Sunday Services start at 10:30 a.m.

 

  • Interfaith Service

    In today's service, we welcome visitors from Interfaith Harmony Halifax. Stay after the service for a 12:00 discussion of the enrichments and challenges of being an interfaith community.

  • Service: Many Windows, One Light (with a New Member Ceremony)

    In Interfaith Harmony Halifax's interfaith week, we explore our own experience of being a multifaith congregation - both the enriching aspects and the challenges. We will also have guest speakers share their experience of visiting a different faith community in Halifax almost every week for several years. After the service, join a 12:00 discussion of...

  • Service: Eros and Boundaries

    In her audition sermon to be a UU minister, Marilyn Sewell didn't choose a safe topic - she spoke on the erotic. Today we celebrate eros while considering what boundaries we want on intimate topics.

  • Service: The Good and the Great

    There is the goodness of making music with friends, and there is the greatness of playing at Carnegie Hall. With guest musician Ellen Gibling on harp, we explore the dynamic between the good and the great. At noon there will be a vote to call Ben as our settled minister.

  • Service: Changing the World Part 1: Persuasion

    Sometimes we offer our opinions lightly, encouraging others to do their own thinking, tuned into their own consciences; and sometimes we speak boldly, calling for change. Today we consider how and when to change minds.

  • Service: Changing the World Part 2: Protest and Building Bridges

    At its best, political protest can expand the love and justice in the world; but protest can sometimes feed an us-vs-them mentality. Today we consider how to protest in a way that overcomes division, whether within communities, countries or the world.

  • Service: The Danger of Uranium Mining

    The spectre of uranium exploration and mining has arisen again in our province, with the government lifting their long-established ban. Dr. Nancy Covington of our UU Community and a member of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment will speak to us about the danger of uranium mining for people and the environment and...

  • Service: Resurrection and Renewal (and maple communion)

    Borrowing from traditional Easter and springtime themes, our own Brett Richardson will draw from aspects of his own story, having walked through addiction, homelessness and recovery to explore the relationships between spiritual death and resurrection; isolation and connection; and autonomy and community. We will consider how to participate in community in ways that make giving...

  • Service: Songs for the Living with George Woodhouse

    Why do humans make music? Perhaps as an act of self-exploration, liberation, or connection with something beyond ourselves. Today we explore song-writing as a way of being human, a way of being alive. With guest musician George Woodhouse