UU Podcasts and RSS Feeds
For a list of podcasts of workshops available from the district, click here. This page contains information on creating podcasts and links to churches in the district where you can download their podcasts.
Erik Wikstrom, of the UUA Office of Worship and Music Resources, has put together an excellent summary of copyright law as it pertains to congregations (including a section on podcasting, etc. called "Copyright Issues Beyond Sunday Morning").
http://www.uua.org/spirituallife/worshipweb/143066.shtml
Listen to the latest ‘UU World’ Audiorecordings of the articles in the latest UU World are now available. Award-winning audiobook actor Dick Hill reads articles from the Spring 2009 issue. The recordings can be listened to in most browsers or downloaded to your computer for playback using an .mp3 player. The audio version of UU World is produced in cooperation with the UUA Office of Accessibility Concerns.
http://www.uuworld.org/issues/audiorecordingsspring2009.shtml?n
Have you discovered the 24/7 UU Internet Broadcast? Go to uuplink.org to link to their broadcast site. This is a webcast of UU-friendly music, sermons and special features. Started in 2000 by a former broadcaster, the station offers a liberal balance to the many "hard-sell" religous programs that one hears today. And it's commercial free!
DiscoverUU.com is a blog aggregator set up by a California UU named Aaron Sawyer. The site picks up feeds from a wide range of UU blogs, UU church podcasts, and other media (including UU World and both presidential candidates websites), essentially making it easier to keep up with blogs than trying to remember to visit all of them. Another aggregator, uupdates.net, is less flashy but picks up the feeds of many more blogs. It also allows users to customize the site. Finally, Peter Bowen in Rhode Island has set up a video aggregator called UUPlanet.TV that highlights video from UU congregations and individuals. Visit http://www.uuplanet.tv/.
Are you looking for audio recordings of UU sermons and talks on a variety of subjects? You can now find them through podcasts. The Church of the Larger Fellowship has made it's Quest newsletter articles available as podcasts now. In addition, several UU churches now have audio files and podcasts you can download from their websites. Most of them are FREE!
Search your favorite podcast and music company to find these podcasts and subscribe to them, or check some of the sites listed below. More and more congregations are producing podcasts. The iTunes store has over 20 congregations now listed, including UU Congregation of Fairfax, VA, UU Fellowship of Laguna Beach, CA; May Memorial UU Society, Syracuse, NY; First Parish in Concord, MA; First Parish, Norwell, MA; Unity Church, St. Paul, MN; First Parish, Bedford, MA; UU Congregation of Danbury, CT; Pathways Church in Southlake, TX, UU Church of Annapolis, MD and All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, OK.
Check out the UUA's featured podcast for today: http://www.uua.org/spirituallife/9538.shtml
for the Church of the Larger Fellowship podcasts: http://clf.uua.org/podcasts/
Many congregations in our district also are podcasting. Here are links to their pages where you can download the mp3 files:
- for a few sermons from the Maumee Valley UU Congregation in Bowling Green, OH: http://www.tulk.net/mvuuc/
- for sermons from the UU Church of Kent, OH: http://feeds.feedburner.com/kentuupodcast
- for sermons from the East Shore UU Church in Kirkland, OH: http://www.eastshore.org/sermons/sermon_listen.htm?Audio=Audio+Sermons
- for sermons from North UU Congregation in Lewis Center, OH: http://www.nuuc.org/_sgg/m4m5_1.htm
- for sermons from Olmsted UU Congregation in North Olmsted, OH: http://olmsteduu.org/Sermon%20Page.htm
- for sermons from West Shore UU Church, Rocky River, OH: http://www.wsuuc.com/
- for sermons from UU Church of Meadville, PA: http://www.uumeadville.org/Sermons/sermonspage.html
- for sermons and music from First Unitarian Church, Pittsburgh, PA: http://www.first-unitarian-pgh.org/worship.html
And outside of our district, you might be interested in:
- for sermons and radio shows from the UU Church of Canandaigua, NY: http://liberalreligion.org/uucc/sermaudio.htm
- for sermons from the Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church in Austin, TX: http://liveoakuu.wordpress.com/
- for sermons from the UU Church of Elgin Park, IL: http://uuce.libsyn.com/
- for sermons from the First UU Society of San Francisco, CA: http://www.uusf.org/AboutUUSF/SermonArchive/index.htm
Want information, instructions and help in creating your own podcasts or listening podcasts? Go to: www.uupodcasters.org. This site has over 80 UUs providing help with these issues.
The UUA and UU World also have added an RSS function for getting UU related headlines. To add these to your news browser, visit the UUA or UU World websites and follow the instructions.
