Dr. Russ Beaton, Emeritus Professor of Econ at Willamette will join Rev. Rick to discuss our current global economy’s harmful impact upon our lives.
Join Rev. Rick and Dr. Beaton in a special online Q&A session Sunday March 29 at noon.
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Watch the March 29 service
During this time of unprecedented challenge and change lots of fear is being stirred up. Let’s consider how we might face our own fears and those of others.
The church building is closed to the public for attendance. You can attend online!
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The best preparation for entering into challenging conversations regarding family, politics or other subjects that matter to us, is being centered in our own hearts. Learn how to speak with kindness and wonder, as well as outrage. We must remain faithful that our efforts can cause revolution in the minds and actions of ourselves and others.
Share the plate: Partner Church Program
Celebrant: Janet Stevens, Anchor: Tom Ellis
Music: Cherry City Quartet
Ears hear and eyes see. What then does the mind do? A Zen Question
Share the plate: Partner Church Program
Celebrant: Sara Pickett, Anchor: Geoff Hutchinson
Music: UUCS Choir
The fifth principle of our free faith tradition states “we covenant to affirm and promote the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large.” Why do we so esteem this particular system of governance?
Share the plate: Partner Church Program
Celebrant: Sara Pickett, Anchor: Tom Ellis
Music: Guy Hallman
These are troubling times for liberals. Our government seems more Orwellian than ever, even as the leaders of our religious Association have taken a dystopian page from Fahrenheit 451. In 1984, George Orwell wrote, “Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.” And in F. 451, Ray Bradbury wrote, “Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.’” Today, more than ever in our lifetime, our liberal religious values—reason, freedom of conscience, and our humanistic ethic—are being discarded by both sides of the ideological spectrum. That’s why Oregon’s Capital city needs the presence and courage of UUCS now more than ever.
Share the plate: Mid Valley Literacy Center
Celebrant: Gloria Holland, Anchor: Sara Pickett
Music: UUCS Choir
How do we change for the better? What are the conditions that enable this to happen? What gets in the way?
Share the plate: Mid Valley Literacy Center
Celebrant: Janet Stevens, Anchor: Tom Ellis
Music: Marcia Christenson
Eric and Rev. Rick will explore the history of the principle of freedom of conscience and current struggles within our own movement over this freedom in regards to the censure of Todd Eklof’s book “The Gadfly Papers.”
Share the plate: Mid Valley Literacy Center
Celebrant: Sara Pickett, Anchor: Geoff Hutchinson
Music: UUCS Choir
Oftentimes the spiritual journey is envisioned as a solo journey. Yet this is incomplete. We absolutely need others? Why?
Share the plate: Mid Valley Literacy Center
Celebrant: Janet Stevens, Anchor: Tom Ellis
Music: Cheryl Randall, Kit Abrahamson
What does integrity look like? Please come hear about one shining example from my personal life.
Share the plate: Family Promise
Celebrant: Sara Pickett, Anchor: Becky Harrison
Music: UUCS Choir
