Sunday Services

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.

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...

How our UU principles can create change.

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.

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...

What is the draw of this park for over 50 years and three generations? With illustrations.

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

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.

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.

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?

The Unitarian Ray Kurzweil predicted in the 1990s that a convolution of exponential curves would lead to runaway growth in artificial brainpower in the late 2020s. He recently said that his timeline is still accurate. What gods are we awakening? We will have a new member ceremony during the service. If you would like to become...