What is your favorite hymn? Join us this Sunday for a good, not-so-old-fashioned Hymnsing and learn the favorite hymns of some of your fellow UUFFers!
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Sermons
Our recordings include sermons given by our own ministers, intern ministers, lay leaders, and special guests. Play these podcasts and videos on our website, or download them to listen later.
We've been collecting audio recordings of sermons since 2013 and video recordings since 2020. Visit our sermons library to explore sermons by year.
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***We are currently in the process of uploading our audio recordings of older sermons.***
May 2 – “Beltane & Flower Communion Service”
It’s that wonderful time of year when our bit of the Earth, our perfect home, is especially alive and blooming and fertile and full. Join us this Sunday as we celebrate the power and beauty of this season and focus on our 7th UU Principle: “Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.” With Renée Janski, Melly, Fawn, and more!
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April 25 – “At the Speed of Trust”
With speaker Sarah Osborn, Intern for the UU Curriculum “Beloved Conversations.” How do we widen the circle of concern and heal the impact of racism on our lives? How can we find freedom together and find collective liberation? Sarah Osborne will share her transformational experience as the intern minister for the Beloved Conversations program of the Fahs Collaborative, a program for Unitarian Universalists seeking to embody racial justice as a spiritual practice.
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April 18 – “Climate Justice for All”
This Sunday, we honor the Earth with our “Climate Justice for All,” service and speaker, Shelley Buonaiuto. Many of us are very concerned about climate change and the detrimental and often disparate impacts on communities both locally and globally. We will examine these struggles and share actions we can take to accomplish positive environmental and social change. UUFF member Joanna Person-Michener will provide an overview of the issues before introducing Shelley, who will share her knowledge and experience from engaging with Arkansas Delta communities to promote climate justice.
About Shelley Buonaiuto: Shelley has been a member of Citizens’ Climate lobby since 2012. She is most active in researching and addressing the intersection of climate change and racial equity and is a regional representative for the Diversity and Inclusion Committee within Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Shelley is a sculptor who has long attempted to represent racial equity in her work and is also a mother and grandmother!
April 11 – “Talking Across the Abyss”
Gladys Tiffany of the OMNI Center speaks about “The Complexities of Talking Across the Abyss.” Many of us are struggling to find ways to communicate with still-dedicated Trump supporters in our state and in our lives. The difficulties are even more complicated than we already know, since they emerge from very divergent value systems, life experiences and role expectations. What are those about? This talk will touch on some of the complexities from research by Political Scientist John Hibbing on a new typology called “Securitarians,” values theory as developed by Linguist George Lakoff, and other sources.
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April 4 – “Pandemic Jesus”
Led by Rev. Jim Parrish. Liberal religion views the miracle stories around Jesus as window dressings, the transient vs. the permanent message of love, tolerance, and faithfulness. How might Jesus, or any prophet of love and humanity, handle a global pandemic? Join us Sunday for “Pandemic Jesus” and other stories.
March 28 – “Beyond Palm Sunday: Picking Up Our Coats.”
Melly will lead us in a service about what happens after inspirational gatherings, our personal integrity and responsibilities, and our covenant with others as Unitarian Universalists.
March 21 – “Return of Spring, Return of Hope.”
Spring time, a year since our first online-only Covid Service, carries with it a return of Hope. We’ll celebrate the seasonal return of life, respecting how fragile it can be.
March 14 – “UU Foundations: Covenant vs. Creed.”
Speaker Renée Janski, in her quirky and innovative way, will lead us in a polity deep-dive and exploration into how Unitarian Universalism is different from other denominations and religions!
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March 7 – “Welcoming the Spirit: New Member Welcome & Choir Sunday!”
This Sunday is all about Roots, Wings, and Welcome! UUFF is a home to liberal religionists in NWA, and we’ll celebrate this joyful fact by welcoming New Members during this Sunday’s service! Renée Janski, Music Director, will also debute two new UUFF virtual choir pieces – “This House Is Yours” and “Spirit of Life,” which opens us up to our sermon, centered around how we (both together and as individuals) become the Roots and Wings of the Fellowship.
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February 28 – “Tightening the Weave of Community: Holding on to each other during these troubled times.”
February 21 – “How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?”
With Rev. Jim Parrish. N.K. Jemisin, a black female who happens to be one my favorite sci-fi authors, has written a book of short stories by this name, and it poses a great question. An Op Ed by Stacey Abrams gives us a clue as to when, or if, the future might happen for people of color, for all of us. Join us Sunday to explore what our future might be like.
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