With the coming of spring, I somehow cannot resist seeing signs of hope. Last Saturday hundreds of First Unitarian folks joined the March for Our Lives, calling for a ban on assault weapons and other sane and sensible measures to reduce gun violence. By the … read more.
I paint from life paint hoping to pull out a universal element that speaks to all. I try to bring something that rings true to Oregon. I don’t want to copy a landscape, I do try to tell an atmospheric story, to offer a portrait of what I see.
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We awoke on Tuesday to news of another school shooting, this time in Maryland. “Only” three children were critically wounded…this time.
At First Unitarian, there seems to be near unanimous agreement that sensible gun safety measures are desperately needed and long overdue. Consensus around that seems … read more.
Saturday, March 24
10 a.m. West Burnside and SW Park (across Burnside from North Park Blocks)
Look for the Yellow “Standing on the Side of Love” banner.
12 p.m. Rally at Pioneer Courthouse Square
First Unitarian Church will meet at 10:00.a.m. at W. Burnside and SW Park across from the North Park Blocks
The march … read more.
Greetings Fellow Congregants,
Let’s Burn the Mortgage! We are well on our way to accomplishing something that just a year ago seemed a nut too tough to crack (though it is in our current five year goals). On March 4 the Church’s independent Foundation … read more.
What are you giving up for Lent? I remember that question from my youth. Although my family did not recognize this liturgical season, many of my childhood friends did. Spinach was a favorite response, as I remember it.
Praying, Fasting, and Giving Alms are the three … read more.
Monthly Theme: Evil
Sermon Topic:
Choir: Unitarian Choir
I give you a new commandment
Music: Dominick DiOrio
Text: John 15:12
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another as I have loved you.
Drinkin’ of the Wine
Music: Rosephanye Powell
Text: Traditional
Drinkin’ of the … read more.
Monthly Theme: Evil
Sermon Topic: Darkness and Light
Choir: Chalice Choir
Hold Out Your Light
Music: Moses Hogan
Text: Traditional
Hold out your light, you Heaven-bound soldier,
Let your light shine around the world.
Singing, O, preacher can’t you hold out your light.
O, deacon can’t you hold … read more.
Monthly Theme: Evil
Sermon Topic: Proud and Humble
Choir: Chamber Choir
Daemon Irrepit Callidus
Music: György Orbán
Text: Traditional
Daemon irrepit calidus,
Allicit cor honoribus.
Quid amabile Daemon dat
Cor jesu minus aestimat Daemon point frauds inter cantus,
Saltus, Daemon!
Caro venaratur sensibus;
Sen sus adhaeret dapibus;
In … read more.
Monthly Theme: Evil
Sermon Topic: Deliver Us To Evil
Choir: Unitarian Choir
Lamentations of Jeremiah
Music: Z. Randall Stroope
Text: Traditional
O vos omnes,
qui transities per viam
attendite et videte
si est dolor,
sicut dolor meus.
Recordare Domine
intuere et respice
opprobrium nostrum.
TRANSLATION
O you people,
who pass … read more.
