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Wings: Who Are We Now? (Part 3)

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2022


Join Rev. Kim for the last of sermon series on Unitarian Universalism. We are not only what we’ve been given, but a continuation and transformation of the past. Following two Sunday services on our history, we turn now to today’s Unitarian Universalism. Who are ... read more.

Roots: A Time of Revival and Renewal (Part 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2022


Join Rev. Kim in this two-part sermon series on the history and theology of early Unitarian Universalism. Who are we and why? How did this religion come to be?Join Rev. Kim in this three-part sermon series on the history and theology of early Unitarian Universalism ... read more.

Roots: A Time of Revival and Renewal (Part 1)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2022


Join Rev. Kim in this three-part sermon series on the history and theology of early Unitarian Universalism and what Unitarian Universalism is today. This Sunday and Next is about Roots: Who are we and why? How did this religion come to be? And why does ... read more.

Wisdom and Wonder

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2022


Click above to listen only Rev. Kim welcomes your wonder and hopes there will be wisdom in our annual question box service where you bring questions of any kind and Rev. Kim tries to answer as many as possible in the allotted time. This is always a ... read more.

Flower Communion

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2022


Click above to listen only We join for our first ever multi-platform Flower Communion. This beloved annual ritual, shared by Unitarian Universalists throughout the world, welcomes you in person or remote. Don’t forget to bring a flower – And don’t forget to bring your celebration of Caryl ... read more.

Quantum Afterlife

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2022


click above to listen only Join Rev. Kim in exploring the last of this year’s auction sermon series: Phyllis Warren’s chosen theme on the afterlife, mystical interconnectedness and quantum effects. 

“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2022


To Listen only, click above Breathing and navigating the twists and turns of life can be complicated and difficult …how do we pause to inhale, acknowledge, exhale, and go at it again?

Nurturing Beauty

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2022


To listen only, click above What is beauty? Where does it live? How does it exist? And why is it a “human calling,” as the poet John O’Donohue has written? This Sunday we joyfully dedicate and bless two of our children and the village that holds ... read more.

Nurturing Beauty in Ritual and Rumination

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2022


To listen only, click above This Sunday we celebrate New Members, our high school “Bridgers,” our Choir, and more. All through the lens of this month’s theme of Nurturing Beauty.  This week, Robin Pugh, Director of Lifespan Faith Engagement, will also offer a virtual Family Chapel from ... read more.

On Visibility, Language and Love

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2022


Click above to listen In this service we name and affirm the beauty that exists within and because of the trans and non-binary people in our lives. Join us as we ritualize and re-introduce those among us with their correct pronouns, names and personhood.

The Authority of the Future

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2022


Click above to listen only Each year we gather to retell and consider anew the Christian Easter story. This year, in the midst of so much brokenness, how can this old story bring new insight, healing and hope once again? Join us on Easter Sunday (bonnets optional) ... read more.

Poetry, Liberation, and Finding the Permanence

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2022


Click above to listen only As spring draws near, many will gather for Passover, Easter, and mark the season turning through earth-based celebrations. Join Rev. Kim in a conversation on how our faith invites us to find the wisdom in complicated theologies.

Love, Morality, and Reproductive Justice

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2022


To listen only, click above With the ongoing fight for reproductive health, rights, and justice, we join UU congregations across the country for a Sunday of solidarity, support, and reflection. The UUCWC Choir will be singing!

Play and Wayfinding

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2022


Click above to listen only Spirituality when we don’t know where we’re going and everything feels tough.

The Role of Love

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2022


To listen only, click above Each year, our Annual Auction offers the opportunity to suggest a sermon topic for Rev. Kim Wildszewski. This Sunday, Rev. Kim offers a sermon to one of last year’s winners. This week, Robin Pugh, Director of Lifespan Faith Engagement, ... read more.

When Your Fire Is Burning Low

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2022


Click above to listen only. How do we “do” spirituality pragmatically? What is required of us when the world is chaotic? This week, Robin Pugh, Director of Lifespan Faith Engagement, will also offer a virtual Family Chapel from 9-9:30am.To attend, click here

Spiritual Decluttering

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2022


Click above to listen only We have crossed a threshold so much so that it’s like we are beginning a new year. Now is the time for spiritual decluttering.

