Sunday Mornings at Cedars

Alan Miller, Cedars Guest Speaker

Gregory Cook, Worship Associate

Learn more about her work at http://www.gretchenyanover.com/

Late second temple Judaism poses the question of God's fairness in the Book of Job, a question that is finally answered in Jesus' preaching of the coming Kingdom of God; The Bhagavad Gita presents the Hindu system of (hidden) fairness in the caste system and reincarnation. Is the only p...

Rev. Margo Rinehart, Cedars Minister

Johanna Munson, Worship Associate

Featuring music by pianist Nicholas Colletto and vocalist Moira McGregor

At this time of year, Lent, Ramadan, and Passover fill the spring days with opportunities for contemplation, meditation, and even prayer. What can we learn from the great religions about paying attention and bringing our emotional and spiritual growth into action for our communities an...

Rev. Rose Edington and Rev. Mel Hoover, Cedars Guest Ministers

Nancy Philip, Worship Associate

Featuring music from Kids in Concert

In the present, we can look back and see how the seeds of thoughts and actions — both positive and negative —planted back then are now part of our lives. We might have influenced someone or an event without even knowing it. What kinds of seeds that we plant now would we like to see blossom in the ...

Rev. Margo Rinehart, Cedars Minister

David Thomas, Worship Associate

Humanists and Unitarians have been in conversation for over a century, learning from one another and partnering to create a belief system that strives to create circumstances in which all might flourish. Let's explore together how Humanism might guide our daily practices and increase our capacity for wonder, awe, gratitude, and service.  



Reverend Margo Rin...

Nate Kremer-Herman, Guest Speaker 

Gregory Cook, Worship Associate

Artificial intelligence is the latest in a long line of tools that shape how we relate to our world and to each other. As we grapple with how AI is changing us, it is important to ground ourselves in our uniquely human experiences to cultivate closer communities and a healthier planet.



Nate Kremer-Herman teaches computer science at Seattle University. His research...

Rev. Tessie Mandeville, Carrie Koehnline and Judith Kaftan, Guest Speakers



Su Livingston, Guest Musician

Nancy Philip, Worship Associate

Our speakers will share a recently rediscovered story, "Grandmother Waits." They'll reflect, as the elders they are now, on its messages of autonomy, depth, creativity, and what it takes to be a healthy, diverse community. Led by Carrie and Judith, who co-wrote the story more t...

Rev. Deanna Vandiver, Guest Minister

Johanna Munson, Worship Associate

Join us in co-creating worship that skills us up and roots us sustainably in place for faithful living within the context of the Holocene extinction and the violence of empire.

Rev. Deanna Vandiver is affiliated with the Church of the Larger Fellowship, Unitarian Universalist, as a Community Minister of Love and Liberation. She is the founder of Ever Unfold...

Rev. Margo Reinhart, Minister

Liz Motter, Worship Associate

Music by: Rick Barrenger

On this Presidents' Day weekend, we will explore the commitment by many of our Founding Fathers to the separation of church and state and the imperative of protected religious expression. From atheism to theism, let freedom ring!

Reverend Margo Rinehart serves Cedars by welcoming people from diverse theological and religious backgrounds...

Rev. Margo Rinehart, Minister

Nancy Phillip, Worship Associate

Through the work of grief guide Frances Weller, and the practices of Buddhist Pema Chodron, we will explore how to prevail in a life that is for more than ourselves.

Reverend Margo Rinehart serves Cedars by welcoming people from diverse theological and religious backgrounds and spiritual beliefs on their journeys to learn from one another, search for truth, and ans...

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 Pasto...

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...

Rev. Bruce Bode, Guest Minister

Johanna Munson, Worship Associate

As we embark upon 2026, we will explore how to step into the new year through Robert Frost’s familiar poem “The Road Not Taken,” which – hint, hint! – is not titled “The Road Less Traveled By.”

Bruce A. Bode is Minister Emeritus at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (QUUF) in Port Townsend, Washington, from which he retired in 2018 as the Senior Minis...

Rev. Bill Comfort, Guest Minister

Nancy Philip, Worship Associate

In the book "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak, Max lets his primal nature loose upon the jungle of his imagination. We will explore the wild nature within each of us. How does your wild nature work for the benefit or detriment of your life? 



Rev. Bill Comfort is a sort of retired UCC Pastor. He works part-time as an Inner Well-being and Spirit...

Kathryn LaFond, Guest Speaker

Nancy Philip, Worship Associate

Featuring music by cellist Gretchen Yanover

Find more of her music at https://gretchenyanover.com

In order to create the vision of a more fair and equitable world we must first renew our sacred relationship with what has been invisible for far too long. Releasing the ideology of human supremacy is a critical starting point. But can we embrace with humility what is ne...

Rev. Barbara Gilday, Guest Minister

Gregory Cook, Worship Associate

It feels like the world, our world, is going to hell in a handbasket, as my grandmother would say. And it is, but the pendulum is starting to swing. In our lives, in our country, in our world, we can still lift up our heads and hearts, and reach out to be a clear light for others and Be Thankful – and mean it!



Rev. Barbara Gilday came to professional ministry in ...