Watch the service HERE. The famed poet, Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” In this sermon of reflective vignettes about her time in community in Jabalpur, India in 2018, Rev. Robin will share her journey of heart, spirit, service, and discovery. We’ll also celebrate … Continue reading Passage From India – A Special Sunday with Kirtan Chant Singing
Watch the service HERE. Drawing on personal experiences, Homilist/storyteller Gloria Holland explores her own loss of Faith, mostly in herself, then discusses the relationship between Faith and Doubt. Worship leader Eric Tschuy, Music from Mary Reese and a Time for All Ages from Tara Toler. Gloria returns to Eastrose for the 3rd time; she is … Continue reading Confessions of an Imposter
Watch the service HERE. I found the reading “A Conversation with a Mayfly” in a decades-long pile of papers I was sorting through. It humorously and seriously considers whether one’s importance is linked to the length of one’s life and what is important. And, after reading it, I spun off on so many different ideas related to those two that … Continue reading A Conversation With A Mayfly
Watch the service HERE. Do you have areas in your life you would like to revisit, like take up that instrument you played in high school? Or pick up those knitting needles after many years? Or start “dabbling in painting, writing, singing or gardening”? What is keeping you from following those dreams? Money? Time? Maybe… … Continue reading Searching and Finding Hidden Treasures Within Ourselves
Watch the service HERE. In a 1980 speech at the First Parish Unitarian Church in Indianapolis, renowned novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. declared: “Doesn’t God give dignity to everybody? No, in my opinion. Giving dignity, the sort of dignity that is of earthly use, anyway, is something only people can do. Or fail to do.” Throughout … Continue reading We Are UUs: An Occasional Series – “So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism”
Watch the service HERE. Popular songs, art works, photos, favorite places, sayings, post-its, fridge magnets, popular music and other influences in our lives. We are all on an individual spiritual path and are influenced by many recognized and subliminal experiences. We are always in connection with life’s subtle lessons. This will be a light-hearted look … Continue reading The Seventh Source
Watch the service HERE. Greg will tell us a story about a snowstorm that introduces a hopeful perspective we might adopt in perilous times. Worship Leader: Carol Knox Greg is a retired critical care RN. Prior to that, he worked as a Biologist with Alaska Department of Fish and Game in King Cove, Alaska, as a substitute … Continue reading How Can Universal Love and Justice Be The Values of Humanity?
Watch the service HERE. Finding our humanity in our personal, familial and societal history… this is our charge that we may learn from the past about what we are made of, how our struggles shape us, and how we can learn to love each other. Ryan and Deanna Hall live in Sandy, Oregon with their … Continue reading Finding Humanity in Our History
Watch the service HERE. Rev. John Hasenjaeger and Mary Ann Barham will share their experiences and challenges with “Sacred Organizing,” in their work with the Leaven Community Land and Housing Coalition, a predominantly interfaith group in Multnomah, Washington & Clackamas Counties. John will offer some of his own vocational journey and how his thinking about … Continue reading Sacred Organizing
This is a pulpit share with Community UU Church (CUUC) in Pasco, WA Unitarian Universalism is a living faith; our theology is proof of that. Many think that to be UU means to believe whatever you want, but that is not really true. Karishma Gottfried will share her experiences growing up UU in Oregon and … Continue reading Covenant, Not Creed
