First Universalist Church of Minneapolis Sunday Service Podcast

Sep 29 2024 970 ep. 23 mins 16

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First Universalist Church of Minneapolis: We’re weaving the threads of Beloved Community, together. There’s a place for you here.

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September 29th, 2024 - River of Life: Blue Boat Home (part of the UU Climate Justice Revival)

Sep 29 2024 85 mins

This Sunday, we’re part of something bigger—the first-ever UU Climate Justice Revival. The Earth needs us, now more than ever. In cities, on streets, in homes, we’re feeling the effects: air pollution, extreme weather, water crises. What’s our response? We’ll gather to talk about how our everyday choices—whether we organize, create, or simply care—can help turn the ti

September 22nd, 2024 - Sept. 22 – The F-Words: Formation Against Fascism, Faith as a Force

Sep 22 2024 81 mins

What happens when fascism creeps into the spaces between us? When disconnection takes hold—relationships fray, truth slips away, and isolation deepens—what then? Gathering more facts won’t close the gap. We need to meet face-to-face, to get in formation, to resist together. Beyoncé’s call to "get in formation" is a matter of survival, a reclamation of our power from the fo

September 15th, 2024 - Whole Self In: Beloved Community in Practice

Sep 15 2024 72 mins

We come together from one body, each of us bringing what we can to create the Beloved Community—a place free of hate, poverty, and oppression, where all can thrive. As we push back against fascism, we practice love in action, standing strong in shared ministry. It’s not enough to put a hand or a foot in—we’re called to put our whole selves into this work, because building a

August 25th, 2024 - Backpack Blessing

Sep 12 2024 63 mins

This Sunday, August 25, is our 10 a.m. Summer Camp Sunday and Backpack Blessing worship service! At this special service, our campers will be leading us in song, story, play, and art created during our week together. We will also celebrate our annual Backpack Blessing. At this service, as we do every year, we will bless our students, teachers, staff, and all who are headed back to

September 8th, 2024 - Water Communion Sunday

Sep 12 2024 62 mins

Our annual Water Communion service is a ritual tradition we share with UUs around the world. The Water Ritual was created by leaders in the UU feminist movement more than four decades ago. Lucile Schuck Longview and Carolyn McDade (also the composer of our beloved song Spirit of Life) made this practice with water (an inclusive symbol of women’s spirituality), to help us all reme

August 11th, 2024 - The Grace You Can Imagine

Aug 13 2024 71 mins

Imagination is an essential part of our spiritual lives, and it doesn’t necessarily involve losing ourselves in an otherworldly work of art, though I highly recommend that, too. Sometimes practicing imagination means letting in ideas that on their surface make no sense to us. Sometimes it’s about play or wonder or beauty. Sometimes it’s about imagining the worst possible scen

August 4th, 2024 - Interdependence and Getting Home Together

Aug 04 2024 58 mins

What does it mean to need each other? Not just in our heads and our theories, but in ways we can feel and perceive, even awkwardly and resentfully? The Disability Justice movement teaches us the wisdom of interdependence, or, in other words, the truth that we need each other. Disabled folks live out interdependence every day. Interdependence doesn’t have to be scary or complicate

July 28th, 2024 - Art and Soul Sunday: What We Have Learned

Jul 29 2024 83 mins

This Sunday we will celebrate the many gifts of growing old, the inevitable resetting and resettling of our hearts and bodies as we experience the physical and mental transitions of aging. Elders in our church will share experiences, insights, challenges, and the joy, sometimes with humor (an essential ingredient in the aging process) of this journey we all are on. There is not onl

July 21st, 2024 - Art and Soul with Glen Thomas Rideout

Jul 23 2024 84 mins

What hidden stories do photographs reveal? This Sunday, I invite you to join me, and John Steitz as we explore “See and Say” in the final week of our annual Art and Soul series. John, our talented sound engineer and celebrated photographer, will share his journey and the profound moments he’s captured through his lens. Together, we’ll ask: How does photography reveal hidden

July 14th, 2024 - Art and Soul with Glen Thomas Rideout, Caren Stelson, and Selina Alko

Jul 16 2024 92 mins

Imagine life as a giant, ever-changing canvas, where colors shift and blend, sometimes beyond our control. This Sunday, as part of our “Art and Soul” series, we will explore this theme in our service titled “The Rest is Still Unwritten.” We’ll learn how to take life’s unexpected twists and turns and turn them into something beautiful. Our guest artist, Adam Podd, a tale