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UU Church of Annapolis Podcast — 728 episodes
Scottish Pilgrimage Revisited
The Religion of Democracy - A Good Trouble Lives On
The Irreligious and Their Love of God
The Power of Community: An Introduction to Cosmic Dynamism
Membership Sunday
"Dear Patriot"
Remembering Remembrance
Coming of Age Service
The Illusion of Certainty
The World on Fire: A Sermon on Hope
The Worst Thing We Ever Did
Ordination of Ryan McCray Ely
The Man From Cachoeira
A Living Prayer
All the Colors
A Sharp Refusal
Poetry Pals led Service
The Power of Symbols
Blackness, the Original Other #BlackLivesMatter
I Live to Give!
The Disappearance of Childhood Wonder - HS Youth Led Service
Anti-trinitarian to Woke
That None Who Take Refuge In Love Shall Be Lost
Is it Faithful?
Snowballs in Hell
The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr
Our AI/AGI Future
The Question Box
You Were Made to Give Hope
Tending the Heart
Origin Stories Finding y/Our Roots
Happiness, A Journey Toward Freedom
Values and Sacred Wisdom - Our Navigation Tools
Community: The Structure of Belonging
Say Something Biblical
Invitation to Healing
Die Before You Die
Being with Suffering
Remembering Difficult Knowledge
Thriving: Bold & Compassionate Living
Try Kindness
All We Have To Do Is Dance
This New Church Year
Beyond the Brain: The Perceptive Powers of the Heart
Bearing Witness: Do Not Look Away
Is It a Beautiful or a Broken World?
Special Announcement! Spirit Punch
Freethinker? Humanist? Naturalist? What Am I?
Trinitarian Mischief with Rev Dr. Fred Muir
Membership Sunday 8 June 2025
Lifespan Service
Kindness as an Act of Resistance with Rev. Dayna Edwards
Imagine Us Free
The Power of Symbols with Rev John Crestwell
Turning Points with Rev. Fred Muir
Joy Diet
Flower Communion 2025
Resistance Joy
Staying Awake When Woke is Dead
Trust Me
Trust Me: Poetry Pals
Healing Service: Holding on to What is True
FORWARD TOGETHER
Palmares Forever
Black Liberation Theology
Sodom, Gomorrah, and the Non-Binary God
Integrative Spirituality
The Trickster
MLK Radical King
The Greatest Story Ever Told: Your Hero's Journey
Advice for the Savvy Time Traveler
Wholly and Holy Presence
Jesus is My Boxing Coach
Sol Invictus
Disruptive Harmony
Letting Go
Through the Storm Finding Steady Ground
The Dawning of a New Age
The Big Sixteen and the Light
Inoculating Against Authoritarianism
Meeting Passion With Pause
Invitation to Healing
Invitation to be a Steward of the Earth
Invitation to Responsible Living
Not Too Long Ago
Invitation as a Spiritual Practice
Water Metaphors
Social Justice as a Spiritual Practice
This New Church Year
Post Apology and Asking for Forgiveness
Coming Home
The Seven Spiritual Laws
Awe and the Spirit of Life
Left Brain Right Brain Balance A New Lens on our World
The Liberal Ocean Sings Louder
Longing; The Language of the Soul
Blessings and Farewell
The Meaning of Membership
Covenant The First Word The Last Word
Heaven and the Afterlife
Lessons My Mother Left Me
The Love at the Heart of Beloved Community
Be Invictus
You are the Earth Transforming our thinking about Nature
The Practice of Transformation
The Words We Can Say to Each Other
Springing Forth
Improbable Hope
Why I am a Unitarian Universalist
The Keys to Our Beloved Community
What We Should not Forget About Marriage Equality
Madness Crownsville State Hospital and Equity
Conquering Fear
Particular Universalism
Creating a Culture of Connection
2
Whose Dream are we Dreaming?
Wheel of Life 2024
Letting Go & Letting In
Prince of Peace
The Interdependent Web
There is More Than Enough
A Conversation About Our Congregation
Evolution Day: Are We Devolving?
