Life continually requires us to make judgments – to take embrace one thing and reject another. Yet we know it’s wrong to “be judgmental.” Let’s look at this conundrum.
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Human beings have always relied on stories for understanding our relationship to the living Earth. Some stories tell us the Earth was created for us by God and we have been given dominion over it. Callousness and exploitation have followed. Another kind of story is taking root in the human mind, one which can lead us to a more beautiful and sustainable way of life.

Share the plate: Green Acres Farm Sanctuary
Celebrant: Janet Stevens, Anchor: Laura Christian
Music: Sara Greenleaf

A reflection on the difference between how we ‘are doing’ and how we ‘are.’

Share the plate: Rainbow Youth
Celebrant: Sara Pickett, Anchor: Joanna Manson
Music: Laura Christian

With knowledge of evolution has come the realization that we are animals, and a growing sense of the ways we are like them (anatomy, metabolism, etc.). In recent decades, we have been learning how much they are like us — thinking, feeling, experiencing. It’s another game-changing realization.

Share the plate: Rainbow Youth
Celebrant: Sara Pickett, Anchor: Laura Christian
Music: Guy Hallman

Ideas about God and gods have profoundly shaped the culture, institutions, and experience of western civilization — not without controversy. Let’s consider how these notions have evolved over the millennia.

Share the plate: Northwest Hub
Celebrant: Sara Pickett, Anchor: Laura Christian
Music: Zak Zundel

Modern life presents us with an ever-expanding array of choices. We mostly welcome that. Yet, much of that choice may be superfluous or perplexing. Can we practice choosing ways that yield less stress and more happiness/satisfaction?

Share the plate: Northwest Hub
Celebrant: Lennie Martin, Anchor: David Gortner
Music: Ted Cory

Religion surely has something to do with how we live our lives. Accordingly, many religions issue “commandments” to their adherents. Can there be religious prescriptions which are important but not authoritarian?

Share the plate: HOME Youth and Resource Center
Celebrant: David Gortner, Anchor: Lennie Martin
Music: UUCS Choir

It is has become so normal for chickens to be confined to a tiny cage that those few who aren’t have nowadays got a fancy name: Free range chicken. Like that’s some kind of exotic specialty. Have we, in some ways, become accustomed to life being parceled up in little rectangles?

Share the plate: LUS – Latinos Unidos Siempre
Celebrant: Sara Pickett, Anchor: Laura Christian
Music: Jason Wenger, Jon Chinburg leads Hymns

The importance of letting you be you and letting me be me. The possibility of caring relationship without entanglement.

Share the plate: LUS – Latinos Unidos Siempre
Celebrant: Laura Christian, Anchor: David Gortner
Music: George Struble