• Online Service: Leadership is Being Second

    Inspired by a video of a lone dancer at a music festival. He's a weirdo, a lunatic, someone with a broken view of the world. But then a leader appears, […]

  • Secular 4th of July Potluck Picnic

    Ravenna Park Picnic Shelter #1 2000 NE 58th St, Seattle, WA, United States

    Atheists, agnostics, skeptics, free-thinkers, questioning, and believers - whatever you like to call yourselves, join us on July 4th to celebrate the United States and our freedoms, especially of and […]

  • Online Service: The Elephant’s Child

    I will read the children's story from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. This story is a coming-of-age tale, a Hero's Journey of the old tradition, and an account of […]

  • Online Service: DEI FTW

    Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion measures have been put in place to ensure access to education, government programs, jobs, etc. for disadvantaged groups such as women, people of color, queer people, and disabled people. But these measures aren't merely kind or fair, they also result in better outcomes for governments and stronger workforces. This talk will […]

  • Online Service: Household Justice

    "Everyone wants a revolution. No one wants to do the dishes." --Dorothy Day We have little control over how our nation allocates labor and resources (but use what you have! Vote and bug your representatives!), but we have a lot more in our own houses. How can we best divvy up the costs and the […]

  • Online Service: Guy Winch’s Emotional First Aid: Healing Everyday Hurts

    We all sustain emotional wounds. Failure, guilt, rejection, and loss are as much a part of life as the occasional scraped elbow. But while we typically bandage a cut or ice a sprained ankle, our first aid kit for emotional injuries is not just understocked—it’s nonexistent. Fortunately, there is such a thing as mental first […]

  • Online Service: The Cat Who Walked By Himself

    I will read the children's story from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, about how the first animals came to be domesticated. I hope you will forgive the improbable prehistory and the gender essentialism for the sake of some lovely poetic language, a good story, and the truth about cats. This week's speaker will be […]

  • Online Service: Getting Comfortable With Discomfort: Learning Distress Tolerance

    Distress Tolerance is one of the four pillars of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and a valuable skill for anyone to have. This is not about staying in miserable situations or suffering for the sake of suffering, but about being able to sit with uncomfortable thoughts or feelings without immediately jumping to fix them, blame someone, escape, […]