The SUUF Podcast

October 6, 2024

Speaker: Lila Ghising

Working both nationally and internationally, Lila brings both professional and personal experience in the problems of human trafficking and domestic violence. While working full-time as a social worker, she also supports various organizations in Seattle, such as, Northwest Family Life and the Salvation Army. In addition, Lila has been a volunteer with WPC-Napal for twenty-four years. Originally from Nepal, Lila has made her home here in Washington state for the last twenty years.

September 29, 2024

Speaker: Kathy Roche- Zujko

In this special service we focused on books. Like other communion services, participants were encouraged to bring a book to leave for others and had the opportunity to take a book that someone else had brought. Some wrapped their book to add the element of surprise in the exchange. Kathy spoke about the importance of books, as well as the danger of banning them, as many states and cities have been proned to do. Members were invited to share a passage from their favorite book.

September 22, 2024

Speaker: Mollie Hoare

In this service we will learn all about Friendship House in Mount Vernon from Mollie Hoare!

September 8, 2024

Rev. Mel Hoover & Rev. Rose Edington

What does it mean to speak the language of love as we create Beloved Community?

September 1, 2024

George Rodgers-Clark

Evolving thoughts on non-violent communication: progressing from the formula to street empathy.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.