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First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin — 772 episodes
Perspective, Power, Purpose - How Solidarity May Save Us
The devil and Martha Stewart
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
Growing Out - Maturing as an Expanding Embrace
Be a stream, not a swamp
She stirs up the world
Grasshoppers in the Glittering Net
Flower Communion Service
Youth Service
The Care Bear Stare
From Father's Day to Liberation
Flourishing Together in the Ways of Love
2026 Flower Communion
Holding It All
To What Ends
Curiosity Uncaged the Cat
The Everyday Radicalization of Nurturing
If...Then...
Our Mission is Powered by You
A Faith that Dares a Radical Welcome
Of UU Easter Theology
Visibility Beyond Disparity
Ceremony of Firsts
Mindfullness When the Present Feels Overwhelming
Losing My Religion
Celebrating the Life of Rev Meg Barnhouse
You say you want a revolution
Unveiling the Mother behind God
Blue Hats, Pink Hearts, and the Power of Love
Fear...What is it good for?
2026 Animal Blessing
Love Survives
Not Just a Matter of Words
2026 Burning Bowl Service
The Power of a Good Story
2025 Christmas Pageant
Peace in the Chaos
Hopeful Heretics
Transcendence and Transformation
Not Just Counting Our Blessings
The Spiritual Practice of Solidarity
Courage and Community
Grief as a Friend
The Spiritual Practice of Play
2025 Celebration Sunday
I'm just so Angry
Called to Compassion
It's Us
Living Love
Building Belonging
2025 Water Communion
Don't Miss the Next Chalice
Question Box
Spiritual Legacies
There is More...
The Transforming Power of Pride
The Blessings of Small Group Ministries
Revolution Began/Begins with a Dream
Faithful Sanctuary
Standing by our UU Values: The case for Palestine
Love's Call to Risk
Love at the Center
Something Larger than Ourselves
Soul Freedom
Goodbye, So Long, Farewell
2025 Question Box Service
A Thea/ological Re-Imagining
2025 Flower Communion
Fierce Love - Revolutionary Love
Climate Hope and the Joy of Earth
2025 Easter Service
Ode to Joy (and how to save room for it)
2025 Youth Service
Joy, Hope and Visibility
Holy Ground
Rest
Building Communities of Trust
Joy is Resistance
All for Justice and Justice for All
That's Amore
Revolutionary Inclusion in the ways of Rabbi Jesus
2025 Pet Blessing Service
How to Stop Being a "Good Person"
Holding on to the Dream
Living the Creative, Non-fiction Life
2025 Burning Bowl
The End
2024 Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols
2024 Christmas Pageant
Unwrapping the gift of Presence
How to Prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse
Celebrating the Life of Wayne Bockman
From Eve to us
You're going to pray for me?
Soul Matters - Repair
Onwards
We the People have the Power
2024 Celebration Sunday
Listen Deeply. Truly Hear. Become.
2024 Commitment Sunday
Imagination
The Great Unitarian Universalist Climate Justice Revival
Centered for the season
Invitation to Transform
An Invitation to Belonging
2024 Water Communion
2024 Question Box Sermon
Renewal, Restoration, Reclaiming
Transformative Moments
2024 Pride Sunday
The Blessings of Small Group Ministry
Reproductive Justice for All
Buddhist Practices for Tough Times
Generosity of Spirit
Poetry Plus
The Quest for Freedom
Lessons from Chalice Camp
2024 Flower Communion
2024 Youth Sunday
The Force of Possibility
Searching for Asherah
Exponential Theology
Silent No More
First UU is doing Justice
Interdependence Day
Eclipse Sunday
Easter Sunday
Public Education is Under Attack
The Power of Utopian Thinking
Wonder Woman, Fake News, Lie Detectors, and Reasons for Hope
Mary and Lou Among the CypressTrees: Stories of Transformation
Affect Theology
Wholly Spirited
Rev Chris Jimmerson's Installation
Talkin' bout a Revolution
2024 Animal Blessing Service
A Church for All
Universal Love
Love in the Hard Places
Are you a Player?
