Seattle Unity

"She started working these practices, and when I say working it, she was *working* it. She was actually living this fifth principle."Associate Minister Diane Robertson takes a first step into our new series Alchemy of Leadership. Pulling from her current ministerial training materials, she introduces us to Francis W. Foulks, who wrote Effectual Prayer, and also edited many early Unity materials, including Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters. Francis exemplifies the fifth Unity principle, in that she rooted her work in meditation and silence, but then brought that divine connection out into the world. This kind of spiritually well-rooted action effects great changes and lasting benefits for all.Our Worship Arts includes special guest Darrius Willrich.  Check out the full service video here.Take advantage of all the ways we can stay connected during this time, including after-service fellowship, Daily Prayer Boosts, and Wednesday evening prayer services. And as always, see our Facebook  page or our Instagram for more, including quotes from our lesson notes, readings, and more.Want to get regular updates?Stay updated with our most recent newsletter here. 

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"Maybe you have felt extremely connected to God during this time, and maybe you have felt abandoned and alone. Perhaps it's been a little bit of both. But the truth is that no matter where you have been, God has always been present."Senior Minister Rev. Karen Lindvig concludes the series on the Alchemy of the Mystic by looking at direct experiences of God.  Sometimes we feel it more in prayer or meditation, in 'bhakti' or devotional practices.  Maybe we expect a direct experience of God to look or feel a certain way. But as truth students, we can develop our ability to experience God in any and every moment, and also in each other.Our Worship Arts includes special guest Tiffany Wilson. Check out the full service video here.Take advantage of all the ways we can stay connected during this time, including after-service fellowship, Daily Prayer Boosts, and Wednesday evening prayer services. And as always, see our Facebook  page or our Instagram for more, including quotes from our lesson notes, readings, and more.Want to get regular updates?Stay updated with our most recent newsletter here. 

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"Since this is Pisces season, we're looking at intuition, emotion, spiritual connection that goes beyond rational thought, water flowing ---  dreams.  As we develop our intuition, it can help prepare us for what lies next in our lives."Senior Minister Rev. Karen Lindvig pulls some golden bits from her ongoing Dream Interpretation class. How do our intuitive faculties manifest?  What images or feelings become so powerful, we remember them even when we're awake?  How do we remember even more?  Rev. Karen illustrates several techniques for developing our universal intuitive tools, to experience our higher selves more often, more directly, and even touch the Mind of God within.Our Worship Arts includes special guests Andrea Carino, Ryan Narcisco, and dancer Alex Kronz. Check out the full service video here.Take advantage of all the ways we can stay connected during this time, including after-service fellowship, Daily Prayer Boosts, and Wednesday evening prayer services. And as always, see our Facebook  page or our Instagram for more, including quotes from our lesson notes, readings, and more.Want to get regular updates?Stay updated with our most recent newsletter here. 

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"When we look at alchemy through our spiritual eyes rather our mercenary eyes, we’re looking at Elements. From my tradition, the earth-based tradition, we follow earth, air, fire, water, and ether, or spirit -- the spirit that animates all things."Guest speaker Rev. Judith Laxer speaks to our annual theme of Alchemy of the Soul, and this months' mystical perspective.  Judith is the founding priestess of Gaia’s Temple, an inclusive, earth-based ministry, celebrating 20 years of service in the Seattle area. She also enjoys a successful private practice as a psychic, spiritual counselor, hypnotherapist, and shamanic practitioner. In this talk, Judith taps into her tradition's mystical tools for metaphysical wisdom-seeking.Our Worship Arts includes special guest Tommie Burton.Check out the full service video here.Take advantage of all the ways we can stay connected during this time, including after-service fellowship, Daily Prayer Boosts, and Wednesday evening prayer services.  And as always, see our Facebook  page or our Instagram for more, including quotes from our lesson notes, readings, and more.Want to get regular updates?Stay updated with our most recent newsletter here. 

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"Any time you step out and break through that limitation, you break it for others as well."In honor of today's annual congregational meeting, Senior Minister Rev. Karen Lindvig takes  a quick look back at Unity basics and Unity founding history. What makes Unity unique and different from other traditions?  She describes Unity as a tradition of breaking through the shell of previous ideas, and she draws parallels with the traditions responsible for this week's spectacular Mars Rover landing. Seattle Unity's current building project is another great example of innovation built on a tradition and long term commitment of many people, not just one or two key innovators.Johnnie Woods offers a reading from founder Chares Fillmore's Keeping a True Lent. Our Worship Arts includes special guests sisters Sarah and Be Russell.Check out the full service video here.Take advantage of all the ways we can stay connected during this time, including after-service fellowship, Daily Prayer Boosts, and Wednesday evening prayer services.  And as always, see our Facebook  page or our Instagram for more, including quotes from our lesson notes, readings, and more.Want to get regular updates?Stay updated with our most recent newsletter here. 

