Shiva: ultimate reality; Creator, Sustainer, Destroyer. Standing on a baby: symbol of ignorance. Could all the violence, fear and chaos around us be a necessary part of the cycle of life? Maybe the structures and systems of corruption must be broken to make room for … read more.
Members of the Fellowship’s Committee on Shared Ministry (COSM) will reflect on how our how we have changed as we emerge from the restrictions of COVID that began three years ago this month. We will shine a light on what we can regain from … read more.
Resilience is something we have all had personal and collective experience of, or at least the need of it, in these last few years. Love, the theme this month, contributes significantly to our capacity to be resilient. This morning let us reflect on love’s contribution.
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Spirited Jazz Nanaimo is a wonderful worshipful musical experience with four talented local musicians.
Please join Teighan Couch (vocals), Patrick Courtin (Hammond organ), Brad Shipley (guitar) and Adam Robertson (drums) for an hour of uplifting and soul nourishing music.
This is an in-person … read more.
This is a service of readings and songs about the lure of love in our lives. The lure of romantic love that grabs our imaginations and our hearts. Becoming an enticement that opens in us a yearning for an ideal love that promises fulfillment one … read more.
Principles of equality and justice compel Unitarian Universalists to advocate for marriage equality and other civil rights centering LBGTQ2S+ people. But who exactly has the “right” to love, date, get married or “shack up”, and to access intimacy and sexual pleasure? Just ahead of Valentine’s … read more.
Congregations are experiencing a lot of change these days: from ministerial transitions to implementing the 8th Principle, all during a pandemic. Upheaval, loss, uncertainty, pain, aspirations, conflict: cultural shifts within and without are calling us to hold one another gently, despite our differences and difficulties.
Covenanting … read more.
Throughout history, when oppressive regimes and systems have tried to dominate a country, a society or a minority, brave voices inevitably emerge to speak truth to power. Their words and songs are the rallying cry to their oppressed brothers and sisters and for better days … read more.
A treat for the ears, the heart and the soul with our first alternative worship service focused on jazz.
Your soul soothed with words of wisdom shared by Rev Debra, and your spirit lifted up by the skills of Patrick Courtin (piano), Nico Rhodes (sax) and … read more.
Dr. Judith Lewis Hermann, MD says, “The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.” Today I am offering a reflection on my … read more.
