When we walk through a forest we sense that trees are sacred. For most of us, it’s an intuition based on how we feel in their presence: calm, humbled, and awed by their beauty. However – scientists are discovering so many wonderful and mysterious facts about trees that confirm and explain their sacred dimensions. We knew it all along; now we can start to answer why.
UUGP member Camille Korsmo will describe her path from a Lutheran childhood and youth to becoming a Unitarian Universalist, thanks to Pope John XXIII and a bicycle exhibit.
Our pulpit guest departed 12 years in the Oregon House of Representatives in 2016 to join Southern Oregon Success – interweaving community resources to promote the health, academic and life success of our children, youth and families.
In Unitarian Universalism, we hear much of Truth and Love. But what of Trust? What does it mean to trust? What are the spiritual gifts of trusting, and how does this relate to congregational life? Rev. Stephen Landale, returns to spin a sermon on this theme.
Every recipe has an ingredient that defines the dish. What is the necessary ingredient to your life, to any life? Rev. Janne Eller-Isaacs and worship associate Barbara Moore will explore what might be the most important ingredient in a meaningful and purpose filled life: gratitude.
Informed by her lived experience as an Indigenous woman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas and Apache and Mexican descent, our pulpit guest believes we are each here to heal one another, and to create a world for the next seven generations.
What do the stories of pandemics and disasters of the past—and particularly those of our own Unitarian Universalist ancestors—have to tell us about our current moment? What story to we want to be a part of creating, now, in this historic time? Our pulpit guest is a UU minister and healthcare chaplain in Portland.
Josephine Community Library director Kate Laskey and staff will recount the many new and adapted library services created and available to stay safe, connected, and ever learning and growing amid the historic changes arising during this pandemic year.
Our beloved wounded warrior, reflecting on his stalwart, enduring and durable life.
Our pulpit guest is our new primary contact with the Pacific Western Region, and a UU Muslim of Iraqi descent. “Some of us live in liminal spaces and navigate them beautifully; for others, it is scary and anxiety producing. Patience and faith can carry us through the betwixt and between.”
