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Unexpected Economics

Online Event

This class utilizes economic thinking to illuminate a wide range of topics not typically understood to be economic in nature-from how we choose a mate to why we vote the way we do. If you’ve read any of the Freakonomics books or listened to the Freakonomics podcast then you will be familiar with the sorts of topics covered in this class such as Marriage as a Search Market, Terrorism as an Occupational Choice, Small Choices and Racial Discrimination, and Obesity – Who Bears the Costs? Led by Alan Carter.

Intro to Paganism

Online Event

Do you feel a deep connection to nature and are longing to express that feeling through ritual? Are you interested in learning more about earth-based spirituality? Join ESUC member LeAnne Struble and other members of the Salish Sea CUUPS (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans) ministry team for a journey into paganism, one of the sources of our UU faith. In five one hour online sessions with music, ritual, hands on learning, and discussion, we will explore this important perspective that encompasses both the ancient and the modern.

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Unexpected Economics

Online Event

This class utilizes economic thinking to illuminate a wide range of topics not typically understood to be economic in nature-from how we choose a mate to why we vote the way we do. If you’ve read any of the Freakonomics books or listened to the Freakonomics podcast then you will be familiar with the sorts of topics covered in this class such as Marriage as a Search Market, Terrorism as an Occupational Choice, Small Choices and Racial Discrimination, and Obesity – Who Bears the Costs? Led by Alan Carter.

Fourth Wednesday Book Club: The Women We Buried, The Women We Burned

Online Event

Please join us to discuss The Women We Buried, The Women We Burned by Rachel L. Snyder. A riveting memoir of survival, self-discovery, and forgiveness. A piercing account of Snyder’s journey from teenage runaway to reporter on the global epidemic of domestic violence, Women We Buried, Women We Burned is a necessary story of family struggle, female survival, and the transformative power of resilience.

Fourth Wednesday Book Club: Lessons in Chemistry

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Please join us to discuss Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. 
But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Her unusual approach to cooking proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy, because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook, she’s daring them to change the status quo.

Meaningful Movies: Evergreen

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In February, Meaningful Movies Bellevue will screen Evergreen, from Bullfrog Films. In this film, we meet Marianne Edain and Steve Erickson, who have worked continually to retain the rural character and ecological diversity of Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, just north of Seattle. Through their organization Whidbey Environmental Action Network (WEAN), Edain and Erickson have monitored county applications for development and logging; challenged projects that violate state environmental law and led the way in science-based environmental public policymaking. In partnership with citizens and communities up and down Whidbey Island, they have helped keep trees standing and protected sensitive island ecosystems. Join us for this inspiring film and learn what is happening right here in Puget Sound to help protect our natural world. Plan to join via Zoom to find out what you can do to help support this work!

East Shore & You!

Online Event

Are you new to East Shore? Want to learn more about our faith, our community, or how to be a member? Join Nicole Duff and Rev. María Cristina to learn more and get to know one another. This is a special Zoom version! All are welcome. Questions? Contact Nicole Duff.

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A Fire at the Center

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The Indigenous Connections Team is leading a book discussion of A Fire at the Center: Solidarity, Whiteness, and Becoming a Water Protector by UU minister Karen Van Fossan. This book is a memoir of Rev. Van Fossan’s experiences that led her to a more genuine understanding of her own culture, herself, and what it means to become a Water Protector.

Fourth Wednesday Book Club: Prodigal Summer

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Please join us to discuss The Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes the lush countryside, this novel's intriguing protagonists—a reclusive wildlife biologist, a young farmer's wife marooned far from home, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors—face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they necessarily share a place.

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A Fire at the Center

Online Event

The Indigenous Connections Team is leading a book discussion of A Fire at the Center: Solidarity, Whiteness, and Becoming a Water Protector by UU minister Karen Van Fossan. This book is a memoir of Rev. Van Fossan’s experiences that led her to a more genuine understanding of her own culture, herself, and what it means to become a Water Protector.

Meaningful Movies: The If Project

Online Event

Join Meaningful Movies Bellevue’s first screening of 2024! We will be showing The If Project, a feature-length documentary that explores the reasons why women are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population, increasing at nearly double the rate of men since 1985. The film follows a group of inmates incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center for Women. These women are part of a writing workshop cofounded by Seattle Police Detective Kim Bogucki and former inmate Renata Abramson. Now a thriving non-profit organization, The If Project serves justice-involved individuals and their families. Plan to join via Zoom to find out what the “If” question is all about!

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The Power of Thought Experiments

Online Event

Have you ever wondered what it means to be immortal? Or how you would act in a life-or-death situation? Or what would happen if you could travel back in time? In The Power of Thought Experiments, award-winning philosopher Daniel Breyer of Illinois State University takes you around the world and across intellectual traditions to explore the power of thought experiments. And, critically, you won’t simply learn about influential thought experiments throughout history, you’ll work through them in your own thinking, question them, challenge them, and evaluate what power they have to expand our minds and inform our lives. Led by Alan Carter.