In-Person AND on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620 Meeting passcode: BUF Order of Service Our Commitment to Sexual Wholeness and Education in these Times, Part Two. Speakers will include BUF members who have taught the “Our Whole Lives” sexuality education curriculum, and Jenn Mason, Bellingham school board member. More details.
In-Person AND on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620 Meeting passcode: BUF Order of Service Unitarian Universalists globally are rethinking the nature of our international partnerships. To put it in a local context: is BUF’s relationship with our partner congregation in Magyarszovat lopsided/paternalistic? How might re-envisioning our collective partnerships help us to make our personal partnerships more truly mutual? … Continue reading Evolving Partnerships
In-Person AND on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620 Meeting passcode: BUF Order of Service Kristina Michele Martens, who partnered with BUF’s Black Lives Matter team to create a George Floyd Memorial in Fouts Park, will share some of the energy behind current justice initiatives in Bellingham. Note: Following the November 6 service, we will walk together to Fouts … Continue reading ‘Til All of us Arrive
In-Person AND on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620 Meeting passcode: BUF Order of Service Throughout time, human cultures have attempted to describe and cope with their experience of life via images and stories of gods and demons. Today we’ll consider a variety of past or existing models and reflect on which parts resonate with our own experience of … Continue reading Demons, and G-d with 2 Oh’s
In-Person AND on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620 Meeting passcode: BUF Order of Service In telling our stories we get the opportunity to be heard, to be known, to deliver first person accounts. But storytelling, as in all forms of communication, requires a listener. What kind of listener are you? More details.
In-Person AND on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620 Meeting passcode: BUF Order of Service Resilient, sustainable, regenerative community doesn’t come out of nowhere, but we are not nowhere. Forests are built and rebuilt on nurse logs. In what ways can BUF’s resources, including our own lives, be nurse logs for forests to come? More details.
In-Person AND on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620 Meeting passcode: BUF Order of Service Congregations have found a variety of ways to further the cause of social betterment: advocacy and agitation; caring, sanctuary, learning; support for individuals and community. Post 2020, what might our common vision be for BUF? More details.
In-Person AND on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620 Meeting passcode: BUF Order of Service I’m not sure if empathy comes from our sense of connection with one another, or if our sense of connection with one another comes from empathy. But I do know that if we are open to it, we can experience in our own bodies … Continue reading Empathy
In-Person AND on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620 Meeting passcode: BUF Order of Service Please bring a splash of water this Sunday (if you will be joining us on Zoom, or are unavailable Sunday, come by on Saturday from 9-11 am. I’ll be outside the front door with our beautiful Water Communion bowl and extra water). In our … Continue reading Water Communion
In-Person AND on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620 Meeting passcode: BUF Order of Service Do my thoughts, or beliefs matter? Or even my actions and words? How about praying, caring, witnessing? What might it mean that the living tradition we share draws from many sources, including the words and deeds of prophetic people which challenge us to confront … Continue reading Does What I Do Matter?
