First U Think

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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

Apr 17 2024 22 mins  
with Rev. Meredith GarmonOur 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.

A Unitarian Easter

Apr 04 2024 29 mins  
with Rev. Meredith GarmonSometimes 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

How We Feel

Mar 28 2024 22 mins  
with Rev. Meredith GarmonWhere do emotions come from? Understanding our emotions is a key part of self-understanding and hence of wisdom.Support the Show.

The Ontological, the Semantic, and the Tribal

Mar 21 2024 22 mins  
with Rev. Meredith GarmonSometimes 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.

Who Are We Now?

Mar 19 2024 24 mins  
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.

Choose Abundance

Mar 07 2024 20 mins  
with Rev. Meredith GarmonIt'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.

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

Feb 29 2024 21 mins  
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 GarmonSupport the show

Blessing

Feb 22 2024 23 mins  
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

Merit

Feb 20 2024 22 mins  
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.

The Spiritual Impact of Inequality

Feb 08 2024 21 mins  
with Rev. Meredith GarmonSupport the Show.