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Trumix.com listings available of UU Fellowship of Centre County Sermon Podcast Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. "The Prophetic Tradition of the Hebrew Scriptures" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday,October 5, 2008.As a prelude to a series of services on modern-day prophets, we explore the beginnings of the prophetic tradition, when courageous "outsiders" spoke truth to power and called their people back to basic values and principles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Freedom vs. Security: Seeking a Balance" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, September 21, 2008. Benjamin Franklin asserted that those who give up freedom in order to have security deserve neither. How does this apply to today's dangerous world? To what extent can we be both free and secure? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Lessons of Loss" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, September 14, 2008. We all suffer losses of all kinds as we navigate life. Are there lessons we can garner about preparing for and responding to such losses? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Gathering the Waters, Gathering the Spirit" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, September 7, 2008.We gather together to celebrate the start of a new church year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Religions of the World: Earth-Centered Traditions" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, April 20, 2008. Earth Day and our exploration of world religions come together today as we consider Earth-centered traditions "which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Cultural Sharing or Reckless Borrowing" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, April 13, 2008. We boast that our Living Tradition draws on many sources. But when, if ever, does our drawing on those sources cross the line into cultural misappropriation? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Living On" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, March 30, 2008. At some point we will each face our physical death. This service will explore ways in which we may live on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Religious Tolerance and Constructive Criticism" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, April 6, 2008. How do we reconcile our devotion to religious tolerance and acceptance with the reality that many negative and harmful acts are committed in the name of religion? Is it okay to criticize another religion? (This is the topic purchased at our recent auction.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "A New Day Dawning" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, March 23, 2008. As we celebrate Easter and the kickoff of our Annual Budget Drive, we take time to consider how our vision of future possibilities can generate a rebirth and renewal of the spirit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "There is More Love" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, February 17, 2008. With the passing of St. Valentine's Day, thoughts turn to matters of love. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Change" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, February 24, 2008. Change: anticipate it? Fear it? Welcome it? avoid it? How do we go about facing change, one of the few constants in our lives? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "World Religions:Christianity" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, March 16, 2008. On this Palm Sunday, we continue our series on world religions by considering the heritage from which many of us have come: Christianity Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Are We Actors or Authors?" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, March 9, 2008. To what extent do we write the scripts of our own lives, and to what extent are we merely playing our prescribed roles? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Cost of Iraq:Who Pays the Price?" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, March 2, 2008. We observe the UU Service Committee's annual call for justice. This year's theme is "The Cost of Iraq:Who Pays the Price?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "World Religions:Buddhism" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, February 10, 2008. "Buddha" means "Enlightened One" or "Awakened One". As Huston Smith writes, "Buddhism begins with a man who shook off the daze, the doze, the dream-like vagaries of ordinary awareness. It begins with a man who woke up." Continuing our series on world religions, we will explore some of the wisdom to be found in Buddhism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Lessons of the Groundhog" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, February 3, 2008. Groundhog Day (Feb. 2) is not exactly a High Holy Day, but is there any wisdom to be gleaned from this somewhat whimsical observance? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Enough is Enough:Simplifying Life" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, January 20, 2008. Do you ever feel that your life is excessively cluttered with things, activities, and responsibilities? What can you do about it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Truth, Justice and Reconciliation" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, January 27, 2008. Marty Nathan, M.D., a former member of UUFCC speaks on the theme of Truth and Justice based on her continued involvement with the Greensboro Justice Fund and international organizations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "World Religions: Hinduism" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, January 13, 2008. Our series on world religions continues with an exploration of Hinduism, the oldest of the major religious traditions. How many gods are there, really? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Where is my meaning? What is my mission?" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, January 6, 2008. We as a congregation have mission and vision statements. What is your personal mission in life? Where do you find purpose and meaning? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "World Religions:Islam" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, December 23, 2007. We continue our exploration of major world religions by taking a look at Islam, a much- discussed and much-misunderstood faith in today's world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Advent:Preparing for a Speial Time" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, December 9, 2007. Let's pause and take a deep breath before the headlong plunge into the rush of the winter holiday season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "World Religions:Judaism" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, December 2, 2007. In this, the first of several services on major world religions, we explore Judaism. What are its central beliefs and practices, and what spiritual wisdom can we find for our own religious journeys? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The State of Health Care:Who are we?" Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, November 4, 2007. As we consider the current state of health care and insurance in our society, we should ask ourselves what it says about who we are as a people. And how could things be different? