Rev. Bill Comfort, Guest Minister

Gregory Cook, Worship Associate

An exploration together of some of Russian painter and art theorist Wassily Kandinsky's thoughts about how spiritual and emotional truths are communicated through shapes and colors in painting. We will reflect together about how these spiritual and emotional truths might manifest in our own experience.

Reverend Bill Comfort is a sort of retired UCC Pastor. He works part-time as an Inner Well-being and Spirituality Associate at Horizon House, a retirement community in Seattle. He has led UCC congregations all over the western United States. As part of a Doctor of Ministry program, he developed an interactive preaching style that he has used at Cedars UU, at Horizon House, and at a variety of churches around the Puget Sound area.

Rev. Margo Rinehart, Minister

David Thomas, Worship Associate

Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King, Jr. came from different cultures and religions and from countries at war with one another. Let us experience how they influenced one another through deep friendship and a shared commitment to justice and peace.

Rev. Jennifer Alviar, Guest Minister

Liz Motter, Worship Associate

How do we hold the bittersweetness of life in all its beauty and pain? “Days of honey, days of onion,” as an Arabic proverb puts it. Come join us as we explore the spiritual practice of ritual and renewal as a healing balm in troubled times.

Rev. Jennifer Alviar is a Unitarian Universalist minister who designs rituals for healing and renewal in sacred and civic spaces. Her calling is to bring more intentionality to daily life by uplifting the simple, ordinary moments in the natural world with an eye toward beauty, wonder and awe.