The SUUF Podcast

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.

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!

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.

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.

April 21, 2024

Karen Molenaar Terrell

Karen will be sharing readings on the topic of love, and sharing experiences of healing that have come through her understanding of the presence and power of Love.

April 14, 2024

Jamal Rahman

Jamal will glean wisdom and practices from Sufi poets and fictional comic Mulla to illuminate universal teachings in the Quran. Jamal’s latest book is now available from SkyLight Paths Publishing: Sacred Laughter of the Sufis – Awakening the Soul with the Mulla’s Comic Teaching Stories and Other Islamic Wisdom.