In today’s service we will consider the gifts of Nature & Science; such gifts as the will and intelligence of animals & plants, and the Nature of Spiritual Awakening. Our Donate the Basket recipient for November & December is the Oregon Food Bank. They will have a representative at the service and afterwards to answer … Continue reading This We Believe: Exploring Nature & Science, a match made in Heaven
Music, Poetry, Dance & Visual Arts will weave their way through this morning’s service, featuring WHUUF artists Carol Imani, Eleanor Clagett, Susan Frohnmayer & Suzannah Martin in conversation about creativity and its place in their lives. In person, live streamed, and recorded.
Water Communion celebrates our “communitarianism” and ingathering after summer’s diversions. Everyone is invited to bring a bit of water from a beloved place in their life. Joining these waters in one bowl, we observe both our uniqueness and our union, as we celebrate together what uplifts, empowers, and connects us. In person, live streamed, and recorded.
Two of WHUUF’s strong, creative women, Alana Bellwood and Stephanie Shapiro will share their journeys from tightly-doctrined Evangelical childhoods to the covenantal community that is WHUUF. We will hear their personal perspectives, deconstructing their religious experience to share what they let go of and what they have carried forward to make them who they are today. Lay … Continue reading This We Believe: Rewriting our Religion Narrative
A tribute to WHUUF’s Enlivened Elders, past & present. Not only will be honoring our ‘old timers”, but welcoming and celebrating our New Members as well as several folks sign our book. In person, live streamed, and recorded.
This We Believe about Fatherhood: a trio of WHUUF Dads share the beliefs that guide their parenting and reflect on how parenting shapes their beliefs. Today’s Donate the Basket recipient is Planting Seeds Community of Beaverton. Planting Seeds supports asylum-seeker and refugee students in the Beaverton School District, mainly with gift card and food support. … Continue reading This We Believe about Fatherhood
Most of us tend to be conflict-avoidant, especially when it comes to “talking politics”. Today’s speaker shares her experience of learning to manage difficult conversations by practicing The Braver Angels Way, a close match to our UU Principles. This service will be followed by Group Soup and then the Annual Congregational Meeting, which can be … Continue reading Making Difficult Conversations Easier: a Presentation by Braver Angels Ambassador, Sandra Nelson
This morning we begin the revival of a WHUUF tradition – hearing two members of our community reflect on the beliefs that guide them in their everyday lives and how their everyday lives guide their beliefs. Welcome Wade & Martha! In person, live streamed, and recorded.
Join Kim Transier, Sulima Malzin and friends for the traditional “burning bowl” and candle ritual, as we all let go of what is outworn & light up our hopes for what is coming. In person, live streamed, and recorded.
Join us this morning as we will build together what is called a “Cento” poem … made entirely of lines from other poems. The service may be watched online here.
