Reverend Furrer preaching on living in and through apocalyptic times. Are they End Times? Prophets have long predicted a coming day when our shared temporal experience is interrupted and radically changed. First here was nuclear Armageddon and now: accelerating climate change. Are the prophets correct? Let’s kick off 2022 right!
January sixth is celebrated among orthodox Christians as Epiphany. Lower case “e”piphany is kind of an ah-ha experience or moment. How to cultivate such moments and celebrate them when they come.
The Beloved Conversations Among team leads a worship service about the current program many ESUC lay leaders and staff have been participating in and finding very energizing. Hands on transformation!
This morning we hoped for RITUAL RE/OPENING of our on-site worship services, but thanks to the Omicron Variant scare, it has led to a total redesign. Instead of the choir heralding our warm collective re-embracing of one another, we are once again, 100% virtual, i.e., in a holding pattern, until our newly adopted Guidelines for Safe Gatherings call for a return. Join us as we share a variety of experiences of both their frustration AND of unexpected riches bubbled forth out of a change in plans.
Unitarian Universalist women (and men) have long been stalwarts in the fight to make abortion safe and legal. All that is now imperiled. Where to go from here? Sponsored by the Women’s Perspective Team.
Just as there are many varieties of religious experience, there are many varieties atheism—from the Buddha to Robert Ingersol to Madalyn Murray O’Hair.
A sermon and pean to the power and beauty of romantic love. The day before St. Valentine’s Day is a fitting moment to the consideration of the values and virtues exemplified by amour.
Lessons from our Coast Salish neighbors on how to think of our upcoming Annual Mission Fund Drive—and how to make it both successful and remarkably FUN! Reverend D. Furrer preaching on the soulful appreciation of money.
Join us for a family-friendly, all ages worship service featuring accomplished Seattle actor and storyteller, Eva Abram, who brings folktales and myths of American history alive with masterful performance skills. This morning, our worship will focus on the stories of animals and will show us how powerful animal characters can convey so many things. Eva Abram writes that she grew up collecting rainwater for household use and that experience taught her that water is essential for life and so is the same is true of stories. Stories nourish human beings, as rainwater nourishes the earth’s plants and animals.
Mardi Gras precedes Lent as a splurging overindulgence in preparation for repentance and purgation. We all enjoy both, often unconsciously. How to reconcile our natural inclination to extravagant display and indulgence with our ESUC covenant to “become the best people we can be?”
Reverend Furrer preaching on the need for radical measures in each of our personal lives if we are to faithfully succeed in arresting and healing global warming.
The lighter side of theology and church life to remind everyone that life is good, and all is well.
Join us as we celebrate our trans siblings in spirit! Stephanie Dykes will be speaking on the subject of Trans Visibility in advance of International Trans Day of Visibility on March 31. Join Stephanie and the Welcoming Congregations team after the service for a fun and informative Q&A.
Stephanie Dykes is a teacher, singer and trans educator/activist.
What’s the situation at ESUC and how to make everything copacetic.
In the face of ecological heartache, how do we hold both grief and love together in a way that connects us to nature’s wisdom? Join us for our Earth Day service as we explore this question through nature’s rhythms, seasons and cycles of life.