Sunday Mornings at Cedars
Audio recordings of our Sunday Services. Cedars Unitarian Universalist Church is a liberal religious congregation serving Bainbridge Island and Northern Kitsap County. We are a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). We have been recognized as a Welcoming Congregation in support of the LGBTQ community and as a Green Sanctuary for our commitment to a more sustainable environment.
Episodes
Rev. Jennifer Alvair, Guest Minister
Nancy Philip, Worship Associate
How can we cultivate spiritual strength and resilience during times of global crises? How might we learn to build trust across differences in today’s polarized nation? Come join us as we explore these interdisciplinary questions through the lens of peacebuilding and ecological renewal.
Rev. Bruce Bode, Guest Minister
Gregory Cook, Worship Associate
This service near the beginning of the new year will, Janus-like, look both ways. Following a sermon message engaging Denise Levertov’s poem “Once Only” as its text, it will include a “Composting Communion,” then, in community, greet the New Year!
Guest Minister - Rev. Kate Lore
Worship Associate - Nancy Philip
Together, Rev. Kate Lore and Nancy Philip will contemplate the darkest night of the year, the return of the light and the magic of the season."
Rev. Emily Melcher, Guest Minister
Johanna Munson, Worship Associate
In this season of ding-a-ling-a-ling, what would it mean for us to find ourselves in what poet Billy Collins calls “the generous pocket of silence”? How might we be truly present in this season of anticipation?
Rev. Kate Lore, Guest Minister
Nancy Philip, Worship Associate
We are entering what is for many of us a magical time of year. For others, though, these days come with sorrow and stress. How do we navigate the complexities of the holiday season?
Rev. Kate Lore is a Unitarian Universalist minister known for her work in social justice and community ministry. She has served in various roles, including as a Minister of Social Justice at...
Rev. Barbara Cornell, Guest Minister
Gregory Cook, Worship Associate
In the early 60’s Directors of Religious Education were responding to parent and youth requests for help navigating the changing world of sexuality, when they joined forces with the UUA to create a new sexuality curriculum for middle schoolers, called About Your Sexuality (AYS). Today, we have the lifespan sexuality curriculum, Our Whole Lives (OWL), created in co...
Rev. April Frazier, Guest Minister
Johanna Munson, Worship Associate
Aikido is a martial art, as well as a philosophy and a spiritual practice. There are lessons we can take from our training on the mat out into the world. Aikido teaches us to practice centering, while providing a real avenue for choosing peace and impacting both ourselves and the world we live in for the better.
Rev. Jessica Star Rockers, Guest Minister
Nancy Philip, Worship Associate
Amidst a season of change—and in an era that often feels overwhelming and chaotic—let’s take a moment to remember those who came before us. We’ll gather inspiration from their creativity, express gratitude for their sacrifices, and imagine a future of joyful community care.
Rev. Bruce Bode, Guest Minister
Jenny Weaver, Worship Associate
This sermon will offer a range of thoughts, feelings, reflections, and perspectives as we draw near to this consequential national election.
Who Do You Think You Are? Four Questions to Ponder Your Past, Present, and Future - October 20, 2024
Rev. Barbara Gilday, Guest Minister
Nancy Philip, Worship Associate
From time to time in our lives, we find ourselves questioning who we are – graduating from school, becoming a parent, losing a job or a special relationship, retiring, or experiencing a serious health crisis. etc. At these times, it’s helpful to have a template to sort out the new evolving you, and a way to remember those questions for when the need arises.
David Korten, Guest Speaker
Johanna Munson, Worship Associate
Fran Korten’s service on October 6 reminds us that according to Genesis, God gave us dominion over the Earth, presumably to exploit for whatever we choose. Recently, in obedience to that dictum, we crafted an economics that tracks human progress by growth in human consumption. If that story is in error, what is our intended human purpose within the larger scheme of Creat...
Fran Korten, Guest Speaker
Gregory Cook, Worship Associate
In the Bible, Genesis tells us that God gave man dominion over all the creatures of the Earth. That “old story” is well embedded in our culture with many dysfunctional results. We need a “new story” that recognizes we are simply one species among many other species, interconnected with all. We will discuss the signs of a shift to a new story in our culture and how we are st...
Grace Bonow, Guest Speaker
Nancy Philip, Worship Associate
What’s Up With Young People These Days?: A Teenager’s View on Today’s World
The world is a complicated place. It’s full of catastrophic problems like climate change, social injustice, and of course the millennia-old complaint: young people. How do young people today see the world? How can we ensure that we as humans, but especially desensitized younger generations, feel em...
Rev. Barry Andrews, Guest Minister
Jenny Weaver, Worship Associate
For many people today, Ralph Waldo Emerson is a quaint relic of the nineteenth century, or worse yet, a dead white male with little to offer contemporary Americans. Not so for me. I have spent many years reading and reflecting on his writings. I have taught classes, led workshops, and written several books about him. I have tried to explain his ideas as best I can. ...
Johanna Munson, Guest Speaker
Gregory Cook, Worship Associate
According to Albert Einstein’s law of conservation, mass and energy are interchangeable, and the sum stays constant. What if we apply this to the cycle of life and death? There are as many stories of afterlife as there are spiritual traditions; however some traditions exclude the possibility of “the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveler returns” (William Sha...
Rev. Jennifer Alvair, Guest Minister
Gregory Cook, Worship Associate
Water Communion is an annual ritual of welcoming one another back into community after our summer travels. This uniquely UU ritual reminds us that we all come from water, we are made of mostly water, and just like the way water scatters into raindrops and streams, we often scatter during the summer months. The mingling of the waters from places we have been over t...
Sandy Spear, Board Member and Educator
Mike Cox, Worship Associate
What are the best practices for emotional self-regulation? According to Dr. Marc Brackett at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, there is extensive research on emotional self-regulation.
Rev. William (Bill) Comfort, Guest Minister
Gregory Cook, Worship Associate
The title comes from the name of a meditative way of interacting with scripture called Lectio Divina. In Lectio Divina a person reads a piece of scripture over several times slowly until a part of the text seems to particularly speak to the person. The scripture in question can come from the Bible, another holy text or a contemporary text. In Natural Divina...
Rev. Victoria Poling, Guest Minister
Johanna Munson, Worship Associate
Author and scholar bell hooks observes, “While ours is a nation wherein the vast majority of citizens are followers of religious faiths that proclaim the transformative power of love, many people feel they do not have a clue as to how to love.” Today we’ll explore a variety of perspectives on what is necessary for love.
Nancy Philip, Guest Speaker
Worship Associate and Gregory Cook, Worship Associate.
What happens to your identity when others have decided who you are? We’ll examine the question of public perceived identity using the works of and recent events in the life of Salman Rushdie.
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