Service at 9:30 a.m. in the chapel and via live stream

Rev. Bruce A. Bode will lead the service.

Sermon title: “Something Judges Us, Something Accepts Us.”

“You are perfect the way you are … and you could use a little improvement,” writes Japanese Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. This week’s sermon will be an exploration of the interior sense of being both judged and accepted. 

Music by Ian Loney, tenor; and Roger Nelson, piano.

Order of Service

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Bruce A. Bode, a native of Lynden, Washington, is a Minister Emeritus at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (QUUF) in Port Townsend, Washington, from which he retired in 2018 as the Senior Minister after serving the congregation for fourteen years (2004–2018).

Before coming to Port Townsend, Rev. Bode was the Interim Minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, Texas (2002-2004) and the Hope Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma (2001-2002). Prior to that, he served for twenty-two years (1978-2001) as an Associate Minister at the Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a large, independent, religiously liberal congregation.

One of his interests has been facilitating study groups in adult religious education on poets such as: Mary Oliver, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Robinson Jeffers, Billy Collins, Jane Kenyon, Gary Snyder, and Ellen Bass.

Bruce is a graduate of Calvin University (1969) and Calvin Theological Seminary (1973) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has been married to Flossie Boerema Bode since 1970 and is father to Katie Bode-Lang and Libby Bode, and grandfather to seven-year-old Clara Grace Bode-Lang in State College, PA and Willem Floris Bode Hoyle, born last October in Seattle, WA.