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Anchorage, AK 99508
Tel: 907-248-3737
All are welcome to our Fellowship of diverse people who come together to nurture each other, to grow ethically, spiritually and intellectually, and to help create a just, safe and caring community.
December Sunday Services:
Sunday Worship and The Forum
See our calendar to stay updated. Subject to change.
Find Zoom links here Sunday @Zoom.
The Forum IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, December 7, 2025
“Cybercrime—The Criminal Enterprises Stealing Your Information and Money”
Leon Jaimes
Leon Jaimes (pronounced hi-Mays), is a network security professional who has done security consulting in the healthcare, financial services, state and local government, telecommunications, and retail sectors. He has over 20 years of experience in Cybersecurity and Information Technology. He lives with his amazing wife and two amazing children on the traditional lands of the Dena’ina Athabascans. He enjoys hiking, biking, and skiing with the family. He volunteers as the chair of the House District 20 Democrats and as an IT consultant for the Alaska Black Caucus.
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Sunday Worship Service IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
11:00 am Sunday, December 7, 2025
“(No) World AIDS Day”
Rev. Lise Adams Sherry and Alix McKay
The Forum IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, December 14, 2025
"TSDO or not TSDO? That is Not the Question—
Housing and Zoning in Anchorage"
John Weddleton, Erin Baldwin Day
John Weddleton moved to Anchorage 1987 after a life traveling across the country and world including several years in Istanbul, Lugano and five years as a dry cabin dweller in Fairbanks. John started his work career as an economic consultant. He now owns a retail business and some commercial properties. John went to a Community Council meeting in 1997, then things got out of hand. His work through Community Councils, the Planning and Zoning Commission and the
Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee led to two terms on the Anchorage Assembly. He is now on the board of the Anchorage Affordable Housing and Land Trust. John's wife Ronni patiently allows him time for these activities. John has a master’s in economics from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks 1986 and a B.A., Political Science, Tulane University 1980.
Erin Baldwin Day was elected this year to represent Midtown Anchorage, District 4, on the Anchorage Assembly. Erin was born and raised in Alaska, left for college after graduating from East Anchorage High School in 2000, and returned here in 2009 to raise her own family in Midtown. Following fifteen years of service as a local policy advocate, community organizer, pastor, and nonprofit leader, she joins the Assembly with a particular focus on the issues that impact the daily lives of working people in Anchorage: housing supply, childcare access, and transportation infrastructure. Erin lives in University Park with her husband of twenty years, two fantastic teenagers, and a dog named Max. When she’s not at work you might find her flying down a trail on her fat tire bike, whipping up delicious messes in the kitchen, writing bad poetry, or enjoying live music. She lives by the mantra that the long moral arc of the universe only bends toward justice if the people do the pulling.
Sunday Worship Service IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
11:00 am Sunday, December 14, 2025
The Forum IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, December 21, 2025
“Freeing Wrongly Convicted Alaskans and Preventing Future Injustice”
Jory Knott, Alaska Innocence Project
Jory Knott is executive Director of the Alaska Innocence Project. A lifelong Alaskan, he earned an interdisciplinary degree in art and music at UAA, then moved to Oregon where he composed music, wrote grants for creative projects and apprenticed in stone masonry. He became operations manager for a masonry company with stone cutting operations and rock quarries across the Pacific Northwest. In2009 he moved back to Alaska and changed his career trajectory, teaching music and art to adults with special needs while attending UAA, pursuing legal studies with a minor in civil engagement. He interned with Alaska Innocence Project in the fall of 2015, and helped manage the office for months while founding Executive Director Bill Oberly attended the trial of the Fairbanks Four, who were exonerated that December. Hooked on innocence work, Jory went to law school at the University of Montana, volunteering with the Montana Innocence Project. He returned to extern with AKIP during his last year of law school and has been working there full time ever since his graduation.
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Sunday Worship Service IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
11:00 am Sunday, December 21, 2025
"Hope Is The Thing With Feathers"
Rev. Lise Adams Sherry, Barb Clark
Emily Dickinson is well known, and also somewhat shrouded in mystery. Given the particular life she lived, I thought it might interesting to see how hope and optimism flavored her life. Maybe she can give us some pointers as we live in our own interesting times.
The Forum IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, December 28, 2025
“Breathwork for Daily Life: Release, Recharge, Reclaim”
Dr. Robert Alexander
Dr. Robert Alexander is the CEO and Co-Founder of AuraLab, whose Breathscape app supports deep meditative states by transforming breath into music through biofeedback. Before launching AuraLab, he worked as a NASA fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center, a Chief Innovation Officer at University of Michigan, and lectured on Sound Design and Psychology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design. Origin Magazine named him a top creative leader and his work has been featured in Scientific American, National Geographic, VICE, Science Friday, and the BBC World News Service.
Sunday Worship Service IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
11:00 am Sunday, December 28, 2025
“Inquiry: That’s What Love Does”
Kay Sind & Lars Danner
The Forum IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, January 4, 2025
"The Story Behind the Score: Reclaiming What Matters in Public Education"
Caroline Storm, Executive Director, Coalition for Education Equity
Caroline Storm was born in Canada to immigrant parents, one from South Africa and one from Czechoslovakia. Education and learning were a central part of her home environment, and was pushed to complete a professional degree. Educated and licensed as an architect, she left the profession after 25 years in practice to take on the role of Executive Director of the Coalition for Education Equity in Alaska. Caroline sits on the board(s) of: Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center; Alaska Eating Disorders Alliance and the Alaska Literacy Program (where she volunteer taught Civics for Citizenship). She also sits on the MOA Budget Advisory Commission. An avid road cyclist, she finally completed the Fireweed 200 in 2025 after crashing out of the race in 2018. In all her other spare time she’s a haphazard gardner, optimistic DIYer and doting dog mom.