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Wavelengths is a periodical podcast of the Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists. We feature stories, lessons, and testimonials from WUU members and friends of the wider community, as well as some of our weekly sermons. WUU is a welcoming, witnessing, worshipping community dedicated to spiritual diversity and social justice. Learn more about WUU at www.wuu.org. Permission to reprint, podcast, and / or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-735438. All rights reserved.
Episodes
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
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For this final Sunday of National Poetry Month, the Sunday following Earth Day, we will engage actively with the poetry of Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. Come, let the experience of Joy Harjo’s creative writing open you to spaces within and beyond yourself.
- Nan Hart, Worship Associate
- Liz Wiley, Worship Leader
- John Keating, music
The YouTube version is here
Thank you for listening. For more information about the Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists, or to join us on Sunday mornings, visit www.wuu.org.
Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-735438. All rights reserved.
Sunday Apr 20, 2025
Sunday Apr 20, 2025
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Spring is the rebirth of the natural world around us, of which we are an interconnected part, but it is also a time to re-emerge from our homes and busyness to reconnect with each other. Join us for a service that celebrates early Christian communion, the melting process on the way to butterfly-hood, and the spirit of play. Egg hunt and flower painting to follow.
- Susan Marcinkus, Worship Associate
- Natalie Miller Moore, Guest Worship Leader
- WUU Choir, directed by Chris Mooney, Music Director
- Heidi Sousa, piano
- Liz Wiley, Worship Chair
The YouTube version is here
Thank you for listening. For more information about the Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists, or to join us on Sunday mornings, visit www.wuu.org.
Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-735438. All rights reserved.
Sunday Apr 06, 2025
Sunday Apr 06, 2025
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In this Sunday service, WUU member Anne Stevens will discuss changes in creative direction. Join us in person or online at 10 am!
Anne Stevens joined WUU in 2004. After 12 years as a worship associate, she now serves as Caring Team Chair. A 1975 graduate of William & Mary, Anne earned her MS in occupational therapy in 1996. In between, she worked in the restaurant business for 20 years, during which time she studied pottery post-graduate at William & Mary. Anne retired from the WJCC school system in 2018. She is married to WUU member Clay Blanton. Anne raised two sons, Carson and Dean
- Leslie Fabian, Worship Associate
- Anne Stevens, Guest Worship Leader
- Liz Wiley, Worship Chair
- Heidi Sousa, Piano
- David Hamilton, Reading
The YouTube version is here
Thank you for listening. For more information about the Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists, or to join us on Sunday mornings, visit www.wuu.org.
Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-735438. All rights reserved.
Sunday Mar 30, 2025
Sunday Mar 30, 2025
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At a time when the world seems to be coming apart, let us find healing power in reimagining together a vision of social justice that benefits all people.
"For people to thrive we need a planet that thrives.”
Andrew Batcher has worked as a community organizer and activist for more than 20 years, working in the peace movement, environmental movement, anti-racism, education, economic justice, and against hate. For the past 4 years he has worked in the Potomac Partnership congregations, first at UUCF, then at Cedar Lane, and joining River Road in 2024.
- Susan Fournier, Worship Associate
- Andrew Batcher, Guest Worship Leader
- David Wilcox, Social Justice Chair
- John Keating, Guitar
- Chris Mooney, Music Director
- Heidi Sousa, Piano
- Helen Hansen, Announcements
The YouTube version is here
Thank you for listening. For more information about the Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists, or to join us on Sunday mornings, visit www.wuu.org.
Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-735438. All rights reserved.
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
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This service is led by the WUU Annual Giving Committee, whose purpose is to encourage the congregation’s generosity to blossom.
- Asha McLaughlin, Worship Associate
- William & Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, directed by Anne Rasmussen
- Annual Giving Committee
- Fred Gilbertson, Reading
- John Keating, From the Heart
- Camilla Buchanan, From the Heart
The YouTube version is here
Thank you for listening. For more information about the Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists, or to join us on Sunday mornings, visit www.wuu.org.
Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-735438. All rights reserved.
Sunday Mar 16, 2025
Sunday Mar 16, 2025
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Natalie Miller Moore will be reviewing highlights of the book Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. The book has an accompanying free common training for personal reflection or group discussion.
The subhead of the book is: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy... let's endeavor to find out ways to do that. The opportunity to have a discussion about it afterwards will be available as well as some suggestions for how to continue that conversation.
