Our fourth covenant reads: “ We preserve the safety of our community. For our aspirations to be fulfilled, our community must be a place of safety. To this end, we respect healthy boundaries, maintain appropriate confidentiality, and commit to policies and actions which preserve a safe environment.” When this covenant was written and approved in 2015, I … Continue reading Meeting in Person
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Next Wednesday December 15th 6:30-8:00 PM Possible themes: We’ll take a few minutes at the beginning to decide: sweet and simple, How Are You Doing? What does spirituality mean to you? In what do you have faith? How are faith, hope and joy related? Possible ways for us to meet in person —Hope to see … Continue reading Join us for VIUF Women’s Group!
The GEO Group (a for profit company that operates the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma) was ordered by the courts to pay detainees minimum wage for jobs they do while in detainment (cleaning/cooking) instead of one dollar per day as in the past. Instead of doing that, GEO has stopped hiring any detainees at … Continue reading “Holiday Hope” fundraiser for AIDNW
In today’s book club meeting, several members want to include some quotes from the book to be added to the newsletter. “When conditions are easy and there’s plenty to go around, individual species can go it alone. But when conditions are harsh and life is tenuous, it takes a team sworn to reciprocity to keep … Continue reading Braiding Sweetgrass Quote
Hello all of you creative VIUFers. It’s time for another edition of “Outside the Box”. You can use the VIUF theme for December “Opening to Joy” for your inspiration or anything you wish. Please send your contributions in the form of your own poetry or prose to or to Outside the Box, c/o VIUF, P.O. Box … Continue reading Call for poetry – Outside the Box
We will be hosting the December 26th service, “Opening to Joy.” We want you to share a “little” joy in one sentence, as part of our service. We will feature you on screen, in a pre-arranged order. We encourage you to consider little joys you have been open to and cherished. Some examples: hearing the … Continue reading The Transforming Mystery and Wonder team needs your help!
Join the National Council of Churches and faith communities around the country in supporting HR-40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans Act. Read and sign onto a letter from faith groups urging Congress to support HR-40. The Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice signed the letter. Follow the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations … Continue reading Reparations News
The theme for December is Opening to Joy. Some good ideas and resources here
The Book Club discussion of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants will be held at the end of service on Dec. 5th, (not Nov. 28th, as several of us will be out-of-town for Thanksgiving.) This gives you all one more week to read this wonderful book! Also, please text your suggestions for a … Continue reading Book Club Change of Date