The American Buffalo: A Lament and Lesson in Hubris
Towards Beloved Community: Non-Violence and Interdependence
Samhain and the Origins of Religion
A Language of Reverence
Hindu Trinity
Natural Faith Natural Society
Problem of Intolerance to Pluralism
High Holy Days Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana
Religious Pluralism Interfaith Dialogue
Many Sources and the Annual Water Communion
Will You Attend the Virtual UUA General Assembly on June 20 -23, 2024?
Communicate Educate Activate
This Church Year
Chaos or Community? Oppenheimer, Dr. King, and Barbie
Wild and Precious Life
A Ritual Before We Forget
From Their Hands
Lessons for Future Ancestors
Come, Yet Again Come, to Your Place of Welcome
Poetry is More Than a Spiritual Luxury
Hope Through the Smoke
Juneteenth, Father's Day and Reparations
Its a Queer World After All
Insha Allah Gods Will and Bless You
Authenticity Freedom Pain and Suffering
Surrendering on the Doorstep of Grace
Jeremiah Revisited
Conversation with Jessie Rhines - A Tool for Authenticity with Ourselves: The Koshas
Graceand Peace
Tower of Babel
Widening the Circle: Towards A More Meaningful Contribution
The Generosity Path
State of Our Union
Back to a Better Future
Reconciling Life and Death
The Prayer Before
Trust, Reconciliation, and Moving Forward
The Fundamentals of Trust
MLK, Tyranny, Democracy, and You
It Begins with Rest
Origins of Christmas
Christmas Comes Anyway
Frostiana: UUCA Choir Sunday
The 8th Principle and Article II
From Cans to Pecans: The 7th Principle and the Flourishing of All Life
The Sixth Principle: The Goal of World Community with Peace, Liberty, and Justice for All
5th Principle
The 4th Principle: A Free & Responsible Search for Truth & Meaning
The Second Principle
The 1st Principle
Lessons from the Camino Pilgrims
Pleasure and Pain
You are the Alchemist
Our Communal Pilgrimmage
This Churchy Year
Civilizations: Collaboration, Cooperation, Conquest
Becoming Nobody
To Question
From the Beginning
The Starfish and I
Jane's Choice: UUs in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision
Mom's Final Journey
Now is All We Have
Healing at the Crossroads
The America I Believe In
Sisyphus and the Scientific Method
It Takes Practice
The Meaning of Membership
Life-Stage Recognition
Collective Action is a How
Benevolent Aspirations
A Theology of the Earth
Two Feet on the Earth
Let the Earth Speak
Being With What Is
See You Later!
Being Good
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Hacking the Brain & Race
Blessing Our Way to Beloved Community
Where UUs are Headed
Mindful Partnership
Wordsmithing
Letter From A Birmingham Jail
Layers of Love
Christmas Comes Anyway
Strength to Love
Love is the Spirit of Our Church
Stone Soup Revisited
The Gratitude Story
Disappointment
Soul-Force: The Practices of Non-Violence
Non-Violence: Don't We Pledge Not To Harm Each Other?
