Unity Church Sermon Podcasts Unity Church-Unitarian in Saint Paul, MN
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- Religion & Spirituality
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Sermons from Unity Church Unitarian, in Saint Paul, MN
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The Voluntary Church, Rev. Dr. Oscar Sinclair, April 21, 2024
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Good Bones, Rev. Dr. Oscar Sinclair, April 14, 2024
This sermon begins with worship associate Ari Giles reading "Good Bones" by Maggie Smith.
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The Music of the Spirit, Rev. Justin Schroeder, April 7, 2024
There is a voice within you which no-one, not even you, has ever heard. Give yourself the opportunity of silence and begin to develop your listening in order to hear, deep within yourself, the music of your own spirit. — John O’Donohue, Anam Cara
In a world full of distractions, screens, video bingeing, and climate unraveling, paying deep attention to our inner lives — and the wisdom and music that is there — is critical. Tuning in and encountering the deepest parts of ourselves can help us unearth the hidden treasures, insights, and clues within that can lead to more aliveness, joy, and abundance. This Sunday, we’ll explore concrete practices that can help us tune into the “song that is our life.”
After two decades in Unitarian Universalist ministry, Rev. Justin Schroeder and his wife, Juliana Keen, launched Holding Space for Change, a practice that accompanies and supports people through life transitions. They provide spiritual direction/accompaniment, therapy, grief support groups, divorce support groups, life-transition support groups, and more. Between the two of them, they have over four decades of experience in spiritual leadership and social work. -
When Jesus Woke, Rev. Kathleen Rolenz, Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024
This podcast begins with Merrill Aldrich reading Luke 24:13-32.
What really happened on that Easter morning? A resurrection? An awakening? No one can say for certain, but we can say this — Jesus of Nazareth’s life after his death changed the world. On this Easter Sunday, it also has the power to change us. Come find out how. -
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears, Rev. KP Hong, March 24, 2024
In his essay of the same title, the Hungarian cultural critic László Földényi stages an encounter between Dostoyevsky and Hegel, between our creaturely sense of transcendence as finite-limited-mortal beings and radical Enligthenment's belief in unbounded progress and mastery. In a world mediated through switches, buttons, credit cards, screens, redlined neighborhoods and land as commodity for ownership, what do we mean by the sacred? In this moment of climate change and degradation of life, when the wounded world seems "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," how do we remain attentive to the sacred song of life itself, to claim a deeper sense of belonging to the earth, shared history, and to each other? Worship associate Nancy Dilts and Rev. KP Hong amplify the work of honest storytelling, asking us to more creatively name this sacred life and work against its degradation.
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Life Is a Thistle Bush, Barbara Hubbard, March 17, 2024
Who among us really expected life to be a bed of roses? Barbara Hubbard will speak about how the Unity Church community has inspired, shaped and transformed her life’s journey.
Customer Reviews
review of church from a blind person's perspective
When I was in Minneapolis, doing an adjustment to blindness training, I came across three Unitarian, Universalist, congregation's, and this is one of them. The other two were the first Unitarian society of Minneapolis and the first universalist church of Minneapolis. I once heard somebody say about these three podcasts/churches, first Unitarian is the think-in church, First Universalist was the march-in church, and this one, Unity, was the pray-in church. This does seem to be true of the services I have listened to, both live and later. I find the movement part of these services at Unity (the parts where the congregation divides into groups and sings, such as in the song "this Pretty Planet") very confusing., why do I say this? Because the person doing these parts of the service is not clear about which group members, or which side of the room start singing, and which side of the room comes in later. I'm very glad that I'm not attending these services in person because this would be extra confusing as a blind person.