Celebrate the turning of the wheel and the end of winter with this family friendly Pagan ritual in Brighid’s honor. Brighid is the beloved Celtic Goddess of poetry, childbirth, healers, and home. The ritual will honor the gifts of winter and poetry while also making wishes for our future. Holly O’Brien is a stay-at-home mother to her three children, and is a divinity student at Cherry Hill Seminary with a major in Pagan Pastoral Care and Counseling. This services will be held across the street at the Wee Works Preschool, as the Hollywood Senior Center is in use on that day by...
Upcoming Worship Services
Our worship services are at 10:30 AM every Sunday, at the Hollywood Senior Center, 1820 NE 40th Ave., Portland.
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February 5, 2012Holly O'Brien
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February 12, 2012Rev. Marcia Stanard
On Valentine’s Day our culture pushes us to celebrate romantic love to the exclusion of everything else, yet we are surrounded by a Universal Love. Understanding this, what would a modern Universalism look like? Led by our minister, Rev. Marcia Stanard.
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February 19, 2012Rev. Dr. Paul Davis
Rev. Dr. Paul Davis will speak about his own journey to come out and live authentically as a gay man, a process that took him until his last year in college. From 1997-2010, Paul was at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in downtown Portland. For the past year, he has been at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Parish, working with the church’s meals and food pantry program, which serves some of the LGBT homeless population downtown.
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February 26, 2012Patti Pomerantz
UU minister, Patti Pomerantz, says: There’s all the Christmas cards I won’t have written, and all of the impersonal, computer generated Christmas letters I won’t have read by the time I deliver this sermon in February. Add in the leisurely conversations I wish I’d had, and I bet we have something in common. As we become more dependent on smart phones and think pads, I wonder if we’re not putting our religious selves on the same dusty shelves as our note cards.