For the month of October, we share our plate with Honor the Earth, a Native organization who provides financial and organizing support to Native environmental initiatives. Honor the Earth works closely with other women-led Indigenous groups fighting to Stop Line 3 tar … read more.
What a blessing the rain has been this month. First the weekend before last and then again earlier this week. It seemed as if our long hot summer had taken an extraordinary toll all around us. Everywhere I’d look, the earth had just gotten kind … read more.
Cottage meetings and focus groups are opportunities for individual voices to be heard in smaller groups to give feedback to the Ministerial Search Committee (MSC). The MSC will listen deeply to what you want in a new senior minister and for the future of the … read more.
Greetings,
Our church year started with Homecoming Sunday this past weekend. Though we all had hoped we would be back together, we find ourselves starting our second year as a virtual church. In the last few weeks, a group of Lay Ministers and volunteers has been … read more.
Henry David Thoreau Cabin
Last week, I learned about this company that offers secluded rentals of tiny cabins, where you can escape from the bustle of city life for a nearly monastic retreat. Somewhat in the genre of Airbnb, the simple one-room properties even come with … read more.
From Community for Earth (CFE)
After failure by the Oregon legislature to adopt any meaningful climate legislation in the 2019 Legislative Session, Governor Kate Brown did what she could to reduce greenhouse gases through an Executive Order. EO 20-04 set new science-based emissions reduction goals for Oregon and directed state agencies to write plans for how they will use their statutory authority to help meet the goals.
The Department of … read more.
It felt good to “launch” a new church year last Sunday, even if it was, once again, at a distance. We were able to see our choir singing via video—not the same as in person but we were at least able to have an image of … read more.
Climate crisis is real.
We are experiencing and witnessing increasingly devastating climate disasters, here in the Pacific NW, across this continent and across the globe. This church year, our weekly shared offering will focus on climate justice initiatives, from disaster recovery and mitigation to innovative solutions that center the … read more.
Dana Buhl, Director of Social Justice
September 5, 2021
Like many of you, my mind, gut and heart keep traveling to Texas in rage, in despair, in fear, and back again to rage. Abortion has essentially been made illegal in Texas. Vigilantes have been released on women, … read more.
This coming Sunday, Unitarian Universalist churches around the country will be gathering to begin another church year, Homecoming Sunday.
Why call some Sunday in the early fall Homecoming, some of you may ask? Worship, pastoral care and programming continue through the summer. It has been a … read more.
