What is at the center of our community? What is at the center of our faith, as Unitarian Universalists? Join Worship Team members as we explore these questions and the history and importance of covenant to our UU faith.
At a time when trans* people have became a target of fascist scapegoating, we gather on the Sunday before Trans* Day of Remembrance to name those who have been taken from us too soon, and to commit ourselves as a congregation to being a place of sanctuary for our trans* beloveds. We use the term … Continue reading To Be A Sanctuary: Honoring Trans* Day of Remembrance
In this all-ages service, we will participate in our New Member Ceremony, where people in the community enter into the mutual promises of our freely-chosen faith and are welcomed by the congregation. We’ll also consider the work of covenant building, and return to the promises of Saltwater’s Covenant of Right Relations. On most second Sundays, … Continue reading Covenant in Action: Faith Formation Sunday
In 1988, Salish elder Leonard Sampson told Paulette Steeves (Cree, Metis), a single mother of three whose education had ended in 8th grade, that she had been given work that would reverberate through generations. In 2021, Steeves published a book, drawing heavily from her archeology dissertation, that uses data and story to upend racist assumptions … Continue reading The Ancestor’s Breath: Indigenous Prehistory of Turtle Island
For this service, Rev. Alison will offer a few short reflections on questions submitted ahead of time by members and friends of Saltwater. If you have a question you’ve always wanted to know how your minister would answer, email Rev. Alison or drop a card in the question box at service no later than October … Continue reading What’s in the Question Box?
Prayer is often noticeably absent from UU worship services. Evian and Dany, along with the Saltwater Choir, invite us to reconsider our relationship with prayer (and maybe even what prayer is in the first place).
On this Faith Formation Sunday we will offer the opportunity for all generations to creatively answer these questions posed by a Unitarian Universalist hymn based on the words of artist Paul Gaugin.
Asking big questions together is one way we live our Unitarian Universalist faith, even (maybe especially) the big questions to which there are no answers. Join us as we engage with Mystery to finding meaning together.
How do we connect to each other as individuals and as communities? Join the Worship Team and other speakers from the Saltwater community to explore the reality of our interdependence.
Join Rev. Alison and Saltwater’s Racial Justice Organizing Team (RJOT) to practice mindfullness techniques drawn from the Buddhist tradition that can help us work with and through the suffering that arises from racism. This service offers an introduction to the book Mindful of Race by Ruth King. RJOT will lead a study of this book … Continue reading Mindful of Race
