Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Church

Inherent Worth and Dignity: There's Principle... and Then There's Practice

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:31:00 +0000

May 6, 2012

Kristina Selset, guest speaker

As UUs, we have covenanted to “affirm and promote” certain principles. We’ll explore the ramifications of our first principle and why that element of our covenant is perhaps the most challenging. Spirit Hand will play.

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A Love Supreme

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:37:00 +0000

April 22, 2012

Kate Landis

Our Unitarian Universalist congregations are havens of hope and reservoirs of love for so many of us. What happens when we take all that powerful love out into the world? Let’s think about what is possible when our compassion spills out beyond the church walls.

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Hand in Hand, Heart in Heart

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:04:00 +0000

April 15, 2012
Kate Landis

What would it mean for us to walk together? Unitarian Universalist ministry is not the sole domain of the preacher, it is a collaborative art. Lay leaders, congregants, children, seniors― we labor side by side to minister to each other and to the wider world. What would collaborative ministry look like with a new minister? Come walk with me for the morning, exploring what could be.

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Faith is a Gift of God

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:02:00 +0000

April 1, 2012
Rev. Zoltan Koppandi, Guest Speaker from Transylvania

When Francis David was looking to the future, well over 400 years ago, he wrote: “We will not cry over the century’s misery… So great is the power of the soul that it will triumph, even if the whole world is in rage or opposed to it.” This sermon invites you to get closer to the memory of Francis David, Unitarian forebear, preacher and theologian.

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The Prophetic Voice of the Occupy Movement

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:54:00 +0000

March 25, 2012
Rev. Tsukina Blessing & Rev. Michael Douglas, Guest Speakers

Join us for a Universal Worship service celebrating the unfolding of Occupy Wall Street and the international movement it spawned as a continuation of the revelation of the prophets of old. After tracing this impulse through scriptures of the world and current thought, we will explore our connection to the urge to truth in ourselves.

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Wings Set Us Free

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:54:00 +0000

March 18, 2012
Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

To celebrate spring, freedom, and hopes for the world’s future (and our own).

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Roots Hold Us Close

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:52:00 +0000

March 11, 2012
Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

Our roots go back through centuries; yet those that feed us most directly are drawing from depleted soils. Are UUs tumbleweeds? How does history help and hobble? What roots draw nourishment for your own religious/spiritual grounding?

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More Dragons

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:08:00 +0000

February 19, 2012
The Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

Another mangled metaphor about things we love to dread and fear--with input from your own lives.

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Facing Dragons

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:45:00 +0000

February 12, 2012

The Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

Most of us have been challenged by dragons. When they started as cute little lizards, but have now grown to deprive you of your “treasure”--now what? A reflection on relationships, fear and love.

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Forward Through the Ages

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:33:00 +0000

January 29, 2012

The Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

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From Civil Rights to the Occupy Uprising: Visions of Economic Justice

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:57:00 +0000

January 22, 2012
The Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

Whose vision? Whose justice? What is the wealth of our nation actually based on?

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What Would Martin Do?

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:45:00 +0000

January 15, 2012
The Rev. Dr. Barbara W. & Rev. Jaco B. ten Hove, guest speakers

Seeing our times through the “eyes” of an important historical character is a risky buy sometimes useful exercise, attempted here on a weekend celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr, who might just have some helpful, perhaps even timeless counsel for a still-struggling world.

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Mystery Minister—Mentor to MLK, Jr.

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:20:00 +0000

January 8, 2012
Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

An earnest, ordinary-looking minister became a trailblazer and then a mentor for civil rights leaders. Who was this person? Why might UUs be interested?

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Season of Gladness, Season of Sharing

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:11:00 +0000

December 18, 2011
Judi Kalitzki & Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

Stories and songs for the season. Judi Kalitzki will chant the Hanukkah prayer. We’ll reflect on the ancient pre-Christian celebration of Solstice.

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Difficult Gifts, Precious Gifts

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:48:00 +0000

December 11, 2011
Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

In this season when many cultural traditions involve the exchange or expectation of gifts, you may have fretted about finding an “acceptable” gift for certain people. What are the obligations and strings? On the other hand, you’ve probably received one or two gifts that are priceless. What have they been? Why were they priceless?

