Sunday Mornings at Cedars

Fran Korten, Guest Speaker  Gregory Cook, Worship Associate In the Bible, Genesis tells us that God gave man dominion over all the creatures of the Earth. That “old story” is well embedded in our culture with many dysfunctional results. We need a “new story” that recognizes we are simply one species among many other species, interconnected with all. We will discuss the signs of a shift to a new st...

Grace Bonow, Guest Speaker   Nancy Philip, Worship Associate  What’s Up With Young People These Days?: A Teenager’s View on Today’s World The world is a complicated place. It’s full of catastrophic problems like climate change, social injustice, and of course the millennia-old complaint: young people. How do young people today see the world? How can we ensure that we as humans, but especially dese...

Rev. Barry Andrews, Guest Minister Jenny Weaver, Worship Associate  For many people today, Ralph Waldo Emerson is a quaint relic of the nineteenth century, or worse yet, a dead white male with little to offer contemporary Americans. Not so for me. I have spent many years reading and reflecting on his writings. I have taught classes, led workshops, and written several books about him. I have tried...

Johanna Munson, Guest Speaker   Gregory Cook, Worship Associate According to Albert Einstein’s law of conservation, mass and energy are interchangeable, and the sum stays constant. What if we apply this to the cycle of life and death? There are as many stories of afterlife as there are spiritual traditions; however some traditions exclude the possibility of “the undiscovered country, from whose bo...

Rev. Jennifer Alvair, Guest Minister  Gregory Cook, Worship Associate Water Communion is an annual ritual of welcoming one another back into community after our summer travels. This uniquely UU ritual reminds us that we all come from water, we are made of mostly water, and just like the way water scatters into raindrops and streams, we often scatter during the summer months. The mingling of the wa...

Sandy Spear, Board Member and Educator   Mike Cox, Worship Associate What are the best practices for emotional self-regulation? According to Dr. Marc Brackett at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, there is extensive research on emotional self-regulation.

Rev. William (Bill) Comfort, Guest Minister   Gregory Cook, Worship Associate The title comes from the name of a meditative way of interacting with scripture called Lectio Divina. In Lectio Divina a person reads a piece of scripture over several times slowly until a part of the text seems to particularly speak to the person. The scripture in question can come from the Bible, another holy text or a...

Rev. Victoria Poling, Guest Minister   Johanna Munson, Worship Associate Author and scholar bell hooks observes, “While ours is a nation wherein the vast majority of citizens are followers of religious faiths that proclaim the transformative power of love, many people feel they do not have a clue as to how to love.” Today we’ll explore a variety of perspectives on what is necessary for love.

Nancy Philip, Guest Speaker Worship Associate and Gregory Cook, Worship Associate. What happens to your identity when others have decided who you are? We’ll examine the question of public perceived identity using the works of and recent events in the life of Salman Rushdie.

Bainbridge island climate activist, John Kydd is our Guest Speaker with Jenny Weaver the Worship Associate.