Spring is here. We enjoy more light each day. We see buds and new growth in forests and parks, gardens, and backyards. Our wonderful corner of Cascadia is feeling new energy and creating this year’s version of what it means to be the rain-soaked, ocean-fueled, mountain-encircled, salmon-growing jewel that we call home. Spring is here. … Continue reading How Will We Then Thrive?
On Sunday, March 5, 2017, the membership of the Tahoma Unitarian Universalist Congregation voted to call the Reverend Dr. Linda A. Hart to serve as the settled minister of our congregation. Linda accepted the congregation’s call, agreeing to continue her ministry at TUUC (helping us to laugh, dance, and be fantastic). The congregation’s vote affirms … Continue reading Calling Rev. Dr. Linda A. Hart as Settled Minister
Happy! Lucky me. Lucky us. I get to share the good news that the Rev. Dr. Linda A. Hart is a candidate to become the settled minister for the Tahoma Unitarian Universalist Congregation! In late January, a Task Force of five TUUC members convened conversations in which about 70 congregants: discussed their experiences during Linda’s … Continue reading Happy!
O Wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in’t! The Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 181-184 There is a cultural push and pull over these famous lines. Written from the perspective of the naive Miranda in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the … Continue reading Talking About a Gender Revolution
“Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In the process, we become separated from our own souls. We end up living divided lives, so far removed from the truth we hold within that we cannot know the ‘integrity that comes from … Continue reading What Does It Mean To Be A Community of Identity?
It is a time when hyperbole is easy to fall into. Social media seems to be always exploding with the latest outrage or triumph, and it’s hard to not get carried along. But, as I said after the election, the work we are called to do in the world hasn’t changed: we still want answer … Continue reading Hart to Hearts
Like most organizations, the Tahoma Unitarian Universalist Congregation has written statements of vision and mission. Through a series of #fUUtureFaith conversations that Rev. Linda Hart facilitated last winter and spring, we affirmed these statements, which convey our view of the future of Unitarian Universalism in Pierce County. To paraphrase: We sustain an enduring Tahoma Unitarian … Continue reading Our Vision of the Future
“Our times ask us to exercise our capacity for prophetic witness, by Prophetic witness I mean our capacity to see what is happening, to say what is happening and to act in accordance with what we know….Prophetic witness …is the ability to name those places where we resist knowing what needs to be known.” ~ … Continue reading Black People Matter
What does it mean to be a Community of Prophecy? For me, today, in this “post-truth” world it means, taking responsibility to find the truth, striving to always speak the truth and committing to speak truth to power, even when it’s scary. Meryl Streep did this recently and I call her a modern day prophet … Continue reading Marching as a Community of Prophecy
Just before the solstice rolled around I was talking with some friends. I was feeling exhausted from the long and brutal election. I was jittery because of all the anger that I heard: anger about immigrants, anger about the election results, the resurgence of white supremacists. It didn’t matter what the topic was. Everyone was … Continue reading A Message of Peace
