Episodes
Monday Nov 23, 2020
November 22, 2020 - The Seeds We Are Planting - Rev. Arif Mamdani
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
From Rev. Arif: These last many weeks, I’ve been returning to the notion of the fractal nature of reality that adrienne maree brown writes about in Emergent Strategy. As she writes: “Dandelions contain an entire community in each spore that gets blown on children’s breath.” Here in the Twin Cities, the dandelions are long gone. Winter is coming. COVID rates are on the rise. Hospitals and those who staff them are at the very edge. This may well be a very hard season. And yet, I wonder in this emerging winter, what spores are we crafting that will reseed the Earth as it awakens in spring? How might we, individually and collectively share the burdens, lighten our load, and move, even just a little, toward the world we dream of? Let’s gather up on Sunday- Breathe together and share word and song as we turn our hearts toward the season ahead, grab each other’s (digital, imaginary) hands, and make our way through.
Words of Welcome, Julica Hermann de la Fuente (:28)
Wisdom Story- Tigers Above, Tigers Below, Seth Anderson-Matz (3:41)
Interlude - Be Here Now, David Lauth (6:30)
Sermon- The Seeds We Are Planting, Ref. Arif Mamdani (7:45)
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
The costs of the global pandemic have been high: lives and jobs lost; family gatherings, celebrations, and memorial services postponed, or cancelled; and physical contact limited with friends and loved ones. At the same time, for some of us, the lockdowns and different pace of life have given us a glimpse of what else might be possible. For a time, the smoggy sky over major world cities cleared. Carbon emissions dropped. Many of us became more clear what really mattered and why. How might these new “pandemic insights” shape our holiday season this year? What would it mean to put the earth first this year? To prioritize what really matters? Though the votes have been counted, and a new president elected, every day, we get to vote with our dollars, our actions, and our relationships. Everyday, we can cast a vote for a more just and fair world, or a vote for the status quo. This Sunday, we explore these questions as we launch our annual Holiday Giving Project, in support of Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism.
Words of Welcome- Rev. Schroeder (:21)
Story for All Ages- Lauren Wyeth (2:28)
Hymn, Glory Glory- Aimee K. Bryant and Franco Holder
Holiday Giving Reflections- Rev. Schroeder, Lena K. Gardner, Lamboglia Family, Isabel Quast (7:00)
Outro Music, We Shall Be Known - Seth Anderson-Matz
Monday Nov 09, 2020
November 8, 2020 - What Now? - Rev. Justin Schroeder
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Monday Nov 09, 2020
The election is over. The votes counted and still being counted. What now? What next? What guides, holds, and shapes us in these coming months? How might we live with, wrestle, and be challenged by these words of the great American poet, Langston Hughes, who wrote,
“Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!”
Words of Welcome - Rev. Justin Schroeder (:32)
Story for All Ages- Aimee K. Bryant (2:59)
Sermon- What Now? - Rev. Justin Schroeder (9:11)
Monday Nov 02, 2020
November 1, 2020 - On God and Country, Rev. Ashley Horan
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
On November 3, the United States will hold our 59th national presidential election day–and in the midst of pandemic, climate catastrophe, rising authoritarianism, and widespread uprising, this is perhaps the most significant election in our country’s history. In the context of extreme polarization and threats to so many communities, what trust can we have in the traditional systems and structures of democracy in the United States? And if that trust has been eroded–or never existed–in what can we place our trust, and our hope? Rev. Ashley Horan explores of our current moment and what our faith offers and compels us to do in these times.
Words of Welcome, Rev. Justin Schroeder (:30)
Story for All Ages, Julica Hermann de la Fuente (5:45)
Sermon- On God and Country, Rev. Ashley Horan (15:52)