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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.

First U Think Rev. Amy Petrie Shaw and guests

    • Religion & Spirituality
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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.

    Love and Ethics

    Love and Ethics

    with  Rev. Meredith Garmon

    Our commitment, as members of First Unitarian, is to "grow ethically and spiritually, serve justly, and love radically." Let's look at what the "grow ethically" part and the "love radically" part have to do with each other.
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    • 22 min
    A Unitarian Easter

    A Unitarian Easter

    with Rev. Meredith Garmon

    Sometimes we opt to ignore the Christian story and focus on fertility, eggs, bunnies, springtime, and the resurrection of life and hope. But there's something worth our attention in that story of how Jesus died, and it has nothing to do with substitutionary atonement.
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    • 29 min
    How We Feel

    How We Feel

    with Rev. Meredith Garmon

    Where do emotions come from? Understanding our emotions is a key part of self-understanding and hence of wisdom.
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    • 22 min
    The Ontological, the Semantic, and the Tribal

    The Ontological, the Semantic, and the Tribal

    with Rev. Meredith Garmon
    Sometimes we have differing perspectives on what exists in reality. Sometimes, instead, our difference is in what words mean. And sometimes the disagreement isn't about either of those.
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    • 22 min
    Who Are We Now?

    Who Are We Now?

     with Rev. Meredith Garmon 

    As Unitarian Universalism grows and changes (in the midst of a wider culture also growing and changing), every generation or so we need to re-articulate our covenant to express who we are now as well as to put into the terms most salient to the current time, who we always have been. 
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    • 24 min
    Choose Abundance

    Choose Abundance

    with Rev. Meredith Garmon

    It's easy to look at our lives and focus on scarcity, on what is in short supply. And this can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. We always have the option to choose abundance.
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    • 20 min

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