The Path of Love: Moving From Violence to Peace
Fibonacci, Ahimsa, & Humanity's Nonviolent Future
Wrestling with Forgiveness
The Prayer before the Prayer of Forgiveness
Water Metaphors
Rev. John T. Crestwell, Jr., Why I am (Still) a UU - Part II
Rev. John T. Crestwell, Jr. Sermon: Why I am (Still) a UU - After 20 Years
Rev. Anastassia Zinke Sermon: Members Sunday
Rev. Dr. Robert M. Hardies Sermon: Love, Always
Rev. Anastassia Sermon: The Danger of the Single Story
Rev. Anastassia Sermon: Dedicate Ourselves to Save this Earth
Rev. John Sermon: On Fire - The Burning Case for a New Green Deal
Our Earth is the Home of the Beloved Community Sermon
Rev. John Sermon: Liberation, Accountability, Yin and Yang
Rev. John T Crestwell, Jr. Sermon: Authenticity, Keeping it Real, and Cancel Culture
Rev. Anastassia Zinke Sermon: Commitment to Mutuality
Rev. Anastassia Zinke Sermon: Commitment to Non-Violence
Rev. John T Crestwell, Jr. Sermon: Emergent Strategy
Rev. Anastassia Zinke Sermon: Emergent Strategy
Rev. Dr. Fredric J. Muir Sermon: Staying in the Struggle
Rev. John Crestwell, Jr. Sermon: Eschatalogical Exegesis
Rev. Anastassia Zinke Sermon: Wholehearted Parenting
Rev. Anastassia Zinke Sermon: Courageously Engaging the Gap
Rev. John T Crestwell, Jr. Sermon: The Thinking of MLK: Moving From Fear to Courage
Rev. John T Crestwell, Jr. Sermon: Word is Bond
Rev. Anastassia Zinke Sermon: Embracing Vulnerability Service
Rev. Anastassia Zinke Sermon: Hanukkah Hope and Resilience
Building Beloved Community: Voter Suppression
Rev. John T Crestwell, Jr. Sermon: Care-Full and Care-Less
Emotional Literacy is Our Salvation
From Isolation to Innovation
Five Promises of Unitarian Universalism
Surrender to the Earth
Surrendering to Hope
Lemons to Lemonade
You Throw Like a Girl
AWAKE or WOKE?
A Place for the Quiet Ones
What Does it Mean to Be a People of Resilience?
Balancing the Polarities: Science and Religion
The Soul's Last Dance: Reflection on Aging for All Stages of Life
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
90 Years later (MLK Sunday 2020)
Ten Rules for Living
After the Good News
Everything's Still Awe-full
The State of Our Union
The New American Transcendentalism
The Sum of All the Parts
The Aquarian Gospel, Eschatology, and The New Age
Beyond Categorical Thinking
Can We Talk about White Fragility?
Swallow the Stars
Jewish Mysticism, The High Holy Days and YOU (forgiveness)
Faith, Hope and Cancer
Saving Faith
Who Do You think You Are to Tell Me I Don't Matter?
Music as Liturgy w/ Thornell Jones, Lay Worship Leader
Bearing Witness to Life on the Streets w/ Bob Ertman, Lay Worship Associate & Zen teacher
The Importance of Ritual in our Lives
Roots, Wings, and Grain Offerings
Shall We Panic Yet?
Love Surrounds Us
Scotland, Silicon Valley, and Jesus Christ--Or, How Unicorns Got Their Stripes with Intern minister Leika Lewis-Cornwell
1.5 Justice w/ UU Seminarian Joshua Long
Why We Sleep
A Theology for Hot Mess Times Rev. Kathleen, Interim Minister
When Statues Move (KR)
Feel the Fear w/ Rev. John Crestwell
A Curious Faith with Rev. Kathleen Rolenz, Interim Minister
Not Dead Yet! w/ Rev. Kathleen Rolenz
Five Things You Need for the Journey with Rev. Kathleen C. Rolenz
The Road to Freedom w/ Leika Lewis-Cornwell
How We Decide with Rev. John T. Crestwell, Jr.
Pele and the Dragon with Leika Lewis-Cornwell
Journey of Souls (Life After Death?)
Thanks For Staying w/ Rev. Kathleen Rolenz
A Great Bundle of Humanity with Rev. Kathleen C. Rolenz
I've Seen the Promised Land! with Rev. John T. Crestwell, Jr.
Trust but Verify w/ Rev. John Crestwell
Trusting Mercy w/ Rev. Kathleen Rolenz, Rev. John Crestwell, and Leika Lewis-Cornwell
Our Civil War
Ice Cream for Astronauts w/ Intern Minister Leika Lewis-Cornwell
Does God Exist w/ Rev. John Crestwell
Let the Mystery Be with Rev. Kathleen C. Rolenz
The Long Goodbye w/ Leika Lewis-Cornwell
Remembering Democracy with Revs. Kathleen Rolenz & John Crestwell
Welcoming the Stranger
A Holy Pause
Waking Up Woes and Wows
Is Forgiveness the Only Option?
