Join us on Zoom: vashonislanduu.org/sunday If prompted to use a password, it is: 2020 The Rev. Amanda Aikman is a retired Unitarian Universalist minister. She served congregations in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia for 23 years and is now working on a novel, a project she likens to running a marathon with a concrete block … Continue reading Fear and Faith
Join us on Zoom: vashonislanduu.org/sunday If prompted to use a password, it is: 2020 “We’re all in this together”… We are invited into deeper reflection on the impact of our white supremacy culture on our faith community and how to engage in the work of recognizing and changing that culture. Rev. Linda Hart from Tahoma … Continue reading Widening the Circle
Join us on Zoom: vashonislanduu.org/sunday If prompted to use a password, it is: 2020 Each day we pack our bags to go out in the world with our spirit, our energy and our intentions. We set forth with attitudes that hopefully serve us and others well. With the seasons changing, and COVID vaccinations on the rise, … Continue reading Choosing Renewal Each Moment
Join us on Zoom: vashonislanduu.org/sunday If prompted to use a password, it is: 2020 We often hold back from doing what is right out of our fear of doing it wrong. Using the arena of video gaming we will look at how marginalized groups of people get represented. Working to be respectfully inclusive requires some … Continue reading Planning for Embarrassment
Join us on Zoom: vashonislanduu.org/sunday If prompted to use a password, it is: 2020 Theodore Parker has been called one of the central prophets of Unitarianism. His sermon “The Transient and Permanent in Christianity” was radical in its time. He was also a committed abolitionist who was reported to have written sermons with a pistol on … Continue reading Transient and Permanent
Join us on Zoom: vashonislanduu.org/sunday If prompted to use a password, it is: 2020 In 1954 Eric Fromm wrote a book called “The Art of Love.” Fromm helped us understand that while Love can be difficult, it is not mysterious. Love is a skill that needs to be developed in the same way as cooking, riding … Continue reading The Art of Love
Join us on Zoom: vashonislanduu.org/sunday If prompted to use a password, it is: 2020 In the Zen tradition it is the poets like Basho, Issa, and Leonard Cohen who have best described difficulty and loss and given us a way to see them differently, and see our way through. How might they help us through turbulent … Continue reading Service of Lament
Join us on Zoom: vashonislanduu.org/sunday If prompted to use a password, it is: 2020 This Sunday, January 31st, we celebrate the Jewish “birthday of the trees” with a Tu B’shevat seder. The Vashon Island Unitarian Fellowship will enjoy this earth-based tradition together, during our gathering for worship,, with a short ritual “meal” (seder) that explores the seasons of the … Continue reading Tu B’Shevat The Birthday of the Trees
Join us on Zoom: vashonislanduu.org/sunday If prompted to use a password, it is: 2020 Many blame the human-created challenges we can’t seem to find our way out of on a failure of imagination. If this is true, we might do well to consider what it is our imaginations actually require in order to do their best … Continue reading Space to Dream
Join us on Zoom: vashonislanduu.org/sunday If prompted to use a password, it is: 2020 The protests in the street, the Democratic platform, and the National Unitarian Universalist Association all compel us to reject racism on moral grounds. We invite you to join us in exploring how we can act to banish systemic racism from our everyday … Continue reading Racism: A Moral Call to Act