Burning Bowl 2023
2023 Lessons and Carols
2023 Christmas Pageant
Let the Mystery Be
Oh, Holy Night
Generosity of Spirit
Thanksgiving
Centered Relationships are Key
All Souls
Fear and Flourishing
History, Heritage, Hope
Celebration Sunday
Hearts Broken Open
Commitment Sunday
Belonging
The Promises We Make
Covenantal Beginnings
2023 Water Communion
Getting to know you
Question Box Service 2023
Post-Pandemic Ponderings
Faithful and Proud
Blessings for the next chapter
Nurturing Spiritual Wholeness
Lessons from Chalice Camp
Culture of Caring
Joy and Justice, Amen
Toward our Metamorphosis into Who Knows What
Diving into Delight
I Am What I Am: Reflections on Radical Welcome
Flower Communion 2023
Divine Co-Creation
Creating Creative Welcoming
Religious Words We Love to Hate
Loving, Leaving and Letting People In
Resistance in NOT Futile
The Music and Message of Prince
A Faithful Undertaking
Hallelujah - A Celebration
Rise and Shine
Liturgy: The (Earth) Work of the People
Choose Kindness
What if you can't
Lamenting the Winter of our Lives
Sacred Ground
A Return to Center, A Return to Love
The Greatest Force in the Universe
Love Calls Us Forth
Finding Our Center - Building a New Way
2023 Animal Blessing Service
Trans Inclusion and Beloved Community
Finding ourselves in Past Present Future
2023 Burning Bowl
2022 Lessons and Carols
2022 Christmas Pageant
Music and the Season of Advent
Everything is a Miracle
Uncertainty Anchors
Reproductive Justice and our UU Faith
The Only Lasting Truth
In Death and Democracy, Look for Beauty
The masks we wear
Courage for In-Between Times
What are we doing here?
Return to Love
Celebration Sunday
The Hole in the Soul of America
Building Belonging
Is this the Light or the Tunnel
Ingathering: Water Communion
Dance in the Desert, bring a Tambourine
Question Box Sermon 2022
On Trusting the Process
A Welcoming Congregation
To What Ends
Remembering our Values
Finding the Sacred in the Secular
More than an Attitude
Nonviolent Communication
Will to Meaning
Six Factors in Well Being
Celebrating Blessings
Emptiness and Creative Renewal
Flower Communion and Farewell
The Pumpkins Promise
Nurturing Beauty
The Fire of Anger
Curiosity and Respect
Be Present with one another
Coming to life again
Awakening
What is the Eighth Principle?
Grasshoppers in Indra's Glittering Net
Water Ceremony 2022
Renewing Faith
How to eat a car
Widening the Circle
A Good Goodbye
What if you were really loved
Connected to All Creation
Spirited Identities
Prophetic Religion
Lessons from Pandemic Chaplaincy
Living with Intention
2022 Burning Bowl Ritual
Opening to Joy
2021 Christmas Eve Service
2021 Christmas Pageant
The Perils of Perfectionism
Dealing with difficult people (and trying not to be one)
Right Concentration
Holding History
Using Our Voices
Be Present in Your Life
All Souls and All Saints
The Healing Power of Truth
Cultivating Relationship
Great Big Celebration Sunday
The Third Principle
So Much Wasted Effort
Resilience
Down to the River to Pray
Right Livelihood 2021
The Inherent Worth and Dignity of Every Person
Possibilities Ever Emergent
One coming out story
Nature v Nurture Youth Service
When Trust is Hard
Sacred Vulnerability
We're still here - Our Journey Continues
In the stream of your life
Play - Fun - Humor - Love
What did you just say?
Just a Reminder
Flower Communion 2021
Why should I belive that?
