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Seattle Unity is a Spiritual Center in the heart of Seattle. We offer a diverse menu of services and programs.

Services:
Every Sunday 10 AM Pacific Time

Live Online: https://seattleunity.org/services/

In Person: 200 8th Ave N, Seattle WA 98109

Website: https://seattleunity.org The music is amazing with award-winning musicians and guests. Come join us for an event and share in the abundance!

09/06/2026

Join us for our Sunday Service!

Staff: Rev. Diane Robertson, Vienne KR Smith, Michael O’ Larick, Charlie Manger
Community Representatives: Scott Caldwell (tentative), Martha O’Fallon (tentative)
Worship Arts: Chris Sullivan, Tim Clements-Levin, Liziah Elizabeth, Mike Ferris, Jesse Whitford, Olivia Hamilton, David Loy, Erin McGaughan and possibly one other singer.
Technical: Nick Charlton, audio; Joshua Fischburg, Ben Schauland, livestream

09/04/2026

An Emphasis on Heart Wisdom, from Restoring the Kinship Worldview
By Ilarion Merculieff (of Unangan (pronounced A-nan-den) people)

When Unangan Elders speak of the “heart”, they do not mean mere feelings, even positive and compassionate ones. “Heart” refers to a deeper portal of profound interconnectedness and awareness that exists between humans and all living things. Centering oneself there results in humble, wise, connected ways of being and acting in the world.

Indigenous people have cultivated access to this source as part of a deep experience and awareness of the profound interdependency between the natural and human worlds. To access it, you must drop out of the relentless thinking that typically occupies the Western mind.

When accessed, this portal provides the inner wisdom that keeps us in right relationship with all life, thus ensuring our long-term survival and well-being, individually and collectively. Our fallible thought processes regularly deceive us. Yet, when guidance or information comes from the heart, it can be relied upon and has impeccable integrity….

And the most dire reversal is that now the mind tells the heart what to do instead of the mind following the heart.

Still, when you access this heart center, you must have great courage to follow what it is telling you. Sometimes it feels like jumping from a cliff. But when you do, you will never regret it. Once you have accessed the heart, you enter a vast field of awareness and connect in a deep and profound way with all living things.

09/03/2026

This week marks 4 years since we moved into our current building. This Sunday, Rev. Diane looks back at that 10-year process a bit, and how we acknowledge the historical stewards of this land. Included here: including the gingko tree - which actually IS indigenous, it turns out! - dedicated with the help of Ken Workman, a fifth great grandson of Chief Seattle.
You can find the tree and the acknowledgement in the front of our building, in South Lake Union, in the Heart of Seattle.

09/02/2026

This is a bit of the slow singalong from this week. This is another tune from the Resistancer Singing movement, heard being sung outside the ICE detention centers of Minnesota, this easy tune by Heidi Wilson allows us to send hope, comfort and strength into any stressful situation.

09/01/2026

3 great quotes about how it's not just about us, it's about ALL of it.
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"Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me... Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me." Matthew 25

“I was almost accused of being a nature worshiper when I was a little girl. And I have always loved what I see in nature, as well as in all artists who are so close to the beauty side of God. Nature is surely the glorified face of Good. See the beauty about you and you do see the manifestation of the infinite Mind.”
Myrtle Fillmore

“…the intelligence inherent in every form, animate or inanimate. It has been discovered that even rocks and all minerals have life. We should be speaking words of truth to everything, not only to mankind but to the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms.”
Charles Fillmore

08/31/2026

Rev. Diane wraps up this magnificent August theme of Sacred Action, asking us to expand our vision, beyond one cause or belief, to see the much greater interconnections. How do our choices today impact and change reality for those around us, tomorrow? See this whole service at our website under 'services'.
Many thanks to special Worship Arts guest Alma Villegas , who is doing great work with the Alliance for Cultural Exchange, supporting detainees of the Tacoma ICE detention center.
Thanks also as well as our volunteers Karyn , Cindy .duchess , Scott , Rose , Tina .gilbert.sw2006 and Mitch , with houseband Darrius .willrich , Olivia and Jesse , and the many other staff, crew and volunteers who make Sunday possible.
Join us next week, at 10, in the heart of Seattle.

08/30/2026

Live Service is located here: SeattleUnity.org
See you there!

08/27/2026

This Sunday 8/30, bring your potluck yums to share after the service.
And anyone who can stay and help clean a bit at the end, too? You're golden. And maybe crunchy. You're a golden yummy crunchy delicious person and you are adored like hot wings.
See you soon, hottie.

08/26/2026

Part of Sacred Action means confronting grief. Francis Weller's work on grief offers new perspectives, rather than through a phases-map like anger or denial.
Weller proposes Five Gates of Grief, portals through which we encounter sorrow:
- Everything we love, we will lose.
- The places that have not known love (shame and shadow).
- The immense sorrows of the world.
- What we expected and did not receive.
- Ancestral grief.
See this whole service video, including music, dance, readings and meditations, at our website.

08/25/2026

So Must Peace Come
By Elizabeth Searle Lamb

So must peace come,
not by the momentous
stroke of pen on paper –
a peace treaty,
an arms limitation,
a nuclear freeze –
but slowly, silently,
from every inner heart
whose prayer for peace
is a nugget of gold
dropped into the center
of the world’s desire.

The ripples move
into wider and ever wider
circles until one day
they will have reached
around the earth and come
again to their beginning.

Then peace will cover
the earth and the seas
and reach into the farthest
eternities of space.

So must peace come
from the heart of everyone.

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200 8th Avenue N
Seattle, WA
98109

Website

http://seattleunity.org/

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