Beloved Conversations Within: Spring 2021

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The Within Phase of Beloved Conversations: Virtual will continue in the Spring Term. We would love to have you (and everyone you know!) join us for another term of this program, with a continued focus on personal learning and growth!

Beloved Conversations Within: Spring 2022

Online Event

The Within Phase of Beloved Conversations: Virtual will continue in the Spring Term. We would love to have you (and everyone you know!) join us for another term of this program, with a continued focus on personal learning and growth!

$250

Nature Walks: Cathedral of the Pines

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We’ve all had powerful, sometimes transformative experiences of Nature, in our own explorations, with family and friends, any time we get a chance to get out and get into rhythm with our natural world. Nature Walks offer an opportunity for us to convene virtually and share experiences of many of the energies and environments that move us.

Meaningful Movies Bellevue: RBG

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Meaningful Movies Bellevue Presents RGB. Join us for an evening of tribute for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who created a breathtaking legal legacy for women’s rights while becoming an unexpected pop-culture icon. The personal journey of this diminutive, quiet warrior’s rise to the nation’s highest court during a hostile time for women, is revealed in this inspiring and multi-dimensional portrait.

Fourth Wednesday Book Club: Nothing to See Here

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Please join us to discuss Love and Other Consolations by Jamie Ford on Wednesday, January 20, at 7:30 pm on Zoom. Inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle’s epic 1909 World’s Fair. For twelve-year-old Ernest Young, a charity student at a boarding school, the chance to go to the World’s Fair feels like a gift. But only once he’s there, amid the exotic exhibits, fireworks, and Ferris wheels, does he discover that he is the one who is actually the prize.

Widening the Circle of Concern

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East Shore Outdoors Youth Adventures

12700 Southeast 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

On the last Saturday of every month, in February, March, April and May, join us for outdoor Saturday youth adventures. Each month will feature a different activity at a different location. And, on the second Sunday of each month, from 6-7pm, there will be an online planning session with volunteers and participants to get ready as a team. We ask that all interested youth attend the planning session. We'll talk about equipment requirements, transportation, location, meals, and such. These events are open to any youth in our immediate and extended community, so you can invite a friend whether they've been to East Shore forever or haven't been yet.

A Ground as Broad as Space

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Let's honor the 250th anniversary of Universalism in the United States by remembering one of its most colorful characters!
The Rev. Abner Kneeland's unusual ideas and bold writing landed him in hot water more than once. Just how far did a minister have to go to be too radical for Universalism? How would Abner's shocking notions fit into Unitarian Universalism today?

How to Bend, Not Break in Troubled Times

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@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90aXRsZSIsInNldHRpbmdzIjp7ImJlZm9yZSI6IiIsImFmdGVyIjoiIn19@​We live in troubled times.  We are currently experiencing an unusually keen sense of isolation.  We search for ways to relieve our anxiety and bring us compassion. During our brief […]

$25

Reading the Seasons as Sacred Script: How Nature Wisdom Guides Our Becoming and Belonging

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The modern Western worldview has forgotten how to read the calendar of the wild Earth as both sacred text and a guide for our own soul formation. Yet, this inherent rhythm is our heritage as we are forged and fashioned out of the fiery elements of creation’s womb. Join with us as Mary guides a seasonal threshold crossing of deep remembering: remembering we carry wildness within; remembering we are related to other plants and animals who inhabit Earth with us; remembering we are on a common journey upon our common home with the whole of creation.

COVID: One Year Later Vigil

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As we mark a year since the first appearance of COVID-19, and a year since we had our last service in the Sanctuary, we look back on the ways our lives have changed. This evening vigil will be an opportunity for us to gather virtually and to reflect, to grieve, to sing, to celebrate community, and to look forward to what possible opportunities the future may bring.

Nature Walks: Deserts

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We’ve all had powerful, sometimes transformative experiences of Nature, in our own explorations, with family and friends, any time we get a chance to get out and get into rhythm with our natural world. Nature Walks offer an opportunity for us to convene virtually and share experiences of many of the energies and environments that move us.

Recurring

UU Sources

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A six-part Adult RE series investigating each of the six sources of authority outlined in the Unitarian Universalist Association covenant. As it says in the Purposes and Principles statement, “the living tradition we share draws from many sources...”

What is Leadership?

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As ESUC begins its nearly two years of search for your next Minister, It will be good to consider styles of leadership and what style you think will fit most comfortably and serve most ably among you. Notes on George Patton, Abraham Lincoln, Rev Violet Kochendoerfer, and servant leadership as conceived by Robert Greenleaf and others.

East Shore Ruins… Racism

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As East Shore continues to grow in our understanding and dismantling of white supremacy culture, we invite you to hear what Adam can bring our attention to. How is everything from the illegalization of weed, use of SWAT teams, and private prisons are all seeped in systemic racism. Special guests from East Shore’s Pathway to the Eighth Principle group. This is part 1 of two on racism.