If We Are Broken How Can We Expect Our Children to Be Strong? with Shauntee Daniels
If a Tree Speaks in the Woods with Lisa Fleeharty
Life and Death Came to Dinner with Dayna Edwards
What Will UUCA Be Like in 2025? with Thornell Jones
How We Heal with Rev. Kathleen C. Rolenz
The Sacred Art of Joy with Leika Lewis-Cornwell
Love Actually - Reconciliation Among Siblings
Wendi Winters Memorial Service Entire Service
Eulogy for Wendi Winters
Universalism...Our Saving Grace
Light the Flame
Between A Rock and a Hard Place
SSECCUS /SUCCESS
Law of Surrender with Rev. John Crestwell
Mum's the Word! with Rev. Kathleen C. Rolenz
Restless Souls
How to Save A Planet and Other Household Tips
A Foolish Hope
Fire & Fury
Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun
The Invisible Religion
A #METOO NATION
Brokenheartedness
The Persistence of Memory
Darwin Sunday - The Evolution of Us
Is Humanism only for White people?
Both/And
Beyond The Pale
The Best of Intentions
Blessed Be The Ties That Binds
"Where is the Light?" Multi-Generational Holiday Skit/Sermon
Use Your Power
The Case for Hope
Abundance & Generosity
City on a Hill
The Gift of Abundance
Doing What We Want
How We Got This Way Pt.2
How We Got This Way Part 1.
Why I am (still) A UU
Take Courage Friends
Words with Friends
The Challenge of Forgiveness
FYI
"When the Past Becomes Present"
Is Unity an Illusion
Fanatics Part 3 - Moderation is the Method
Fanatics Part 2 - Fundamentalism and Extremism
Saying Goodbye
AWAKE
Fanactics Part 1: Be a Zealot
The Heart Knoweth
Count It All Joy
Finding Joy in Church
Fare-Thee-Well
The Limits of Authenticity
Being the Village
Dear White Members and Friends of UUCA
Resurrection = YES
Brother Juniper Gives Away the Church
Easter WIthout Christ?
Transformation: It's the Little Things
That's a BIG "IF"
Leap of Faith
The Risk of Liberalism (Sanctuary)
LIving Truthfully
Who Are You Anyway?
Preaching Identity
My Last Darwin Message to You
Pastoral Message from Rev. Fred Muir
2017 Wheel of Life Service
Good for Business
Dream Deferred
The Prophethood of all Believers
Countervailing Resonances
Once Upon a Time
Whose Story?
The Sunday After
The Sunday Before I.
Healing Alongside Death
Blessed Are The Healers
Healing Neen - Trauma and Transformation
Do Over
When the Two Become One
Covenant of the Brokenhearted
Grace-full Living and Labr
Mystical Moments
Spiritual Nourishment
Trans 101
Spiritual Democracy
From Sea to Shining Sea
Free to Choose Sunday
Perspectives & Fathers
Ice Cream & Steak
Just War
The Tao of Water (The Way of Water)
Freedom & Mistakes
Tested
Hope in a Handbasket
Modern Plagues
Praying for Prosperity
It Was the Women Who Stayed
Emotional Intelligence
That's Not Fair
Partners In Justice (Part II)
Partners in Justice, (Part 1)
Drops of Water
And Then Came Darwin
The Other Wes Moore
Why America May Go to Hell
Satyagraha -- Love Force
Dark and Light
Living with the Meaning of Christmas
Can't Buy Me Love (or can you?)
Living with the Meaning of Hanukkah
Vampire Diaries
No, Thank You
Abundance
Calling, Courage and Committment
Choosing Your Religion
Abundance in the Desert
Generosity Mindset
Let It Be a Dance
The Transient & Permanent of Unitarian-Universalism
What's In a Name?
