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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.

First U Think Rev. Amy Petrie Shaw and guests

    • Religion & Spirituality
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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.

    Courage

    Courage

    with Rev. Meredith Garmon

    We are built, it seems, to be creatures of both aspiration and fear.
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    • 23 min
    Lessons from the Passover Story

    Lessons from the Passover Story

     with Rev. Meredith Garmon 

    Freedom is ever the half-won blessing. We have overcome some constraints – but "chains still there are to break." 
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    • 22 min
    Earth Day

    Earth Day

    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!
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    • 21 min
    Love and Ethics

    Love and Ethics

    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.
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    • 22 min
    A Unitarian Easter

    A Unitarian Easter

    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.
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    • 29 min
    How We Feel

    How We Feel

    with Rev. Meredith Garmon

    Where do emotions come from? Understanding our emotions is a key part of self-understanding and hence of wisdom.
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    • 22 min

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