First U Think
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First U Think is a podcast designed for you, just as you are. We're bringing you weekly talks about the topics that matter. Living with values. Caring about the world and the people in it. Making a difference. Learning about prophetic people and their work. Want to change the world? First you think. First U Think is brought to you by the First Unitarian Church of Des Moines IA.
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It's Great to Meet You, Episode 9: Robby Collier, CEO of Urban Bicycle Food Ministry of Des Moines
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Choosing Hope with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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It's Great to Meet You Episode 8: Katie Kamienski, Executive Director, YMCA Supportive Housing Campus
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Reality Check with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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It's Great to Meet You, Episode 7: Amy Landrigan, Executive Director, The Beacon
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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In a World... with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Practice Makes Grateful with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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It's Great to Meet You, Episode 6: Melissa O'Neil, CEO of Central Iowa Shelter and Services
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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The Last Gift We Give with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Cultivating Compassion in a Challenging World with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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It's Great to Meet You, Episode 5: Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott Coordinator of Interfaith Engagement, DMARC
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Compassion in Community with the Celebrant Team
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Shining Your Light with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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It's Great to Meet You, Episode 4: Mark Stringer, Executive Director, ACLU of Iowa.
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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What is Compassion? with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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It's Great to Meet You, Episode 3: Max Mowitz, OneIowa
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Why I Choose to Belong Here with the Board of Directors
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Limits of Belonging- Sunday Service with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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It's Great to Meet You, Episode 2: Wes Mullins, Executive Director, Capitol City Pride
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Going Platinum- Sunday Service with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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It's Great to Meet You, Episode 1: Connie Ryan
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Gathering Streams- Sunday Service with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Music in our Church with Bruce Martin
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Visions for 2040- Sunday Service with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Good Question!- Sunday Service with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Why We Sing - Sunday Service with Rev. Steve Sieck
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Who Is My Neighbor
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Food, Glorious Food: or, Potlucks We Have Known
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Our Church as Home and Garden
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Love at the Center: Confronting Bias, Choosing Courage
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Internal Community with Elijah Evans
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Radical Hospitality with David Yurdin
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Transitions Part II
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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You Can't Take It With You
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Community
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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War, Peace, and Remembrance
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May 29, 2025 |
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Coming of Age 2025
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May 20, 2025 |
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Flowers and Vesak
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May 13, 2025 |
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Bone-Deep Hope with Steve Sieck
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May 06, 2025 |
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Counterintuitive Joy with Steve Sieck
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Conflict is a Good Thing
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Nurturing Nature Through Wonder
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Who Cares?
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Standing Tall: Reflections on Dignity
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Common Read: Authentic Selves
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Money, Money, Money
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Dignity
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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UU Uses of the Bible
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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You, UU, and Social Justice
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Borders and Belonging
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Desert Theory
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Crossing the Line
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Acceptance & Resistance
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Freedom?
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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The Vow-Powered Life
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Christmas Eve Service 2024
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Christmas Pageant
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Awe and Wonder
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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There is No God, and She is Always with You
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Pardon, Forgiveness, Reconciliation
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Reason
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Día De Los Muertos
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Climate Justice Revival
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Our Universalist Heritage
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Healing Religion’s Harms with Paul Nelson
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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What Are We Afraid Of?
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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On Repentance and Repair with Rev. Meredith Garmon
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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God the Adjective
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Gathering In with Meredith
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Universalism and Labor Day
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Cherry Picking My Journey with Louise Alcorn
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Grit and Grace - Resilience Through Balance with Sarah Chang
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Life is a Relay Race with Al Powers
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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A Long and Winding Road Less Taken with Bill Brauch
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Navigating Queer Faith with Faithyna Leonard
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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P(r)aying Attention with Elliot Nolte
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Weaving a Spiritual Life: Power, Love, Anger & Imagination with Sally Boeckholt
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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New Beginnings: Surviving to Thriving with Amy Landrigan
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Hearing the Secret in Our Hearts with Rev. Eishin Tom Houghton
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Birding for Life: See and Save a Bird, a People, and the Planet
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Perfect, And...
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Why We Welcome
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Active Hope
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Dharma Blossoms
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May 30, 2024 |
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Courageous Facing
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May 23, 2024 |
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Transitions
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May 14, 2024 |
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Courage
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May 09, 2024 |
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Lessons from the Passover Story
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May 02, 2024 |
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Earth Day
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Love and Ethics
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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A Unitarian Easter
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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How We Feel
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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The Ontological, the Semantic, and the Tribal
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Who Are We Now?
