AUUF Podcasts

Bill Wielechowski has been a Democratic member of the Alaska State Senate since 2006, representing District H, and now serves on the standing  committees on Judiciary, Resources, and State Affairs as well as the Special Committee on Federal Overreach and the Joint Committee on Armed Services.  He graduated magna cum laude in 1989 with a BS in Business Management and Finance from Seton Hall University and earned a JD in 1992 from Seton Hall University, School of Law.  Bill is a member of the fellowship. 

A group met and was presented with various actions that they could get involved in "Post-Election". There were good informal presentations about various activities that folks could get involved in. Some of the organizations present included Planned Parenthood, ACLU-AK, The Center, Alaska Network on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault (ANDVSA), and Christopher Constant.

Gary Holthaus has been AUUF's called minister since 2012.

Gary Holthaus has been the Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship's called minister since 2012.

Service was prepared and presented by our high school Youth Group. It is well worth a listen.

Heather Lende is the obituary writer for the Chilkat Valley News in Haines  where she has lived with her husband for over 30 years.  A Middlebury College graduate with an MFA from UAA, she is a former contributing editor at Woman's Day, a columnist for Alaska Dispatch News, and author  of Find the Good:  Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small Town Obituary Writer (2015), Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs (2010), and NY  Times bestseller, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name:  The News from Small-town Alaska (2005). 

If you are discouraged by rising inequality and climate change - concerned about equitable and sustainable economies -  asking yourself if another pathway is possible -  this may be the presentation/discussion for you. In a new book, Viking Economics, by George Lakey, a long-time activist and peace studies professor. you can learn how the Scandinavians got it right - and we can too!

Gary Holthaus is the Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship's Called Minister.

Chancy Croft served in the Alaska Legislature from 1969 through 1979, first for a single term in the House, and after that in the Alaska Senate where he served as Senate president from 1975 to 1979. He was the Democratic nominee for governor in 1978, but was defeated by Jay Hammond. Chancy largely retired from electoral politics after this campaign, but continues to practice law and remains prominent in legal and political circles in Alaska. For decades, he has represented injured workers as a worker’s compensation attorney. He served on the University of Alaska Board of Regents from 1995 to 2003, including as term as chair. He was also a charter member of the Alaska Legal Services Corporation, and served as its chair from 1971 to 1978. He and his wife of 53 years, Toni, have three children. The family grows grapes and grandchildren of outstanding quality.

Joe Josephson served as Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett's legislative assistant. He was Vice-Chair of the Anchorage Home Rule Charter Commission and Co-Chair of the Joint Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission. He served in the Alaska House of Representatives, and later in the State Senate, for 14 years, and was also a member of the Anchorage City Council, the Greater Anchorage Area Borough Assembly, and the Anchorage Municipal Assembly. He was appointed by President Kennedy to chair the Alaska Advisory Commission to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights. He has been an adjunct professor at UAA and APU. He has served as a Board member of Planned Parenthood, Out North Theatre, the Child Care Connection, and Southcentral Red Cross. At present, he practices law and serves as the President of Congregation Beth Sholom.

Annual All Souls, Samhain Service