First Unitarian Church of Dallas

Winter’s Faith: Grief, Gratitude, and Generosity, and Justice with guest minister Rev. Mary Katherine Morn
2023-11-19 09:30 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | First Unitarian Church of Dallas, 4015 Normandy Ave., Dallas, TX, 75205, United States
We welcome our longtime friend and President of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Rev. Mary Katherine Morn, as we celebrate the Thanksgiving season together.

About Rev. Mary Katherine Morn
After 30 years in faith-based leadership, the Rev. Mary Katherine Morn joined UUSC as President and Lead Executive Officer in 2018. She has helped to grow a number of progressive congregations serving their members and the larger community.
Mary Katherine contributed to efforts for economic, racial, and social justice in Macon, Georgia at the Economic Opportunity Council/Headstart with the NAACP. She also worked deeply in the reproductive justice movement. In Nashville, Tennessee, she collaborated with the Interfaith Alliance and Industrial Areas Foundation. In Fairfax, Virginia, she worked with interfaith ministries addressing hunger and homelessness, collaborated with LGBTQI+ advocacy organizations, and served on the county’s homelessness task force.
Mary Katherine also served in volunteer leadership with the Unitarian Universalist Ministers’ Association and for four years as Director of Stewardship and Development for the Unitarian Universalist Association.

MUSIC: Sanctuary Choir
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

Crafty Bake Sale
2023-11-19 08:45 - 13:00
Come shop for baked goods, crafts, and gifts benefitting charities supported by the Women’s Alliances.
Accepting cash, check, and credit card.

Listening Deeply with guest minister Rev. Justin Schroeder
2023-11-12 09:30 - 12:00
In this service, Rev. Justin will explore the idea that life is always trying to engage with us, is making invitations to us, is trying to connect with us, and that a spiritual practice helps us hear those invitations and bids for connections.
About Rev. Justin Schroeder
Rev. Justin Schroeder has more than two decades of experience in spiritual leadership. From 2009-2021, he served as Senior Minister and Co-Senior Minister at First Universalist Church of Minneapolis. In this role, he led the congregation in centering a racial justice commitment as an expression of their faith. He has counseled couples, led rites of passage, and supported hundreds in deepening their spiritual practices.
Rev. Justin Schroeder and his wife, Juliana Keen, recently launched ‘“Holding Space for Change,” a practice that accompanies and supports people through life transitions. They provide spiritual direction, support groups, retreats, and individual therapy and coaching..
He has an active daily spiritual practice, which includes meditation, writing, and yoga. Justin enjoys gardening, games, biking, baking, running, and spending time with his children.

MUSIC: April and Les Sellers
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

