The SUUF Podcast

The Spiritual Strength of Doubt

January 4, 2026

Rev. Dr. Barbara ten Hove

Doubt is often frowned upon in religious circles but our faith encourages us to doubt and question. Can doubt lead us to faith? And when is doubt not helpful even in our progressive religion?

“C2C”: Community to Community

December 28, 2025

Rosalinda Guillen

C2C is a food justice organization that bases their beliefs “on the notion that society should arrange its relationships so that everyone has equitable access to the fundamental democratic processes affecting their everyday lives.” C2C strives to “develop projects that come from and are led by the folks from communities that need to affect change for improving the lives of their families and future generations.”

Rosalinda Guillen (she/hers) is the founder of Community to Community and a lead strategist and visionary with the non-hierarchical ecofeminist leadership of C2C. Her perspective is fundamentally influenced by her introduction to the multi-racial, working-class community organizing model of the Rainbow Coalition, the Cesar Chavez house meeting model, The World Social Forum, the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil and growing up a farmworker in La Conner, WA. Rosalinda has organized farmworkers in WA State and the strawberry fields of Salinas, CA. She has represented farmworkers in the Legislatures of California and Washington States, and in ongoing policy and Movement guiding dialogues on immigration issues, climate change, labor rights, trade agreements, ecofeminism and strengthening the food sovereignty movement towards a Solidarity Economy.

Follow Your Bliss

December 14, 2025

Rev. Bruce Bode

The phrase “Follow Your Bliss” found its way onto refrigerator magnets through the PBS interviews of journalist Bill Moyers with scholar of world mythology Joseph Campbell in the six-part series titled The Power of Myth. The phrase has been taken in a variety of ways. What did Campbell mean by this phrase? And what, for him, was its point of origin?

The Four R’s

December 7, 2025

Mychal Loving

The Four “R’s”: How Reconnection, Resistance, Resilience and Regeneration can help us cope with, and strategize living, in our current “Dark Night of the Globe”.

God as Metaphor

November 30, 2025

Joseph Bednarik

Our congregation of theists and atheists, mystics and materialists explore the use of a powerful linguistic practice:
 
The creation of metaphors. Sharing the words and ideas of revolutionary astronomers, leaping philosophers, and visionary poets, we will focus attention on the miracle of our existence and wonder aloud whether God is Love.

Joseph Bednarik serves as the Co-Publisher of Copper Canyon Press, a nonprofit literary publisher dedicated to poetry. He studied philosophy at Haverford College and speaks regularly at Unitarian Universalist congregations in the Salish Sea region.

Supporting Homeless Families

November 23

Amber Lang of The Family Promise of Skagit Valley

This is a 4th Sunday Service — The mission: to come together as a community to support homeless families as they work to provide their children with loving homes. The vision: a nation in which every family has a home, a livelihood, and the chance to build a better future.

The One Family of Humanity

November 16

D’vorah Kost

The topic I plan to speak on is the recognition that all humanity is one family, albeit with different cultures, languages, religions and beliefs. Developing relationships with those who are different from us is key to a deeper understanding of what it is to be human and to learn to live in peace.

Joyful Participation in the Sorrows of the World

November 9

Rev. Bruce Bode

Joseph Campbell lived and taught a mighty “yea” to life, taking hold of life as it is – not what you think life should be, could be, might be, will be, but what it is. One of his favorite Buddhist sayings in this regard was the seemingly contradictory phrase “Joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.” This service will investigate both the nature of the “sorrows of the world” and what it means to participate in those sorrows with joy.

Choosing Love

November 2

Karen Molenaar Terrell

Karen is the author of  The Madcap Christian Scientist series, the Adventures with Dad series, and the Cosmic Celebrations series. Her stories have appeared in Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, and Pack and Paddle Magazine. She enjoys hiking, photography, and meeting new friends on her walks, and lives with her husband, Scott, in Bow. She has two grown sons, two amazing daughters-in-law, and a precious toddler granddaughter.

Food Insecurity & Food Waste in our Community

October 26, 2025

Morgan Curry, Skagit Gleaners Executive Director

Morgan is passionate about understanding food systems and policy-driven food insecurity. For the past six years, she has served as Skagit Gleaners' Executive Director and is an appointed member of the City of Mount Vernon Planning Commission. She holds a master's degree in Public Administration from Seattle University with a concentration in both non-profit and government policy and has completed graduate research projects titled Food Justice and Economic Sovereignty for Migrant Farmworkers and Factors that Influence Perceptions of Food Insecurity as a Government Sustained Public Health Issue. Morgan also holds a board position for Community Action of Skagit County and is an Executive Board Member for Skagit Valley Family YMCA.