The Best Advice I Ever Received
Stopped By a Brick
Why Darwin Matters
Hitting Rock Bottom
Let Freedom Ring
Question Box Sermon 2015
Connections
Lost & Found in the Philippeans
Protect and Serve
Samsara
Differences -- Race
Differences -- Sexual Orientation
Differences -- Gender
The End of Faith
In the Name of Love -- Second Service
In the Name of Love -- First Service
Apron Faith
Detours and Potholes
A Courageous Faith
Hindu Trinity
Have We Lost Faith?
The Arc of the Universe Is Long
Enough For Everyone
Maybe I Can Live That Long, Too.
Hands Up! Don't Shoot! I Can't Breathe!
Beloved Community Lab
A Village of Hope
Where Is The Light?
Shaped by Epiphanies (large & small)
Hope is a Verb
Community -- the Structure of Belonging
The Welcome Table
Whose Am L?
Assisted Living Plan
Gathering for Life & Death
Tattoos On The Heart
Does Generosity Have a Future?
Careful What You Wish For
Give and Ye Shall - - -
Blessed Be the Ties that Bind
Lessons Learned Until Now
In the Beginning
Astonishing Assemblies
Taking Stock
The Law of Surrender
Welcome to WikiWprship
Multicultural Truth Telling
Why I Am a Christian
Why I Am Not a Christian
Question Box Sermon
Life Lessons From a Motorcycle
From Dignity to Discontent
Choose Your Stones Wisely
Finding Your Purpose is Your Mission
"Missional"
Mission-Oriented Congregation
Can't Go Back
The Responsibility of New Life
What is Truth for You?
What Is Truth To You?
Let's Talk About Lilacs
They're Back!
Speak Peace in a World of Conflict
For the Love of Darwin
Love the Hell Out of the World
Freedom Isn't Free(dom)
Count the Cost
Free & Responsible
Reclaiming 2013
Get Ready for Grace
Happy Thanksgivukkah
Humanism Is Dead. Long Live Humanism.
Lessons From King Peggy
To Question is the Answer
El Dia de Los Muertos
Collaboration with Chaos
World of Wonder
Membership Matters
Come Home
Forgive Us Our Sins
Just Trust In Jesus
Soul Meets Body
Learning to Fall
Indelible Parts Remain
Ports of Call
Give Them Not Hell, But Hope . . .
Choose Your Own Adventure
Faith
Oh Say Can You See
A Series of Impossible Disguises
Deliver Us From Our Stuff
Why Church Is Different
How to Speak UU
Go Inside to Find My God
Can I Get a Witness?
Life is Sad, So Laugh Often
Mothers of Our Faith
Community as a Beloved Vocation
How to Save Your Spirit
Flower Comunion
YRUU Memebers on Prayer
Who's Your Jesus?
Memorial Service for Taylor Wild
Seek And Ye Shall Find . . . .A Home
Egy Az Isten (God Is One)
Saved By A Different Faith
The Cure for Love
Ghosts & Spirits (and things that go bump in the night)
Standing on the Side of Love
Judge Not That Ye Be Judged
Was It All Just a Dream?
Peace & Quiet
Law of Detraction
Boldly Into The Future
Anticipation
Hanukkah Means Hope
Getting What You Want
Traditions Worth Keeping
The Five Pillars (of Islam)
Border Crossings
Who's In Charge here?
Do You See What I See?
Vanishing Vantage Points
Awake! Part 1
Awake! Part 2
People Like U(U)s
Spots of Time
Apples and Honey
Water Communion -- In Gathering
Intern Introduction
AWAKE Ministries
Thoughts From Summer III, "Change"
The Five Love Languages
Living the Good Life, Part 2
WHEE! And Amen!
The Spirit-Filled Church
Rediscovering Lost Values
The Arc of the Universe
Living the Good Life
Metaphor and Beloved Community
Prelude to General Assembly
Forgiveness Frees Us
The Unitarian-Universalism That Calls Me.
