First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin

First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin

Weekly podcasts of sermons delivered at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin. Together we nourish souls, transform lives, and do justice to build the Beloved Community. We are an inclusive liberal religious and spiritual community. We support each individual's search for meaning and purpose and join together to help create a world filled with compassion and love. All are welcome without the distinction of race, class, gender, sexual orientation or creed. Please visit us on the web at austinuu.org. A complete listing of over 1200 archived sermons can be found by clicking the sermon index link on every sermon.

Episodes

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

August 8, 2026 • 32 mins
Rev. Meg Barnhouse's sermon delivered on November 6, 2011. How do we forgive? Do we have to forgive and forget? Does it make us more vulnerable to be forgiving?
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Be a stream, not a swamp

August 8, 2026 • 25 mins
Rev. Meg Barnhouse's sermon delivered on October 16, 2011. The third in the series on the seven UU Principles. We talk about acceptance, spiritual growth, encouraging one another. What is "spiritual" for Unitarian Universalists?
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She stirs up the world

August 8, 2026 • 26 mins
Meg Barnhouse's sermon delivered on February 19, 2012. Susan B. Anthony was a Unitarian during the days of fighting for abolition and women's suffrage. She was fierce and complicated, and her life is an inspiration.
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The devil and Martha Stewart

August 8, 2026 • 25 mins
Rev. Meg Barnhouse's sermon delivered on November 20, 2011. Holidays crank up the expectations for food, decorations, family time, and perfectionism rears its ugly head. How do we deal with not having the perfect life, the perfect home, the perfect job, with Aunt Millie asking us again when we're going to be married..?
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Youth Service

August 8, 2026 • 18 mins
May 26, 2013 service. The Senior High Youth Group holds its annual youth service and bridging ceremony. The featured speakers are Audrey Lewis and Max Wethington. Bridging is a rite of passage celebrating the movement of our high school seniors into adulthood.
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Grasshoppers in the Glittering Net

August 8, 2026 • 25 mins
Rev. Meg Barnhouse's sermon delivered on April 15, 2012. Our seventh principle is that we affirm and promote "Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part."... What does it mean to respect that web, to be a part of it?
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Flower Communion Service

August 8, 2026 • 31 mins
Rev. Marisol Caballero's sermon delivered on May 26, 2013. We celebrate our annual Flower Communion with stories of hope. We remember Rev. Norbert Capek who began this annual festival in the 1920's and died at the hands of the Nazi's.
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Growing Out - Maturing as an Expanding Embrace

August 8, 2026 • 29 mins
Guest minister Rev. Mark Skrabacz's sermon delivered on October 23, 2011. Widening our circle of compassion, opening our hearts, embracing life, and living large... these are expressions of growing out, the theme of today's examination of maturing.
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Create your own adventure

August 4, 2026 • 31 mins
Rev Carrie Holley-Hurt's service delivered on August 2, 2026. This Sunday we worship a little bit differently, there is no sermon. Instead, members were offered six intergenerational activities to do throughout the church. This podcast samples one of the activities - Songs of Resistance led by singer/songwriter Sarah Bentley.
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No One is getting left behind

July 31, 2026 • 34 mins
Rev Carrie Holley-Hurt's service delivered on July 26, 2026. Whether we are talking about an authoritarian crisis or a physical crisis, all of us need each other to survive and thrive. This Sunday Rev. Carrie explores this topic and prepares us for an emergency response. As part of the service, we will all participate in a fire drill, which will be rewarded with great music from Parker Woodland, popsicles, and (possibly) firefighte...
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July for Justice - Allyship

July 29, 2026 • 45 mins
Rev Chris Jimmerson's service delivered on July 19, 2026. Join us as some great folks from our social action team discuss the effective allyship that is so vital to living out our values and mission.
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2026 Youth-Led Service

July 27, 2026 • 37 mins
Service delivered on July 12, 2026. Join our First UU Youth Group as they share their thoughts and perspectives on topics that concern them as part of their bridging ceremony into adulthood.
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Perspective, Power, Purpose - How Solidarity May Save Us

July 7, 2026 • 35 mins
Rev Chris Jimmerson's service delivered on July 5, 2026. Join us for the first in a sermon series exploring the spiritual significance of the ways (called "ends") through which we as a church have committed to living our mission. This Sunday, we will contemplate the first of our four ends: We are a collaborative, pluralistic church living our values and mission in the greater world, achieving together what we can't do alone.
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The Care Bear Stare

July 1, 2026 • 35 mins
Rev Carrie Holley-Hurt's service delivered on June 28, 2026. What do Care Bears, Pride, spirituality, and UU theology have in common? According to Rev. Carrie, a lot. Join her to see how she makes that argument.
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From Father's Day to Liberation

June 23, 2026 • 34 mins
Rev Carrie Holley-Hurt's service delivered on June 21, 2026. You can't throw a rock without learning about the harm that patriarchy plays in the lives of women and children, but what we don't often think about is how patriarchy impacts men and boys and the many obstacles it places between them and their full humanity. Join Rev. Carrie as she uses Father's Day to explore the impact of patriarchy on men and how we might use our under...
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Flourishing Together in the Ways of Love

June 16, 2026 • 42 mins
Rev Chris Jimmerson's service delivered on June 14, 2026. Building the Beloved Community and living into our full potential as individuals are far from exclusive pursuits - each requires the other. Our ability to flourish as individuals is bound up in creating communities and societies rooted in a fierce love that recognizes our sacred interdependence.
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2026 Flower Communion

June 10, 2026 • 29 mins
Rev Chris Jimmerson's service delivered on June 7, 2026. Join Rev Chris, Sol, and our Chalice Camp participants for this much-loved Unitarian Universalist ritual where we bring flowers to add to the large bouquet we create and take a different flower with you, symbolizing both the unique, sacred beauty of each of us and the even greater beauty we create when we share that sacred uniqueness with one another.
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Holding It All

June 2, 2026 • 43 mins
Rev Carrie Holley-Hurt's service delivered on May 31, 2026. There is what we aspire to be....the utopian vision of how we can be, and then there is the often harsh and painful reality of people's lived experiences. Inspired by Jose Martinez's powerful work "Voces Olvidadas," Rev. Carrie explores what it means to expand our capacity to hold what we are working for while also holding reality, especially the realities that are living ...
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To What Ends

May 26, 2026 • 36 mins
Rev Chris Jimmerson's service delivered on May 24, 2026. The board of First UU Church of Austin has been listening to the congregation about your dreams for the church and the differences it might make in our community and our world. Join us as the board president Karen Neeley and the Rev. Chris talk about your exciting vision for what comes next.
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Curiosity Uncaged the Cat

May 19, 2026 • 42 mins
Rev Chris Jimmerson's service delivered on May 17, 2026. You have probably heard the old "truism" that "Curiosity Killed the Cat", but did you know that there is a lesser-known version that says, "Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back." What if curiosity can feel risky, but actually holds the key to both individual and collective liberation?
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