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First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque’s weekly sermon podcast. New episodes each Monday. We are a liberal, non-creedal congregation grounded in love and justice, gathering in Albuquerque, Socorro, and the East Mountains. Welcome!
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An Easter sermon of hope during a challenging time in our congregation, community, and country.
Music: Chalice Choir, directed by Susan Peck; with Lydia Clark, piano and David Schepps, ‘cello
Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Perhaps you’ve met Christina. Or perhaps you’ve noticed the woman knitting during services— that’s her! For Christina, knitting, spinning, and other fiber arts are a daily practice that bring a reliable joy. This joy is a powerful tool that helps her to stay grounded as she navigates mental health issues including PTSD, and all the challenges that living in the world brings. She will discuss the importance of having your own practice of daily, reliable joy. Christina is a member of First U and an essayist.
You can find links to her published works at https://christinasocorroyovovich.com/.
Music: Spare Parts, our contemporary worship band
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Friend of First U—and the Executive Director of the NM Black Leadership Council—returns to our pulpit to kick off a month of “JOY” as a spiritual practice.
Music: Bassist Rodney Bowe joins Lydia Clark to celebrate joy in resistance.
Sunday Mar 30, 2025
Sunday Mar 30, 2025
We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe. We want our streets and schools and congregations to be safe. We want to think the food we buy is safe. Of course we do. Is it possible? Is it even always good? And how do we live well in a world that feels increasingly unsafe?
The Rev. Christine Robinson was the minister of this congregation from 1988-2017.
Music: Gamelan Encantada, Jenny DeBouzek, director, with Lydia Clark.
Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
Chloe Koren, Guest Preacher
Too often, when a person needs religion in their life, the place they find offers darkness couched as hope. Now, more than ever, progressive religion needs to shine where it can be seen. Chloe Koren is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She is also the wife of our Senior Minister!
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Let’s reflect on what makes us trustworthy and why it is a vital spiritual practice in these chaotic times.
Music: Special guest Reggie Harris, a singer-songwriter, storyteller and world-renowned song-leader who is a powerful interpreter of the global music narrative.
Sunday Mar 09, 2025
Sunday Mar 09, 2025
Rainer Maria Rilke said, “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves... like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.” A sermon about change, growth, and trusting the process.
Music: Lydia Clark & Susan Peck
Monday Mar 03, 2025
Monday Mar 03, 2025
How can we maintain civic trust in a way that continues to cultivate social justice? How do we re-commit ourselves to collective action when civic trust is broken?
Music: Chalice Choir, with Susan Peck.
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Monday Feb 24, 2025
We are besieged by toxic messages telling us what our bodies should look like. How do we perform that ultimate act of resistance: loving ourselves as we are?
Music: Leslie Bowen, Tania Hopkins, Susan Peck, Pauline LaBar-Shelton, and Celia Yapita
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
What are your good old days? Your carefree childhood? The Civil Rights years? Sweet 16? We all have good (if incomplete) memories that we go to in moments of nostalgia. We all know that the past is a great place to visit but not a great place to dwell in, and Christine has some thoughts about that.
Music: Lydia Clark, with Irene Fetherston, violin, and Lauren Harris, flute