Spirited Jazz Nanaimo is a wonderful worshipful musical experience with Patrick Courtin, hammond organ, Teighan Couch, vocals, Brad Shipley, guitar and Adam Robertson, drums Please join us for an hour of uplifting and soul nourishing music.This is an in-person event only and admission by donation.
Ever striving for balance in our lives, this reflection on the fullness of a theology of gratitude and generosity offers a few possibilities. Rev Debra Faulk, a lifelong Unitarian Universalist, retired in 2021 as Minister Emerita after 11 years with Calgary Unitarians. She received a BA in psychology and anthropology from UVic and a Master … Continue reading Gratitude Generosity, The Yin and Yang Of It
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 a new foundation for living in relationship with the earth. … Continue reading The Dance of Shiva
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 our past, how we must embrace new opportunities, and the many … Continue reading Celebrating Our CommUUnity
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. Rev Debra Faulk, a lifelong Unitarian Universalist, retired in 2021 … Continue reading Resilient Love
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 event only. Admission at the door by donation.
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 future day. For some, this human love is itself the … Continue reading The Lure of Love
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 Day, this provocative reflection will reveal and probe the fact … Continue reading j*UU*st love
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 through Transition is a national worship service that asks … Continue reading Canadian Unitarian Council National Worship Service: Covenanting Through Transitions
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 ahead. What are the oppressions of today’s Canada and who … Continue reading Songs of Resistance
