Decoration Day, Rev. Dr. Oscar Sinclair, May 25, 2025
Release Date: 05/25/2025
Dangerous Words, Rev. Dr. Oscar Sinclair, September 14, 2025
Sunday Sermon Podcast
2025 is a dangerous time in the world. When the foundations of so many of institutions and assumptions shake, we embrace the power of words to heal, as well as to harm. Even as we recognize the danger in language used to hurt, we use our own dangerous language to imagine a different way of being. This service begins with a reflection by worship associate Veronica Nordeng DeVillez.
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Merging of Waters, September 7, 2025
Sunday Sermon Podcast
We begin our congregational year joined by representatives from our partner church in Homoródszentpéter. Together we reflect on the long journey from our first meetings to now, and look forward to what comes next in our friendship. This podcast begins with a reflection by Rev. Dr. Oscar Sinclair and is followed by a refelction from Rev. Kinga Réka Székely, the minister of Unity's partner church in Homoródszentpéter.
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We Sacred Fools, Caswell Burr, August 31, 2025
Sunday Sermon Podcast
A hot cup of coffee. A firm handshake. A sincere conversation. As we continue to wade in the waters of polarization and binaries, the temptation to let our differences keep us apart is strong. Yet our Unitarian Universalist roots ask us to continue rethinking and reimagining what Beloved Community can and should look like. Could being foolishly vulnerable and honest with each other provide us with a key to a different world? This sermon podcast begins with a reflection by Nelson Moroukian.
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Bless the World, Rev. Dr. Oscar Sinclair, August 24, 2025
Sunday Sermon Podcast
In the last of our series on membership at Unity Church, we consider our work beyond the congregation, as we ask each other to “let the compassion that rises from doing your work within and among lead you to bless the world.” In this anxious age, what does it mean to be a blessing? This sermon podcast begins with a reflection from Worship Associate Ollie Stocker.
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Go Deep, Rev. Dr. Oscar Sinclair, August 17, 2025
Sunday Sermon Podcast
The second expectation of membership at Unity Church is that our members will “develop the skills of small group intimacy that let you go deep quickly with strangers.” Among this community, the skills of connection deepen our ties and begin to connect our personal practices and lives with the broader world. This sermon podcast begins with a reflection by Worship Associate Sarah Cledwyn.
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Keep Your Balance, Rev. Dr. Oscar Sinclair, August 10, 2025
Sunday Sermon Podcast
Members of Unity Church are asked to “develop a personal practice that helps you find and keep your balance.” What is it about practice that improves balance? Is there value to these practices outside of an instrumental result? How does personal practice set up the rest of our lives together as a community?
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Fire in Our Bones, Rev. Dr. Oscar Sinclair, August 3, 2025
Sunday Sermon Podcast
What does it mean to be Unitarian Universalist in this moment? In an anxious age, it is not sufficient for us to retreat from the world into intellectual contemplation. Instead, our faith calls us to engage, fully, with our souls, each other, and the world around us.
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How Shall We Be Known? Unity's Act for the Earth Team, July 27, 2025
Sunday Sermon Podcast
Alana Howey | Anna Newton | Lisa Burke Unity's Act for the Earth Community Outreach Ministry Team With chaos all around us, action grounded in spiritual practice can help us move forward. Anna Newton, Alana Howey, and Lisa Burke, members of Unity’s Act for the Earth Team, will share their approach to this work. This service begins with a reflection by Anna Newton which is followed by a collage of voices from members of Unity's Act for the Earth Team, and concludes with a refelction by Lisa Burke.
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Building Power to Meet the Moment, Rev. Terri Burnor, July 20, 2025
Sunday Sermon Podcast
The question we need to be asking in our justice efforts is what are we building together, not what are we doing. Weaving relationships, growing capacity, grounding in our values — these are what build power and make a difference over the long-haul of change. Rev. Terri Burnor (she/her) is Executive Director of (the Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance). She also serves the St. Croix Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Wisconsin as their quarter-time minister and has been a member at Unity Church since 2005. Terri is a lifelong Minnesotan who lives in St. Paul with her...
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Living in this Moment, Rev. Laura Smidzik, July 13, 2025
Sunday Sermon Podcast
As the world around us changes at a rapid and discouraging pace, how do we keep ourselves grounded and continue to build resilience for the years ahead? What practices both spiritual and otherwise do we need to establish and maintain in order to continue to live lives of integrity, service, and joy?
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Memorial Day marks the beginning of summer, as school graduations start and Unity Church moves to a single service on Sunday mornings. This morning we’ll explore the holiday’s origins as Decoration Day, a ritual of remembrance created in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
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