ONLINE SERVICE ONLY / NO IN-PERSON SERVICE / January 14 / 10:30 a.m. PT https://boxcast.tv/channel/uio1swe8fnfspcmtxuba The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. asked us to decide between “creative altruism” and “destructive selfishness.” Let us reflect on the power of this choice as we remember Dr. King, celebrate his legacy, and…

Our annual spiritual theme is “Love Is at the Center.” This theme comes from the collective effort throughout the Unitarian Universalist Association to share a fresh articulation of our values and covenant. One of the six core values lifted up for us to reflect on is generosity, which can be…

Madeleine L’Engle once wrote that winter, with its bare branches, “reveals the structure of things.” As we look towards a new year, what can we learn from this season where so much is laid bare and the deep structure of things is revealed?

Join us for our annual Christmas Eve celebration & candlelight service.

All are warmly welcomed at this wonderful and joyous service put on by the children of our congregation. Originally presented in 1924 in honor of the first Christmas in our then-new church on the corner of SW 12th Ave. and Salmon, this pageant, in its various iterations, has been an…

“Find a Stillness” On the longest night of the year, we welcome an opportunity to resist the business of the holiday season and let ourselves be still.

Did you know that our Unitarian ancestors had a lot to do with the origins of Christmas and how it is celebrated? Come and hear the stories and reflect on ways we can recapture and re-imagine the spirit of the season.

Music and text from Sarah Quartel’s Snow Angel with cellist Erin Ratzlaf and narration from the Vinson Family. This music celebrates love, beauty, faith, and the tremendous potential present in our children and the strength their voices can bring to a troubled world.

It is the first Sunday in Advent. We light the first candle for hope. What is it that we are hoping to experience? The answer may lie with one of the six values in the covenant that stems from love at the center of our faith: Transformation. Time for All…

We welcome Rev. Mary Katherine Morn, the Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, into our pulpit. In the face of challenges and forces that undermine justice and equity, UUSC has been resisting cynicism and refusing complacency for more than eight decades. UUSC advances human rights in partnership with…

Special Fall Evening Services – Honor and Experience the Themes of the Jewish High Holidays Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement): 7 p.m. Evening Service on Sunday, September 24, for Yom Kippur in Eliot Chapel to reflect on turning towards the work of repair and choosing life. 

Special Fall Evening Services – Honor and Experience the Themes of the Jewish High Holy Days. Rosh Hashanah (The Jewish New Year): 7 p.m. Evening Service on Friday, September 15, in Eliot Chapel, followed by a social hour of apples, honey, and challah to usher in a sweet year to come.  Order of…

So many of our holiday gatherings and traditions take place around the table, an object that carries much symbolic meaning. The table represents a place to share food and find nourishment, a site for conversation and community building, and a place to make decisions. How can the image of the…

Getting to a place of gratitude when the world is so troubled can be a big spiritual challenge. But what if every prayer were to begin with gratitude? What is that might be one of the most elemental—and important—spiritual practices.

All are invited to our Annual Celebration Sunday! This is part of the “Sharing our Hearts’ Treasure” Campaign. Today, let us explore how this calls us to practice radical hospitality. Together Time // Time for All Ages

As Unitarian Universalists, we envision a salvation that includes everyone. Yet, our world is still very far from that vision. How do we get there? The answer may lie with one of the six values in the covenant that stems from love at the center of our faith: Equity. The…

We mark All Souls Day this Sunday with our annual litany, remembering those who have died in our community and the larger world in the past year. Our Radiance Choir will offer Requiem in D Minor by Anton Bruckner.

We welcome the Executive Director of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, Frank So, into our pulpit today. In a year grounded in Love and a month where we are reflecting on Covenant, this is an opportunity to lift up our connections with diverse communities of faith in our city and our…

“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also,” is a thought-provoking quote in Matthew and Luke's gospels. We will reflect on the longings of our hearts and how we seek to serve and lead in ways that deepen these commitments. Time for All Ages

 As a people who covenant together so that we may “grow in spirit by deepening our connections with each other,” we affirm our identity as spiritual and religious people. But those are loaded terms, often for good reason! How can we learn to embrace both the spiritual and religious dimensions…

Our annual spiritual theme revolves around the notion that “love is at the center” of our faith. One way this takes shape in Unitarian Universalism is through the practice of creating and upholding covenants. These shared values and promises guide our actions on the journey to the beloved community. This…

We welcome Rev. Mary Katherine Morn, the Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, into our pulpit. In the face of challenges and forces that undermine justice and equity, UUSC has, for more than eight decades, been resisting cynicism and refusing complacency. Through a model that embraces radical trust,…

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, commemorates the creation of the world, offering a new beginning, new hope. What is our call at this time of new beginning?

Welcome to our celebratory multigenerational Fall Ingathering Service! We will kick off our Annual Spiritual Theme for 2023-2024: Love is at the Center. Our theme is inspired by the conversations across the country about who we are as Unitarian Universalists and how we articulate this with the world. Here is…

We will explore putting labor in its appropriate context to make space for getting “all the marrow of life,” as Thoreau put it, by living deliberately. Labor Day represents an opportunity to reset our relationship with work as we mark the approaching end of summer, return home, and pause to…

Sometimes we find that following a well-trodden path no longer serves us or the world. It might even lead us further away from what we hold most sacred. In these moments, we are called to find alternate routes to reach the places we belong. This Sunday, we’ll explore what it…