Our fourth covenant reads: “ We preserve the safety of our community. For our aspirations to be fulfilled, our community must be a place of safety. To this end, we respect healthy boundaries, maintain appropriate confidentiality, and commit to policies and actions which preserve a safe environment.”
When … read more.
From the facilities committee: The network password is: abcd1234
Next Wednesday December 15th 6:30-8:00 PM
Possible themes: We’ll take a few minutes at the beginning to decide:
sweet and simple, How Are You Doing?
What does spirituality mean to you?
In what do you have faith?
How are faith, hope and joy related?
Possible ways for us to meet in … read more.
The GEO Group (a for profit company that operates the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma) was ordered by the courts to pay detainees minimum wage for jobs they do while in detainment (cleaning/cooking) instead of one dollar per day as in the past. Instead … read more.
In today’s book club meeting, several members want to include some quotes from the book to be added to the newsletter.
“When conditions are easy and there’s plenty to go around, individual species can go it alone. But when conditions are harsh and life is tenuous, … read more.
Hello all of you creative VIUFers. It’s time for another edition of “Outside the Box”. You can use the VIUF theme for December “Opening to Joy” for your inspiration or anything you wish.
Please send your contributions in the form of your own poetry or prose … read more.
We will be hosting the December 26th service, “Opening to Joy.”
We want you to share a “little” joy in one sentence, as part of our service. We will feature you on screen, in a pre-arranged order. We encourage you to consider little joys you have … read more.
Join the National Council of Churches and faith communities around the country in supporting HR-40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans Act. Read and sign onto a letter from faith groups urging Congress to support HR-40. The Unitarian Universalists … read more.
The theme for December is Opening to Joy.
The Book Club discussion of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants will be held at the end of service on Dec. 5th, (not Nov. 28th, as several of us will be out-of-town for Thanksgiving.) This gives you all one more week to … read more.
