Category: News

Changes Ahead

April 27, 2017 • Church Admin

Dear Friends, I want to let you know that I have made the decision to welcome the unexpected guest of change into my life by accepting a full-time position as the Director of Lifespan Religious Education at the Mount Diablo UU Congregation in Walnut Creek, CA, beginning in August. While this specific change was not … Continue reading Changes Ahead

Partners in Transformation

April 27, 2017 • Church Admin

About a year ago, the Tahoma UU Congregation entered into a partnership with the Vashon Island Unitarian Fellowship. Our minister, Linda Hart, works with their Board and provides worship service support to the community at Vashon. Both congregations are supporting, and receiving the benefits of, Matt Aspin’s ministerial internship. In early April, the Boards of … Continue reading Partners in Transformation

Happy!

February 24, 2017 • Church Admin

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!

Reverse Offering Results

February 13, 2017 • Rev Margo

On Sunday, February 12, those attending the service had the chance to get an offering from the church. There were $20 bills in envelopes taped under the seats in the sanctuary claimed by whoever was sitting nearby. The requirements of receiving the offering were to do something kind with it and to let us know what … Continue reading Reverse Offering Results

Hart to Hearts

February 2, 2017 • Church Admin

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

“… the epoch of belief … the epoch of incredulity”

November 23, 2016 • Church Admin

November 2016 seems likely to feature prominently In the story of our communities. We’ve been rocked by an election campaign and election results that that seem both shockingly unprecedented and reminiscent of some of the darkest chapters of our history. Dickens’ famous opening sentence about “the best of times … the worst of times” builds … Continue reading “… the epoch of belief … the epoch of incredulity”

“And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?”

October 27, 2016 • Church Admin

“And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?” This question is the opening line of Raymond Carver’s “Late Fragment,” a poem that seems to reach out to me every few years. Earlier in 2016 I heard this line as the culminating “bonus” question in a commencement address at the Harvard … Continue reading “And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?”

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