My earliest two memories of the late Queen of Soul are of hearing my parents regularly play her cover of “Spanish Harlem” in the car, and of her striking appearance in Blues Brothers. I instantly knew two things about her: one, she lived her life … read more.
August 3-6
First Unitarian’s Social Justice Director, Dana Buhl, and members of the Immigrant Justice Action Group will be traveling to the border to join the national religious witness called #Faith Floods the Desert. We will be joining a delegation led by the UU College of Social … read more.
Community Partnerships for Fiscal Year 2017-18
Provided Event Space or Collaborated on Events
350 PDX
99 Girlfriends
American Federation of Government Employees – Veterans Healthcare
American Iranian Friendship Council of Portland
Bridging Voices (The Portland GSA Chorus)
FA Thank-a-Thon
Fair Trade Bazaar (Basha Direct, Thembanathi, Mayan Hands, Upavim, The Imani Project, Zumbido de … read more.
A note from Rev. Sinkford: Congregational singing is such an important part of our worship life at First Unitarian. Our worship leaders take care every week to select hymns that fit our worship theme and support the spiritual work we do … 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.
Monthly Theme: Evil
Sermon Topic: Good, Bad, and Indifferent
Choir: Chamber Choir
“Timor et Tremor” from Quatre Motets pour un Temps du Pénitence
Music: Francis Poulenc
Text: Traditional
Timor et tremor venerunt super me et caligo cecidit super me.
Miserere mei, Domine, miserere; quoniam in te confidit anima
… read more.
Monthly Theme: Prayer
Sermon Topic:
Choir: Chalice Choir
Ask and It Shall Be Given
Music: Jonathan Adams
Text: Matthew 7:7-8
Ask, and it shall be given you;
Seek, and ye shall find;
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
For whosoever asketh receiveth;
And [they] that seeketh … read more.
