Sunday Services

Speaking your thoughts is an effective way to gain clarity and understanding, but sometimes it might be best to keep your opinion to yourself. Today we consider how our principles and values shape our involvement in public discourse. Guest musician Jennifer Jones on violin

You contain far more potential than you can realize in one lifetime. Today we consider how many sides of yourself to develop, and we honour the parts of yourself that will have to wait for your next life.

Lupins to sunflowers; strawberries to blueberries; road trips planned and spontaneous; ice cream and lobster rolls – on our first Summer Sunday, join Pam Griffin-Hody to celebrate the joys of summer, past and present.

The day after the Halifax Pride Parade, our Pride Parade Committee will lead our Sunday service, celebrating our enthusiasm for equality.

We are hosting this annual interfaith service that is a part of the Halifax Pride Festival.

Why do certain songs have a special meaning and still resonate with us sometimes years after we 6rst heard them. The Afterchoir will explore the power of song and endeavor to play for and with you any early submitted requests that they receive.

This Sunday we celebrate poetry by hearing poems that speak to us through images of birds. Such a part of our everyday world and yet so wildly different from us, birds capture something of the strange wonder of ordinary life. 

In the second of our two services devoted to birds, we will hear thoughts on what it can mean to observe them, whether with an educated gaze or a casual amateur’s bemusement. Either way of looking can reward us richly. 

Labour Day is so many things – a celebration of Unions and workers and the crossroad between Summer and Fall.  The ancient Romans celebrated new year in March as do modern Iranians. Our calendar marks it in January but After Labour Day always feels like the real New Year.  Let’s mark it with stories and...

Bring water from home or a special place. We combine our water to honour the start of the congregational year, while honouring the roots that ground us and the wings that set us free. We welcome our new Intern Minister Casey Stainsby, our new RE Coordinator for our kids program Emily Rees, and our Sept-Dec...

The day before Yom Kippur, we reflect on the practice of making amends and beginning again in love. Stay after service for a pick-up choir practice, preparing for Ben's installation Oct 4th, a potluck lunch at noon, followed by our congregational retreat until 3pm.

Join us as our Intern Minister Casey Stainsby offers her first reflection of the congregational year. When we look back through our lives so far, some days, people, experiences and texts stand out as being particularly influential over what we did and who we became since then. These experiences are like the strike of a...