Religious Education is coming back to TUUC! We are thrilled to be welcoming back children to our RE program this spring. Elementary and middle-school children will be able to join a multi-age RE class led by Scott Redman and Staci Kopcha. Saturday, April 1 To prepare, we need many helpers to join our clean up … Continue reading Resurrecting Religious Exploration
Here’s a peek at what you’ll see if you join us in-person for “Renewing Faith” worship service this Sunday, March 20, as we move to a multiplatform service with people attending in our sanctuary! If you plan to attend in-person, please register here: https://rsvp.church/r/zPZ5RwFD If you plan to attend online, no registration is required. … Continue reading Sneak Peek for “Renewing Faith” Worship Service on Sunday, March 20, 2022
Beloved friends, On Sunday we will bid farewell to Nancy Slocum who has served as our Director of Religious Explorations for Children and Youth for the past 4-1/2 years. You’ll have chance to say goodbye face-to-face this Sunday, February 27 between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. at the church. You will be able to drive through the … Continue reading From the Minister: Celebrating Nancy Slocum
Dear TUUC Community, It is with very mixed emotions that I announce my retirement from my position as your Director of Religious Exploration for Children and Youth effective the end of this month. There is so much about this job that I love! Being part of an effort to create and support programming and community-building … Continue reading From the Director of Religious Exploration for Children and Youth
Announcing the PNW Religious Education Online Collaborative for Children and Youth Religious Educators from around the Pacific Northwest have formed a collaborative to provide online Religious Education/Exploration for school-aged children and youth weekly through this next year. While this won’t replace the programs we will have at TUUC, this is an additional option for anyone … Continue reading Announcing the PNW Religious Education Online Collaborative for Children and Youth
Several years ago, I participated in a “Diversity Event” at work. It was a celebration of the many different cultures represented by the staff in our agency. Many of my co-workers were immigrants or first-generation Americans, hired, in part, because they were bilingual and could more effectively serve our non-English speaking clients. For the event, … Continue reading Meeting My Ancestors
We are about to begin our new year in the Children’s Religious Exploration (RE) Program and this year we are trying something new. Our RE program will be using curriculum built around the Soul Matters themes used by the entire congregation. The decision to use the Soul Matters themes came out of a brainstorm by … Continue reading Soul Matters and the Children of Tahoma UU Congregation
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
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
“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
