First U Think Rev. Amy Petrie Shaw and guests
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- 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.
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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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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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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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The Ontological, the Semantic, and the Tribal
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.
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Who Are We Now?
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.
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Choose Abundance
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.
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