The new RE year is upon us!! Woohoo! Several themes will run through this RE year: social justice, diversity, and inclusivity. We are also working with an evolving reality for religious exploration, for both WSUU children and within the UU world. Some of the evolutionary forces are discussed in a
Continue readingOn Sunday, May 21st Westside held a service with guest speaker Dr. Jabali Stewart called “We Will Keep Moving Together.” He explored the painful reality of white supremacy culture in America with music and story, looking at our cultural assumptions from a place of curiosity and solution. As part of
Continue readingTo what do you align your heart? Ultimately, that is the quest of religious exploration. The formation of our children’s spirituality comes through story, art, lessons, wondering, questioning, and discussions. Exploring their feelings and understandings of UU, their personal expression of this faith, develops and evolves. Children and youth are
Continue readingReligious Exploration at Westside matters to all of us whether or not we have children. We are growing lifelong UUs through our RE programming. Our children – and they are our children – are the future leaders, volunteers, congregants, and members of UU churches. Perhaps they will remain at Westside
Continue readingJune 11th is the RE Celebration service and we’d love to find a creative soul to work with us to create a slide show of photographs of all Westside’s volunteers, RE classes (and children and teachers). Are you interested in either creating a slide show (with music) or taking photographs
Continue reading“Greed” is the Topic for Sunday, March 12, 2017 Multi-generational Service. All children will be in service except for the Nursery and Story Time children. We are looking for children in 5th grade or older to act as Greeters, and help with collecting the offering (in the baskets). For this service
Continue readingChildren ages 5-14, will go from service after the story for all ages, into Chalice Chapel, our Sunday Children’s Worship Service held instead of RE classes that day. Only the Nursery and Story Time classes will be offered. Sally Jo Gilbert de Vargas will lead this Chalice Chapel. She has
Continue readingWhat is spirituality? Answering this question helps guide me in my work. For me spirituality is about nurturing relationships with mystery, self, others and the world to experience and realize our interconnectedness. It is also about nurturing love and kindness; as we appreciate our interconnectedness, our oneness, we understand that
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