Stewardship Sunday

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2022


To listen only, click above. Join us for the official kick-off of our Annual Pledge Drive.

Live in Hope

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2022


Audio Only above We conclude our sermon series on the 5 Smooth Stones of progressive faith.  How to Live in Hope.  This week, Robin Pugh, Director of Lifespan Faith Engagement, will also offer a virtual Family Chapel from 9-9:30am.To attend, click here

All Saints Service

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2021


A service that calls in our practices of Grief and Beauty. To listen only, click above. Weather permitting, we will hold an outdoor worship service in tandem with our online service; both at 10am. If you will be attending the outdoor service, please sign up in ... read more.

All I Really Need to Know, I Learned at UUCWC

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2021


To listen only, click above. After 47 years as a church musician, Caryl Tipton, Director of Music Ministry, shares how her search for spiritual meaning and truth grew while serving UUCWC for 30 of those years.

On Enoughness

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2021


To listen only click above Rev. Kim offers the first Auction-won sermon of the year with the theme of “What is Enough?” At 9am, Robin Pugh, Director of Lifespan Faith Engagement, will offer a virtual Family Chapel, a worship service for families with children. For Family Chapel (not ... read more.

Spirituality as a Seismic Structure

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2021


Rev. Kim invites friend and colleague, the Rev. Shannon Kearns, to share a conversation on spirituality, queerness, grief and goodness.  Shannon TL Kearns is a transgender man who believes in the transformative power of story. He is an ordained priest, a playwright, and a theologian. He ... read more.

Listening for Where Life Calls Us On

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2021


We begin a sermon series on reconnecting to the why and how of congregational life.  To listen click above.This week Robin Pugh, Director of Lifespan Faith Engagement, will also offer a virtual Family Chapel from 9-9:30am. To attend, click here.

Intimacy with All Things

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2021


Listen here How the practices of love (and enchantment) can help us heal our bruised and shattered nervous systems (and even our ecosystems.) We take a look at the brain “in-love” and how the biochemistry of love can help us regulate our nervous system and keep us ... read more.

Let the Sun Shine (Slowly)

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2021


Click above for audio file only. We conclude, for now, our sermon series on the physical and emotional impact of trauma on our lives and in our congregation. 

Water Communion: Peace Like a River

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2021


Streamed service Picture summary of In-person, outdoor service Streamed service Click above for audio only of streamed service. On September 12, there will be two Water Ingathering services, both at 10am. One will be entirely virtual, just like the services we’ve created together since March 2020.  The other will ... read more.

A Very, Very Long Time

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2021


Audio only file; click above. Rev. Sarah Skochko is a 2020 graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School. She also has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon. A native of South Jersey, she now lives in Austin, TX. In 2001, a church organ in Germany ... read more.

In for the Long Haul

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2021


We continue in our sermon series on the physical and mental effects of this past year and a half. We take this deep dive for healing and hope. UUCWC will be holding one virtual service at 10am. Please check here for details Click above to ... read more.

multiplying goodness

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2021


most of us have memories of our creativity, ambition, energy being curbed, criticized or ignored. from these shaping experiences we often build walls between our authenticity and public persona. how do we find our ways back to wholeness and is it even possible? we will ... read more.

it’s a lifestyle

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2021


this sunday we welcome back Rev. Kim in the service and i, rev. yadenee offer my last sermon to the UUCWC congregation. come on by as we remember what we have known and learn what feels new so we can integrate together and shape our ... read more.

what we create together

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2021


if i told you, we are at the start of building somthing new together, how would you define sucess? how would you shape the values and relationships around you? what would you study so to perfect in the next now? although July 4th is a ... read more.

Father’s Day

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2021


UUCWC will be holding one virtual service at 10am. Please check here for details. Click above to listen only

Dress Up & Daydreaming

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2021


UUCWC will be holding one virtual service at 10am. Please check here for details. this month, we are making mud pies and playing pretend! play is a superpower and necessary for sustaining a love and liberation revolution. this sunday, come dressed up in fun glasses, ... read more.

