All Episodes
First U Think — 256 episodes
Stepping into the River with Rev. Steve Sieck
What Do You Think? Episode 1: Dr. Tim Knepper
Where Does a Humanist Turn?
11 Minute Meditation to Let Go and Forgive
9 Minute Meditation to Understand our Feelings
5 Minute Meditation for Awareness
All Things in Time with Rev. Steve Sieck
We the People with AMOS
The Theology of Play with Faithyna L.
Making It Up As We Go Along with Rev. Steve Sieck
Artists in Our Midst with Katherine V.
Space, Science and Spirituality--The Overview Effect with the Celebrant Team
Attention is a Precious Resource with Dave Busiek
America at 250 with Members of the Congregation
Flourishing in Queer Joy with Members of the Congregation
Conditions for Flourishing with Rev. Steve Sieck
The Different Faces of Flourishing with The Celebrant Team
Flourishing in Community with Rev. Steve Sieck
Flower Communion with Rev. Steve Sieck
Gathered in Remembrance: Held in Hope with the Celebrant Team
Curious Voices: A Youth-Led Awakening
A Mother's Love with Rev. Steve Sieck
Awakening with Rev. Steve Sieck
Open to Life with Rev. Steve Sieck
It's Great to Meet You, Episode 14: Jamie Seitz, Communications Coordinator
Embracing Possibility with the Celebrant Team and Green Sanctuary
It's Great to Meet You, Episode 13: Faithyna Leonard, Faith Formation & Congregational Life Coordinator, First Unitarian Church of Des Moines
The Risks of Possibility with Rev. Steve Sieck
It's Great to Meet You, Episode 12: Tracy Aukes, Church Administrator, First Unitarian Church of Des Moines
Embracing Possibility with Rev. Steve Sieck
To Be Seen and Heard with Rev. Steve Sieck
The Transformative Power of Attention with the Celebrant Team
The Connective Power of Attention with Rev. Steve Sieck
The Work of Attention with Rev. Steve Sieck
The Gift of Attention with Rev. Steve Sieck
Resilient Community with Rev. Steve Sieck
Embodying Resilience with Mike Smith and Barb Royal
The Problem with 'Should' with Rev. Steve Sieck
Bending and Breaking with Rev. Steve Sieck
It's Great to Meet You, Episode 11: Gabby Guerra, Executive Director, Al Éxito
Reflections on Resistance with the Celebrant Team
Righting the Ship with Rev. Steve Sieck
It's Great to Meet You, Episode 10: Courtney Dufford, Lead Organizer, AMOS (A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy)
The Calculus of Resistance with Rev. Steve Sieck
Holding Your (Moral) Ground with Rev. Steve Sieck
The Sun Also Rises: The Power of Active Hope with Rev. Steve Sieck
It's Great to Meet You, Episode 9: Robby Collier, CEO of Urban Bicycle Food Ministry of Des Moines
Choosing Hope with Rev. Steve Sieck
It's Great to Meet You Episode 8: Katie Kamienski, Executive Director, YMCA Supportive Housing Campus
Reality Check with Rev. Steve Sieck
It's Great to Meet You, Episode 7: Amy Landrigan, Executive Director, The Beacon
In a World... with Rev. Steve Sieck
Practice Makes Grateful with Rev. Steve Sieck
It's Great to Meet You, Episode 6: Melissa O'Neil, CEO of Central Iowa Shelter and Services
The Last Gift We Give with Rev. Steve Sieck
Cultivating Compassion in a Challenging World with Rev. Steve Sieck
It's Great to Meet You, Episode 5: Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott Coordinator of Interfaith Engagement, DMARC
Compassion in Community with the Celebrant Team
Shining Your Light with Rev. Steve Sieck
It's Great to Meet You, Episode 4: Mark Stringer, Executive Director, ACLU of Iowa.
What is Compassion? with Rev. Steve Sieck
It's Great to Meet You, Episode 3: Max Mowitz, OneIowa
Why I Choose to Belong Here with the Board of Directors
It's Great to Meet You, Episode 2: Wes Mullins, Executive Director, Capitol City Pride
Limits of Belonging- Sunday Service with Rev. Steve Sieck
Going Platinum- Sunday Service with Rev. Steve Sieck
It's Great to Meet You, Episode 1: Connie Ryan
Gathering Streams- Sunday Service with Rev. Steve Sieck
Music in our Church with Bruce Martin
Visions for 2040- Sunday Service with Rev. Steve Sieck
Good Question!- Sunday Service with Rev. Steve Sieck
Why We Sing - Sunday Service with Rev. Steve Sieck
Who Is My Neighbor
Food, Glorious Food: or, Potlucks We Have Known
Our Church as Home and Garden
Love at the Center: Confronting Bias, Choosing Courage
Internal Community with Elijah Evans
Radical Hospitality with David Yurdin
Transitions Part II
You Can't Take It With You
Community
War, Peace, and Remembrance
Coming of Age 2025
Flowers and Vesak
Bone-Deep Hope with Steve Sieck
Counterintuitive Joy with Steve Sieck
Conflict is a Good Thing
Nurturing Nature Through Wonder
Who Cares?