Concert in Remembrance
2023-11-11 17:00 - 18:00
Saturday, November 11
5 – 6pm, Sanctuary
The Sanctuary Choir along with 10 members of the professional choir Orpheus Chamber Singers present this concert in remembrance in memory of our departed loved ones.
The music you’ll experience is lush and beautiful and provides a varied emotional landscape of light, love and hope, as well as deep sorrow and dread. Our 60-voice choir will perform from the stage, and joined by the organ in the balcony, will provide surround sound from the intimate to the thrilling.
Prior to the concert, you will also have an opportunity to light a candle in memory of a loved one.
Repertoire:
Requiem – Maurice Durufle
Sure on this Shining Night – Morton Lauridsen
Featuring Guest Musicians
Scott Dettra, organist
Scott Dettra is acclaimed as one of America’s outstanding concert organ virtuosos. Hailed as a “brilliant organist” (Dallas Morning News), and an “outstanding musician” (The Diapason), his playing is known for its clarity, rhythmic intensity, and musical elegance, and has been described by The American Organist as “music making of absolute authority and sophisticated expression.” He serves as Organist of Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, teaches on the organ faculty of Southern Methodist University, and is organist for The Crossing, the multi-Grammy-winning professional chamber choir based in Philadelphia.
Throughout 2022, Mr. Dettra undertook a celebrated national tour of the complete organ works of César Franck in commemoration of the composer’s bicentenary. Recent and upcoming performances include appearances in New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Kansas City. Festival appearances include the Lincoln Center Festival, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Arizona Bach Festival, the Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts, and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. He has been a featured performer at national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Association of Anglican Musicians, the Organ Historical Society, and the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator for master classes, workshops, and competitions.
Maiya Williams, soloist
Maiya Williams, mezzo soprano, is a Graduate Artist Certificate student in Voice Performance at the University of North Texas. Currently, she studies under the tutelage of Molly Fillmore. In 2021, she earned her B.M. in Choral Music Education from Stephen F. Austin State University and most recently, a Masters of Music in Voice Performance from the University of North Texas. During her studies, Williams has been a recurring member of Vox Aquilae, the Baroque vocal ensemble under UNT Choral studies. Past operatic roles include Mistress of the Novices (Suor Angelica), Háta (Prodaná nevěsta), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), and scenes from Cenerentola, Falstaff, La Boheme, Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, and an upcoming role as Dorothée in Massenet’s Cendrillon. She has also participated in the Luke Housner Summer Opera Workshop in Houston, TX. As a DFW based musician, Williams has made appearances with Orpheus Chamber Singers, Fort Worth Opera, The Puccini Society of Dallas, and will appear with The Dallas Opera chorus in Spring 2024 for the production of Romeo et Juliette
Jason Awbrey, soloist
Heralded as having “one of the most gorgeous baritones on earth” by The Dallas Morning News, baritone Jason Awbrey is an active vocal soloist and choral artist. His lyric voice has garnered critical acclaim for his performances of literature ranging from the early Renaissance period through the 21th century. In a recital of German lieder with Voces Intimae, Scott Cantrell of The Dallas Morning News said “everything sounded so easy, so natural” and “[it] was sheer magic.”
He has performed with various professional ensembles throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe, including Ars Lyrica of Houston, Grammy® award-winning ensembles Conspirare and Roomful of Teeth, Dallas Bach Society, Dallas Symphony, Northeast Symphony, Crescendo, Harmonia Stellarum, Tactus, The Orchestra of New Spain, Orpheus Chamber Singers, Rapides Symphony Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Oklahoma Bach, Verdigris Ensemble, Texas Camerata and Vox Humana. Jason has recorded with a number of ensembles including Conspirare, Orpheus Chamber Singers, Verdigris Ensemble, and Vox Humana.
Recent and upcoming highlights include performances of Bach Cantatas BWV 4 & BWV 140 with Crescendo Bach Choir, Bach cantatas BWV 10 & 147 with Oklahoma Bach, Schütz Christmas Oratorio with Harmonia Stellarum, and a tour of Germany and Portugal with Roomful of Teeth.
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Gesundheit!
2023-11-05 09:30 - 12:00
What are the blessings in our lives that really matter? We will bless the 25 and 50 year member anniversaries as part of a service of blessing one another.
This is the final sermon in our Rituals That Ground Us series, during which we are exploring the resources that sustain us on our spiritual journey.
Rev. Dr. Daniel Kanter is preaching MUSIC: Kindred Voices
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

All Souls
2023-10-29 09:30 - 12:00
Together we remember and honor the lives of those who have died this year in our annual service of All Souls.
This is the fourth sermon in our Rituals That Ground Us series, during which we are exploring the resources that sustain us on our spiritual journey.
Rev. T. J. FitzGerald is preaching MUSIC: Sanctuary Choir
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

At-ONE-ment
2023-10-22 09:30 - 12:00
Rituals of repentance, repair, and atonement are radical in the context of our unapologetic world. What do these rituals look like for us as Unitarian Universalists and how do they ground us?
This is the third sermon in our Rituals That Ground Us series, during which we are exploring the resources that sustain us on our spiritual journey.
Rev. Beth Dana is preaching MUSIC: violist Desiree Elsevier
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

Liberty in Action
2023-10-15 09:30 - 12:00
The ways we support the work of the church are close to our hearts. We share together the roots and the fruits of this important act.
This is the second sermon in our Rituals That Ground Us series, during which we are exploring the resources that sustain us on our spiritual journey.
Rev. T. J. FitzGerald is preaching MUSIC: Sanctuary Choir
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