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"Imagine a wheel with all the different aspects of love. While Eros may get the fire going, it's Pragma, enduring love, *standing* in love, that actually keeps it going."Celebrating a very snowy Valentine's Day, Rev. Karen leads an all-remote service. She examines many different kinds of love, from love-for-all to romantic love to sustaining love. She pulls examples from myth, history and personal experience to help us make sense of this often overused word 'love'.Our Worship Arts includes special guests Jeff Fielder and Tekla Waterfield. Special thanks to them and all the other folks - notably livestream master Phil Homan, who helped shift this service from in-person to online only.Check out the full service video here.Take advantage of all the ways we can stay connected during this time, including after-service fellowship, Daily Prayer Boosts, and Wednesday evening prayer services.  And as always, see our Facebook  page or our Instagram for more, including quotes from our lesson notes, readings, and more.Want to get regular updates?Stay updated with our most recent newsletter here. 

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"Ruth explained again and again that the Unity system for licensing teachers and ordaining ministers was stacked against Black people with tests that were biased in favor of whites, and that its discriminatory practices were counter to Unity teachings. In other words, Unity was not practicing what it preached."In honor of Black History month, Senior Minister Rev. Karen Lindvig looks at Unity's own denominational history around entrenched racism.  The stories of Rev. Ruth Mosley and Rev. Johnnie Coleman illustrate what it takes to make change in the world, whether it means coaxing a traditionalist leadership to bend, or striking out on one's own entirely.Gerald Schley blesses the offering.Our Worship Arts includes special guest  Jimmy Shields.Check out the full service video here.Take advantage of all the ways we can stay connected during this time, including after-service fellowship, Daily Prayer Boosts, and Wednesday evening prayer services.  And as always, see our Facebook  page or our Instagram for more, including quotes from our lesson notes, readings, and more.Want to get regular updates?Stay updated with our most recent newsletter here. 

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"The truth is that we are all sons and daughters of the most high... and we're only using a small percentage of our capacity. So, my question to you is: what do you want in your life?"Senior Minister Rev. Karen Lindvig looks at manifestation, and our human power to create from our imagination. How do we best use our co-creative capacities with God, so that our individual and collective experience of the world may be the highest and best it can be?  Through vision-boarding, acting as-if, brainstorming, and other tools like these, we leverage the power of Imagination to leap forward beyond current limitation.Gail Crumpton offers a reading from Rev. Pam MacGregor called Accepting Divine Ideas.Our Worship Arts includes special guest Frederick Hagreen.Check out the full service video here.Take advantage of all the ways we can stay connected during this time, including after-service fellowship, Daily Prayer Boosts, and Wednesday evening prayer services.  And as always, see our Facebook  page or our Instagram for more, including quotes from our lesson notes, readings, and more.Want to get regular updates?Stay updated with our most recent newsletter here. 

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"I invite you to embrace your inner misfit, your inner rebel, the one that knows there is a better way, the one that knows there is a way we can create a world that works for all."Senior Minister Rev. Karen Lindvig explores what it means to be a change agent in the world. Using diverse examples from myth and history, she looks at the concept of "stealing fire"  - that is, courageously shifting norms for the benefit of a whole society.  Who makes these kinds of leaps forward, and what are the costs?Robyn McKoy reads the Amanda Gorman inaugural poem, and Melissa Mager blesses the offering.Our Worship Arts comes from Erin McGaughan, Olivia Hamilton, and David Loy.Check out the full service video here.Take advantage of all the ways we can stay connected during this time, including after-service fellowship, Daily Prayer Boosts, and Wednesday evening prayer services.  And as always, see our Facebook  page or our Instagram for more, including quotes from our lesson notes, readings, and more.Want to get regular updates?Stay updated with our most recent newsletter here. 

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"We can use our words to create havoc, or we can use our words to increase love and understanding."Senior Minister Rev. Karen Lindvig returns to discuss the power of the Creative Word.  This concept appears in the works of Unity co-founder Charles Fillmore, and resonates especially deeply this week, in the aftermath of an insurrection attempt on the Capitol. In a preview of this year's annual theme, she compares the words of figures like Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others, who have transformed spiritual "lead into gold", and invites us to do the same.Today also features a New Member welcoming, with Carolyn Burton and Lea Wasson.Our special Worship Arts guest is Jonas Myers. Jonas is already known to many of us for his accompanist work, so it's especially lovely to see him confidently stepping into the soloist role.Check out the full service video here.Take advantage of all the ways we can stay connected during this time, including after-service fellowship, Daily Prayer Boosts, and Wednesday evening prayer services.  And as always, see our Facebook  page or our Instagram for more, including quotes from our lesson notes, readings, and more.Want to get regular updates?Stay updated with our most recent newsletter here. 

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