Episodes

Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
Questioning Language: Words Matter
Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
September 8, 2024
Rev. Mel Hoover & Rev. Rose Edington
What does it mean to speak the language of love as we create Beloved Community?

Friday Sep 06, 2024
Non-Violent Communications
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Friday Sep 06, 2024
September 1, 2024
George Rodgers-Clark
Evolving thoughts on non-violent communication: progressing from the formula to street empathy.

Sunday Jul 21, 2024
Shaking the Tree
Sunday Jul 21, 2024
Sunday Jul 21, 2024
July 21
Norma Jean Young
Norma Jean will be sharing from her experience of making peace, shaking the tree of women and men (gender inequity), and using touch to heal our community: our one human family. Join us for songs, stories, sharing, and fun!

Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Art, Magic, and the Supernatural
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
July 7, 2024
Speaker: Peter Joys
Sometimes real things can strike us as magical. A work of art can display qualities that we can feel but not explain. Even illusionists can convince us of their power over the impossible. Even advertisements, for better or worse, employ aesthetics that move us. In this service we will play with some of the ways that the tangible world can hint at intangible dimensions, and we will discuss how our minds reverberate with intuitions and perceptions we cannot prove, in ways that are often uplifting and sometimes manipulating and sometimes both.

Monday Jun 03, 2024
I See You
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Monday Jun 03, 2024
June 2, 2024
Rev. Barbara Gilday
What do we see when we look at a person? First impressions? Solidifying opinions / judgments / assessments? How often do we assess our own lenses? How do our relations with others match up with our first principle: “The inherent worth and dignity of every person”? Or the schema of our proposed Values.

Monday May 27, 2024
The Good Samaritan
Monday May 27, 2024
Monday May 27, 2024
May 26, 2024
Mike Zink
One of his Favorite Bible Stories: The Good Samaritan Luke 10:30-37. Mike will also be telling us about Martha's Place.

Monday May 20, 2024
Fairy Tales for the Elder Years
Monday May 20, 2024
Monday May 20, 2024
May 19, 2024
Rev. Bruce Bode
The majority of fairy tales – “minor scriptures” representing the distilled wisdom of a culture – deal with the issues and psychology of children and youth as they make the difficult threshold crossing into adulthood. But there are also a minority of fairy tales that deal with the developmental changes, psychological shifts, and crucial values related to both the middle and elder years. This sermon will feature two entertaining and instructive fairy tales that bring forward the issues and values of the elder years.

Wednesday May 15, 2024
Peace for All Times
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Wednesday May 15, 2024
May 12, 2024
Michael Hurwicz, Sharon Abrey
Sharon and Michael will present a musical program on President John F. Kennedy’s Peace Speech, delivered in 1963 — and so very relevant today!

Tuesday May 07, 2024
Specialize in the Impossible
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Tuesday May 07, 2024
May 5, 2024
Joseph Bednarik
In this bright dark world of beauty and tumult, poet Theodore Roethke said, “What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.” Why would anyone bother with the impossible? This sermon explores the realm of impossible, and what powers we need to harness to become that specialist our world so desperately needs.

Sunday Apr 28, 2024
Releasing the Gender Genie from the Bottle and Other Fairy Tales
Sunday Apr 28, 2024
Sunday Apr 28, 2024
April 28, 2024
Linden Jordan, MA JD
Linden, facilitator of the PFLAG Skagit Support Group, will lead this Sunday’s Service. Linden will share his experiences of the many presentations of gender. It isn’t as simple as you’ve been led to believe. He will encourage us all to let kindness be our guide. His mantra is: there are many ways to love and many ways to be. Let it be so.