- Nan Hart, Worship Associate
- Natalie Miller Moore, Guest Worship Leader
- Chris Mooney, Music Director
- Heidi Sousa, piano
The YouTube version is here
Thank you for listening. For more information about the Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists, or to join us on Sunday mornings, visit www.wuu.org.
Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-735438. All rights reserved.
Sunday Mar 09, 2025
Sunday Mar 09, 2025
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Approaching the end of one’s life presents challenges for both those with deeply held faith beliefs and those who do not hold such beliefs. We all desire death with dignity, but just what does that mean? As a volunteer and advocate for the organization Compassion and Choice, Dan knows what he wants that to mean for everyone in their own way.
“In the end it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.”
- - Abraham Lincoln
Dr. Daniel L. Cohen, MD (prefers “Dan”), is a member of the Mount Vernon Unitarian Church in Alexandria, Virginia and also a volunteer advocate with Compassion and Choice, an organization committed to advancing the principle of “medical assistance in dying” as a benevolent and empathic option for individuals who are living in the terminal phase of terminal illnesses and who wish to receive this care. Dan is a pediatrician, hematologist/oncologist and medical executive who also served for nearly 30 years in the United States Air Force and the Department of Defense where he was the Chief Medical Officer and Executive Medical Director for the Military’s TRICARE health plan providing care for over 9,000,000 service members, family members, retirees and spouses; soup to nuts! When Dan hosts services he likes to use illustrative stories that portray his personal witness to cultivate the themes and messages he wishes to convey and that align with Unitarian Universalist principles.
- Dr. Daniel Cohen & Suzanne Cleary Cohen, Guest Worship Leaders
- Susan Marcinkus, Worship Associate
- Mike Walker, Introduction of Today’s Topic & Guests
- Heidi Souza, Piano
- WUU Choir, directed by Chris Mooney, Music Director
- Liz Wiley, Worship Chair
The YouTube version is here
Thank you for listening. For more information about the Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists, or to join us on Sunday mornings, visit www.wuu.org.
Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-735438. All rights reserved.
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
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One photo accompanying one Facebook post changed me forever. It’s an ongoing journey, and a lot of work, to free ourselves of the lies that shaped and formed us for so long. Today I want to share with you one of the most important times for me in my journey, and hopefully challenge and inspire us all to live more freely, truly, courageously, and compassionately.
About Rev. Max Blalock: Rev. Max Blalock serves as the Campus Minister at the Wesley, the campus ministry sponsored by the United Methodist Church. A native of Alabama, Max has been at Wesley for 12 years. His partner Becky is a native of Ohio, and they have two sons, James, 15, and Daniel, 2, and two cats, Yogi and Boo Boo. He's a graduate of the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California. He loves people, animals, laughter, and sarcasm, not always in that order.
- Rev. Max Blalock, Guest Worship Leader
- Susan Marcinkus, Worship Associate
- Barbara Chowning, Wisdom Story
The YouTube version is here
Thank you for listening. For more information about the Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists, or to join us on Sunday mornings, visit www.wuu.org.
Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-735438. All rights reserved.
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
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In a world on fire, celebrating our blessings might seem like putting our heads in the sand. But we can find blessings in everything, even the "bad stuff." And when we do, our lives can become beacons of hope for everyone around us.
- Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister
- Carolyn Greathouse, Worship Associate
- Austen Petersen, Director of Religious Education
The YouTube version is here
Thank you for listening. For more information about the Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists, or to join us on Sunday mornings, visit www.wuu.org.
Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-735438. All rights reserved.
Saturday Jul 09, 2022
Saturday Jul 09, 2022
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100 years ago, Czech Unitarian ministers Norbert and Maja Čapek created the Flower Celebration to honor the values of community and diversity. Today we celebrate this beloved annual tradition at WUU, both in person and online. In-person participants, please bring a cut flower to share, and you'll get to take another one home. Zoom participants, we have a special blessing planned for you too. We'll also welcome our newest members and thank our Board for all that they do.
- Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister
- Susan Marcinkus, Worship Associate
- Austen Petersen, Director of Religious Education
- Beth Anne Klaver, Wisdom Story
- Katrina Landon & Jessica O’Brien, From the Heart
The YouTube version is here
Thank you for listening. For more information about the Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists, or to join us on Sunday mornings, visit www.wuu.org.
Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-735438. All rights reserved.