Flower Communion: We Are a Garden

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2021


UUCWC will be holding one virtual service at 10am. Please check here for details. join us for this year’s Flower Communion, creatively re-imagined for our virtual worship space. if you are each like a flower, then we together make a sort of garden. we are ... read more.

Spring for Change: Pathways for Healing

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2021


our house is on fire, life is threatened in our social ‘dis'order. black, trans, queer, fem human bodies to jungles, oceans, and thousands of species driven to extinction, life is hunted, comofidied, and abused. this wake of harm is not faceless. in the story of ... read more.

Where’s the Joy in a Sad Story?: Comic Relief and Spiritual Wellness

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2021


well done comic relief is my saving grace. in the climax of a story when the protagonists are in high stress and alert–often a joke allows the pent up tension, a cooling pressure valve release. maybe it's the writers' mercy or providence's grace that we ... read more.

Dance in the Desert, Bring a Tambourine

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2021


As our second pandemic summer approaches, some days may feel almost normal, while others still bring us to our knees. Rev. Erin Walter, a music minister from Austin, TX, join us to reflect on joy practices for hard times. This service will include the poetry of Rainer Maria ... read more.

Listen: To Heal, Liberate, and Love

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2021


there is deep satisfaction in being listened to, in being understood. in my life i’ve learned the art of deep listening is an imperative to liberation work and healing ourselves and our communities. this mother’s day we will stretch into this practice through stories and ... read more.

The Conflict of Grief

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2021


UUCWC will be holding one virtual service at 10am. Please check here for details. The last Sunday before Rev. Kim’s parental leave, she preaches on the conflict (and celebration) of grief.  Listen above

From Hierarchy to Mutuality

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2021


UUCWC will be holding one virtual service at 10am. Please check here for details. As we prepare for an annual meeting in June, and change of leadership within UUCWC, what does our theology have to do with our polity (governance)? Hint: ... read more.

In Hopes of Being Heard

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2021


UUCWC will be holding one virtual service at 10am. Please check here for details. Rev. Kim preaches the annual auction sermon, won last year by Greg Pontier. Greg’s theme for Rev. Kim is on the voices that empower or discourage us, and the work of ... read more.

On Candles, Relationship, and Learning

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2021


UUCWC will be holding one virtual service at 10am. Please check here for details. This Sunday we consider the Candle of Fellowship committed to accessibility.  032821 Sunday Service Listen to the service by clicking above.

Honoring This Year

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2021 59:20


UUCWC will be holding one virtual service at 10am. Please check here for details. It has been one year since UUCWC’s physical sanctuary has welcomed our story, song or assembly.  We gather this Sunday to honor the year that ... read more.

New Member Sunday

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2021


Join us this Sunday as we celebrate our newest members and our commitment to one another and the spiritual work of building the beloved community.  Listen to the audio only here

Odes to Small, Necessary Things

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2021


UUCWC will be holding one virtual service at 10am. Please check here for details. Inspired by the Pablo Neruda poem, we consider how the Beloved Community is not made from grand gesture but small necessary things. If you prefer ... read more.

Question Box

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2021


UUCWC will be holding one virtual service at 10am. Please check here for details. In settled ministries, sermons are very long-running dialogues between the minister and congregation.  For this Question Box Sunday, you’re invited into a dialogue that’s a bit faster ... read more.

Who We Choose to Become

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2021


UUCWC will be holding one virtual service at 10am. Please check here for details. A service on imagining – and choosing- congregational life after the pandemic.  Video and audio only links below: Listen to the audio only by clicking below:

Inaugurating Hope

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2021


UUCWC will be holding one virtual service at 10am. Please check here for details. Join us for a service of reflection built around the poetry read at various presidential inaugurations. Below are links to the video and audio only of this service. Audio ... read more.

Martin Luther King Sunday

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2021


UUCWC will be holding one virtual service at 10am. Please check here for details. Click above to listen or find UUCWC wherever you listen to podcasts.

Vigil

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2021 40:56


UUCWC held a vigil on 1/6/2021. Click here to read the poetry Rev. Kim shared during the service. Listen here

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