Friday, 10 September 2010, 05:49 am PDT
Podcasts
Living Whole in a Fragmented World
Chris: It’s hard to be our whole selves. It’s hard to fully inhabit these lives, to forge authentic selfhood, to be the fullness of who we are. We live in a world which is all too happ... [listen to the episode]
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Tune Up The Spirit
Tune Up The Spirit from UU Church of Berkeley on Vimeo. Copyright © 2010, Revs. Bill and Barbara Hamilton-Holway, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED [listen to the episode]
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On Jazz and Flow and the Always Invitation of This Moment
Watch the video Sonya: The beautiful thing about this moment is that any of us can begin building a new way right now, right here. Just by putting our entire being into it. I know I have heard ... [listen to the episode]
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Knowing Peace in Change
Watch the video! Change is hard. Any change, even good change, positive change is hard. The reassembling of the map by which we navigate our lives is always a complicated undertaking. We get... [listen to the episode]
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Beauty Is Before Me
ev. Peter Morales, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, has a dilemma. Next Thursday, July 29th, when he leads a delegation of Unitarian Universalists in Phoenix, to protest Arizon... [listen to the episode]
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I Know This Rose Will Open
know this rose will open. "Oh, yeah, right! " I can hear some of you, I can hear myself, sometimes say. What about those cramped, little places we can find ourselves in. .. when... [listen to the episode]
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Not Pretty Everyday
was flattered when they asked. I was twenty years old, already clear about my path to ministry, but I had never done a wedding before. I had preached for a few years already, and was good friend... [listen to the episode]
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Our Liberations All Tied Up
his morning we celebrate Pride. A group of congregants from this church is in San Francisco marching in this year's Pride parade, celebrating the fullness and wholeness of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual... [listen to the episode]
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Who Has Not Heard Them?
t was the spring of 1970 and I was awaiting notification from the draft board concerning my application as a Conscientious Objector. I was in my last year at Knox College where we received notifica... [listen to the episode]
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Naming, Clearing, and Apologies
Truth is the theme we are exploring this month. Today’s title comes from our church’s coordinating team. This management body meets twice a month. On every agenda they always include: naming,... [listen to the episode]
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Honest Doubt and Truer Faith
nitarian Universalists affirm and promote a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Why did the Unitarian Universalist cross the road? To support the chicken in its search for its own p... [listen to the episode]
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How Large the Truth
Watch the video! If anyone ever asks you what distinguishes Unitarian Universalism as a religion of the world, just say “Epistemology. ” It might stop the conversation, but it might open up a... [listen to the episode]
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Earth Made Fair With All Her People One
Six year old Niklas Rimbach, Thursday evening at our church catered dinner wished me a Happy Earth Day, and when I asked him how he had celebrated Earth Day he told me he had picked up trash, an... [listen to the episode]
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Saved by Stardust
© 2010, Revs. Bill and Barbara Hamilton-Holway Today, Easter Sunday, we celebrate that in the midst of tragedies and loss, “the tides of life are flowing fresh, manifold and free. ” We sing... [listen to the episode]
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Into Whose Hands?
Copyright © 2010, Rev. Bill and Barbara Hamilton-Holway On the Jewish and Christian calendars this is a holy week. Jews are celebrating Passover. The Passover Seder tells the story of the Jews... [listen to the episode]
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Ending Well
© 2010, Revs. Barbara Hamilton-Holway and Chris Holton Jablonski Chris: I remember when they finally asked me to sit down in the pit and have a talk. It was a very seventies construction, a thr... [listen to the episode]
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Loss and the Samurai Toddler
Copyright © 2010, Rev. Chris Holton Jablonski Watch the video! As many of you know, Lauren and I are in the last weeks of awaiting our next son, and as challenging as our path of pregnancy has... [listen to the episode]
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Fiercer, Stronger, Wiser
Watch the video! What a blessing to be a community of all ages. Each age, each stage of life has its challenges. Each offers opportunities. Yes, life comes with joys and sorrows and challe... [listen to the episode]
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Service Is It's Prayer
Watch the Video It’s a blessing you were born and it matters what you do. * * * * * * Love is an overused word. We get tired of it. Love fails us, or we fail at love. Can we really believe... [listen to the episode]
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Dive Deep
Celebration Sunday 2010© 2010 Revs. Bill and Barbara Hamilton-Holway and Chris Holton Jablonski Bill: In 1891 the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley was organized, and seven years later the fir... [listen to the episode]
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Love is the Doctrine
Watch the video! Valentine’s Day fills me with memories of couples, on the terrace, in the atrium, and on this chancel, making their promises to one another. In those beautiful moments, s... [listen to the episode]
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Grace and Giving
Watch the video! Blessed are those who keep their hearts open. ” That’s Psalm 1 of the Hebrew Scriptures as adapted by Stephen Mitchell. Blessed is an open heart. If this is true, then ... [listen to the episode]
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Between Friends
Watch the video! What a week: rainstorms and flooding, the earthquake aftermath in Haiti, the Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco, the strange political eruptions in Massachusetts and Washingt... [listen to the episode]
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Step-Mom of the Bride
Today I’m going to share with you about a part of my life that has been both precious and painful. The universe seems to bring joyful times when it’s easy to blossom, and rough, hard, scary t... [listen to the episode]