The SUUF Podcast

Wise Choices

February 16, 2025

Rev. Elaine Strawn

As the proverb goes, we are surely blessed by living in interesting times! But a blessing? Joanna Macy writes of the Great Turning; Rutger Bregman’s research reminds us that humans are evolutionarily decent and friendly. What kind of world will you create, will we create? Together, as we calm our fears, we recognize the deep Wisdom within. Together we develop our awareness and flexibility. And together we become a force for transformation.

Wisdom Teachings from The Twilight Zone

February 2, 2025

Joseph Bednarik

The Twilight Zone—a revolutionary television program from the early 1960s—was created by Rod Serling, who also happened to be a Unitarian. This Sunday we collectively search for truth and meaning in a “wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.”

Skagit Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services

January 26, 2025

Heidi Roy, Executive Director

DVSAS provides free and confidential assistance for victims of domestic violence, including stalking, elder abuse, and sexual harassment. Services include crisis intervention, emergency shelter, advocacy-based counseling, legal, medical and social services advocacy, support groups, children’s advocacy and community education and prevention. Their mission aligns with our UU values of equity and justice.

UU Stories of Transformation

January 19, 2025

Revs. Hoover & Edington

"It takes a lot of courage to stand up for your rights, to be a transformer. We will always be transformers in our country, within our state. People who will stand up and organize, simply because it is the right and true thing to do. Hopefully they, and you, will inspire others to join in doing so."

Overcoming Hardships

January 12, 2025

Speaker: Kay Knott

This Sunday, Kay talked about tribal life in Northwest Washington. She looks back at a time when tribal life was idyllic, and then how family life was destroyed by the white man in the 1800s. During this time, tribal children were forcibly taken from their families, and forced into internment camps where they were brainwashed and belittled. Kay shows how to overcome such hardships. Thank you, Kay!

We Are The Miracle of Light

January 5, 2025

Speaker: Rabbi Olivier BenHaim

Festivals of light in the depth of winter are as ancient as humanity itself. Our ancestors saw in the night-time's natural shifts of our celestial background great mythical narratives unfolding as gods battled each other for the hoped-for triumph of light over darkness.

Rabbi Olivier invites us into a three-part discovery of the ancient holiday of Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights; its history, its religious expression and its deeper spiritual meaning.

Afraid of attending a dying person? Why you needn’t be.

November 17, 2024

Speaker: Rev. Barbara Gilday

As a former chaplain, I’ve been present during and after many transitions. I’ll share stories of many good deaths, and the very few that were not, and share some thoughts on how we can prepare ourselves and our loved ones to have the best possible passage.

Christmas: The Season of the Heart

December 15, 2024

Speaker: Rev. Bruce Bode

Christmas is a season not just a day, a time in our culture and even world-wide in which we attend – as in this service – more consciously than at other times of the year to the longings and loves of the heart.

Indivisible Skagit

December 8, 2024

Christe Stewart Stein & Brenda K. Cunningham

Indivisible Skagit offers opportunities for SUUF members to engage in actions to protect democracy as well as protect our Skagit community members, and the planet.

The Gospel According to This Moment

December 1, 2024

Speaker: Rev. Dr. Barry Andrews

Henry David Thoreau is known for many things. He was by turns a schoolteacher, a pencil maker, a surveyor, and a handyman. He was also an advocate of simple living, civil disobedience, and environmental preservation in addition to being a naturalist and a writer. I believe that the thread on which all the beads of his many-faceted life are strung is his idiosyncratic and unconventional religious faith.