Front Porch Conversation with Dr. Brian H. Williams
2023-10-08 12:30 - 14:00
Join Rev. Dr. Daniel Kanter for a conversation with Dr. Brian H. Williams about his new book “The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal.”
Dr. Brian H. Williams led the trauma team that treated police officers ambushed by a sniper in Dallas, Texas, on July 7, 2016, the largest loss of life for US law enforcement since 9/11. At a press conference days later, his heartfelt comments about the tragedy touched thousands, and Huffington Post named it one of the most memorable television moments of 2016. With more than two decades of experience treating urban gun violence victims in Tampa, Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, and Chicago, Dr. Williams has served as a congressional health policy advisor and now serves as a professor of trauma and acute care surgery at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Williams graduated from the United States Air Force Academy with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering. After six years on active duty, he enrolled at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and then completed a general surgery residency at Harvard Medical School and a fellowship in trauma and surgical critical care at Emory University. After the Dallas shooting, Dr. Williams became an international spokesperson for racial justice. In 2017 Mayor Rawlings appointed him chair of the Dallas Citizens Police Review Board. His leadership helped unite the Dallas Police Department, community activists, police associations, and City Council to revamp the role Dallas civilians play in police oversight.
A conversation will be followed by a book signing.
How to get your copy of “The Bodies Keep Coming:”
· You can pre-order the book from Interabang Books at this link. Choose the pick up option and write “First Unitarian Event” in the notes.
· Interabang Books will also be on site on Oct 8th from 11am-2pm selling books in person.
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If you are unable to attend in-person, the event will be livestreamed at https://dallasuu.org/live/.

Rituals That Ground Us
2023-10-08 09:30 - 12:00
As a church that is not a liturgical church in the traditional sense we sure do have a lot of rituals! How and why are rituals in our lives good for us?
This is the first sermon in our Rituals That Ground Us series, during which we are exploring the resources that sustain us on our spiritual journey.
Rev. Dr. Daniel Kanter is preaching MUSIC: Kindred Voices
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

Affirmation Service & Reception for Rev. T. J. FitzGerald
2023-10-01 16:00 - 18:00
Join us for a special worship service to officially welcome Rev. T. J. FitzGerald into his position as one of our ministers. The Affirmation Service makes a statement of the relationship between minister and congregation, blesses him into service among us, and celebrates his arrival on the ministerial team at First Church.
Special music will be provided by the Eckert Family and Rev. Jeremy L. Williams, Ph.D. from Brite Divinity School will be preaching.
Reception to follow the service.
About the guest minister:
The Rev. Jeremy L. Williams, Ph.D. is a nationally sought-out thinker, preacher, leader, and author. He hails from Rocket City, USA—Huntsville, Alabama. As a scholar of religion who specializes in New Testament and Early Christianity, Dr. Williams earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University. He is an Assistant Professor of New Testament at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University and author of the new book “Criminalization in Acts of the Apostles: Race, Rhetoric, and the Prosecution of an Early Christian Movement.”
If you are unable to attend in person you can watch the livestream here.

Sharing Ministry
2023-10-01 09:30 - 12:00
What does it mean to minister? Let’s find it in the church but also in our lives.
This is the final sermon in our Living a Purposeful Life series, during which we are exploring the spiritual inner work required to transform our personal lives.
Rev. Dr. Daniel Kanter is preaching MUSIC: First Church musicians Mary Hestand, Debra Morrison, Jean Ann Powers, Les Sellers, April Sellers, George Cornelius, Tom Cook, Bart Chaney, and Gary Eckert.
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

Connection Sunday
2023-09-24 10:30 - 14:00
With the start of a new church year, now is the perfect time to find your special place within our church community! Join us for an opportunity to connect with groups and service opportunities in the church. Grab some coffee and a donut and visit with group leaders in Channing Hall after each service. There will be extra fun for kids of all ages in the courtyard playground area.
Make sure to bring your mobile device with the Realm Connect app to make connecting with groups even easier!

