Rev. Bruce Bode is our pulpit guest and will lead our service. Music by Cally Lindenmier, mezzo; Roger Nelson, piano.

Order of Service

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Sermon title: "Are All Humans Religious?"

The late theologian Dr. Forrest Church contended that our status as “religious” creatures is the most distinguishing feature of our species. What was his argument? 

Bio

Bruce A. Bode 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, Ellen Bass, and Denise Levertov.

This will be Rev. Bode’s fourth consecutive summer to speak at UUC.