Episodes
Sunday Feb 12, 2017
Honoring Our Covenant, Honoring our Elders with Rev. David Carl Olson
Sunday Feb 12, 2017
Sunday Feb 12, 2017
“Honoring our Covenant, Honoring our Elders”
Rev. David Carl Olson
At this service of quiet reflection, our Lead Minister tells the story of our congregation and its varied heritages. He and our Music Director lead us in singing the hymns and spiritual songs that comprise our story. We name our elders and thank them. We open the book of our covenant and invite all to add their names. Ours is a beautiful and complicated story, a story of transformation and hope.
The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore is located at the corner of Charles and Franklin Streets in downtown Baltimore. Services are held every Sunday at 11 a.m. During the summer, weekly worship services are held in the Enoch Pratt Parish Hall at 514 N. Charles St starting at 10:00 a.m. each Sunday. For more information, please visit our website or call the church office at 410-685-2330.
Sunday Feb 05, 2017
Black History is Our History with Rev. David Carl Olson
Sunday Feb 05, 2017
Sunday Feb 05, 2017
“Black History is Our History”
Rev. David Carl Olson
In February 1916, Dr. Carter G. Woodson led a small group of African American Historians to honor the birthdates of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by celebrating Negro History Week. Over time, Woodson’s vision grew to the month-long celebrations of African American and Black history that we now recognize. In this story is the story of the engagement of Unitarians and Universalists devoted to freedom for all peoples.
The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore is located at the corner of Charles and Franklin Streets in downtown Baltimore. Services are held every Sunday at 11 a.m. During the summer, weekly worship services are held in the Enoch Pratt Parish Hall at 514 N. Charles St starting at 10:00 a.m. each Sunday. For more information, please visit our website or call the church office at 410-685-2330.
Sunday Jan 22, 2017
Prophetic Resistance with Michael Brown
Sunday Jan 22, 2017
Sunday Jan 22, 2017
January 22, 2017
We live in an era of uncertainty and fear. Truth has become negotiable. How do we adjust and thrive in the midst of radical changes? A sermon by a member of our young adult community and religious education ministry, a graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School, and a recent organizer in Ohio for United Against Hate, a project of MoveOn.Org. Mr. Brown will analyze the history of exceptionalism through a religious lens, and talk about ways to resist fear and hopelessness in an era when religious texts provide a blueprint for the way to build Heaven on Earth.
The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore is located at the corner of Charles and Franklin Streets in downtown Baltimore. Services are held every Sunday at 11 a.m. During the summer, weekly worship services are held in the Enoch Pratt Parish Hall at 514 N. Charles St starting at 10:00 a.m. each Sunday. For more information, please visit our website or call the church office at 410-685-2330.
Sunday Jan 01, 2017
This Holy Fire with Rev. David Carl Olson
Sunday Jan 01, 2017
Sunday Jan 01, 2017
January 1, 2017
We gather on the first day of the new year simply to be and to breathe. To be one community with each other. To breathe in the peace that sustains us our spirits in times of change. To breathe out love to a world that needs it. And while we’re breathing, we will sing favorite songs, and enact the ritual of the burning bowl.
The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore is located at the corner of Charles and Franklin Streets in downtown Baltimore. Services are held every Sunday at 11 a.m. During the summer, weekly worship services are held in the Enoch Pratt Parish Hall at 514 N. Charles St starting at 10:00 a.m. each Sunday. For more information, please visit our website or call the church office at 410-685-2330.
Sunday Nov 06, 2016
"Common Worry and Common Wealth" with Rev. David Carl Olson
Sunday Nov 06, 2016
Sunday Nov 06, 2016
November 6, 2016
Unitarian Universalist congregations promote the use of the democratic process in our congregation and in the wider world. We promote the right of conscience and we imagine that, even in areas where we do not have a singular opinion, still we can create ways that the majority may rule, with protections for those holding minority opinions. In the season of national, state and municipal elections, we give ourselves an hour which can perceive beyond the polarization and tension of this moment, and imagine a more perfect democracy which will help us move toward greater justice and freedom.
The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore is located at the corner of Charles and Franklin Streets in downtown Baltimore. Services are held every Sunday at 11 a.m. During the summer, weekly worship services are held in the Enoch Pratt Parish Hall at 514 N. Charles St starting at 10:00 a.m. each Sunday. For more information, please visit our website or call the church office at 410-685-2330.
Sunday Oct 16, 2016
"Oh My Goodness!" with Rev. David Carl Olson
Sunday Oct 16, 2016
Sunday Oct 16, 2016
October 16, 2016
A controversy was brewing in New England in the years after the establishment of our country. Some called it a political controversy about who would be in charge. Others called it a theological controversy about the nature of God. But Rev. Olson imagines that it might have been about goodness—how good humans are, to start, and how we get better by the building of character. Our church was born out of this controversy.
The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore is located at the corner of Charles and Franklin Streets in downtown Baltimore. Services are held every Sunday at 11 a.m. During the summer, weekly worship services are held in the Enoch Pratt Parish Hall at 514 N. Charles St starting at 10:00 a.m. each Sunday. For more information, please visit our website or call the church office at 410-685-2330.
Sunday Sep 25, 2016
"Universalist Love" with Pete Fontneau, Interim DRE
Sunday Sep 25, 2016
Sunday Sep 25, 2016
September 25, 2016
Sunday Sep 18, 2016
"Funding Your Heart's Desire" with Rev. James Sherblom
Sunday Sep 18, 2016
Sunday Sep 18, 2016
September 18,2016
The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore is located at the corner of Charles and Franklin Streets in downtown Baltimore. Services are held every Sunday at 11 a.m. During the summer, weekly worship services are held in the Enoch Pratt Parish Hall at 514 N. Charles St starting at 10:00 a.m. each Sunday. For more information, please visit our website or call the church office at 410-685-2330.
Saturday Aug 27, 2016
Saturday Aug 27, 2016
August 27, 2016
At her death, the Baltimore Sun noted, “Perhaps no phase of her life better exemplified her vitality and intellectual independence than the mental discomfort she succeeded in arousing, between her ninetieth birthdays, among . . . conservatively minded Baltimoreans.” A story of Rev. Olympia Brown, a member of our predecessor congregation, Second Universalist Society, who lived fully into her “retirement.” Are many among us fortunate to do likewise?
The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore is located at the corner of Charles and Franklin Streets in downtown Baltimore. Services are held every Sunday at 11 a.m. During the summer, weekly worship services are held in the Enoch Pratt Parish Hall at 514 N. Charles St starting at 10:00 a.m. each Sunday. For more information, please visit our website or call the church office at 410-685-2330.
Sunday Jul 24, 2016
Border Crossing: "A Theology of Languages and Cultures" with Diana Davies
Sunday Jul 24, 2016
Sunday Jul 24, 2016
July 24, 2016
Just as the world today is experiencing a massive die-off of its plant and animal species, and an alarming reduction in biological diversity, we are living in a time of cultural and linguistic die-off. How are we, as Unitarian Universalists, called to defend and promote linguistic and cultural diversity?
The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore is located at the corner of Charles and Franklin Streets in downtown Baltimore. Services are held every Sunday at 11 a.m. During the summer, weekly worship services are held in the Enoch Pratt Parish Hall at 514 N. Charles St starting at 10:00 a.m. each Sunday. For more information, please visit our website or call the church office at 410-685-2330.