Connection Sunday
2023-09-24 09:30 - 12:00
What does it mean to be part of a wider community and what does it do for us as individuals? Maybe that’s where real power is.
Living a Purposeful Life is the first sermon series of our theme year “Waves of Purpose, Tides of Change.” Join us to explore the spiritual inner work required to transform our personal lives.
Rev. T. J. FitzGerald is preaching MUSIC: Sanctuary Choir
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

First Church Community Picnic
2023-09-17 12:00 - 14:30
All are welcome for a Community Picnic as we kick off our 2023-2024 church year! Join First Church ministers, staff, members, and friends for an afternoon of food, fun, and fellowship. It won’t be the same without YOU and your crew!
Enjoy live music, activities for kids, and lunch from Savory Catering including:

Pork and Beyond Beef (vegetarian) Sliders,
Cool Pesto Pasta Salad
Watermelon Salad with Blueberries
Brownies and Cookies

Feel free to bring a friend, all are welcome!
Donations are welcome and appreciated to cover the cost of food. Pay what you can by clicking here.
Please help us with ordering the right amount of food by registering in Realm. We look forward to seeing you there!

Wherever We Go
2023-09-17 09:30 - 12:00
How do we take our faith with us into the rest of our lives? Together we consider ways to bring together parts of our own lives.
Living a Purposeful Life is the first sermon series of our theme year “Waves of Purpose, Tides of Change.” Join us to explore the spiritual inner work required to transform our personal lives.
Rev. T. J. FitzGerald is preaching MUSIC: Jazz Combo
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

Ingathering Sunday
2023-09-10 09:30 - 12:00
Join us for our yearly tradition of re-gathering from our summer sojourns on the first Sunday of the program year. We will be kicking off our theme year “Waves of Purpose, Tides of Change”
🌊 What does living with purpose really mean for a Unitarian Universalist?
🌊 What does grounding ourselves in rituals and activating our spiritual lives look like?
🌊 Where do we find resources to grow and guide our actions as UUs to make the world a better place?
These are all questions we will be asking and discussing throughout the 2023-2024 theme year. Our goal is to locate ‘Faithful Geographies’ that become touchpoints for living impactful lives that matter. By creating depth in ourselves, connections with others and commitments beyond our own desires we can turn purpose into change together.
So we look ahead to riding the ‘Waves of Purpose’ into ‘Tides’ that make a difference in the world. We will ask another question of ourselves as we navigate through the seas of social and political challenges which is ‘What are people for?’ or to put it another way, ‘what are we really for as progressive religious people in community?’
Rev. Dr. Daniel Kanter is preaching MUSIC: Sanctuary Choir & the Eckert Family
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

Unitarian Universalism 101: Hell? No.
2023-09-03 09:30 - 12:00
We draw from our Universalist heritage and seek to answer one of humanity’s burning questions together.

Rev. T. J. FitzGerald is preaching MUSIC: violinist Kristin van Cleve
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

WADE Event - On Working Without Certainty with Dr. Anthony B. Pinn
2023-09-02 17:00 - 18:30
First Unitarian Church of Dallas presents the next installment of our Worth and Dignity Engagements on Saturday, September 2 at 5pm with renowned humanist author, professor, and theologian Dr. Anthony B. Pinn.
Worth And Dignity Engagements (WADE) at First Unitarian Church of Dallas help us go deep, encourage understanding, and transform lives in the pursuit of worth and dignity for all.
This event will begin with a talk from Dr. Pinn, where he will share his insights on questions like “In a social world marked by the persistence of dehumanization, what can serve as a sanction for justice work?” and “When efforts towards social transformation are met with new examples of injustice that bring into question outcome driven strategies, what motivates continued effort?”
You are invited to stay after the talk for a signing of the book “A Master Class on Being Human: A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist on Religion, Race, and Justice,” co-written by Dr. Pinn and Brad R. Braxton. In this book, the authors invite us to join them in a master class as they strive to create a world where differences are not tolerated but instead celebrated. In that kind of courageous classroom, all can learn how to be better people who in turn transform the world into a better place.
You are welcome to bring your own book to have signed or local bookstore Interabang Books will have copies of “A Master Class on Being Human” available for purchase for $28.95. They accept credit and debit cards, no cash please.

