Tahoma Unitarian Universalist Congregation

This is a monthly open meeting supporting the Children and Youth Religious Exploration Program.

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In February and March, we held Cottage Meetings to explore who we are as a community and where we hope to be going in the [...]

Join us for 30 minutes of sitting or walking meditation in the sanctuary. Each week we have a topic for discussion related to meditating as a way to expand our knowledge and connect with one another. This group is for everyone, whether you meditate frequently, occasionally, or are coming for your first meditation sit. The group is also open to any ideas or topics anyone may wish to share. Alexa and Steve Arnold facilitate the group.

“Symbols of Soul: Nature, Story, and Dreams” - Adult Religious Exploration Facilitator: Kathy Crabb Symbols of Soul will meet in three sessions: Nature on February 24th, Story on March 30th, Dreams on May 4th. Pioneering Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung said, “I am … a symbol of my soul” (The Red Book, p. 234, 2009). Jung perceived images and symbols as expressions of the ineffable – and relationship with charged images as essential to knowing one’s own soul. In this three-part course we’ll approach the images that tug at our psyches, explore their meaning in our lives, and discover how to live with them in soulful ways. Note: You are welcome to attend one, two, or all three sessions; however the three will build on each other so you will likely get more out of each, if you’ve attended the previous one.

Poetry Club

Camp Fire

Yoga in the Sanctuary

Tahoma UU Volunteers support the Nativity House Hospitality Kitchen twice a month on the First Fridays and Third Thursdays from 8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Pathways to Membership Interested in becoming a member of our Tahoma UU Congregation, or learning more about Unitarian Universalism? Please join us at our Pathways to Membership class on Saturday, May 7, 2016.

"A Year to Live" - Closed Group

Program Advisory Committee for Adult Religious Exploration meets monthly on the Second Sunday 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. in the High School Youth Room.

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Rationality Covenant Group

Lay Pastoral Care Team Monthly Meeting on Second Monday at 1:00 p.m.

Join us for 30 minutes of sitting or walking meditation in the sanctuary. Each week we have a topic for discussion related to meditating as a way to expand our knowledge and connect with one another. This group is for everyone, whether you meditate frequently, occasionally, or are coming for your first meditation sit. The group is also open to any ideas or topics anyone may wish to share. Alexa and Steve Arnold facilitate the group.

Membership Committee Monthly Meeting on Second Tuesday at 1:00 p.m.

In these wonderfully wise writings, Mary Lou Sanelli once again relies on her literary voice and candid sense of humor to explore all the realities true to anyone who has thought of making writing a part of his or her life. In a conversational style that entirely conveys her nature, she relates the comedy and the heartbreak the writing life is; how little it has to do with literary circles and clout and how much it has to do with limitless uncertainty, publishing anxiety, finding a way to make the process of writing, of life, your joy, rather than any outcome and, if lucky, how to view each let-down along the way as a triumph. Most compelling is how these writings, chronologically collected, grow and twine on the page right in front of you, allowing us to relish each like a long conversation with a trusted friend. Sanelli writes about themes as varied as marriage, politics, friendship, aging, nature, her distrust of too much technology (“no one wins like the guys who make the software”); what it feels like for an East Coast transplant to find herself living in the belly of Seattle; for a daughter to be caring for her elderly mother; what went wrong at an Obama party once―all with spot-on insight, all through the eyes of a woman, a woman writing; and she compels us to find ourselves, and perhaps our own writing voice, in the process. She notices everything and she’s exceptionally funny. "What Sanelli does in front of an audience is easier to recognize than it is to define." -The Seattle Times Sanelli has published seven collections of poetry and three works of non-fiction, Among Friends, Falling Awake and her latest, A Woman Writing. Her regular columns appear in Seattle's City Living Magazine, Art Access magazine, the Peninsula Daily News, and Lilipoh Magazine. She has written for the Seattle Times, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, Weekend Edition, National Public Radio, Seattle's NPR station KUOW FM, and many other publications and radio stations. She works as a literary speaker and is booked at regional and national conferences and many, many other venues. She lives with her husband in Seattle.

Camp Fire

Yoga in the Sanctuary

We meet on the third Sunday of the month, September through May, at 9:15 a.m.. Please join us in our sixth year of following the Common Lectionary in our journey to understand the Bible from a Unitarian Universalist perspective.

