You are invited to join us in our next monthly meditation mini retreat on the first Saturday of the month from 11:50 to 2:20pm. We will practice a variety of meditation styles: guided and silent, sitting and walking, and Loving Kindness (metta). The program will be divided into 20 minute meditations, with 5 minute breaks in between. You are welcome to join for all or part of the afternoon.

The Truth Quest Book Group meets again, via Zoom, on Sunday, September 6 from 8:30 to 9:30 am. The book we chose for this meeting is "The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life” by Lisa Miller, Ph.D.

Religious radical, avant-garde cultural critic, feminist, progressive social theorist, investigative journalist, war correspondent, public intellectual—by any measure, Margaret Fuller was remarkable person. She was a central figure in the Transcendentalist movement that included Ralph Waldo Emerson and many other close friends. And she applied her ideals to an active engagement with social change here in America and political revolution abroad.

The KUUF grief support group meets the first Sunday of the month. The next meeting is Sunday, September 6 at 11:45 am in the Elmore Room.

This course is for everyone from novices on trans identity to those with decades of life experience. Rather than simply offering a “trans 101,” this class pushes participants to the next level of congregational welcome, relationship-building, and skills-building. It counters mainstream narratives about who trans people are. supports understanding of non-binary identities, and employs a deeply intersectional approach.

Participants are given monthly packets which provide background about the spiritual practice, tease out how the practice speaks to universal hungers, and offers options about how participants can engage the practice in their own life. Care is given to avoid cultural misappropriation. Group members pick one of the options and do it prior to their facilitated group meeting. Packets also contain reflection questions for participants to debrief their experience personally and with their groups.

The 9th Season of 2nd Friday Film Series kicks off Sept 11 with the screening of 𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 a 2023 film depicting the true story of the expansive growth of a church during the hippie movement of the 1960-70s through leaning how to be welcoming.

Doors open at 6pm

How can political actions help build a more compassionate world? Four KUUF members traveled to Washington, DC in July to advocate for just that. Their lobbying efforts included hand delivering letters written by KUUF members and friends. Come and learn about the responses of our Representative Emily Randall and Senators Murray and Cantwell to the requests you wrote in your letters and to our RESULTS requests to promote health education, nutrition, housing and the end of poverty.

Join us for our next Learning Forum: Voting as Compassionate Citizens.

This course is for everyone from novices on trans identity to those with decades of life experience. Rather than simply offering a “trans 101,” this class pushes participants to the next level of congregational welcome, relationship-building, and skills-building. It counters mainstream narratives about who trans people are. supports understanding of non-binary identities, and employs a deeply intersectional approach.