The Rev. Bruce A. Bode will be in the pulpit. Sermon: Journeying with Poet Mary Oliver – "A documentary film titled Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World has recently played in select theatres with full release planned for August 25. It’s an opportunity to share some poems and themes from Mary Oliver’s poetry that have accompanied me on my religious journey for over forty years."

Music by Cally Lindenmier, mezzo; and Dwight Beckmeyer, piano.

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.

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