by Sara Lewis In the past few years, we have become more aware of gender and folks who are gender-nonconforming or transgender, and many of us have started to wear or post our pronouns. You may have also noticed that we use “they” as a pronoun more often now. Yes, it can be a singular […]
Faith in Action
The Washington legislature started meeting this week to do the people’s business. Despite protests, the first-ever all online session began on Monday. This is a long session, meeting through April 25, with many bills and the biennial budget on the table. Just like at OUUC, the budget is the way we put our values into […]
Tech Tip: Join Jo for a Help Hour!
Starting Thursday, January 21, join OUUC Media Specialist Jo Sahlin each week for an open office hour. Jo’s Zoom room will be accessible from 11 a.m. – 12 noon every Thursday. Having trouble finding Zoom links to Sunday services? Not sure how to log in to OUUC Connect/Realm? Confused about the difference between OUUC Connect […]
Questions
Poem by Christmas Frahm Image by Amy Bertrand While being in the forest fair I was in the mind to meditate and think of things to contemplate so first came birdsong loud and clear, the notes coming quick and melodious to my ear but they did not stick like fingerpricks they went plick and plick […]
Our new Share the Plate Recipient: Wild Grief
by Sara Lewis Grieving isn’t well supported in our culture. In one of our children’s classes once, a young child that I didn’t know very well shared that his grandfather had recently died, and “church was the only place where it was OK to be sad”. Everywhere else in his life, this child felt the […]
