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

More than a quarter century ago, I traveled to Janesville, Wisconsin to visit a rare White Buffalo, a mystical experience that I’ve never forgotten. Perhaps the story I’ve fashioned explaining … Continue reading Rainbow Eyes

There’s an old joke, “If you see a fork in the road, take it.” The fork represents the uncertainty of our lives; seldom entirely sure about the choices we face. … Continue reading The Inconvenient Path

The 2025 NAUA Summit will wrap up with a Sunday service beginning at 9:00 AM Pacific Time. The theme of the service is “What We Believe: Unitarian Reflections,” and will … Continue reading North American Unitarian Association (NAUA) Yearly Summit Service

During the usual sermon period, Rev. Eklof will respond to live questions about topics he has or hasn’t previously discussed. Listen to the audio only of this sermon from the … Continue reading Conversations with Todd

Our opportunities to read and access books are abundant in our society, but this isn’t the case everywhere, especially not everywhere in Ethiopia. This is why a Spokane group founded … Continue reading Libraries for Ethiopia

Unitarian Universalism, which has remained increasingly ill-defined since its inception in 1961, has recently and finally been defined by the illiberal extremists who have captured and now control it. In … Continue reading Why I Am Not a Unitarian Universalist

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: “Who Are these Unitarians?” – As Presented and Amended by Rev. Eklof

Socrates (according to Plato), said, “No person knowingly does evil,” meaning it is our nature to want to be good. Yet people believing themselves to be good, even righteous, have … Continue reading Becoming Good: On Deciding the Difference Between Right and Wrong