Worship Services
Services are at 10:00
a.m. every Sunday during the summer.
Hymn singing begins 10 minutes before the service. Come early if
you like to sing, and please join us for coffee and conversation after
the service.
Sunday, Aug 1 | Into the Heart of the Cosmos Where Science and Religion Meet Arthur spoke about string theory some years ago, and now his reflection on it is back by popular demand. Since the Enlightenment science and religion have parted paths. How can we use some of the current scientific perspectives to enrich our religious understanding? |
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| Following the service Arthur will lead a discussion based on this topic. |
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Sunday, Aug 8 | Part of Our Tribe? Unitarian Universalists and the Military Through our long tradition of social justice, Unitarian-Universalists have a dignified history of embracing diversity. And we also have a long history of working for peace. How can and ought we reconcile those two values in relating to people serving in the US military? This sermon will highlight possible congregational responses to veterans, service members, and their families –in keeping with key Unitarian-Universalist principles. |
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| Raz Mason is OUUC’s Intern Minister. She is working this year as a chaplain at the Veterans’ hospital in Portland. She is also a Chaplain Candidate in the Navy and will speak from her personal experience of coming to military ministry. |
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Sunday, Aug 15 | Shopping for the Right Religion In our consumer culture shopping is both a means and an end. It can define our approach even to finding the right church. As a good consumer, what would be on your checklist for finding the right religious community? Would it include the criterion of making you aware of the role of consumerism in your life? |
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Sunday, Aug 22 | In Praise of Play Northwest poet David Whyte says that the antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness. On Labor Day’s promontory, we pause to celebrate re-creation, the art of being, and good-for-nothing-ness. Leave your Protestant work ethic at home, and come on out and play. |
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| Returning for the third time to our pulpit is Carmen McDowell, a candidate for the UU ministry. She has nearly two decades’ experience working with nonprofit organizations in the Seattle area, including four years as the Membership Director at East Shore Unitarian Church in Bellevue. She will be the ministerial intern at University Unitarian Church in Seattle during 2010-11. Her favorite game is Boggle, although Slug Bug is a close second. |
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Sunday, Aug 29 | Why We Tell the Story When we worship we are holding up what has worth to us. Four members of your Worship Arts Committee offer to you what worship means to them and why they feel it to be so important to the life of our congregation. |
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