Watch the service HERE. Nobel Prize winner Albert Schweitzer has famously remarked that, “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” When it comes to our relationship with animals, how do we balance our seventh principle about interconnectedness with social norms that typically uphold the … Continue reading Inhabiting a Peaceable Kingdom: Our Relationship With Our Plate
Watch the service HERE. Do things really happen “for a reason?” Who can say? Even so, we’ll explore the challenge of living deliberately in an often-random world. When our lives (or country, or world) tilt in directions we had not expected and fault lines open under our feet, how might we strive to loosen our … Continue reading Waiting for the Ice Cream Truck
Watch the service HERE. Cultivate Initiatives is a group of people that envisions communities that are safe, supportive, and full of opportunities. As a nonprofit organization serving East Portland and East Multnomah County, they empower individuals and communities through workforce development, housing and homemaking, and supportive sheltering. Caleb and others from the Cultivate Initiatives team … Continue reading Providing Support, Safety and Opportunity Amidst the Ruins
Read the sermon HERE. Watch the service HERE. With an uptick in voter suppression and the American experiment more fragile than ever, it’s important to examine how tribalism, conspiracy theories, and extreme theologies have corrupted the underpinnings of our nation. Can belief play a role in our democratic process in 2024, or have ideology and secularism replaced … Continue reading Faithful Democracy
Watch the service HERE. In the hit Netflix series, “Squid Game,” a group of desperate South Koreans risk their lives to pay off their crippling debts. The series reflects a real social problem in their country – too much money too easily borrowed. This week, the taxman cometh to our doors, and Americans find themselves … Continue reading “Squid Game” and the Death Knell of Debt
Watch the service HERE. Mohandas Gandhi once speculated that with so many hungry people in the world, when God next comes to earth it will be in the form of a loaf of bread. My guess is that this loaf will be a simple one, as close to the integrity of wheat and water as … Continue reading Bread, Not Stone: Hunger and Homelessness in the Land of Plenty
Drawing from traditional myths, tales and poems storyteller Will Hornyak considers the spiritual dimensions of freedom in honor of Independence Day July 4. Worship Leader: Eric Tschuy
The pandemic has wrought change and created uncertainty for institutions, like our Unitarian Universalist congregations, and our wider world. Who and what are we becoming, individually and collectively? Our GA Sunday service explores these themes as we gather in community to celebrate the best of who we UUs are.
Watch the service HERE. Bring flowers from your yard or neighborhood to celebrate the annual flower communion. This Unitarian Universalist celebration acknowledges that as no two flowers are alike, so no two people are alike, yet each has a contribution to make. Together the different flowers form a beautiful bouquet. Our common bouquet would not … Continue reading Annual Flower Communion
Watch the service HERE. The UU 7th Principle is about the interconnectedness of all beings. As humans, we always strive for some kind of connection with others and with the universe. When we experience the interconnecting web that is in all existence, we foster compassion and gratitude in ourselves and towards others. Come explore with … Continue reading They Looked to the Sky
