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First Unitarian Church of Chicago
5650 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 324-4100
Fax: (773) 324-1136
Sunday Services: 10:00 a.m.
Sunday First Forums: 11:30 a.m.
Office Hours: Monday through Friday (10:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m.)

Office@FirstUChicago.org
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First Unitarian Church of Chicago

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Podcast Archive

“Being Good for Nothing” with Rev. Don Cameron
August 21, 2022

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“We Begin Again in Love” with Rev. Don Cameron
October 9, 2022

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“A Moral Heart” with Rev. Don Cameron
August 7, 2022

“A Different Place to Be” with Rev. Don Cameron
August 14, 2022

“Why Church? Thoughts from a Humanist Point of View” with Rev. Allan Harden
July 24, 2022

“Make Me Wanna Holler”
with Joe Harrington
July 31, 2022

“I Think (Part 1) with Rev Monica Faith Stewart
July 10, 2022

“I Think (Part 2) – The Power and Value of Thought” with Rev. Monica Faith Stewart
July 17, 2022

“Music is Life” with Rev. Monica Faith Stewart
June 26, 2022

“Thoughts About Democracy, Service, and Hope” with Rev. Monica Faith Stewart
July 3, 2022

“Strength of Our Loving” 
with Rev. Don Cameron
April 17, 2022

“Five Pillars of Faith”
with Rev. Don Cameron
May 1, 2022

“Sermon on the Amount”
with Rev. Don Cameron
April 3, 2022

“A Very Old Question” 
with Rev. Don Cameron
April 10, 2022

“It Happened in 1848!”
with Rev. Don Cameron
March 13, 2022

“Human Right to Die”
with Rev. Don Cameron
March 20, 2022

“Judgementalism is a
Spiritual Issue” with Rev. Don Cameron
February 27, 2022

“No Greater Love”
with Rev. Don Cameron
March 6, 2022

“Will You Be
My Valentine?”
with Rev. Don Cameron
February 13, 2022

“Eating a Lot of Geese”
with Rev. Don Cameron
February 20, 2022

“Our Capacity to Heal”
with Rev. Don Cameron
January 30, 2022

“Living in the Tao”
with Rev. Don Cameron
February 6, 2022

“Broken Edges
Washed Smooth” with Rev. Don Cameron
January 9, 2022

“Sitting On Your
Fundament” with Rev. Don Cameron
January 23, 2022

“Honest Differences”
with Rev. Don Cameron
December 19, 2021

“Resolutions”
with Rev. Don Cameron
January 2, 2022

“Where Has All
the Science Gone?”
with Rev. Don Cameron
December 5, 2021

“Old St. Nicholas”
with Rev. Don Cameron
December 12, 2021

“Is Gratitude Enough?”
with Rev. Don Cameron
November 21, 2021

“‘Tis the Season –
Let There be Light!”
with Rev. Monica Faith Stewart
November 28, 2021

“Religion of an Atheist”
with Rev. Don Cameron
November 7, 2021

“A Principle for All of Us”
with Rev. Don Cameron
November 14, 2021

“Are You Worth the Trouble?” with Rev. Don Cameron
September 26, 2021

“The Heresy of Self-Reliance” with Rev. Don Cameron
October 10, 2021

Ingathering Water
Communion Service
with Rev. Don Cameron
September 12, 2021

“A Different Place to Be”
with Rev. Don Cameron
September 19, 2021

“A Moral Heart” 
with Rev. Don Cameron 
August 29, 2021

“Rekindling the Patriots’ Dream” with Rev. Don Cameron 
September 5, 2021

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First Unitarian Church of Chicago
5650 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 324-4100
Fax: (773) 324-1136
Sunday Services: 10:00 a.m.
Sunday First Forums: 11:30 a.m.
Office Hours: Monday through Friday (10:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m.)

Office@FirstUChicago.org

Meet Our Senior Minister:

Rev. David H. Messner is a born and bred Unitarian, an ardent humanist with an abiding faith in God, and a believer in resurgent possibility, especially when all seems lost.

He knows that church, done right together, can be the key to a life well-lived.


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