Audio recordings of the Winter 2009 UU World are available as .mp3 files. You may listen to the magazine in sections or article by article: The first five links below group related articles together; the numbered tracks offer individual articles in the order in which they appear in the magazine.

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These recordings are made possible by the UUA Department of Communications and the UUA Office of Accessibility Concerns, and were recorded by Dick Hill with audio production by Peter Bowden.

Commuting-Length Audio Files

• Full magazine
• Features
• Front matter: From the editor, From the president, Mailbox, Letters to the editor, Blog roundup, What in the World?
• Ideas: Forum, Looking back, Waiting for a great novel about UU ministry, Books to note, Books by UU authors
• Spirit: Opening words, Reflections
• News: Congregational life, Spiritual landmarks, News

Articles

Opening words: Religious community is essential

From the president: What moves you?

Features

• The religious left
• Breath is life
• A poet's grief

From the editor

• We are not alone

Letters

• Letters
• Mailbox
• Blog roundup

Forum: Religion and science can be partners

Congregational life: Innovations help congregants hear

Spiritual landmarks: Restoring a Gilded Age church

Reflections

• The cathedral of the world
• My goddess, my love
• Creations: Chestnut fences
• If there is a God . ..
• Holy family
• Ghosts of Unitarian Christmas
• Creations: Blue tree

Families Weave a Tapestry of Faith

UU news

• UU child dedication on TV show
• Sales of new UU Spanish hymnal halted
• UUA presidential campaign reviewed
• Membership professionals form group
• Limpert named as a new UUA vice president
• OWL OUT brings sex ed outside the church
• Knoxville shooting marked
• UU seminaries affected by bad economy
• 'Love Bus' heads to Des Moines
• Standing on the Side of Love campaign starts
• UU receives military chaplain of the year honor

Books

• Waiting for a great novel about UU ministry
• Books to note
• Books by UU authors

What in the World?: Abortion, the religious left, and Christmas ghosts

Looking back: Unitarians worked to 'save' Ute Indians