When Liberalism Goes Terribly Wrong

Aug 12, 2024 | News, Religious history

When Liberalism Goes Terribly Wrong (Alternatively – When Populism Swings Left)

We hope you will be able to join us for an important service from UU Spokane on Sunday August 18. As you see from the description below, the topic is timely, and given Todd’s insights and delivery skills will be both stimulating and educational.

As always, the service will be recorded and available after Aug. 19 on the UUSpokane YouTube site.

However, we hope you will join us on Zoom at tinyurl.com/spokanezoom.` Participating in real time allows you to get to know new Unitarian friends and engage in a lively discussion after the service. If you would like to receive a weekly reminder of the sermon topic and the zoom address you can join the UUSpokane Google group by emailing web@naunitarians.org

August 18, 2024 9:15 PDT (12:15 EDT) Speaker – Rev. Dr. Todd Eklof

Liberal values are the only values that have ever moved humanity forward, toward its fuller potential. Yet this does not mean its promise has only been stalled because of resistance from those of a more conservative spirit who are fearful of any and all change. Throughout history, those professing liberalism and its values have often proven to be the worst offenders of human dignity and welfare. In this sermon, we’ll consider some of the warning signs of a liberalism that’s gone wrong.

New Edition of the UUnderWorld

Aug 11, 2024 | News, Religious history

The Aug. 2024 issue of the UU Underworld: A Newsletter for Unitarian Universalist FreeThinkers is now available.here.This version of the UUUnderworld features articles, advise, humour and letters to the editor.

Make sure you read and share Rebecca Pace’s warning to WATCH YOUR CHURCH’S ASSETS! The Association’s Backdoor Way of Owning Your Church.

And finally do your friends and Unitarian’s everywhere a favour by sharing this link!

Unitarianism and Freedom of Thought – by John Dietrich updated by and Todd Eklof

Jul 28, 2024 | News, Religious history, Worship Service

While many of us had the opportunity to hear Rev. Eklof present an amended version of Rev. John Dietrich’s 1918 sermon, “Unitarianism and Freedom of Thought”, last Sunday on UUSpokane zoom, some of you did not.

For me, it was an extremely powerful and meaningful experience.

While one can watch the Service on YouTube. However, there are so many important ideas expressed in the sermon that I wanted to have the text so that I could study it more carefully, share it with others and keep it for reference.

A guest post by Stephen Polmar

Click to download the sermon text in PDF

New post GA issue of the UnderWorld

Jul 13, 2024 | News, Religious history

The UU Underworld – A Newsletter for Unitarian Universalist FreeThinkers is a new occasional periodical edited by John Griffin Miller. This 25 page, 2024 Post GA issue of the Underworld, contains a summary of the activities and results of the recent General Assembly as well as their potential impact on UU Congregations . It includes a checklist of things for a congregation to deal with if they decide to leave the UUA.. These are followed by three longer essays:

The 2 Cultures of Unitarian-Universalism by GEORGE Q TYREBYTER
How The UUA Manufactures Consent Reverend Gary Kowalski
Why Anti-Racism Will Fail By Thandeka,

The newsletter is a useful summary of the past and a road map for a future for Unitarians that includes the NAUA.

New NAUA Circle

Jul 2, 2024 | News

NAUA is sponsoring another new CIRCLE called Nurturing Your Spiritual Life CIRCLE that will be open to 12 participants and will meet every other Thursday beginning at 4:00 PM PDT (7:00 EDT) for 10 to 12 sessions.

The purpose of the CIRCLE will be to discuss ideas and practices about how to nurture and facilitate one’s interior spiritual life. The meeting will involve participants sharing their internal personal experiences as well their use of external resources. The intent is to provide an opportunity for participants to learn from each other’s experiences. It is hoped that participants will benefit by learning more about practices that nourish their spiritual life and the spiritual life of others.

This CIRCLE will be led by David G. Markham, who is a Licensed Clinical Social Work Psychotherapist in New York State with over 54 years of experience in the mental health and substance abuse field as a clinician and manager. He has had an interest in Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy for several years. He was raised as a Roman Catholic and in his adult life explored all the major religious traditions and for twenty years was affiliated with three different Unitarian Universalist congregations.

If you are interested in participating in this CIRCLE, kindly send an email to circles@naunitarians.org and put “Spiritual CIRCLE” in the subject line, and we will respond quickly. Please include your phone number. We plan on beginning as soon as we have an adequate amount of participants.