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Weekly Happenings
Sundays from 10-11:30 am: Service at the Rockford Grange (4262 Barrett Dr. Hood River, OR). Join us in person upstairs at the Grange or online via ZOOM.
Tuesdays from 9-11 am: Pam Zachary-Morneault hosts a “Garden Café” in White Salmon. Drop in anytime. No politics or religion are discussed. All welcome. Contact Pam for location.
Fridays from 5-5:30 pm: Community Action for Gaza at the Salmon Street fountain at the intersection of 2nd and Oak St. in Hood River. Bring signs and friends if you can. These vigils will continue until a permanent ceasefire is achieved.
Sundays at 12 PM
In-Person Monthly Team Meetings
2nd Sundays: Finance Team
4th Sundays: Social Justice Circle (online option available)
Monthly Team Meeting Schedule
Online Only Meetings
1st Thursdays at 1 pm: Membership Engagement Team
2nd Thursdays at 3:30 pm: Worship Team
2nd Fridays at 3:30 pm: Care Team
3rd Sundays at 5 pm: Board Meeting
(All meetings subject to change.
Check in with team lead if you’d like to attend!)
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Upcoming Events
Dying to Live
I’m dying to go to the concert next week- would you go with me? I’m dying to try windsurfing … do you think you could help me? I’m dying to live alone, but have never done it before - do you really think I could?
Our language betrays the wisdom of the ages, for if we know anything at all, it is that we die to live. We die so many little deaths, before we draw our last breath. “The favorite mug smashed on the stone floor, the lost book, the job gone, the face now seen only in that unrealistic photo - all these are part of dying to live,” writes Reverend Carl Scovel.
I hope you’ll join me as we launch our theme for October - death. How are the many small deaths you’ve experienced, helping you live more fully today? And how are those many small deaths helping you prepare for your own death? It won’t kill us to talk about it!
See you Sunday!
With love beyond belief, Barbara
Presented by: Rev. Barbara Prose
Celebrant: Hannah Pardee
Music: Boyd Becker
What is Universalism?
Featuring Rev. Barbara Prose
Celebrant Elaine Castles
Music by Bonnie and Dick Withers
Come at 9 am for All Ages Popup Choir!
Are you a Universalist? I haven’t heard too many of you claim a Universalist identity here in the Gorge. Perhaps because, as the saying goes, “If you are a Universalist, you better make friends with your enemies now, because you’re going to be spending eternity with them soon!” A theology of radical inclusion, Universalism has always been expressed and repressed in Christian circles since the beginning of Christianity.
Whatever you think happens after you die, in a faith as free as ours, we each have a responsibility to articulate as best we can, what we hold as our highest values, and why. With the religious freedom we cherish comes the responsibility to study, debate, even argue, and then finally decide, define and declare where we stand.
My hunch, whether you were raised in a Christian tradition or not, is that we are all Universalists. See you on Sunday and let me know what you think!
With love beyond belief, Barbara
This is the second, in a four-part sermon series, in which we will explore the roots of our liberal religious tradition. We started in May with Humanism. Moving in June to Universalism. Celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday by exploring Unitarianism in July and finish the series in August, with Unitarian Universalism. There will be time for discussion afterwards, downstairs, as part of our Get To Know Us monthly gathering, happening every First and Third Sunday from 12-1 pm.