During this post-holiday service, attendees will have an opportunity to ask Rev. Eklof questions about topics on their minds. Listen to the audio only of this service.

What if your congregation could help dismantle mass incarceration — simply by walking with one person returning home from prison? In this guest presentation, Candice Baughman, a formerly incarcerated person, … Continue reading One Parish One Prisoner:  “We need a new Underground Railway today…a moral and spiritual revolution is required of us now.” — Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow

My sermons almost always express something of my own continuing search for greater understanding, which is why I think of myself as always “preaching to the preacher.” Organizing my own … Continue reading Preaching to the Preacher

There have been so many exciting technological advances in 2025 that I have had to restrain myself from speaking about them before the end of the year. Advances in Artificial … Continue reading The Most Transformative Technology of the Year

This simple but provocative question—a line from John Denver’s song, “It’s About Time”—is one the entire world should be asking itself at this moment in history. As nation-states attempt to … Continue reading Who’s to Say We Have to Lose for Someone Else to Win?

Rev. John H. Deitrich, our Spokane congregation’s minister from 1911 to 1916, went on to become known as the Father of Religious Humanism. In his wish to reawaken us to … Continue reading John Dietrich’s Sermon: “Westward of Forty-Five: How to Grow Old” – As Presented and Amended by Rev. Eklof

Those of us living in the US (which isn’t alone) are caught up in a kind of cold civil war, in which one side is seeking to control the Nation’s … Continue reading The Color Purple: Finding Common Ground in a Divided Nation

Shooting from the hip, intuition, gut feelings, and the like are often used to justify the truth of one’s ideas without any reasons or evidence to accept them as such. … Continue reading Seeking Truth from the Outside In, not from the Inside Out