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Here you’ll find MP3 audio files of sermons and other highlights of our Sunday services. Click a link below to listen to an individual program, or subscribe to automatically download programs as they are posted. Programs older than two or three months are in the Podcast Archive. You can listen to these programs on your iPod or other portable MP3 player, or on your computer. If your computer doesn’t have an MP3 player, we recommend the free Winamp. To listen:Click on the name of the program. It will open in your computer's MP3 player. You will need a fast connection, because the files are large. To download the file:If you want to listen to the program later or transfer it to your portable MP3 player or a CD, right click on the name of the program and select Save As. Then choose where you want the file to be saved. To download files automatically for listening at your convenience:Subscribe to our podcast. See our Podcasting FAQs.
5/4/08
A medley of choral music inspired by our feathered friends: "The Silver Swan" by Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625); "She's Like a Swallow," a Canadian folk song; and "Le Chant des Oyseaux" by Clement Janequin (c. 1485-1558).
May Memorial Choir, directed by Glenn Kime | 13:26 | 12.3 MB
2/10/08
Society President Fred Fiske performs the installation of Rev. Jean Wahlstrom.
Fred Fiske | 02:31 | 1.2 MB
A response from Director of Religious Education Jennifer Hamlin-Navias.
Jennifer Hamlin-Navias | 02:25 | 1.1 MB
Former MMUUS Minister Rev. Scott Tayler gives the charge to the newly installed minister.
Rev. Scott Tayler | 06:19 | 2.9 MB
St. Lawrence District Executive Rev. Dr. Thomas Chulak gives the charge to the congregation.
Rev. Dr. Thomas Chulak | 06:57 | 3.2 MB
Continuing the exploration of what it means to welcome all souls into religious community, how do we celebrate our essential unity with, not naivety, but honesty and courage?
Rev. Jean Wahlstrom | 13:33 | 6.2 MB
2/3/08
As individuals, we differ from one another in uncountable ways. For some of our differences we feel pride and pleasure; for others, shame and grief. How do our beliefs about human nature, good, and evil affect our engaging in community?
Rev. Jean Wahlstrom | 18:18 | 8.4 MB
12/9/07
The best-known work of Dr. Daniel Pinkham, former director of music at King's Chapel, Boston.
May Memorial Choir with Brass and Organ | 10:31 | 9.6 MB
Glenn tells the story of composer Dr. Daniel "Danny" Pinkham, former director of music at King's Chapel in Boston. The choir then sings Pinkham's song about what the birth of Jesus was really like.
Glenn Kime & May Memorial Choir | 05:47 | 5.3 MB
11/18/07
We gather the whole May Memorial community for a celebration of life's bounty.
Rev. Jean Wahlstrom | 15:41 | 7.2 MB
11/11/07
Frederick Douglass wrote, "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are people who want crops without plowing up the ground." How do we decide what level of "agitation" is most appropriate to defend -- or advance -- that which we value?
Rev. Jean Wahlstrom | 17:34 | 8.1 MB
11/4/07
Our Sunday morning meeting affirms shared values, celebrating the forces of life and love which sustain us. We hope services will interest, inspire, and empower us. Let's reflect upon the assumptions that worship leaders and congregation bring to this shared hour.
Rev. Jean Wahlstrom | 26:39 | 12.2 MB
10/21/07
A Unitarian-Universalist minister, Kate Braestrup serves on search and rescue missions in the Maine woods, giving comfort to people whose loved ones are missing, and to the wardens who sometimes have to deal with awful outcomes.
Rev. Kate Braestrup | 18:15 | 8.4 MB
An old Jewish folk tale.
Rev. Kate Braestrup | 05:07 | 2.3 MB
10/7/07
The naming of Columbus Day as a recognition of Columbus's landing in the Americas is a fine example of history being written by the victors. Jean will offer a Columbus Day, Homeland Security, War on Terrorism reflection.
Rev. Jean Wahlstrom | 15:52 | 7.3 MB
A story from the Iroquois nation.
Jennifer Hamlin-Navias | 07:31 | 3.4 MB
9/30/07
Unitarian Universalists are continually urged to work on our own, evolving credos--our personal statements of belief. In the middle of a six-day raft trip on the Colorado River, Jean found a statement which suits her, and upon which she'll elaborate.
Rev. Jean Wahlstrom | 19:51 | 9.1 MB
9/23/07
A shrewd and constant observer of the world around him, 19th century Unitarian Henry David Thoreau can still guide us in deepening our relationship to the "web of existence."
Rev. Jean Wahlstrom | 17:41 | 8.1 MB
9/16/07
The director of the UUA's Settlement office (recently renamed Transitions) closed his emails with a sentence from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "People wish to be settled: Only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." What does it mean to be settled?
Rev. Jean Wahlstrom | 12:22 | 5.7 MB
9/9/07
We mark the transition into fall by mingling waters from places we have been this summer to affirm the richness of community they represent.
Rev. Jean Wahlstrom and congregation | 30:05 | 13.8 MB
8/5/07
This service is a celebration of many contemporary songs written in the folk tradition that celebrate life and honor UU principles. Includes "Gather the Family," "Let Me Rise," chalice lighting, "Passing Through," reading from "The Grapes of Wrath," and "I Am the Ride."
Joe Cleveland, Voice & Guitar; Kristin Cleveland, Voice; Dana Cooke, Mandolin & Voice | 17:58 | 16.5 MB
The service continues with "Blessed," "(Ours Is) a Simple Faith," closing words, and "Love Beyond."
Joe Cleveland, Voice & Guitar; Kristin Cleveland, Voice; Dana Cooke, Mandolin & Voice | 12:44 | 11.7 MB
For older programs, see the Podcast Archive.
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