NOTE: This service begins at 10:00am. This is the time to celebrate the Winter Solstice, when the noonday sun is at its lowest point, on December 21st. We will be casting a sacred circle and use the space created to conduct our service in our pagan religious traditions of Wicca and Druidry. The Winter Solstice … Continue reading Solstice
View the service HERE. Family caregiving can feel all encompassing, as it often meets the extremes of challenge and meaning simultaneously. Priya is the biggest fan of caregivers. She’ll speak from a personal and professional lens. She’ll share about care and giving as concepts, the top three lessons she’s learned, and a couple of different … Continue reading Caregiving: Braving The Bold And Treasuring The Risk
The theologian and mythologist Karen Armstrong once described religion as an act of the highest imagination. The longing to express and describe the ineffable leads us naturally into the wellspring of our deepest creative impulses. Storyteller Will Hornyak shares poems and myths that speak to our natural impulse toward the sacred in art and expression. … Continue reading Myth, Metaphor and Mystery: The Masks of God – How Imagination and Creativity Calls to Us as Spiritual Practices
View the service HERE. The people of Oregon passed a referendum that allows psilocybin mushrooms to be used for treatment and spiritual purposes in Oregon. Psychedelic mushrooms will be highly regulated and yet still fairly available starting in 2023. What does that have to do with you? For one thing, your community minister, Rev. Katie … Continue reading Magic Mushrooms and You
View the service HERE. In 2013, national syndicated columnist and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Leonard Pitts Jr., wrote a column with the above title. Was he writing about Unitarian Universalists? Rev. Sue Matranga-Watson will share the enjoyable column and talk about our UU faith and the concept of Universal Spirit. Worship … Continue reading Standing in Line, Talking with God About Religion, Atheists and Faith
View the service HERE. In this time of so much personal and collective illness, upheaval, and brokenness, how do we find a way to be in the present creatively and find grounding? We explore the value of committing to a creative project every day, and seeing where this practice leads, despite the ups and downs … Continue reading Creativity as a Healing Practice
View the service HERE. We UU’s are a constitutionally useful group of people. But what happens when illness, disability, or age prevent us from being as useful as we would like to be? Worship Leader: Cynthia Hopkins
View service HERE. Come join us for a lively look at Masks. Masks can be fun but they can also help us feel safe, confident or even loved. We’ll talk about the masks we wear, what they hide, and what they reveal about ourselves and our world. Come to this creative service led by Carol Knox. Join … Continue reading Who Is Behind That Mask?
The more we watch and explore the animals and insects we share our planet with, the more we realize that we are not the only intelligent beings around. What does this new–or rediscovered–insight into the minds of other species tell us about ourselves? Worship Leader: Rev. Sue Matranga-Watson
Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley is an activist, scholar, author, teacher, wisdom-keeper, and Cherokee descendant, recognized by the Keetoowah Band, who speaks on justice, faith, the Earth, and Indigenous realities. He is the author of numerous books, including Shalom and the Community of Creation and Living in Color. Note: This is a pulpit share with Mid-Columbia … Continue reading Creation Justice
