Speaker: Tamara Thiel - Celebrant

I Contain Multitudes…Don’t I?

PDF of the Program Our featured speaker will be Gorge Fellowship member Tina Castanares. Tina will share some of her experiences as a “mixed ethnicity” person, and touch on the scientific fallacy of “race”; the wonderful demographic mixing in the Mid-Columbia and the future this predicts; and maybe even some etiquette about questions like “what … Continue reading I Contain Multitudes…Don’t I?

How We Do Family: Transgender Possibilities in 2025

Trystan Reese is a transgender storyteller whose journey of love and resilience has delighted audiences worldwide. He’ll be bringing that story to our congregation, and we are overjoyed to welcome him as he shares his experiences of transgender pregnancy and what it was like to carry that pregnancy publicly in 2017. Trystan is based in … Continue reading How We Do Family: Transgender Possibilities in 2025

Where Do Unitarian Universalists Turn in Times of Trouble?

In person and online. In the face of life’s inevitable travails, many Christians rely on a loving God to watch over them and hold out hope for a better life in the hereafter.  But most of us UU’s find it hard to accept these conventional sources of solace.  Where, then, can we turn when times … Continue reading Where Do Unitarian Universalists Turn in Times of Trouble?