The Power of Storytelling
Abandon Hope and Fear 2021
Waiting to Exhale
Blues Theology (Revisited)
Pathways Ever Unfolding
History - It's complicated
When Harold Hatcher gave up, He grew
Commitment Creates Connection
Third Lap in a Four Lap Race
The Power of Our Words
Need a Little Mercy Now
Muppet Theology Rebroadcast
To Corinth with Love
Blessing the Animals 2021
A Feast of Love
In praise of the dark
Spiritual Imagination
Wish you were here
Burning Bowl 2021
Guidance
2020 Christmas Pageant
A Moving Stillness
What's so Funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding
Poetry as Meditation
Healing does not equal cure
Falling in love with what is
Science, Imagination, and Magic
All Souls
American Civil Religion 2020
Deep Listening
Lessons from the Garden
Have smaller fights
Forgiveness
Celebration 2020
Rest, Renew, Reimagine
Be a stream and not a swamp
Balancing Acts
Chalice Circles - Deepening Connection
Radicals v Respectables
Using your Anger, Holdng on to your Hope
Question Box Sermon 2020
Creative Durability
Stoic Spiritual Survival
2020 Youth Service
Bless. Be Blessed
Big Gay Sunday 2020
Living Our Values
The History of American Policing
Useful Ignorance and Beginner's Mind
Flower Communion
Navigating the Thresholds
Living with Brain Trauma
All will be well - Really?
Punk Theology
Praying when no one is listening
Liberation through Letting Go
A Trip to the Underworld
Losing my Religion
A Vision for our time
Social Distance, not Spiritual Distance
The Grief Bible
Awakening Our Wisdom
Two Parables of the Beloved Community
Graceful Resilience
Sugar: What is enough?
Milk & Butter: Creativity within constraint
How not to break a horse
Salt
Spiritegrity
Heat and Transformation
The Burning Bowl
On Practicalities of Spiritual Practice
Lessons and Carols
When God was a baby
Perfect Miracles
Awe and Then Some
Lessons in Welcome from Thanksgiving and a Blow to the head
What happens in families
Paying Attention
How to comfort someone who is suffering
Battle for Harvard
Room on the Broom
Sacred Belonging
Protected on the Journey
The Concord Genius Cluster
This Apple
Celebration Sunday
Faithful Expectation
How to Change Minds
Many Rivers to Cross
Ever Emergent
What does that pin on your backpack mean?
Walking Toward the Deep End
In My Life
Prophecy, Power, and Potter
Learning through Joy
Abundance is Already Ours
Pausing for Perseverance
Out from Silence: Writing your Life
Stranger in a strange land
Being a blessing to the children
Beauty amongst the thorns
Homecoming and Dedication
Beautiful 'Flower Girls'
Playing ball on running water
Fiery and Fearless
Curiouser and Curiouser
Youth Service: Reflection
How to grow a seed
The Power of Story
If I needed you
The Holiness of Wholeness
The Kindness Connection
Celtic Christianity
Journey of the Spirit
The Promise and the Practice
Trustful and Trustworthy
The Magic of Music
Collective Liberation
The Holiness of Hands
Potential Ever Emergent
Burning Bowl Service
Gathered here for the Mystery of this Hour
Lessons and Carols
Spray it Gold and post it on Instagram
Glowing Embers
Live from Pflugerville
We Remember
Come, ye thankful people, come
Fall down 7, Get up 8
A Little Mercy
Those who have gone before us
Safe Space/Brave Space
Love's Sanctuary
Love is the Spirit of this church, and Service is its Law
What I Learned from Being a Writer
UU101, UU201, UU301
Faith Out Loud
Wade in the Water
First UU Alive
Muppet Theology
Loving, Laughing, Living
Truth Telling
Making Our Alphabet Soup
You are magic
Let's talk about depression
Our UU Heritage; Our Larger UU Faith
The Genderbread Person
A feeling for the holy
Everyday Ministry and Finding Your Signature Move
Unitarians and Abolition
Question Box Sermon
Does it hurt to bloom?
Bravely Ourselves
Dreams
Things I Learned From My Mother
Bringing Imperfect Gifts
Seeds
Justice, Not Justifications
Broken Things
A "Foolish" Easter
Finding Our Balance
Spiritual Always
Hacking Transcendence
Faith in UUs
Be the Spark
What the world needs from Liberal Religion
Powerful Moments
Why do bad things happen?
Love, like a carefully loaded ship...
