All Souls Unitarian Church
Sermons delivered at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, OK.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 1003
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
"Civil Rights vs. Civil War" with Carlton D. Pearson
How do we manage the contradictions inherent in our group identities? Can we authentically agree to disagree, or does going along to get along actually fracture our authenticity? The answers to the…
00:27:57 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
"Black Music & The Soul" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
Come for the music and stay for the message! The soundtrack of our lives is infused with influences from African American musicians and creators. To distinguish between American music and Black Music…
00:22:15 |
Mon 20 Feb 2023
"Black Like Me" with Randy Lewis
This Sunday, Randy Lewis challenges our understanding of race through the lens of black and white by exploring the simple fact that none of us are actually black or white — we are all simply varying …
00:31:50 |
Mon 13 Feb 2023
"Fractured Stories" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
Have you ever acted on an incomplete story and paid the price for it? Every story has multiple sides depending on where we sit. As we launch our theme of “Freedom” and celebrate Black History, this m…
00:24:24 |
Sun 05 Feb 2023
"Let's Stay Together" with Randy Lewis
Perhaps nothing is more desirable for humans than healthy community to hold us, to make our lives more meaningful and bearable, so why is it so hard and rare to find this community? The scarcity of b…
00:58:54 |
Sun 29 Jan 2023
"Co-Creation Is It" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
What does it mean for a myth to be true? Does it have to be literal and factual in order for us to glean meaning from it? This Sunday, Rev. Marlin explores the value of myth in our lives and in our w…
00:58:54 |
Sun 22 Jan 2023
"Inescapable Web" with Rev. Gerald Davis
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." — Frederick Douglass As we celebrate and learn from the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. this MLK Sunday, Rev. Ger…
00:35:26 |
Sun 15 Jan 2023
"Dear Universe" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
Joni Mitchell famously sung "We are stardust... and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden." What does it mean for us to be made of stardust, floating around on a speck of a speck in the vastn…
00:31:06 |
Wed 11 Jan 2023
"The 'God' of Small Things" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
In his book, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics, Richard Rohr, wrote: The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imp…
00:15:48 |
Sun 11 Dec 2022
"They Have Become Like Us" with Carlton D. Pearson
In the Bible, there is a moment when God says about humans, "they have become like us." Well, who exactly is "us" there, and what does it mean to become like gods? As humans, we have immense power to…
00:28:24 |
Sun 04 Dec 2022
"Agreeing to Disagree" with Carlton D. Pearson
Do we have to agree in order to get along? Or maybe it's more accurate to say we agree *to* get along. The Greek word "symphoneo," from which we our English word "symphony" simply means "to sound t…
00:26:10 |
Sun 27 Nov 2022
"'Til Death Do Us Part" with Randy Lewis
This Sunday after the United States midterm elections, Randy Lewis reflects on what it takes to stay in relationship with those we love, and those we might love, across all of our differences and as …
00:28:25 |
Sun 13 Nov 2022
"Our Promise to America" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
Our country is built on a promise we make to each other as citizens. It is far from a perfect system, but at its best it is guided by core values articulated in the Declaration of Independence regard…
00:24:28 |
Sun 06 Nov 2022
"The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly" with Randy Lewis
This Sunday, minister Randy Lewis explores the uniquely American problem with violence — particularly gun violence — and what it means to protect ourselves, not just from physical threats, but from c…
00:27:21 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
"The Right to Read" with Cory Lovell & Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
The importance of accessibility to a broad range of literature has been held up over the course of our democracy by American luminaries as broad across the cultural spectrum as Emily Dickinson, Frede…
00:37:34 |
Mon 24 Oct 2022
"The Science and Saga of Good and Evil" with Carlton D. Pearson
The word conscience (or "con-science") roughly means "with knowledge." What, then, does it mean for us to have a conscience about good and evil? How do we learn about what is evil, and how do we know…
00:26:07 |
Sun 16 Oct 2022
"Why Good People Do Bad Things" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
This message was delivered on Sunday, October 2, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar in the 10 am service. Description: Perhaps more harm has been done i…
00:49:33 |
Mon 03 Oct 2022
"Feed Your Soul" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
This message was delivered on Sunday, September 25, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar in the 11:30 am The Point Humanist Hour service. Description: Iri…
00:27:01 |
Sun 25 Sep 2022
"I Can See Clearly Now" with Randy Lewis
This message was delivered on Sunday, September 18, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Randy Lewis in the 10 am service. Description: Our lives are made up of stories. Every day…
00:28:57 |
Sun 18 Sep 2022
"It's Time to Dream Again" with Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar
This message was delivered on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar in The Point Humanist Hour service. Description: As the world con…
00:25:08 |
Sun 11 Sep 2022
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