Services

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?” 

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.

Join us as we celebrate Easter. What does it mean to celebrate Easter as a Unitarian Universalist?

What brings us together as Unitarian Universalists? There are as many reasons as the individual people who make up our church communities. Most of us believe that together, we can transform ourselves and make this world a better place through the practice of love. In community, we are offered an opportunity to practice this love by embodying radical hospitality and theological diversity.

How do we understand and experience hope? Is it just wishful thinking? Environmental Justice activist Joanna Macy teaches us that Active Hope is something we do rather than have. It involves being clear about what we hope for and then playing our role in the process of moving in that direction. She calls this time The Great Turning and encourages us to make our contribution to it. In the process, we might discover new strengths, a wider network of allies, and experience a renewed sense of hope.

Rev Dr. Furrer shares the particulars of his personal meditation practice, walking the length and contours of his watershed, in this case Madsen Creek. As water rolls off Steve and Carol's roof, it follows a gravity-drawn course from their yard to the Cedar River and thence to the Sound. Notes on Henry David Thoreau, Wendell Barry, Annie Dillard, and the spirituality of place: this place.

Rev Steve contemplates Memorial Day by way of considering the nature and reliability of our memories.