This UU service, inspired by Yom Kippur, invites participants into a reflective space of accountability, healing, and renewal. Drawing on the themes of atonement and repair, it encourages honest self-examination, communal acknowledgment of harm, and a commitment to making things right. Through readings, silence, and ritual, the service balances introspection with hope, emphasizing that transformation … Continue reading Yom Kippur: A Service of Atonement and Repair
Author Tyler Bieber presents and reads from his new biography of Father Tom Oddo CSC (1944-1989), a gay Catholic priest and the 17th President of the University of Portland. Spanning the years between WWII and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Against the Current is a reflection on Tom’s life and legacy as a civil rights … Continue reading Against the Current: Father Tom Oddo and the New American Catholic