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Choose Abundance
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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"Believing, Really Believing, and Talking to Your Car"
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Blessing
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Merit
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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The Spiritual Impact of Inequality
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Liberty, Justice, and Sexual Ethics
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Queer Theory
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Seeing Race
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Opening to Pluralism
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Revising the Christmas Story
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Christmas is Love
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Receptivity
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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What's Your Great Vow?
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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"In Meeting We Are Blessed"
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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The Thanksgiving Story
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Trust
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Interdependance
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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What is Spiritual Growth?
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Not Such a Bad Species
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Justice vs. Mercy
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Justice & Faith
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Justice
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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What is Ethical Growth?
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Being a People of Covenant
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Me, Running for Office?!
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Thy Kingdom Come
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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We Can't Always Get What We Want
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Remembrances
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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What We Dwell On is Who We Become
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Ora Et Labora
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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The Road Home
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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They. You. I. An Alternate Look at Pronouns
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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A Bigger Heart
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Pagan/Pride
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Fear! (I Promise It Will Be Funny)
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May 04, 2023 |
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Proud Flesh
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Fragile and Strong
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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What's Next? I'm Ready
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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We Are Each Other's Magnitude & Bond
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Recalculating
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Your Grief is Welcome Here
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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So Great a Cloud of Witnesses
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Leap of Doubt
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Imagine Abolition
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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A Gospel of Stars
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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An Unimagined, Wild, and Necessary Thing
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Walking With The Wind
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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So Be it. See To It.
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Christmas Eve
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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A Mind of Winter
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Holiday Music Service
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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An Inside Voice
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Gratitude
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Table Blessing
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Use Your Words
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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How to Love a Country
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Arrive. Be Beautiful. Be Gone.
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Finding Our Joy
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Avoiding Shipwreck
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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A Certainty of Transformations
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Where Do We Come From?
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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We Begin Again in Love
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Forming Our Faith
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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A House of Possibility
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Bread & Roses: the Work of Our Hands and the Work of Our Hearts
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Always Becoming
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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All Real Living is Meeting
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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It’s More Than Sitting: Ethics in Buddhist Practice
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Atomic Habits
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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A People Called Elaine
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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My Pandemic Past Times
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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A Story About Jane
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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From Ancient Greece to First Unitarian of Des Moines: Daring to Follow the Truth
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Nothing New Under the Sun
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Heart and Soul: Art and Music as Spiritual Practice
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Pentecost and an Ethic of Risk
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Green Rolling Hills: A Flower Communion
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Skin Deep and Soul Empty: Finding Depth in a Shallow Culture
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May 24, 2022 |
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Building a Beautiful Community
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May 12, 2022 |
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Something Got Up
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Be Naked
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Reperations
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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I am a Patriot
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Learning to Lament
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Renewing Faith: IDK Gen Z's ideas on belief
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Seeking Sanity and Grace
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Life is not a Dress Rehearsal
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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A Between Us: Identity, Community, and Self
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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The Road to Change
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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From Legos to Logos
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Below the Line
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Every Valley Shall Be Exalted
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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We Can Do It (Yes We Can!)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Christmas Eve: Oh Night Divine. Special Event Extended
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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CRT and Thee
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Christmas: A Distinctively Unitarian Holiday. Special Event Extended
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Crossroads of Perception with Ysandril Morrigan and members of the UCDSM Transgender Action Group
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Take Up All That Remain
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Listening the Circle Wide
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Exploring Belief in our own Identity as an Act of Self-Love with Dr. Rebecca Gibson
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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If It's Mental Illness There's No Lasagna with Patty Notch
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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The Merits And Moral Imperative of Smiting
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Interdependence Day
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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Fill Up Your Cups
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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Creating the Beloved Community
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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From Languishing to Flourishing
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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Change the Harvest
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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Vesak
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May 21, 2021 |
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On This Journey Together
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May 04, 2021 |
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Pathways to Creating a New Earth Day Story with Pachamama Alliance Iowa
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May 03, 2021 |
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Unfinished Business featuring Harvey Harrison
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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The Hidden Pandemic, featuring Lyra Halsten
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Life is a Journey to be Experienced, Not a Problem to be Solved
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Resolutions, Intentions and Silver Linings of the Year of COVID with Kent Newman
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Jan 27, 2021 |