Common Read: Authentic Selves
Standing Tall: Reflections on Dignity
Money, Money, Money
Dignity
UU Uses of the Bible
You, UU, and Social Justice
Borders and Belonging
Crossing the Line
Desert Theory
Acceptance & Resistance
Freedom?
The Vow-Powered Life
Christmas Eve Service 2024
Christmas Pageant
Awe and Wonder
There is No God, and She is Always with You
Pardon, Forgiveness, Reconciliation
Reason
Día De Los Muertos
Climate Justice Revival
Our Universalist Heritage
Healing Religion’s Harms with Paul Nelson
What Are We Afraid Of?
On Repentance and Repair with Rev. Meredith Garmon
God the Adjective
Gathering In with Meredith
Universalism and Labor Day
Cherry Picking My Journey with Louise Alcorn
Grit and Grace - Resilience Through Balance with Sarah Chang
Life is a Relay Race with Al Powers
A Long and Winding Road Less Taken with Bill Brauch
Navigating Queer Faith with Faithyna Leonard
P(r)aying Attention with Elliot Nolte
Weaving a Spiritual Life: Power, Love, Anger & Imagination with Sally Boeckholt
New Beginnings: Surviving to Thriving with Amy Landrigan
Hearing the Secret in Our Hearts with Rev. Eishin Tom Houghton
Birding for Life: See and Save a Bird, a People, and the Planet
Perfect, And...
Why We Welcome
Active Hope
Dharma Blossoms
Courageous Facing
Transitions
Courage
Lessons from the Passover Story
Earth Day
Love and Ethics
A Unitarian Easter
How We Feel
The Ontological, the Semantic, and the Tribal
Who Are We Now?
Choose Abundance
"Believing, Really Believing, and Talking to Your Car"
Blessing
Merit
The Spiritual Impact of Inequality
Liberty, Justice, and Sexual Ethics
Queer Theory
Seeing Race
Opening to Pluralism
Revising the Christmas Story
Christmas is Love
Receptivity
What's Your Great Vow?
"In Meeting We Are Blessed"
The Thanksgiving Story
Trust
Interdependance
What is Spiritual Growth?
Not Such a Bad Species
Justice vs. Mercy
Justice & Faith
Justice
What is Ethical Growth?
Being a People of Covenant
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
Me, Running for Office?!
Thy Kingdom Come
We Can't Always Get What We Want
Remembrances
What We Dwell On is Who We Become
Ora Et Labora
The Road Home
They. You. I. An Alternate Look at Pronouns
A Bigger Heart
Pagan/Pride
Fear! (I Promise It Will Be Funny)
Proud Flesh
Fragile and Strong
Be Careful What You Wish For
What's Next? I'm Ready
We Are Each Other's Magnitude & Bond
Recalculating
Your Grief is Welcome Here
So Great a Cloud of Witnesses
Leap of Doubt
Imagine Abolition
A Gospel of Stars
An Unimagined, Wild, and Necessary Thing
Walking With The Wind
So Be it. See To It.
Christmas Eve
A Mind of Winter
Holiday Music Service
An Inside Voice
Gratitude
Table Blessing
Use Your Words
How to Love a Country
Arrive. Be Beautiful. Be Gone.
Finding Our Joy
Avoiding Shipwreck
A Certainty of Transformations
Where Do We Come From?
We Begin Again in Love
Forming Our Faith
A House of Possibility
Bread & Roses: the Work of Our Hands and the Work of Our Hearts
Always Becoming
All Real Living is Meeting
It’s More Than Sitting: Ethics in Buddhist Practice
Atomic Habits
A People Called Elaine
My Pandemic Past Times
A Story About Jane
From Ancient Greece to First Unitarian of Des Moines: Daring to Follow the Truth
Nothing New Under the Sun
Heart and Soul: Art and Music as Spiritual Practice
Pentecost and an Ethic of Risk
Green Rolling Hills: A Flower Communion
Skin Deep and Soul Empty: Finding Depth in a Shallow Culture
Building a Beautiful Community
Something Got Up
Be Naked
Reperations
I am a Patriot
Learning to Lament
Renewing Faith: IDK Gen Z's ideas on belief
Seeking Sanity and Grace
Life is not a Dress Rehearsal
A Between Us: Identity, Community, and Self
The Road to Change
From Legos to Logos
Below the Line
Every Valley Shall Be Exalted
We Can Do It (Yes We Can!)
Christmas Eve: Oh Night Divine. Special Event Extended
CRT and Thee
Christmas: A Distinctively Unitarian Holiday. Special Event Extended
Crossroads of Perception with Ysandril Morrigan and members of the UCDSM Transgender Action Group
Take Up All That Remain
Listening the Circle Wide
Exploring Belief in our own Identity as an Act of Self-Love with Dr. Rebecca Gibson
If It's Mental Illness There's No Lasagna with Patty Notch
The Merits And Moral Imperative of Smiting
Change the Harvest
From Languishing to Flourishing
Creating the Beloved Community
Fill Up Your Cups
Interdependence Day
Vesak
On This Journey Together
Pathways to Creating a New Earth Day Story with Pachamama Alliance Iowa
Unfinished Business featuring Harvey Harrison
The Hidden Pandemic, featuring Lyra Halsten
Life is a Journey to be Experienced, Not a Problem to be Solved
Resolutions, Intentions and Silver Linings of the Year of COVID with Kent Newman