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What Difference Does It Make?

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:20:00 +0000

November 27, 2011
Lex Voorhoeve, Guest Speaker

Assuming there is consciousness underlying what we experience as reality, what difference does it make that in that case WE ARE THAT CONSCIOUSNESS?

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Think Globally, Act Locally

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:00:00 +0000

November 20, 2011
Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

Part of Shoreline’s mission/vision statement says that we want to “act locally, while thinking regionally, nationally, globally.” Millions of causes need concerted attention to correct, repair, heal, or bring to justice. Another quotation says: “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” What has captured your treasure?

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The Beloved Stranger

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:09:00 +0000

November 6, 2011
Rev. Craig Rennebohm

SUUC welcomes as our pulpit guest Rev. Rennebohm, of the Mental Health Chaplaincy (an outreach mission of the Prospect Congregational United Church of Christ in Seattle). His 25-year ministry with the homeless and mentally ill on the streets of Seattle inspired his book, Souls in the Hands of a Tender God. Rev. Rennebohm has spent his career challenging himself and congregations of many faiths to be companions to all people, inclusive and supportive, welcoming the stranger and the estranged.

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The Most Radical Experiment

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:35:00 +0000

October 16, 2011
Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

Is it a religion that has outlived its relevance? How is it possible that this UU religion survives into the 21st Century? Can it survive another 50 years? Some say this IS the religion for our time. How so?

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Glimpses Through the Fog

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:59:00 +0000

October 9, 2011
Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

Human’s perceptions are limited by their physical abilities, but our thoughts, our imaginations and memories fill in the gestalt of uncertain glimpses. If you believe in Sasquatch because of what you have seen, and I have only seen bears, we are likely to disagree. Dare we open our minds to another’s incredible experience? How can we even talk to each other?

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Seared Into History

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:16:00 +0000

September 11, 2011
The Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

A decade has passed since the world watched repeated videos of the airplane attacks of September 11, 2001. Where were you? What did it mean to you then? How have you changed since then. What do we understand about ourselves, our nation, the changing face of war? hope? reconciliation? This service will give you time to reflect, to light candles. and to share.

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What is this "Audacious" Religion?

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:27:00 +0000

August 21, 2011
The Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

A patched together "cam-elope"? A New Age invention? A gaggle of gadflies? What makes us tick-and stick? Bring a friend to hear about how Unitarian Universalism came to be, and is now in the Pacific Northwest.

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Amid Flotsam and Jetsam: Fishing Floats and Other Treasures

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:05:00 +0000

August 14, 2011
The Rev. Heather Lynn Hanson

Since moving to a smaller apartment, I've had to sort and toss out boxes of old materials, resources, keepsakes, ancient sermons, seminary notes. And, of course, I want to reread almost everything. Ideas and insights I've gleaned while rummaging through ideas and idealisms from fifteen years ago help me remember and realize how my faith has changed over the years. What about you? Any new "Aha!" or old insights reawakened during the summer?

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Wonderfully Human--With Dignity!

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:57:00 +0000

August 7, 2011
Lew Witham, Guest Speaker

Dignity appears in the first principle of the Unitarian Universalist faith. Yet it remains a largely unexplored concept. Where might we be most expected to find its presence—or absence? How easily can its importance be brushed aside, even by those of us who swear by its importance? Those who take dignity seriously can expect to be engaged in an ongoing back and forth between fighting for its preservation and acknowledging the impediments we often place upon its path.

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Why is America so frosty about the 'Arab Spring'?

noreply@blogger.com (Laurie Radin) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:47:00 +0000

July 24, 2011
David Wertheimer, MDiv, MSW, Guest Speaker

It seems no matter how hard America tries, we just can’t seem to understand or embrace what is being referred to as the “Arab Spring.” The divide between our culture and the cultures of the Middle East is so enormous — perhaps even impossible to bridge. It seems, at times, that the most basic similarities we share as human beings whose spirits aspire to freedom may not be enough to promote the harmony with the Arab world that so many of us would love to experience. David will share reflections on why Americans have so much trouble embracing what is happening in the Middle East, and why what is going on there feels like it is so many worlds away from our own experience.

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