12/28/2022 by Shannon Day

Nurturing Beloved Community and Honoring the Legacy of Dr. King – Rick Taylor with WA Poor People’s Campaign Members

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:Westside’s Racial Justice Change Team, in support of implementing the Eighth Principle, celebrates the legacy of Dr. King in the Poor People’s Campaign with a three speakers from that group; Karen Schneider, Susan Partnow and Ginny Parham. This service will also feature music preformed by Seattle’s Raging Grannies! Our guests recommend viewing this video to get a sense of this campaign via hearing the voices of impacted people who the movement represents. Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, January 8.

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12/06/2022 by Shannon Day

The Ghosts of Unitarian Christmas – 5:00 PM Christmas Eve 2022

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:It was Christmas Eve, a time when any sensible person stays safe in his house with a good book. But then Ben’s reading lamp burned out. “Ghosts of Unitarian Christmas” by Doug Muder updates Charles Dickens’s holiday classic “A Christmas Carol.” Instead of Ebenezer Scrooge, a cantankerous UU man is visited by seasonal ghosts, including Dickens himself. This whimsical narrative weaves story and song to remind us of the spirit of Christmas. At this time our worship is happening live in our sanctuary and live-streamed via our YouTube Channel. Masks and vaccinations are required.  See

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12/06/2022 by Shannon Day

Embrace the Dark, Embrace the Light – Lisa Reitzes, Amanda Meier, Gracie Bucklew, & Simon Knaphus

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:In this week that includes the observance of Hanukkah and the Winter Solstice, we are reminded through readings, reflections, and music that there are blessings and magic to be found in the deep stillness of the dark season and in the renewing spark of returning light. Worship is currently being offered in person in our sanctuary and online via our YouTube Channel. Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, December 18th.

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11/21/2022 by Shannon Day

Happy Holidays? – Aisha Hauser with Chris Darnell

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:It seems that in the past few years, all the ills that humanity has ever faced are happening all at once, plague, war, pestilence, drought; in what some refer to as “biblical proportions.” Our faith does not use the bible or any other holy book as a map of humanity’s trajectory for a place in the afterlife. Therefore, we will explore ways to find meaning, joy, while centering the spirits of love and liberation during what feels to many as the end of days. Click here to join the livestream of this worship service on

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11/02/2022 by Shannon Day

The River That Made Seattle – BJ Cummings with Anne Fox

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:The Duwamish River has been subject to two centuries of competing claims – by native tribes, early settlers, industrial pioneers, and waves of immigrant communities taking up residence along its banks. The outcome of these conflicts has shaped the course of the river, the fate of its communities, and the character of Seattle itself. Today, the Duwamish River is polluted, its neighborhoods in poor health, and its industrial base stagnant. But plans for cleanup and revitalization are underway, led by a new generation of pioneers who reimagine the Duwamish as “a river for all.” Click

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09/27/2022 by Shannon Day

Ever Unfolding – Rev. Deanna Vandiver with Rick Taylor

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:Rev. Deanna Vandiver, who joined us as our Bridge Minister for the 2019-2020 congregation year, returns to worship with us on Sunday, October 23rd. Together we will reflect on what it means to be part of an emergent faith tradition centering love and liberation through this Great Unraveling, Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, October 23. Click here to read our current COVID 19 gathering guidelines.

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09/27/2022 by Shannon Day

Your Voice Is Holy: Embodied Spirituality with Gina Sala

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:“Your body, your voice is holy,” says global vocalist and international retreat leader Gina Salá. While some traditions suggest that we need to be liberated from the physical form to experience the transcendent, there are others that offer a more embodied spirituality as another possibility. Join us as Gina Salá guides us in experiential practices from East and West that help us feel more at ease in our bodies, hearts, and mind and bring us into a direct experience of the felt sense of the Divine within through chant, mantra, movement, song and story. No

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09/14/2022 by Shannon Day

“Living on the Edge of Ecological Renewal” Rev. Jennifer DeBusk Alviar with Lisa Reitzes

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, September 25. Could the threat of climate change and the collapse of the institutional church serve as the necessary impetus to reform and rewild both ecology and theology? Please join us as we explore these questions from one UU minister’s pilgrimage through the landscape of wilderness and soul. In Person Worship has returned at Westside! Please read our new COVID guidelines here. In brief, masks are required for everyone older than 2 yrs and vaccination a required by all eligible. Children under

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08/18/2022 by Shannon Day

“Homecoming” Ingathering 2022 – WSUU Worship Team

Event Start Date:06/16/2026Event End Date:06/16/2026Event Venue:Amidst all of the motion and emotion of our daily lives, we seek places that ground us, a place that we home. This could be a physical environment, a relationship, a realm of the imagination, a spiritual cradle, a sanctuary. As the Westside congregation re-gathers to begin another church year, we reflect on and celebrate the many ways that our community helps us create a sense of place, a home in which to find each other and journey to new understandings. Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on

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