Sunday Services start at 10:30 a.m.

 

Service: Journalism, Democracy and the search for truth and meaning

According to the Rideau Hall Foundation, Journalism is an essential force in our democracy, and the precarious state of local news speaks to its fragility. Former CBC reporter Pam Berman will talk about the importance of responsible local news coverage to both civic engagement and our own understanding of the world.

Service: From Despair to Hope

Now is the time for us to band together to stand up to the darkness in the world and make it brighter. We have to communicate clearly, cooperate as best we can, and help each other towards the light of wisdom and strength. Each of us can help with our supportive words, our prayers, our...

Service: One Song. The Science of Unity

With help from some intrepid dung beetles, science ambassador JD Stillwater takes us on a tour of discoveries from mainstream science that reveal an underlying connectedness in everything from human bodies to ecosystems to the very fabric of space-time.

Service: A Poem Can Sustain Us

A poem is an insight or a speck of truth, distilled and put into words we can keep. Like our own UU Joys & Sorrows, a poem can remind us of the shared cloth we are all gathered around. Today, a few members of our UUCH community will share some of their most loved, and...

Service: Gratitude, Blessings and High Hopes

Deborah Wiggins, with help from friends, will present a music service on the theme of gratitude, blessings and high hopes. "Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing, could be doing as much for this universe as anyone." Rumi

Service: Persian Sufi poetry and UU Principles

This service explores the deep connections between ancient Persian Sufi poetry and Unitarian Universalist principles. Persian poetic tradition, once taught widely as a spiritual guide, emphasizes universal love, mutual acceptance, and spiritual unity – values closely aligned with UU teachings.

Service: “We Are…” (Ingathering Water Ceremony)

Bring water, from home or somewhere meaningful to you. In the water ceremony we combine our water as we launch the congregational year. We celebrate who we are, who we aspire to be, and our vision and visions for the world.

Service: Writing the Book of Life

Everything that happens, everywhere in the universe, is written into the book of life. One day the book will come to an end, perhaps with no one left to read it. So what shall we write?