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!
After choosing your topic, you will learn how to organize your photos and upload them to Shutterfly to create a beautiful “real” album! Catherine will provide a handout with instructions and alternative resources. Even if you aren’t technically proficient, you can pick up ideas. Mini-albums of special events make lovely gifts. Live attendance limited to 20 first registrants; Zoom availability is unlimited.
These kindly folks need your help! Spring is bursting out all over, and our wonderful Grounds Team and onsite staff are a bit overwhelmed. Join this welcoming team of nature lovers to help make our beautiful property even more so. Show up any time between 10 and 3 and stay for any amount of time that fits your schedule. Grounds Team members will be available to point you in the right direction. No experience necessary. Children and youth are welcome but should be accompanied by a parent of other adult. Come enjoy a fun and invigorating time outdoors with East Shore members and friends.
Rev Furrer. on resisting the temptation to cut corners, fake results, or fudge data. And what one gains in the process.
Kiss the Ground reveals that by regenerating the world’s soils, a farming process called “regenerative agriculture,” we have the potential to stabilize the climate! Soil is part of the solution to all our climate-related problems because of its ability to draw carbon from the atmosphere. By regenerating the soil, it’s possible to provide an abundance of food and restore ecosystems around the globe. Watching Kiss the Ground will inspire us all to get involved in ways that can rehabilitate the planet and heal ourselves in the process!
Join us as the veil thins and we welcome in our beloved ancestors to be part of our Samhain service. We will celebrate the ancestors and the fun and whimsy that have become a part of our Halloween traditions. Costumes are encouraged.
Join the East Shore RE students and Volunteers for a Halloween Party. Come by East Shore on Sunday October 31 between 12 and 2 for games, music, and fun. Try your hand at an apple grab; Play a Halloween Bingo Game; Enjoy a warm drink; Come dressed in costume; and Get a chance to trick or treat! This event is open to everyone.
Join fellow UU activists for our Black Lives Matter Flash Stance in person in Woodinville Stance on the corner of 175th and Garden in front of the Woodinville Jamba Juice. We gather in solidarity with Black, Brown, and Indigenous People of Color. Flash Stances start conversations, and then carry those conversations on. We will be social distancing and ask that everyone wear a mask. All are welcome-join us in this important work! Learn more about Flash Stances here on KBCS.
Please join us to discuss Heather McGhee's informative and insightful work, "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together." This book is a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here: divided and self-destructing, materially rich but spiritually starved and vastly unequal. McGhee marshals economic and sociological research to paint an irrefutable story of racism’s costs, but at the heart of the book are the humble stories of people yearning to be part of a better America, including white supremacy’s collateral victims: white people themselves. With startling empathy, this heartfelt message from a Black woman to a multiracial America leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game.
This year, 2021, we will run the auction online, but we hope to also have an in-person live event at East Shore on Saturday November 13th. We will host a zoom party as well, to allow those who are unable to participate in-person to still join in the fun. Keep the evening of Saturday, November 13 free.
How can women of limited means, those who are most excluded in American society, get started in business – and stay in business? Our speakers, Celia Weisman and Maria Alejandra Amiel from the non-profit “Ventures”, will address how these women, often BIPOC or immigrant, can fulfill their dreams of owning a business. To help such new entrepreneurs, Ventures’ work revolves around removing barriers to success by providing access to training, coaching, micro-loans and networking. You will learn the impact that owning a small business can make in individuals’ lives and in under-resourced communities. You will find their stories of determination heart-warming. Please join us!
Rev. Furrer, preaching on the perilous state of democratic society in the current age, how we can defend it, and what are our prospects of success?
In 1925 Mohandas Gandhi published his Social Sins of the Modern World, the last of which was Religion Without Sacrifice. The celebration Veterans Day reminds us of our fallen veterans' sacrifices, but what can we say of their religion?
Les McCann and Roberta Fleck’s hit protest song/single “Compared to What” was subsequently recorded by more than 270 artists, including Ray Charles and Brian Auger. Rev Furrer will use that platform to consider what we can and should be thankful for.
