanisms cannot be overlooked. 

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In this podcast, from the Sunday service on August 16th, we have a special service, with three voices from our community, Mya Wade-Harper, Eric Huffer, and Andrea Kendall. 
In keeping with themes of the 8th principle of Unitarian Universalism that our congregation has voted to adopt, we take a look at what it truly means to accountably dismantle systems of racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.  

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For this week's podcast, as we near a time of year traditionally associated with the beginning of earnest semesters of normal church service, Rev. Brian Chenowith takes an introspective look at how the forced distance of this new format of online services has created change for those who work or volunteer their time for the church. One of the many questions we must ask ourselves as we face down the further complications of the world since encountering this pandemic. 

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For this week's service we are joined by Nancy Combs-Morgan, a Congregational Life Consultant for the MidAmerica UUA region, and Mya Wade-Harper. Reflecting on themes represented in the cherished UU hymn #128 (From Singing the Living Tradition) "For All That is Our Life", they ask us to take an introspective look at what good we want to do, visualizing the changes that we wish to make. 

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For our final Sunday service of the month of July, Rev. Brian Chenowith calls for us to find awe in small moments, especially in the hard times we find ourselves in this year. 

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For this week's podcast we have a very special guest with us, Rev. Dr. Gordon Gibson, who was directly involved with the voting rights campaign in Selma, only a few weeks after he was ordained. He is a member of the board and Historian for the Living Legacy Project and author of Southern Witness, both endeavors which chronicle Unitarian Universalist efforts in the ongoing struggle to secure Civil Rights for all persons. 

In the reading and the sermon this week, Rev. Dr. Gordon Gibson urges us as people of faith to seek out a secular salvation, something of our own creation on earth, that ensures people are treated as all should be. One of the primary ways to take action for these causes is simple: to vote. 

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