Right Place and Right Time
Last week I joined the president of the PTU Board, Gregg Davidson, to talk with a non-profit leader in Skagit County. We made a proposal to him about our Let’s Go Together public partnership. We discussed the polarization that is happening in our culture and the sense of hopelessness people feel about it. Gregg and…
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Power of a Name
On Saturday I had the honor of attending a naming ceremony for two elders in the Upper Skagit Tribe. The family had not had a naming ceremony for many decades. In this type of ceremony, the eldest woman in the family chooses names from that family’s history and ancestors and gives the name to one…
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That’s a Lot to Deal With
I recently spent some time with a new family member. She asked what I do and I shared our Let’s Go Together project with her. I said it was one way to deal with the divisions and polarization of our time. She said, “Oh, that’s a lot to deal with.” I get that sort of…
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Winter 2022/23 Newsletter
Click HERE to read our Winter 2022/23 print newsletter. WHAT’S INSIDE: Executive Director Terry Kyllo reflects on the new momentum PTU is bringing to multi-faith partnerships through the Let’s Go Together program What We Did This Year: Courses, Consultations, Community Organizing Remembering Our Founders: Rabbi Levine and Father Treacy in Their Own Words 100 episodes:…
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A Jewish Perspective on PTU’s Strategy
As I sit down to write this, I am struck by how much has happened over the last many months. This country and our world are experiencing hatred at an alarming rate. Whether it is between political parties, racial groups, or religions, we are more segregated than we have been in years. The divides between…
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Read MoreEmerging from the Soil
I love these days in the last week of December. My gaze often goes to the sky as the sun slowly begins to move higher. Hiking today, I began to see other signs emerging from the soil. After the snow has melted, life is getting ready for the spring. If you look closely at the…
Read MoreSettle In
I grew up in a farming town. People there mostly grow winter wheat. There were seasons that marked our life there, whether you farmed or not. The fall was a time of planting, assessing, and accounting the profits and losses of the year. The winter was a mixture of vacation, doing major repairs to equipment,…
Read MoreHopeful Beginnings
This week we began our conversations in Skagit County to form a local multi-faith partnership. Local groups are putting together a planning team that will lead communities with different wisdom traditions to do partnership activities in 2023. This is part of our Let’s Go Together program. Over the last six months I have been talking…
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