Episodes

Friday Jul 14, 2023
Creating Beloved Community
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
July 9, 2023
Cory Sevin
Now is the time to lean into deepening our understanding of racism and what we can do in our everyday lives and help create Beloved Community. The backlash we are seeing in the US to progress on racism is proof that we are moving towards a tipping point. As UU’s our hearts break at the suffering and oppression we see and hear about every day. What do we do with our desires to connect and heal that matter, what we can do, are not so clear? Come to a safe space, no shaming, no blaming, and talk about racism. In community we can do so much.

Monday Jun 19, 2023
What/Where is Home?
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Monday Jun 19, 2023
June 18, 2023
Rev. Barbara Gilday
It’s different things for different people: Refugees, lonely people, climate escapees, the homeless on our streets. Let’s consider some challenges, and some solutions.

Monday Jun 19, 2023
Coming Out to a Packed House
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Monday Jun 19, 2023
June 11, 2023
Joseph Bednarik
June is PRIDE month, with pink triangles and rainbow flags showing visible support for the LGBTQ+ community. This morning we share the multi-layered story of one young person's coming out within a packed UU sanctuary.

Monday May 22, 2023
Nature’s Gift to Us & Our Gift to Nature
Monday May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
May 21, 2023
Rev. Bruce Bode
“Flower Communion Sunday” – This Sunday’s service – “In the springing of the year” (Robert Frost) – will center around a flower communion ritual. This is a ritual introduced 100 years ago – June 4, 1923 – by the Rev. Norbert Capek to the Unitarian congregation he served in Prague of the then-Czechoslovak Republic. Some years later, the simple service that Capek created found its way to Unitarian congregations in the United States, where many Unitarian Universalist currently observe some version of it.

Friday May 19, 2023
Mama Said There’d Be Days Like This
Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
May 14, 2023
Rev. Vincent Lachina
Whether our memories of our mothers are incredibly wonderful or a mixture of challenging and surviving, each of us has learned life lessons from them. Mothers are perhaps one of the most influential sources of change for their children. In retrospect, Mother's day seems a very appropriate time to think about the lessons each of us have learned from our own mother, a grandmother, or even someone else's mother. Here are 6 reflections of what I believe my own mother taught me that have determined who I am and how I live my life.

Monday May 08, 2023

Monday May 01, 2023
The Sacred Book of Nature
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
April 30, 2023
Imam Jamal Rahman
Teachings from the sacred manuscript of Nature. Jamal will glean spiritual insights from Nature; Sufi masters explain that nature is the holiest of sacred books.

Monday Apr 10, 2023
Postcards from Your Spiritual Journey
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
April 9, 2023
Speaker: Joseph Bednarik
Recently a person nearing 90 said eight words that are teeming with reflection and adventure: "I want to write down my spiritual journey." This Easter Sunday we reflect on our unique spiritual journeys and imagine what it would be like to write postcards to loved ones, trying to describe what we're experiencing along The Way.

Monday Mar 27, 2023
Salmon Habitat Restoration
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
March 26, 2023
Lucy DeCrace
Lucy DeCrace, Outreach Manager for Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group, will speak to us this Sunday. Since 1999 she has been engaging community volunteers and students in salmon habitat restoration in the Skagit and Samish watersheds.

Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
E pluribus unum: Is that true today?
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
March 12, 2023
Rev. Vincent Lachina
Way back in 1776, John Adams and others decided that the phrase “E pluribus unum” would become the motto for the new country called America. Translated, it means “Out of many, one.” There was, at that time, not a large mixture of ethnicity, religious, or even political groups of people. That is certainly not the case in 2023. How does something so old apply to Skagit Unitarian Universalist Fellowship now? What are the differences today that make us skeptical that the many varieties of Americans are definitely not one? Let’s address a few: race, religion, ethnicity, and language to name a few. Can we find an answer for what it takes to make one congregation out of that many differences?