Animal Blessing Service
The Power in the "MeToo" Movement
Legacies
How to invite changes in your life
Burning Bowl
Christmas Pageant
Grace
My actions are my only true belongings
Modern Families
Elijah
Checking out, Falling back, Overwhelmed
All are Called
Those who have gone before
Doing Justice
Groundbreaking
Transformation through service
Leap of Faith
The Birthday of the World
Gathering in Community
Water Ceremony
Stepping into the dream together
A story in three acts
Big Gay Sunday
From Eve to Us
Many gifts, Many ways
Making Magic Happen
Seeing God in a Wild Old Dog
I get a little help from my friends
Sacred Mystery
Grace, Covenant, and the Beloved Community
The Power of Storytelling
Who loved you forward?
Dude, you're stressing me out
The Richness of Diversity
The Power of Presence
To nourish souls
Growth
Spring has sprung
Truth, Crushed to Earth, Shall Rise Again
Thinking like a mountain
You have to be carefully taught
Adventures in Hymnody
Five Smooth Stones
Joy like a fountain
Get it to the size of an Oreo
Dealing with difficult people
To run and not be weary
Right Effort
Beauty walk
Animal Blessing Service
Watch your language
Trust, The Decor Committee and Citizens United
Right Livelihood
Burning Bowl Service
Christmas Day Service
Christmas Pageant
Star of Truth
A clear mind and an open heart
Fruits of the spirit, gifts of age
Great Fullness
Acceptance and encouragement
Right speech
Honoring the ancestors
Right intention and the 10-10-10 rule
I got the music in me
The final form of love, which is forgiveness
We begin again
Mom, He started it!
Abandon Hope and Fear
Ritual and Remembrance
Water communion service
Deep end of the heart
Big Gay Sunday
What holds us together?
What I learned on my summer vacation
Principled Magic
Paving the road to Hell?
Sacred Promises
Making sense of the senseless
Who's calling, Please?
It ain't broke... but we can still fix it
Tender Mercies
Revolutionary Love
Talking to the trees
Flower Communion
What's the difference: Venting vs Lamentation
Finding the devine in the mundane
Make New Mistakes
Prayer beads for UUs
Will the real me please stand up?
What's the difference between Trinitarian and Unitarian
Transformation
Punk Theology
Pretty Yellow Flower Day
The Man Comes Around
The fire of commitment
Bee Yard Etiquette
Courage
What's the difference - Protestant and Catholic?
So many songs about love
Respecting the Fire
Animal Blessing Service
Forgiveness 2016
Compassion
What's the difference between Sunni and Shiite Islam?
Community
The Christians and the Pagans
Christmas Pageant
An upside-down world: A hymn of reversal
Saying Grace, Being Gratitude
Family life as a spiritual path
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
The ugly duckling
At the threshold
Transcendence
Dialogue with conservatives
Listening to Drag
Oh, Delilah!
Good Grief
21st Century Atonement
All beginnings are difficult
Choose to enjoy your life
The first one to try
Which God don't you believe in?
Black Lives Matter
Give me your tired, your poor, your harmed
Spiritual Ambivalence
Being Safe
Sanctuary
There is no Present like the Time
Independence and Interdependence
On the dancefloor
Father Sky, Mother Earth
Juneteenth
The boy who drew cats
Whistling with a shoe full of slush
Goldilocks and Elijah
Youth Service - Epressions of the Soul
Inhospitality to Strangers
Choosing to Bless the World
The Impossible Task
Building the world we dream about
How many plagues will it take?
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Palm Sunday
Our UUnique Gifts
Sacred Vulnerability
Question Box Sermon
The Red Shoes
Expect the unexpected
The Book of Love
Want what you have
Blessing and being blessed: Animal blessing service
Doing Empathy
Selma and UU
The power of Yet
Burning Bowl Service
Ch-ch-ch-Changes
Christmas History
Dirty Water
Building a new way
Gratitude
The Problem of Evil
Keep the home fires burning
The Ancestors' Ways
Circle Round
Trust
Now THIS is church
Forgiveness and Repentance
Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing
Give the Hope, Not Hell
Big Gay Sunday
Water Communion Service
Playing ball on running water
Sacred Spaces
Facing our fears: A spiritual practice
When the method is the message
The choice is yours, choose wisely
Hipster misogyny and Gaga feminism
My faith is in science, but I try to keep an open mind
The death penalty, reluctant soldiers, and Edward O. Wilson
Say it loud - I'm UU and I'm proud
Spiritual Growth
What does it all mean?
