All Souls Unitarian Church

What if the thing you're most afraid of is the reason anything is precious?
We spend so much energy outrunning death. But the limits are what give a life its shape. Everything you love is going to end. That isn't a flaw in the design. A child's laugh, a turning leaf, an ordinary Tuesday dinner: none of it matters less because it ends. It matters more.
QUESTIONS TO SIT WITH:
Who do you love so much that losing them scares you?
What ordinary moment from this week would you miss terribly if it were gone?
When someone you love is hurting, do you move toward them or pull away?
Knowing how much love can hurt, would you still choose it?
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Opening Song
0:52 Full Circle
1:46 "What Happens When We Die?"
4:25 A Bath Full of Stars
5:32 Worth It, No Matter What
6:05 Life and Death Arrive Together
7:53 Yes to Life Is Yes to Death
8:45 Running From the Limits
10:16 The Choice to Stay
11:33 Grief and Beauty, Together
14:43 Grief Is Part of the Fight
16:47 Would You Choose It Again?
17:28 Closing Song
This message, "Yes to Life! Yes to Death!," was delivered by Rev. Dr. Molly Housh Gordon at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa.
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A crowd isn't belonging. You can sit in the same room for years and still be a stranger. Belonging is being missed, being needed, and giving the room something nobody asked you for. It takes all of us or it doesn't happen at all.
In a country loud with platitudes and prejudice, All Souls points to the best in people instead of the worst. It tears down walls, stands against fear, and asks nothing that insults your intelligence or your conscience. Just a place to be fully yourself, with people who are fully there with you.
Religion here is for joy, comfort, gratitude, and love. It cares more about human beings than doctrine, and never calls anyone a sinner while knowing how hard everyone is fighting. That's what's waiting for you, and it's yours to help keep.
QUESTIONS TO SIT WITH:
What are you doing with your time, your money, and your energy that makes the world a little better?
Knowing your life is limited, how do you want to spend the time in between?
Is belonging just a feeling for you, or something you actually show up and do?
Are you just passing through, or are you part of this?

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Opening Song
1:03 From Kyoto to Tulsa
3:00 Picking Fights With Believers
4:07 Proven Wrong
4:46 A New Way to See God
8:07 God as Energy and Matter
12:49 What Makes Anything Holy?
14:27 Small Acts That Matter
16:33 Why People Join a Church
18:54 Who This Place Is For
20:54 How You Can Help
21:17 We Belong Together
23:47 Closing Song

This message, "We Belong Together," was delivered by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa.
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You don't have to be a spiritual person to have a sacred experience. You just have to be the kind of person who feeds the horses even when you don't want to — because the holy stuff doesn't show up for people waiting around for it. It shows up for people doing the unglamorous, thankless work of taking care of something else, on a morning they'd rather have skipped.

QUESTIONS TO SIT WITH:
- What's the unglamorous, thankless thing you keep showing up for anyway?
- Have you ever stumbled into something sacred in the middle of an ordinary chore?
- Can you hold both the tenderness and the cruelty of nature as equally true?
- Who — or what — are you responsible for, whether you feel like it that day or not?

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Opening Song
0:53 Growing Up With Animals
1:51 A Morning Fog
2:57 The Horses Are Missing
3:52 A Third Horse Emerges
4:44 Who Blessed Whom
5:19 Animals in Every Culture
6:04 Breath and Spirit
7:25 The Goldfish in the Bowl
8:58 Nature's Tooth and Claw
10:19 Beauty Despite the Cruelty
11:09 Showing Up Every Day
12:57 What Pets Teach Us
13:41 You Don't Need a Pet
14:55 Why We Bless
16:06 Closing Blessing
16:50 Closing Song

This message, "Who Blesses Whom?," was delivered by Rev. Dr. Nicole Kirk at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa.

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What if the real test of a belief has nothing to do with whether it's true and everything to do with what it makes of you?

Not whether it's the right religion, the right God, the right set of rules. Whether it makes you more loving or more judgmental. Whether it holds you up on your worst day or only sounds good on your best one. Whether it gives you the courage to be honest, even when honesty costs you something. This message isn't interested in which belief is correct. It's interested in what yours is actually making of you.

QUESTIONS TO SIT WITH:
- Do your beliefs hold you up, or do they only work when things are already going fine?
- Do they make you kinder, or more judgmental?
- Could you stand by what you believe even if it disappointed someone you love?
- Would they get you out of bed on your hardest day?

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Opening Song
1:05 Playground Theology
3:04 Kids Explaining All Souls
4:30 One God, All Are Saved
6:45 What Does "Saved" Mean?
8:17 The Cathedral of the World
10:49 Testing What's True
11:31 Throwing Rocks Through Windows
12:52 Strange, But Not My Business
14:37 Love Over Doctrine
15:55 One Source, All Loved
16:59 Beyond What You Believe
19:17 What Your Beliefs Make of You
20:28 Closing Music

This message, "Simple Answers to Big Questions," was delivered by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa.

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The world is dangerous and beautiful at the same time. Most of us only have the bandwidth to notice one — so we either rush past the hard parts, or shrink our whole lives down to avoid them.Writer Annie Dillard warned against exactly that: living an "itsy bitsy" life to dodge how wild and extravagant the world really is. Rev. Dr. Nicole Kirk pairs that challenge with the story of Kate Bowler, told at 35 that she had two years to live, and a friend's gentle instruction — don't skip to the end. Kirk connects both ideas to her own experience choosing to live, not wait, through her husband's terminal illness.It's a message about staying present to everything at once: the danger, the beauty, and the people who help you carry both.QUESTIONS TO SIT WITH:- Are you rushing past a hard season, or shrinking yourself to survive it — or both?- Have you ever made an intentional choice about how to live in uncertainty, rather than just enduring it?- Can you hold "this is dangerous" and "this is beautiful" as true at the same time?- What's one place you've been living small to avoid something big?CHAPTERS:0:00 Opening Song1:01 A Diagnosis, and a Secret2:48 "Don't Skip to the End"3:00 My Own Threshold4:31 What Is a Threshold?8:02 Coming of Age & New Beginnings9:22 The Fall Equinox11:30 A World on Edge12:33 A Warning Against Shrinking14:55 Turning Cancer Into Art18:02 A Lifeline of Beauty19:53 Present in the Betwixt and Between21:24 You Don't Have to Wait Alone23:22 Measured by Love23:47 Closing SongThis message, "Beauty in a Spot of Danger," was delivered by Rev. Dr. Nicole Kirk at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa.SUBSCRIBE TO WATCH OTHER VIDEOS: @allsoulsunitarianGIVE A DONATION TO HELP US SPREAD THIS LOVE BEYOND BELIEF: https://www.allsoulschurch.org/GIVE or text AllSoulsTulsa to 73256LET'S CONNECT:Facebook: /allsoulstulsaInstagram: /allsoulstulsaAll Souls Church Website: https://www.allsoulschurch.org#AllSoulsTulsa #AllSoulsUnitarianChurch #LoveBeyondBelief #Grief #Presence