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About Dr. Anthony B. Pinn

Anthony B. Pinn (Harvard PhD, 1994) is currently the Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities and professor of religion at Rice University. He is also Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa. In addition, Pinn is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Pinn is the founding director of the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning, and he served as the inaugural director of the Center for African and African American Studies both at Rice University. He is managing editor of Religious Studies Review. Pinn’s research interests include African American religious thought, religion and culture; humanism; and hip hop culture. Pinn is co-editor of numerous book series, including (with Stacey Floyd-Thomas) “Religion and Social Transformation (NYU Press) and (with Monica Miller) “Routledge Studies in Religion and Hip Hop” (Routledge). He also serves on the board of several journals, including the Journal of Religion, the Journal of Africana Religion, and the journal Body and Religion. He is the author/editor of over 35 books, including The Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together (Duke, 2021) and the novel The New Disciples (2015).
Pinn is active with numerous professional organizations, including service as a member of the American Academy of Religion’s Board of Directors; Executive Director of the Society for the Study of Black Religion; and co-founder of the Society of Race, Ethnicity and Religion. He is a member of the American Theological Society. Pin has worked with the Aspen Institute, the HistoryMakers Project, and he is a member of the National Advisory Team for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2022). He is also involved with many community organizations, and has held leadership positions in a variety of them, including Meadville Lombard Theological School Board of Trustees (Executive Committee and Chair of the Education Team); the Rothko Chapel Board of Advisors; the Unitarian Universalist Panel on Theological Education as well as the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee.

Ingathering
2023-08-30 09:30 - 12:00
Join us for our yearly tradition of re-gathering from our summer sojourns on the first Sunday of the program year. We will be kicking off our theme year “Waves of Purpose, Tides of Change.”
Rev. Dr. Daniel Kanter is preaching MUSIC: Sanctuary Choir
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

Unitarian Universalism 101: Essentially Good
2023-08-27 09:30 - 12:00
When we think about the world, how can we commit to the idea that Unitarians have protected for centuries that humanity is good?

Rev. Dr. Daniel Kanter is preaching MUSIC: Marimbist Drew Lang
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

This American Life: Neighbors
2023-08-20 09:30 - 12:00
Who is our neighbor today? And how can we be good neighbors? Together we will hold all of the many things it means to be a neighbor today.
Our summer sermon series “This American Life” is based on NPR’s famed radio show. We will explore various stories that illuminate the importance of story and particular experiences to help us recognize our common humanity.
Listen to the This American Life episode
Rev. T. J. Fitzgerald is preaching MUSIC: Church member Rosana Eckert
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

This American Life: Promised Land
2023-08-13 09:30 - 12:00
“Geography is destiny.” Where we are now and what is promised in the future is at the core of many beliefs. We look at what answers to these questions mean to our faith.
Our summer sermon series “This American Life” is based on NPR’s famed radio show. We will explore various stories that illuminate the importance of story and particular experiences to help us recognize our common humanity.
Listen to the This American Life episode
Rev. T. J. Fitzgerald is preaching MUSIC: cellist Gayane Fullford
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

This American Life: Get a Spine!
2023-08-06 09:30 - 12:00
It takes courage to move past our fear in order to speak up, say what needs to be said, and do what we’ve been scared to do. It requires us to “get a spine!”
Our summer sermon series “This American Life” is based on NPR’s famed radio show. We will explore various stories that illuminate the importance of story and particular experiences to help us recognize our common humanity.
Listen to the This American Life episode
Rev. Beth Dana is preaching MUSIC: Trumpeter Joel Adair and Don Krehbiel
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

