• Guest at Your Table: Pursuing Liberation

    UUSC & Reverend Julian Jamaica Soto The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is UU’s longest-established fundraising and educational program to advance human rights. This Sunday we celebrate the UUSC Guest at Your Table program. This year’s theme recognizes that rising authoritarianism threatens the lives of people and the future of our  planet. The four Guests at … Continued

  • Why the Golden Rule Results in Less Love

    Meredith Richardson The Golden Rule "Do undo others as you would have them do unto you," presupposes that we all want the same things done unto us, when he truth is radically different.  In this service, we will explore Love Languages, attachment styles and the Platinum rule, "Do unto others as they would have done … Continued

  • Spiritual Practice for These Times

    Reverend Mira Kepler The world can feel like a desperate, painful place. How can we keep an even keel without burying our heads in the sand? How can we embrace the spirit of peace and joy in this holiday season (and beyond) while witnessing the brokenness around us and within us? Join Rev. Mira for … Continued

  • Unitarian Universalism: The Good Parts Version

    Reverend Phil Lund When we meet someone new, we often try to make a good impression by sharing the best of ourselves. The same holds true when we first share with someone the story of our faith. However, we need to move beyond the “good parts version” of Unitarian Universalism if we are going to … Continued

  • Joy to the World! We Get To Sing Holiday Songs

    PUUF Choir Come celebrate the holiday season! The PUUF Choir, Jennifer Goodenberger, Shelley Loring, and Johnny Barker have put together a musical service designed to make even the Grinch smile. You’ll find music celebrating Christmas, Hannukah, the Winter Solstice, and Kwanzaa, and there will be plenty of opportunities to sing along with the PUUF Choir. … Continued

  • Books and Movies for the New Year – in Fellowship Hall

    Arline LaMear. You’re invited to share your favorite book(s), movies, or T.V. series with the Fellowship. It’s great to get recommendations from friends. We’ll meet in the Fellowship Hall.  If you plan to share, please bring your recommendation(s) on a 3x5 card with the name of the book, author, and a brief description. Arline will … Continued

  • Celebrating New Additions and Continuous Transformation

    Meredith Richardson   2023 was a good year. 2024 will be a good year as well. Every new person in our fellowship creates a new way of being together in this fellowship, just as every person we lose creates a new fellowship and a new way of being here together. We gather together to celebrate … Continued

  • Helping Hands Reentry

    Josh Blomquist Josh Blomquist from Helping Hands Reentry Program will provide an update on this organization which now has 11 facilities in Oregon dedicated to “providing a helping hand to sustainable life through Resources, Recovery and Reentry.” ~Open hearts, open minds, room for all theologies, including yours~   We are meeting in person at the … Continued

  • Why Not Both? Being Spiritual and Religious

    Intern Minister Danielle Garrett As Unitarian Universalists who covenant together in community and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning, 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 of our … Continued

  • Pacific CUUPs Imbolc Ritual

    Come join Pacific CUUPs for our Imbolc Ritual!  It is a time of new beginnings and growth.  We start to notice the longer, warmer days as the dark winter fades and the wheel of the year turns toward Spring.  The people had made it through the hardships of winter, It was a time for celebration!  We will … Continued

  • Return Again, Return to the Home of Your Soul

    Reverend Patti Pomerantz I became Unitarian Universalist 37 years ago; before that I was a Reform Jew. Now, at the end of my working career as a UU minister, I find myself having to revisit that age-old question: “Why Am I UU?” I explored this same topic when I served this congregation many years ago. … Continued

  • Institutional and Systemic Racism

    Tina Martineau Institutional Racism is the term for forms of racism structured into the nation’s political and social institutions. Segregation, red-lining, and other such forms of active racism have been outlawed, but the effects they had are still present today. We must be aware of this and actively work to address these ongoing issues as … Continued