Our Mission:
To generate a continuing education program for adults, appealing to a broad range of
interests and Unitarian Universalist experiences, in a variety of educational and informational formats.
Westside's Adult Religious Education opens a wide and welcoming gateway to the opportunities for adult ethical, spiritual, faith and UU identity development. The committee meets bimonthly to consider educational and informational needs and interests of the congregation in keeping with the Mission Statement and Congregational Goals.
The program strives for:
- Opportunities to be introduced to new ideas and experiences
- Opportunities for people to tell their own stories
- Opportunities to deepen understanding of Unitarian Universalism
- Encounters with wisdom from the sources of our living Unitarian Universalist tradition—direct experience, words and deeds of prophetic people, the world’s religions, Jewish and Christian tradition, humanist teachings and the guidance of reason, and spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions
- Communities of care, support, and concern
- Engagement with ethical and moral questions
- Calls to faith in action, working within the congregation and in the wider world to build communities or justice and love
- Spiritual experiences which inspire, transform, and sustain
For information contact dlre@westsideuu.org
Classroom Education:
By popular demand, this class will continue. Please watch here and in your Westside Weekly for classs times.
At 9 am in the glass classroom Westside’s minister, Don Strickland, will facilitate discussion about the six sources of Unitarian Universalism. Grab a cup of your favorite warm beverage and add your voice to our in-person-only discussion. Each week we will discuss one of the six sources.
Week 1 — Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life;
Week 2 — Words and deeds of prophetic people which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love;
Week 3 — Wisdom from the world's religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life;
Week 4 — Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God's love by loving our neighbors as ourselves;
Week 5 — Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and warn us against idolatries of the mind and spirit;
Week 6 — Spiritual teachings of Earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.