Honor Your Father
The Cherokee Removal
Rilke's Swan
The lessons of flowers
Youth Service - Learning to love
A Juicy Slice of UU History - Michael Servetus
May the force be with you
The banality of indifference
Jesus' Grandmothers
Depression
God wants you to be rich!
A World of Pure Imagination
Balance/Equinox
Celtic Christianity/Redemption
The second commandment
Gossip: I heard it through the grapevine
Toward Becoming
Failure is impossible
What we are worshiping, we are becoming
Animal Blessing Service
Resolution Disillusion
The Magic of Music
Architecture and spirit
Burning Bowl Service
Surplus anxieties
A Sudden Flame, an Extraordinary Journey
Christmas Pageant
A UU Faith Story: John Murray
How did we get the bible?
Guest at Your Table Kickoff
A Juicy Slice of UU History: The Iowa Sisterhood
Dismantling Racism
Creating Community
Mystery, Spookiness, Magic and Wonder
Walking between the raindrops
I'm a Believer
Join What Move
Bedrock Values at the Heart of Humanism
Not so good at mindfullness
What if you can't keep your promise?
The serious business of play
Margaret Sanger
Life of Pi
The Oversoul
Defense against the dark arts
That little four-letter word called Hope
What is Prayer?
Who or What is God?
Like Slow-Growing Trees in a Ruined Place
Joseph Priestley: The most hated man in Britain
Amazing Grace
The Rose
Tales of the tribe
Mother of all services
Do the right thing
Fiery and Fearless: Olympia Brown
The Gaia Psalms
Lies, gossip and fighting words
Will you harbor me?
Only life and death
Afri-kin
Good question!
We've come this far by faith
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again
Large is beautiful, too
Recovery from Fundamentalism
Theodore Parker
God the Huntress
Abandon Hope and Fear
This new thing called Universalism
The delicate art of forgiveness
Burning Bowl Service
Is there a place for God in Unitarian Universalism?
Blue Christmas
Christmas Pageant
Rekindled
Sweet honey from old failures
The lovers, the dreamers, and me
Thank you I'm going downhill
Equilibrium with Elegance: Jazz and UU Theology
Our Religious Imagination
The Day of the Dead
Kicking the Statue of Shiva
A Safe Place
Land of Hope and Dreams
Coming Home
American Civil Religion
A Relationship of Promises
Setting Sail
Water Communion and Ingathering
Becoming an Ally
Standing on Holy Ground
The least of Things
Inside the Words on the Wall
The magic of I am (you fill in the blank)
Bringing Home Justice from General Assembly
It looks like the world is going to Hell. So let's change it
The Elderly, the Beautiful, and Children of God
The Courage to Trust
What is Patriotism?
The Narrow Gate: Passageways to the ordinarily sacred
Bee Yard Etiquette
The Real Ten Commandments
Gold in the Shadow
Flower Communion Service
Individualism vs the social contract
What I learned from my mother
Does our name mean anything to us?
Humility: Struggles with the Two Selves
Earthday: Gaia Psalms
Quartet for the end of time
How many UUs does it take to change a lightbulb?
Unitarian Universalist Utopias
What is enough?
Firsts First
When to take a leap
A Prophetic Liberal Religion
The man who ate a car
Everybody's got a Hungry Heart
Afri-Kin
Mary, Mary, Quite Revolutionary
Installation Service of Rev. Meg Barnhouse
A Stone of Hope
The Democratic Process
Burning Bowl
Christmas Eve Lesson and Carols
How to disagree passionately and peacefully
Wisdom Tree
A Juicy Slice of Unitarian History
A simple running stitch
Digging a good, deep well
Honoring the Ancestors
We are gay and straight together
Repentance, Forgiveness, Reconciliation
Flying fish make me smile
All the gossip from Concord
Where are the strong? Who are the trusted?
Water Communion
A Spiritual Stretch
Keeping our Eye on the Demolition Twins
The Rapture in America
Founding Members Reminiscences