GOLF LESSONS Every country club, every golf course, nearly every driving range has a golf pro who gives lessons. These are usually practical: how to hold the club, how to rotate your body when swinging, how to make contact with the ball, etc. These are tips about how to improve...

ENLIGHTENMENT RELIGION The Enlightenment is one of the most crucial periods in human history. The ideas and the ideals it proposed in politics and social mores still inspire us today. Despite these and many other positive accomplishments, the Age of Reason has one serious downside. It is widely considered an...

THE HEART OF A BUFFALO: A MUSICAL DRAMA The Heart of a Buffalo is a 50 minute musical drama with Dennis Hawk playing the character of Black Elk, a 19th century Lakota Medicine Man who relates his childhood experience hunting buffalo in Canada in the days just after the death...

IMMIGRATION UPDATE:  NEW POLICIES, WHAT THEY MEAN, AND WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN An update on the immigration policies discussed a year ago, with an introduction to policies recently enacted. A discussion of the practical realities of how these new immigration policies are being implemented, as well as the changing tide...

STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND No, Tony’s sermon is not about the Robert Heinlein novel by that title, but about what it feels like to come to Earth from a different planet. (Haven’t we all felt that way at times?) Rev. Dr. Tony Larsen has been the minister of Olympia...

LOOKING FORWARD TO EVERYTHING: A PERSPECTIVE ON AGING Why not have a life, if you possibly can, where you’re looking forward to every stage? Stressing about how it might end only harms the life you live now—and, as the great sages tell us, “now” is all we ever have. So let’s...

WAY LEADS ON TO WAY Looking back from age 70, I understand the patterns of the life that I lived. However, I find myself genuinely surprised to realize how many times I stood at intersections where roads diverged.  Walt Whitman and Anna Quindlan are companions for this stage of the journey. Cynthia...

WHY DOES A UNITARIAN GO TO CHURCH? Mainstream church-goers attend Sunday morning services to seek the presence of God in word and song. Unitarians have words and songs but come to church seeking something else.  What are they looking for? And what do they find?  A reflection on the day of our...

THE HARMONY OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION Over the last decade, a disagreement has developed between religious fundamentalists and outspoken rational secularists. Yet most world religions speak of harmony between science and religion. How does one navigate between the extremes? Bob will use the writings of the prophet Baha’u’llah and his...

THE GROWTH OF OUR GENERATION’S SPIRITUALITY The youth of U-Night say goodbye to the seniors as they share how their spirituality has grown through U-Night. U-Night was started by Anya Kopischke in the summer of 2010.  Katie Dahl was the first advisor.  Jess Holland has been advisor since 2011. Music:...