The SUUF Podcast

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."

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

November 24, 2024

Speaker: Tony Cienfuegos

Tony Cienfuegos will talk about the Underground Ministries and the Direct Re-Entry Program.

October 20, 2024

Speaker: Doris Brevoort

This service is about sound, music and healing, and the way they relate to each other. In this service, Doris will lead SUUF’s first fall choir to ease our anxiety and tensions during these stressful times.

November 10, 2024

Speaker: Rev. Amanda Aikman

The most profound experiences of longing and sorrow are inextricably bound together with joy and beauty. Poignant feelings of nostalgia, regret, and yearning have the mysterious power to make us whole. Especially at this time, as our nation is roiled by so many conflicting currents, we are invited to open our hearts to these very human experiences.