Wild DFW Book Event with Amy Martin
2023-07-30 12:30 - 13:30
Wild DFW: Twenty Top Surprises of North Texas Nature
As author Amy Martin explored North Central Texas to write Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth, twenty facts, places, flora, and fauna surprised her, even after decades as an eco-journalist. Take the journey with her in this talk and learn what she discovered. Enjoy some of the book’s more rhapsodic passages about prairies, creeks, and the Moon, and peak experiences from its 25 hiking adventures through hardwood bottomland forests, soaring limestone escarpments, vast wetlands and winding waterways, rare remnants of Blackland and Fort Worth Prairies, and well-preserved swaths of Eastern Cross Timbers “cast iron forest. ”
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Amy will have copies of Wild DFW available for purchase for $26 at the event or you can purchase in advance HERE
A journalist and writer for over 40 years, Amy Martin is the author of Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth ( Wild-DFW.com), Itchy Business: How to Treat the Poison Ivy and Poison Oak Rash, Prevent Exposure and Eradicate the Plant (Itchy.biz), and co-author of Speaking of Mother Earth. She is currently senior features writer for Green Source DFW (GreenSourceDFW.org). Her current project is Ned Fritz Legacy (NedFritz.com), a biographical website of Ned Fritz, Texas’ most famous environmentalist. Martin sits on the Dallas County Open Space’s (DallasCounty.org/parks) Trails and Preserves Program board and serves as state social media director for Native Prairies Association of Texas (TexasPrairie.org). For twelve years, she managed wildlife habitat rehabilitation on a private nature preserve in northeast Texas, including converting fifteen acres of pasture into tallgrass prairie. She is a certified Texas Master Naturalist with the North Texas chapter (NTMN.org). Find her writings at Moonlady.com.

This American Life: Fiasco!
2023-07-30 09:30 - 12:00
What do we do when it all falls apart? For millennia religious people have been asking this very question. Let’s try to answer it together.
Our summer sermon series “This American Life” is based on NPR’s famed radio show. We will explore various stories that illuminate the importance of story and particular experiences to help us recognize our common humanity.
Listen to the This American Life episode
Rev. T. J. FitzGerald is preaching MUSIC: Church members April and Les Sellers and George Cornelius
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

This American Life: Ends of the Earth
2023-07-23 09:30 - 12:00
What would you do for someone you love? The podcast this week asks us questions about love and friendship. Let’s dig into it.
Our summer sermon series “This American Life” is based on NPR’s famed radio show. We will explore various stories that illuminate the importance of story and particular experiences to help us recognize our common humanity.
Listen to the This American Life episode
Rev. Daniel Kanter is preaching MUSIC: pianist Kent Ellingson.
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

This American Life: Burn It Down
2023-07-16 09:30 - 12:00
Our summer sermon series “This American Life” is based on NPR’s famed radio show. We will explore various stories that illuminate the importance of story and particular experiences to help us recognize our common humanity.
Listen to the This American Life episode
Rev. Daniel Kanter is preaching. Music will be provided by clarinetist Danny Goodman.
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

This American Life: Spark Bird
2023-07-09 09:30 - 12:00
Birders talk about their “spark bird” – the first bird that got them hooked on bird watching. Each of us, whether we are birders or not, has a “spark bird” – something that grabbed our attention, kindled our passion, and changed our life. What is yours?
Our summer series “This American Life” is based on NPR’s famed radio show. We will explore various stories that illuminate the importance of story and particular experiences to help us recognize our common humanity.
Listen to the This American Life episode
Rev. Beth Dana is preaching MUSIC: TBD
Worship at 9:30am and 11am CST in-person or online • 7:00pm ONLINE ONLY

Luncheon with Rev. Nangroi Suting
2023-07-02 12:00 - 13:00
Come meet Rev. Nangroi Suting, our partner from the Unitarian Church of Northeast India, and hear about our ongoing connections with them. All are welcome, including sponsors, past pilgrims, and those interested in going on the pilgrimage to India in January 2024.
Lunch will begin immediately after 11am worship in Channing Social Hall and will include salad and a variety of wrap sandwiches. Please note any dietary restrictions when registering.
Please register in Realm by Thursday, June 29.
