March 8, 2022
Just over a week ago was Ash Wednesday, a day I remember as a time to be humble. The priest would put ashes on people's...
March 2, 2022
Nominated by Social Justice Committee member Leigh Hoftiezer, our March and April Share the Plate recipient is WRTP/BIG STEP. These two acronyms stand for the two […]
February 1, 2022
Some of you may remember my sermon on “The God I Believe In” (delivered on December 12, 2021). In it I referred to a Jewish concept–“tikkun […]
January 4, 2022
Every once in a while I have shared actual typos from church newsletters and bulletins in my Northliner column. Not all of them are technically typographical, of course–some […]
January 3, 2022
Hanan RRG is not an official refugee resettlement agency receiving government support, but an entirely volunteer organization using 100% of donations for direct refugee services. Of […]
December 7, 2021
By the time you read this, Thanksgiving will have come and gone. But, since it’s important to give thanks on more than one day a year, […]
November 23, 2021
Normally I write a Parson to Person column to be printed on the last Friday of one month, and the first Friday of the month following. […]
November 8, 2021
In last week’s “Parson to Person” I wrote about my visit with my family in the Seattle area, and how we “overcame” political disputes with games […]
November 2, 2021
UCN’s Share the Plate recipient for November and December 2021 is Braver Angels, a non-partisan grassroots organization formed in 2016 to help bridge the political and […]
November 2, 2021
Last week I came back from 4 days of vacation with my siblings at a family reunion in the Seattle area. This was our first reunion […]
September 28, 2021
Since we’ve been doing a series of Sunday services on our 8 UU principles, I thought I’d use this column to give a few examples of […]
September 1, 2021
“A Few More Thoughts on Our First UU Principle” OR “The Dorothys in Our Lives” Starting in August, I began a series of sermons on our […]
August 3, 2021
Now that we are holding in-church services, and UCN is looking at new/old ways to reach out to the wider community, I thought I’d bring up […]
July 16, 2021
Those of you who regularly read this Parson to Person column (otherwise known as p2p) may have noticed that I haven’t written a column for a […]
July 15, 2021
Those of you who regularly read this Parson to Person column (otherwise known as p2p) may have noticed that I haven’t written a column for a […]