First U Think

Religion & Spirituality Podcas

First U Think is a podcast designed for you, just as you are. We're bringing you weekly talks about the topics that matter. Living with values. Caring about the world and the people in it. Making a difference. Learning about prophetic people and their work. Want to change the world? First you think. First U Think is brought to you by the First Unitarian Church of Des Moines IA.

Location:

United States

Genres:

Religion & Spirituality Podcas

Description:

First U Think is a podcast designed for you, just as you are. We're bringing you weekly talks about the topics that matter. Living with values. Caring about the world and the people in it. Making a difference. Learning about prophetic people and their work. Want to change the world? First you think. First U Think is brought to you by the First Unitarian Church of Des Moines IA.

Language:

English

Contact:

5137097058

Website:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1609618

Email:

revamy@ucdsm.org

Episodes

Transitions

5/14/2024

with Birch Cue What gifts can give us the courage to embrace a life full of changes? Please join Birch Cue, our Faith Formation and Congregational Life Coordinator, as we explore the sometimes frightening transitions of life. Support the Show.

Duration:00:10:34

Courage

5/9/2024

with Rev. Meredith Garmon We are built, it seems, to be creatures of both aspiration and fear. Support the Show.

Duration:00:23:18

Lessons from the Passover Story

5/2/2024

with Rev. Meredith Garmon Freedom is ever the half-won blessing. We have overcome some constraints – but "chains still there are to break." Support the Show.

Duration:00:22:08

Earth Day

4/25/2024

with Rev. Meredith Garmon Every day is Earth day, of course. But we don't always talk about it in our Sunday service. This Sunday, let's talk about it! Support the Show.

Duration:00:21:39

Love and Ethics

4/17/2024

with Rev. Meredith Garmon Our commitment, as members of First Unitarian, is to "grow ethically and spiritually, serve justly, and love radically." Let's look at what the "grow ethically" part and the "love radically" part have to do with each other. Support the Show.

Duration:00:22:15

A Unitarian Easter

4/4/2024

with Rev. Meredith Garmon Sometimes we opt to ignore the Christian story and focus on fertility, eggs, bunnies, springtime, and the resurrection of life and hope. But there's something worth our attention in that story of how Jesus died, and it has nothing to do with substitutionary atonement. Support the Show.

Duration:00:29:25

How We Feel

3/28/2024

with Rev. Meredith Garmon Where do emotions come from? Understanding our emotions is a key part of self-understanding and hence of wisdom. Support the Show.

Duration:00:22:45

The Ontological, the Semantic, and the Tribal

3/21/2024

with Rev. Meredith Garmon Sometimes we have differing perspectives on what exists in reality. Sometimes, instead, our difference is in what words mean. And sometimes the disagreement isn't about either of those. Support the Show.

Duration:00:22:26

Who Are We Now?

3/19/2024

with Rev. Meredith Garmon As Unitarian Universalism grows and changes (in the midst of a wider culture also growing and changing), every generation or so we need to re-articulate our covenant to express who we are now as well as to put into the terms most salient to the current time, who we always have been. Support the Show.

Duration:00:24:17

Choose Abundance

3/7/2024

with Rev. Meredith Garmon It's easy to look at our lives and focus on scarcity, on what is in short supply. And this can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. We always have the option to choose abundance. Support the Show.

Duration:00:20:44

"Believing, Really Believing, and Talking to Your Car"

2/29/2024

Why do we believe things (or act like we do) that we don't really believe? And do we always know the difference? with Rev. Meredith Garmon Support the Show.

Duration:00:21:01

Blessing

2/22/2024

From saying "bless you" when someone sneezes to blessing a meal before we eat it, there's something important we're doing when we bless. with Rev. Meredith Garmon Support the Show.

Duration:00:23:00

Merit

2/20/2024

Some of the inequities in our meritocracy might be fixable. But even a perfect meritocracy would still be problematic. But what alternative might there be? with Rev. Meredith Garmon Support the Show.

Duration:00:22:40