Episodes

Sunday Apr 03, 2022
The Ins and Out of Peace
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
April 3, 2022
Jonathan Prescott
What can peace look like? Perhaps external peace can only happen when we experience internal peace first. Please join Jonathan Prescott for some thoughts on how we can be the light of peace in the world.

Monday Mar 28, 2022
Skagit Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
March 27, 2022
Heidi Roy
Skagit Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services is a source of information and healing; a strong voice for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in the Skagit community since 1979. It operates with the following philosophies:
- Violence by one person against another is not acceptable, anywhere, any time.
- Each person has the right to expect physical, emotional and sexual safety.
Today we welcome Heidi Roy, Executive Director, to share this philosophy and their goals of empowerment, strength and healing to victims and survivors.

Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Death in Dual (and Dueling)
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
March 20, 2022
Rev. Bruce Bode
In Nature, death is not a factor of special importance; it’s simply part of the turning wheel of Being as it rolls onward through time. But to us in our human world, death is a factor of huge significance. Taking my cue from neuro-anatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s book My Stroke of Insight, this sermon will explore our encounter with death from both the “right-brain” (“ego-consciousness”) and the “left-brain” (“cosmic consciousness”) perspectives.

Monday Mar 14, 2022
By The Light of the Silvery Moon
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
March 13, 2022
Rev. Joanna Gabriel
As we move into the increased light that comes with Daylight Savings time and approaching Spring, Rev Joanna Gabriel explores the power of our perceptions, how they ‘light’ our moment-to-moment experience of life and how important this awareness is as we navigate our times.

Monday Mar 14, 2022
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
March 6, 2022
Nancy Brown, Susan Butler
You will be amazed at what a few people can accomplish! Come today to hear all about a grass-roots program in our own back yard. Suzanne Butler, one of our speakers, writes: "Our work started with taking snacks at night to the 4 month Winter Shelter at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Mount Vernon several years ago. Nancy Brown recruited me and I recruited friends and neighbors to bake, donate money, donate purchased food and other items as needed. During Covid until now, we have been distributing upwards of 70 lunch bags a week to neighbors without homes in the area. When we have the means to get them out to more people, there have been times when 110 Food Bags have gone out weekly."

Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Update on OPOP
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
February 27, 2022
OPOP Committee
Today we get an update on OPOP, a program under the umbrella of Chris Hoke’s Underground Ministries. One Parish One Prisoner offers pre-release relationships to prisoners, and continues once they rejoin their community upon release. The intent is not only to help ex-offenders navigate the needs and expectations of the outside world but also to avoid the pitfalls that too often result in re-incarceration. We have a hard-working and resourceful OPOP team right here at SUUF! Come and hear what they have learned and done during the past year.

Sunday Feb 20, 2022
What is Truth?
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
February 20, 2022
Rev. Vincent Lachina
In a world that often floats "fake news" and lies, how do we define "Truth," and how do we know it when we see it?

Monday Feb 07, 2022
All About Love
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
February 6, 2022
Jonathan Prescott
Jonathan returns with an early Valentine for all of us this week. It's all about that elusive 4-letter word: love. In his words: "Love" is a word that describes many things. Let's explore the kind of love that deeply connects us.

Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Which do I Choose – A or B?
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
January 30, 2022
Rev. Barbara Gilday
Life is not like a multiple choice test where our choices are so simple. It is often much more complex, as even an elementary school child knows. We as adults have learned the painful lesson that there are times one has no choice but to choose to live with seemingly unreconcilable differences. Let’s look at some examples and some possible coping mechanisms. Perhaps you’d like to share a situation where you had to come to terms with cohabiting differences.

Monday Jan 24, 2022
From Lump of Clay to Flaming Chalice
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
January 23, 2022
Kat Rose
Kat Rose has an unusual occupation and passion: she sculpts chalices for UU churches, members, and religious and secular services. Kat, a long-time UU and artist from San Juan Island, and friend of Linda Kuller, creates lovely and loving artistic designs. Please check out her website - flamingchalice.com - for a sneak peek at her craft. She will share how the 'flaming chalice' became the symbol of hope and freedom for our religion, then will tell us about her unusual career path.