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "World Religions:A Preview" Sunday, Oct 28, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, Oct 28, 2007. One of the recognized sources of the Living Tradition of Unitarian Universalism is "wisdom from the world's religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life." This service introduces a series on various religions of the world, exploring how they inform our own religious and spiritual life. Please bring along a friend or two. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Association Sunday:Growing Our Faith" Sunday, Oct 14, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, Oct 14, 2007.On this "Association Sunday", celebrated across the continent, we consider the importance of growing stronger, more vital congregations because we believe our religious values are needed to help heal a wounded world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Blessings of Imperfection" Sunday, Sept 23, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, Sept 23, 2007. We are often impatient with our own shortcomings and those of others. Occasionally we need to reflect on the positive aspects of being less than perfect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Transforming Liberalism" Sunday, Sept 16, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, Sept 16, 2007.Invited by one of our Small Group Ministries, Rev. Beach reflects on our liberal religion as a "self-critical religion," drawing on his extensive study of James Luther Adams, who is often called the most important Unitarian Universalist theologian and ethicist of the 20th century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "This I Believe" Sunday, May 20, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, May 20, 2007. This Sunday Service builds on the NPR's and Edward R. Murrow's series "This I Believe" which were designed to contribute to respect for the diversity of beliefs in our world. In this service, several Fellowship members will share core values and beliefs that both guide and inspire their daily lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "On the Shoulders of Giants" Sunday, May 27, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, May 27, 2007. On this Memorial Day weekend we pay tribute to those who have gone before us, making our present lives and world possible. And we recognize that the best tribute to their legacy comes through living well ourselves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "No Question Unanswered; No Answer Unquestioned" Sunday, June 3, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, June 3, 2007. In this "question box" service, Mark will responds to questions submitted by congregation members on any and all topics of interest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Who's Your Daddy?" Sunday, June 17, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, June 17, 2007. On this Father's Day, we will consider some of the intricacies of fathering, and some of the sources of fathering in our lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "A Mother's Love" Sunday, May 13, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, May 13, 2007. On Mother's Day, we remember and honor our mothers and reflect on the concept and ideal of motherhood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Tell Me a Story" Sunday, April 29, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, April 29, 2007. What defines each of us as a unique individual is our unique story. In order to really know and understand one another we must be willing to share - and listen to - each other's stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Call of Easter" Sunday, April 8, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, April 8, 2007. For many of us, Easter has lost the meaning it might have once had, yet it is still the central holiday observance of the tradition from which we have evolved. Let us explore some ways that Unitarian Universalists may still find meaning in the celebration of Easter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Idolatry of Fundamentalism" Sunday, April 15, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, April 15, 2007. Idolatry means treating as ultimate that which is not ultimate, or clinging to things rather than to hope. In my mind, fundamentalism is a form of idolatry, in which people cling to old ideas, old rules, old ways of looking at the world that no longer make sense in a modern age. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Way of the Trickster" Sunday, April 1, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, April 1, 2007. On this April Fool's Day, we recognize the honored place of the Trickster, the Clown, the Holy Fool throughout human history. As one writer pointed out, "If life is foolish, then you might as well play the fool." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Spring:The Secrets of Butterflies" Sunday, March 18, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, March 18, 2007. A Lay-led service. In this last service before the equinox we will celebrate nature's transformation from winter to spring through the metaphor of butterflies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Keeping the Flame Burning" Sunday, March 25, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, March 25, 2007. As we often note when lighting our chalice, the flame is rich in symbolism and meaning. Among other things, it represents both the spark of the divine within each of us and the beacon of our liberal religion shining in the world around us. What does it take to keep all of these flames burning? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Thoughts of the Future" Sunday, January 1,2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, January 1,2006 Most religions focus on Holy Books written long ago, or on the teachings of prophets, long since dead. Some of these beliefs are worthy of study, but others are pure baloney. What we need is a religion that helps us deal with the problems of today and with those of the foreseeable future.Presented by Bob Newnham Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Sharing Sorrow, Sharing Joy" Sunday, March 11, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, March 11, 2007. We share our joys and our sorrows every week during our Sunday service. What is it that makes this Unitarian Universalist "ritual" so sacred? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Freedom of Pulpit and Pew" Sunday, March 4, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, March 4, 2007. This pair of complementary freedoms underlies the kind of ongoing religious dialogue that characterizes a free and healthy congregation: a dialogue in which minister and congregants alike enjoy full freedom of expression. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Art of Growing Old" Sunday, February 4, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, February 4, 2007. Growing old means embracing not only the challenges of a long life, but engaging the possibilities of creativity and depth of soul available to those witha wealth of experience. We will explore how to move into the last decades of life with a sense of expectation, grace, and fulfillment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Lost Art of Doing Without" Sunday, February 25, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, February 25, 2007. Fasting and other forms of self denial are spiritual practices encouraged in many of the the world's religious traditions. They are used by practitioners to separate themselves from the routine of daily life for spiritual awakening. On this first Sunday of Lent, we will explore the history and benefits of such practices in a culture that encourages us to deny ourselves nothing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Moral Courage:Living Values with Integrity" Sunday, February 18, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, February 18, 2007. It is often difficult to maintain the courage of our convictions. How can we overcome our fears and stand up for what we believe in, especially in the face of criticism or ridicule? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Multiculturalism:Melting Pot, Salad Bowl, or What?" Sunday, February 11, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, February 11, 2007. Our society and our world are made up of people from a plethora of cultural backgrounds. How can they best be integrated into one large, rich, vital community? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Our World Is One World" Sunday, January 14, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, January 14, 2007. Continuing our exploration of the Principles of Unitarian Universalism, we consider our commitment to "the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Being in the Web" Sunday, January 28, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, January 28, 2007. We conclude our series looking at Unitarian Universalist principles with this exploration of the Seventh Principle: "Respect for the interdependent web of all existence, of which we are a part." What is our part? And what is our responsibility? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Quest for Success" Sunday, January 7, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, January 7, 2007. Some say that" success is a journey, not a destination",while others say that "success is not so much what we have as it is what we are". What is success, and how do we know when we find it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Tao of Universal Experience" Sunday, January 21, 2007 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, January 21, 2007. A child holds a 400 million-year-old trilobite fossil in her hand. We will ponder two themes: ancient artifacts are imbued with the awe that characterizes the sacred, and they point to the shared, interconnected nature of our experience. A Lay-led service. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "A UU New Year's Eve" Sunday, December 31, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, December 31, 2006. A Lay-led UU New Year's Eve Service considering the Past, Present and Future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Conscience and Democracy in Religious Life" Sunday, December 17, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, December 17, 2006. Continuing the series on the Principles of Unitarian Universalism, we consider the 5th principle: "The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Many Faces of Christianity" Sunday, December 3, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, December 3, 2006. Over the past two millennia, Christianity has never been a totally monolithic institution. We will look at some of that long and complex history and also at some of the diversity that characterizes Christianity in America today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Search for Truth and Meaning" Sunday, November 19, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, November 19, 2006. In this, the fourth in a series of services exploring our Unitarian Universalist principles, we will consider the implications of a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Choose to Bless the World" Sunday, November 5, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, November 5, 2006. The Rev. Rebecca Parker states that "Every act we commit is a contribution to the world; the question is whether our actions will be a blessing or a curse." We will consider what it means to be a blessing to the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Soul answering to soul:Ministering to Students and Young Adults" Sunday, October 29, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, October 29, 2006. We are privileged to host the Joseph Priestley District's Director for Young Adult and Campus Ministry to share her wisdom and enthusiasm on this important aspect of our life and ministry together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Why I am a Racist" Sunday, October 22, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, October 22, 2006. The first step toward eradicating racism is to recognize how entrenched, pervasive, and unavoidable it is in our society at the systemic level. Only then can we begin the difficult but important work of anti-racism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Acceptance and Spiritual Growth" Sunday, October 15, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, October 15, 2006. Continuing our exploration of the seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism,we consider the third principle, "Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Timeless Wisdom of Yom Kippur" Sunday, October 8, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, October 8, 2006. As we recognize the high holy days of Judaism, the New Year (Rosh Hashanah) and the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), we will explore such timeless human themes as confession, forgiveness, and atonement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Bringing Justice, Equity and Compassion to Life" Sunday, October 1, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, October 1, 2006. We reflect on the second of our seven Unitarian Universalist Principles:"We covenant to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Inherent Worth and Dignity of All" Sunday, September 17, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, September 17, 2006. This will be the first of a series of services exploring the Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism. Today we consider Principle #1: "We covenant to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Social Action: Seeking Liberty and Justice for All" Sunday, September 24, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, September 24, 2006. The Social Action Committee presents sharings on the formation of a UU Service Team, voting machine issues and protection of Immigrants Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Heart of Work" Sunday, September 3, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, September 3, 2006. There are many ways to view work- as a necessity for our survival, as an outlet for our intellectual abilities, as a way to use our talents. On a deeper level almost everyone who has worked has experienced heart-touching moments that have transcended the day-to-day routine. On this Sunday before Labor Day our service participants will explore some of those times when their jobs felt like more than just a job. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Poetry Speaks for Us and to Us" Sunday, August 6, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, August 6, 2006. Explore how we experience poetry and what movessome of us to choose a poetic form to express our feelings, observations, and desires. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Peacemaking, Empire, and the Early Christians" Sunday, June 25, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, June 25, 2006. Early Christians understood Isaiah's call to beat our swords into plowshares (2:1-4) as a central dogma, but it was later reduced to a description of the future age after the church's fateful compromise with the Roman empire. What lessons can this empire-challenging vision of the early church teach us about dealing with modern empires? Speaker: Rev. David Miller (University Mennonite Church) Worship Associate: Marc Maxson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Patriotism: Thoughts about War and Peace" Sunday, July 2, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, July 2, 2006. Our Independence Day service features a message about our vision for world peace in a world filled with religious hatred. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Remember the Sabbath" Sunday, June 4, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, June 4, 2006. Wayne Muller, author of Sabbath, writes that "In the relentless busyness of modern life, we have lost the rhythm between work and rest." Perhaps the onset of summer is a good time to explore ways of restoring some balance and rhythm in our lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Safe or Alive?" Sunday, May 7, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, May 7, 2006.Denise Davidoff,former Moderator and Chairperson of the UUA,speaks about the future of Unitarian Universalism in America. Ms. Davidoff outlines her concerns about our fragility as a movement precisely when we need to be at our strongest and most effective. Wake up, wake up! she urges. Ms. Davidoff is currently chairperson of the Board of The Interfaith Alliance Foundation and a Trustee of the Meadville Lombard Theological School. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Hope vs Fear" Sunday, May 28, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, May 28, 2006. Life can be a very different experience depending on whether we approach it from a basic attitude of hope or of fear. Which will we choose? And if we choose hope, how can we sustain it in the face of the many challenges that life presents? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Remember the Sabbath" Sunday, June 4, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, June 4, 2006.Wayne Muller, author of Sabbath, writes that "In the relentless busyness of modern life, we have lost the rhythm between work and rest." Perhaps the onset of summer is a good time to explore ways of restoring some balance and rhythm in our lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "How Do We Know What We Think We Know?" Sunday, May 21, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, May 21, 2006.How do we sort out all of the complicated issues of fact, meaning,interpretation, belief, doubt, and certainty? And what does it mean for our life and relationships? These are some of the ideas we'll grapple with in this sermon topic purchased at the Service Auction this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "A Spiritual Foundation for Social Action" Sunday, May 14, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, May 14, 2006. For religious people, social action should be grounded in something more fundamental than mere politics. For some that means being grounded in the Bible or other sacred scripture. What might it mean for us? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Cultivating the Great Act of Generosity" Sunday, April 23, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, April 23, 2006. According to Vietnamese Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh, "Whether you give your presence, your stability, your freshness, your solidity, your freedom, or your understanding, your gift can work a miracle." Today we will explore the miracles engendered by generosity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Blowing on the Coal of the Heart" Sunday, January 8th, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, January 8th, 2006 When bad things happen to us to where do we turn? Whatcan we learn from one another in dealing with loss?Our sermon by Rev. Dr.Richard Speck, Joseph Priestley District Executive, explores some of our deeper longings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The In-Between Times" Sunday, January 15th, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, January 15th, 2006 Most people can name the mountaintop experiences in their lives as well as the valleys. Few people are ableto highlight the in between times as opportunities for growth, challenge, and directional change. The major religious figures,Christ, Buddha, and Mohammed, all experienced periods of searching and contemplation.In "The In Between Times" Rev George Burnexplores some of the seminal moments in our life journeys, the discomfort they bring, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Gifts of Mary and Martha" Sunday, January 22nd, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, January 22nd, 2006 In the Bible, Mary and Martha brought different perspectives to work for social justice one saw the need foraction, the other, the need for reflection. Rev. Anne Ard, Executive Director of the Women's Resource Center in State Collegeand Presbyterian minister, shares her experience of the need for both perspectives to achieve effective social action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Eight Wild Boars for Breakfast: The Sin of Gluttony" Sunday, February 19, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, February 19, 2006 The title comes from Shakespeare-a sermon on the sin of gluttony (food and drink, natural resources) as alead into the season of Lent. Guest Speaker-Rev. Duane Fickeisen from the UU's of the Cumberland Valley in Boiling Springs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Aging: A Time of Healing" Sunday, March 12, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, March 12, 2006 Drawing on the wisdom of philosophers, poetry, and his own experience, Manfred Keune explores the challenges and possibilities of aging at a time of rapid change and a growing awareness of the importance of taking care of all generations for peaceful coexistence and mutual support. Manfred Keune, a UUFCC member, is Associate Professor Emeritus of German at Penn State. He is also a consultant and coach on ethics, skillful listening, and language ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "For Such a Time as This" Sunday, March 19, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, March 19, 2006 What do we dream for our future? How can we imagine ourselves differently? Presented by Gini Courter, UUA moderator. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Coming Alive" Sunday, March 26, 2006 Recorded LIVE at UUFCC, Sunday, March 26, 2006 Iranaeus of Lyons in the 2nd century said, "The glory of God is humanity fully alive". Glenn Mitchell willexplore the work of spiritual direction as a pathway to coming more fully alive to ourselves and to Spirit. Glenn Mitchell was pastor of University Baptist and Brethren Church (State College) from 1988-2001. He is director of training and programs for Oasis Ministries for Spiritual Direction in Camp Hill, PA, and has a practice in spiritual ... 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