So much has changed about OUUC’s audio/video setup in the last couple months! We are making these changes to optimize our streaming capabilities and the worship experience both in the Sanctuary and online. While this shift presents many new challenges and we likely will experience some growing pains, the possibilities for progress are vast. I […]
Showing Up
I’ve learned that sometimes the best thing you can do is to just show up. And I know that sometimes that is a challenge and a stretch. When I learned from a colleague that the local mosque had been the victim of a hate crime and that there would be a vigil to show […]
Healthy
Transformation doesn’t happen in a linear way. It happens in cycles, convergences, explosions. If we release the framework of failure, we can realize that we are in iterative cycles, and we can keep asking ourselves—how do I learn from this? From Emergent Strategy by adrienne marie brown This month we explore the third word in […]
Living With COVID
“The goodness of life is ours if we look deeply for it and give thanks for what we have and who we have it with.” Daniel C. Kanter, “The Birds Will Sing’” in Shelter in This Place: Meditations on 2020 With heavy hearts, we once again took the Thanksgiving Potluck off the OUUC calendar. This […]
Thinking Generations Ahead
Last Saturday the youth group went out to help with a tree planting for the Nisqually Land Trust. We spent a morning (miraculously without much rain) all working together planting over a hundred native trees and shrubs in what had been an agricultural field. Afterward, the Land Trust staff took us all to the river […]
