Jill Fleming, Regina Brennan and Alice Murphy Soares explore food justice, what it is, why it is so important and Westside’s involvement with food justice, past and present. Click here to join the livestream of this worship service on Sunday, November 6 at 10:30 am.
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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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“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 experience needed, participate as you
Continue readingClick 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 5 and those unable to
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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 Sunday, September 11. Our worship
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13th century Sufi poet, Rumi, instructs us to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against Love and to embrace them. What he doesn’t tell us is how to do this. Join us as we explore some ways to recognize, overcome, and embrace our own barriers to Love. Our worship is currently offered both in person in our sanctuary at 7141 California Ave SW, Seattle 98136 and online via our YouTube Channel. Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, August 28th. Masked are required during our services. Full COVID
Continue readingAfter reading Search, a novel about the year in the life of Unitarian Universalist search committee, Jill Fleming was prompted to reflect on her life as a UU and what gifts she has received from being part of Westside and what she hopes others might receive from being part of Westside. Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, August 14. Our service are now multi-platform, both in person in our sanctuary on online via our YouTube Channel. If you plan to join us in our sanctuary please read our COVID-19 guidelines.
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Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, July 24. When our hearts and bodies heavy with stress or sorrow about all that is around us, deep play is an essential part of rest and healing. Come and hear Reverend Margo Rinehart lead us through a journey of play through physical, emotional and spiritual experiences. Our service are now multi-platform, both in person in our sanctuary on online via our YouTube Channel. If you plan to join us in our sanctuary please read our COVID-19 guidelines.
Continue readingClick here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, July 24. Our service are now multi-platform, both in person in our sanctuary on online via our YouTube Channel. If you plan to join us in our sanctuary please read our COVID-19 guidelines.
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When we share a passionate expression of grief with our bodies, minds, and souls in community we can begin the turn toward the light. Join us for an embodied service where together we can seek justice, peace, and wholeness within ourselves and beyond. Click here to join the livestream of this worship service at 10:30 am on Sunday, July 10. Our service are now multi-platform, both in person in our sanctuary on online via our YouTube Channel. If you plan to join us in our sanctuary please read our COVID-19 guidelines.
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