Hush!
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Are You Reborn?
The Risks of Being Green
The Unspeakable Truth of Redemption
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Let Your Life Speak
What's Your Jesus?
Heal Thyself
Heal The World
The Tree of Life -- Darwin Sunday
Witness With the Water Dragon
Building a New Way
Consider Witnessing
Living Buddha, Living Jesus
Many Messiahs -- Music Sunday
The Wonder of It All
Two Wolves and a Lamb
How Can I Keep From Singing?
Turn the World Around
Inagine If
Imagine No Religion
Sharing our Good News
Imagine -- and Act!
Beyond Principles
One Plus One Equals Three
Ingathering
Labor of Love
Death is Easy -- Living is Hard
Good Goodbyes
To Find Our Center
Beyond Light Bulbs: Covenant and Collective Action
Sex & War
We'll Always Have Abbottabad
The Light & Dark of Shadows
From the prefix "com-"
Why Ministry?
Back to the Future
Happy Birthday, King James Version
Editing Life
Poor People's Campaign Revisited
Flower Communion Sunday
For the Beauty of the Earth
Sounds of Spirit Choir & Band
A Jesus for UUs
Retreat! Retreat!
Heads Up for the Wrecking Ball
The Power of Belief
Trafficking the Faith
Each in Their Own Tongues
A Courageous Love
DArwin Sunday -- The Curiosity Cabinet
Enough to Convict
Disintegration
Twas the Day After Christmas
Advent: The Coming?
This Thing Called Christmas
Being Good for Something
Living the Welcome
The Permanents in Faith
The Generosity of Stones
Generosity of Ministry
Generosity to Act
Generosity of Commitment
Please, Mind the Gaps
When the Two Become One
Are you ready for a Miracle?
The Myth of Fingerprints
Dancing The Circle
New Heaven and New Earth
Demons
Thoughts From Summer
Everything I need to know, I learned at Camp Beagle
Who are WE?
A Unitarian and a Lutheran walk into a bar...
For Praying Out Loud
Your New Vision
A Vision of Summer
Fathers Found
Inherent Worth & Dignity
Lame and Blind
Making Music Together
Blink
Rev. John's Installation - part 4
Rev. John's Installation part 3
Rev. John's Installation part 2 - Peter Morales' keynote
Rev. John's Installation part 1
No Savings Plan
Hard Choices
Easter Flower Communion
Spirited Worship
The Tipping Point
Yes, and - - -
Partnering with Churches
The Question Box
You Were Made to Seek
Re-imagining Valentine's Day / Standing on the Side of Love & Justice
Getting a Grip
Love's Repercussions
Wheel of Life
The Meaning of Grace
Hope is a Good Breakfast
Darwin's First Christmas
Our Thanksgiving Service
Standing on the Side of Love & Justice
Hold On!
A Sacred Number
The Off-Center Church
Tao of Water
Multiculturalism Conference Part II
Multiculturalism Conference part 1 Fred & John
A Place Called Life
From the Inside Out
How to Hope (again)
Why I am a UU
Whatever Happened to Sabbath
It's In the Name
Speak Up
let's Hear It For Silence
Letting Go
Ground Zero
The Structure of Forgiveness
New Wine in Old Wineskins
Edges
In Motion
It Matters What We Believe
Let It Be -- Coming of Age
The Honor of Service
From Dumaquete With Direction
My Mother, Our World
Hard Times
New Words For Old
The Gift of Partnership
Easter Sunday -- Tell Me the Old, Old Story
Resurrecting Jesus
Giving It All Away
Star Stuff
Justice Is Flowing
Questions of Ethics
UU Church of the Philippines and Us
Silent Women
How Darwin Will Save the World (As We Know It)
It All Depends Upon How You Look At It
Hearing One Another -- Covenant Groups
The Politics of Promise
Living Your Legacy
Year Ender
A Journey Worth Taking
President-Elect Obama and (U)Us
The Word For 'Not Angry'
How to Give Thanks
Whose Human Rights