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TUUC Computer Club

Join us for 30 minutes of sitting or walking meditation in the sanctuary. Each week we have a topic for discussion related to meditating as a way to expand our knowledge and connect with one another. This group is for everyone, whether you meditate frequently, occasionally, or are coming for your first meditation sit. The group is also open to any ideas or topics anyone may wish to share. Alexa and Steve Arnold facilitate the group.

Board of Trustees Meetings are scheduled for the Third Tuesday of each month. The meetings are open to members of the congregation. Occasionally some agenda [...]

We will look at lectures from the Teaching Company’s series on Comparative Religion. Our topics are: The Sacred (Sacred Time, Sacred Space, and Sacred Objects), The Holy, and the Profane. Religious traditions assign sacred meaning to time, place and objects based on experiences in which the sacred is manifest. The sacred stories or myths recounting these manifestations of the sacred become a foundational building block for religions. Examples include: Sacred Times such as Easter, Yom Kippur and Ramadan; Sacred Places such as Jerusalem and Mecca; and Sacred Objects such as the Ark of the Covenant, the bread and wine of communion, the relics of Buddha, and the waters of the Ganges River. Three different 20th century frameworks for understanding the origins of religion include: Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy; Mircea Eliade’s The Sacred and the Profane; and Wilfred Cantwell Smith’s The Meaning and End of Religion.

Tahoma UU Volunteers support the Nativity House Hospitality Kitchen twice a month on the First Fridays and Third Thursdays from 8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Poetry Club

Camp Fire

Casual potluck lunch with an accompanying program. No reservations required, and everyone is welcome.

A welcoming collection of men exploring questions of masculinity, character, and wisdom. In this safe, caring circle we support and encourage one another to be authentic, mindful, and present in an ever changing world.

Join Tahoma UUs who host this third-Saturday-of-the-month vigil at the Northwest Detention Center, 1623 East J St., Tacoma, WA 98421 from 1:00-3:30 pm. The vigil supports the families of the detainees visiting their loved ones, and participants bring coffee, sandwiches, juice, and special snacks and toys for children.

“A Year to Live” – Group at Capacity Group meets on Third Saturdays beginning March 19, 2016 What if you received a diagnosis that you [...]

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Join us for 30 minutes of sitting or walking meditation in the sanctuary. Each week we have a topic for discussion related to meditating as a way to expand our knowledge and connect with one another. This group is for everyone, whether you meditate frequently, occasionally, or are coming for your first meditation sit. The group is also open to any ideas or topics anyone may wish to share. Alexa and Steve Arnold facilitate the group.

We will look at lectures from the Teaching Company’s series on Comparative Religion. Our topics are: The Sacred (Sacred Time, Sacred Space, and Sacred Objects), The Holy, and the Profane. Religious traditions assign sacred meaning to time, place and objects based on experiences in which the sacred is manifest. The sacred stories or myths recounting these manifestations of the sacred become a foundational building block for religions. Examples include: Sacred Times such as Easter, Yom Kippur and Ramadan; Sacred Places such as Jerusalem and Mecca; and Sacred Objects such as the Ark of the Covenant, the bread and wine of communion, the relics of Buddha, and the waters of the Ganges River. Three different 20th century frameworks for understanding the origins of religion include: Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy; Mircea Eliade’s The Sacred and the Profane; and Wilfred Cantwell Smith’s The Meaning and End of Religion.

Camp Fire

Yoga in the Sanctuary

Sandwich making at the church begins at 5:30 p.m. Participants often donate sandwich makings and fruit. After sandwich assembly, some of the group distribute the [...]

Sandwich making at the church begins at 5:30 p.m. Participants often donate sandwich makings and fruit. After sandwich assembly, some of the group distribute the sandwiches and fruit at the Rescue Mission from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Our partners with this project are the West End Kiwanis, Temple Beth El, and Wilson High School Key Club.

Camp Fire Group - private event.

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Join us for 30 minutes of sitting or walking meditation in the sanctuary. Each week we have a topic for discussion related to meditating as a way to expand our knowledge and connect with one another. This group is for everyone, whether you meditate frequently, occasionally, or are coming for your first meditation sit. The group is also open to any ideas or topics anyone may wish to share. Alexa and Steve Arnold facilitate the group.

Poetry Club

Yoga in the Sanctuary

Tahoma UU Volunteers support the Nativity House Hospitality Kitchen twice a month on the First Fridays and Third Thursdays from 8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

"A Year to Live" - Closed Group