Watch the service HERE. During the COVID pandemic, all across the planet, human beings experienced what some called “The Great Pause.” As we sheltered indoors for the better part of two years, we read reports that skies were clear in Los Angeles, fish more visible in the canals of Venice, and wildlife roaming freely in high-traffic National … Continue reading We Are The Blue Boat Home – A Service for Earth Day
What seeds are you planting for the new year? How are you weaving your magic into your relationships with others? How can we center beauty and goodness and love in all that’s ahead? Char Woods, Worship Leader
Watch the service HERE. How do we lean into abundance and hope when we have no guarantee of the outcome? How is the story of Noah a hopeful one about creation and a cautionary tale about climate change? And why is the story of Noah and the ark, mythological though it is, an ideal fable … Continue reading Noah Built An Ark Before He Had Water
Watch the service HERE. Read the service HERE. With destruction and casualties mounting in Ukraine and in Gaza, conflicts with grave global consequences, we’ll ask ourselves some questions this morning: why should we care about wars happening 1000s of miles from us, especially when we are compassion fatigued by COVID, domestic concerns, climate disasters, and … Continue reading Honoring Veterans Day – “Just Cause, Just War?”
Watch the service HERE. Greg will tell us a story about a snowstorm that introduces a hopeful perspective we might adopt in perilous times. Worship Leader: Carol Knox Greg is a retired critical care RN. Prior to that, he worked as a Biologist with Alaska Department of Fish and Game in King Cove, Alaska, as a substitute … Continue reading How Can Universal Love and Justice Be The Values of Humanity?
Watch the service HERE. It seems like all we get is bad news. But if we take another look we could find the good that we just haven’t noticed yet. Or maybe there is another way to think about it. Terry will bring some down to earth ways to find the good – past, present, … Continue reading Could Be Good
Each of us has a shadow side; a mirror-image self made of traits we aren’t proud of and don’t express. Carl Jung described the shadow as “the thing one has no wish to be.” Understanding our shadows – the things we don’t want to be – can help us understand ourselves and our deepest values. … Continue reading The Shadow Knows
NOTE: This service begins at 10:00am. This is the time to celebrate the Winter Solstice, when the noonday sun is at its lowest point, on December 21st. We will be casting a sacred circle and use the space created to conduct our service in our pagan religious traditions of Wicca and Druidry. The Winter Solstice … Continue reading Solstice
View the service HERE. Unitarian Universalism graciously makes room for folks like me; but it’s an awkward fit for someone who loves magic, tarot, silent meditation, shamanic ritual, and fat little ancient goddesses more than a structured service of readings and hymns on Sunday morning. My heart aches for the people who can’t keep up … Continue reading The Path is Beautiful and Crooked, Just As It Should Be…How I Got to Eastrose
The times of greatest difficulty can also draw forth from us the stories we carry and the gifts we bear for the renewal of ourselves and our communities. Among our greatest resources at such times are imagination, artistry and creativity. What is the unique nature of the medicine we carry and the genius residing within … Continue reading Emissaries of the Imagination: The Arts in Times of Environmental and Cultural Upheaval
