Join us on the casual fifth Sunday as we enjoy a favorite beverage while engaging in rich conversations. Susan Kaphammer is our welcoming host.

We’ll listen to Rev. Marlin Lavanhar (All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Tulsa, Oklahoma) share steps to take care of ourselves during these times: cool down, heat up, physical conditioning and shadow work. Following the viewing we will share in discussion led by Andrew Whitmont.

Holding power with an open heart allows us to lead with empathy, understanding, and a deep sense of responsibility, ensuring that the changes we make benefit all and reflect our shared humanity. As individuals and collectives, we must not shy away from wielding power to create meaningful change in our communities and world. However, this … Continue reading Holding Power

Our practice of trust reveals much about ourselves as we look inward to trusting ourselves and look outward to trusting others. The practice of trust is entangled with our views of others, our degree of self-assurance, and our willingness to be vulnerable. Susan Kaphammer shares readings and thoughts exploring the topic of trust and the … Continue reading Living Love Through the Practice of Love

Join Jessica Blair as she shares some techniques involved in the art of deeply listening to others. “We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.”– Carl Rogers

We welcome Lupita Carrillo, Donor Engagement Director with our local YWCA Domestic Violence Shelter. YWCA Yakima is dedicated to eradicating domestic violence and assisting all survivors of intimate partner violence who contact them. For 2024-2025, UUCY has chosen the YWCA Domestic Violence Shelter as their Share the Plate partner. In a sad statistic, Yakima County … Continue reading YWCA Domestic Violence Shelter

This is the service where all the poets in the congregation step up and share one or several of their original writings i.e. this is not the time to read your favorite Mary Oliver or Robert Frost piece but rather something you have written. It’s all good and we’d love to hear it! Celebrant will … Continue reading UU Poets Rise Up!

The spiritual challenges of inclusion include recognizing the complexities of situations and relationships, and admitting the limits of our own experiences and understandings.  The real-life challenges of inclusion include discerning when to step forward and when to step aside.  For this service Susan Kaphammer will ask us to consider the gifts as well as the … Continue reading The Practice of Inclusion

Lunar New Year is the beginning of a new year based on lunar calendars or, informally but more widely, lunisolar calendars. Lunar calendars follow the lunar phase while lunisolar calendars follow both the lunar phase and the time of the solar year. The event is celebrated by numerous cultures in various ways at diverse dates. Come celebrate with UUCY! 

The Unitarians and the Universalists merged in 1961 to form the UUA — the Unitarian-Universalist Association, of which we are a part. The Unitarians were the bigger of the two, and it sometimes seems like the Universalists have become UUA’s ugly stepchild. But the ideas that gave rise to Universalism (originally a Christian sect) are important … Continue reading Universalism