12/04/2024 by Shannon Day

“Why Music Matters” Scott Farrell with Rick Taylor

Event Start Date:07/09/2025Event End Date:07/09/2025Event Venue:Music by the Westside Chorale and other special guests We are hardwired to be drawn to music. Whether as an accompaniment to daily activities, an element of celebrations, or a way to move through varying emotional states of being, music is vital to the everyday life of people around the world. Led by Music Director Scott Farrell and the Westside Chorale members of Westside of all ages will share their vocal and instrumental gifts, we’ll sing a bunch of songs together, and we’ll spend some time exploring just why it is that music matters to

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10/14/2024 by Shannon Day

“Here We Are” – Rev. Carter Smith with Lisa Reitzes

Event Start Date:07/09/2025Event End Date:07/09/2025Event Venue:Our elections have brought to the surface so many of the divides in our nation and in our communities closer to home. Let us join together for a time of prayer, solidarity, and recommitment to reaching towards the Beloved Community. The worship theme for November is Engagement. Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, Nov. 10th.

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10/07/2024 by Shannon Day

“Those Who Have Gone Before Us: A Samhain Service” – Rev. Carter Smith with Steve Burrows

Event Start Date:07/09/2025Event End Date:07/09/2025Event Venue:Join us for our annual service to honor our loved ones who have died in the past year, and connect with our ancestors. We will pause to uplift their memory and to acknowledge our place amongst them in the living stream of time. If you have a loved one who has passed over this year please send a photo with their name and relation to you to: office@wsuu.org by Wednesday, Oct. 23. Click here to join the livestream of this worship service on Sunday, October 27th at 10:30 am.

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08/26/2024 by Shannon Day

“Those Who Have Gone Before Us: A Samhain Service” Rev. Carter Smith with Steve Burrows

Event Start Date:07/09/2025Event End Date:07/09/2025Event Venue:Join us for our annual service to honor our loved ones who have died in the past year, and connect with our ancestors. We will pause to uplift their memory and to acknowledge our place amongst them in the living stream of time. Click here to join the livestream of this service at 10:30 am on Sunday, October 27.

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08/26/2024 by Shannon Day

“On Accountability” Rev Carter Smith with Rick Taylor

Event Start Date:07/09/2025Event End Date:07/09/2025Event Venue:In recent years, our culture has been evolving new ways to talk about justice and accountability in community settings. This service will explore ideas of what accountability might mean in our context, drawing from the wisdom of Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg’s On Repentance and Repair. The worship theme for October is Accountability. Click here to join the livestream of this service at 10:30 am on Sunday, October 13th.

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Seven hands together at center of image. Palms face up.
08/26/2024 by Shannon Day

“With Souls that Make Our Souls Wiser” Rev. Carter Smith with Lisa Reitzes

Event Start Date:07/09/2025Event End Date:07/09/2025Event Venue:This month, as we explore themes around joining together in community, let us take time to honor the individuality alive within our interdependence. As a non-creedal faith community, how do we productively engage difference while keeping our love at the center? How do we encourage one another’s spiritual growth while honoring the unique journey that each of us is on? The worship theme for September is Encounter. Click here to join the livestream of this service at 10:30 on Sunday, September 22nd.

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08/11/2024 by Shannon Day

Ingathering Sunday: At the Confluence of Our Lives – Rev. Carter Smith

Event Start Date:07/09/2025Event End Date:07/09/2025Event Venue:Join us for our annual Ingathering service, where we celebrate this community as a place where the separate streams of our lives begin to flow together, a Confluence. You are invited to bring a small sample of water collected over the summer for Water Communion, a beloved UU tradition. Let us take this time to reconnect with one another, to mingle our separate waters and imagine where our journey together might carry us.

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07/08/2024 by Shannon Day

“Precious Life” – Worship Leader Reflections

Event Start Date:07/09/2025Event End Date:07/09/2025Event Venue:Worship Associates Lisa Reitzes, Liz Bucklew, and Rick Taylor will reflect on the last lines of Mary Oliver’s poem, “The Summer Day”: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Click here to join the live stream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, August 25.

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06/27/2024 by Shannon Day

“The One Who is Eating Sugar Out of My Hand”- Rev. Carter Smith with Jill Fleming

Event Start Date:07/09/2025Event End Date:07/09/2025Event Venue:It has been said that generosity is a form of pure courage. How would we give of ourselves differently if we had trust that relationship is more important than the thing we are giving away, trust that our offerings will be reciprocated? This service will explore ways to flex our generosity muscle in big and small ways, as a courageous commitment to interdependence.

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06/27/2024 by Shannon Day

“This Grasshopper, I Mean” Rev. Carter Smith with Rick Taylor

Event Start Date:07/09/2025Event End Date:07/09/2025Event Venue:As Mary Oliver contemplates the beauty of nature around her, including the particular grasshopper that is eating sugar from her hand, we can begin to marvel at the particular beings around us. This service is focused on the art of connecting with others, whether forging new relationships or deepening the ones already in our lives. If we bring added intentionality and wonder to those we share our time with, might we learn to behold them in new ways and deepen our own sense of belonging?

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