What meaning can we draw from the times when we fall to our knees, cut the mooring, or walk alone in the desert? How do we understand the tumble of grief, and the sinking of hope? It is one thing to experience suffering and another to see it as a spiritual journey that breaks us … Continue reading The Breaking Time – A Theology of Suffering
What do you name the invisible arms that hold you in the dark night and in the bright of day? What do you trust with your heart, your prayers, your secrets? What is the thought, the feeling, the knowing, that you lean into when the world shivers and shakes under you? What holds you? To … Continue reading What Holds You? The Heart of Theology
Via Zoom – – For the Zoom link, please see our Weekly Update or contact the office at info@ufon.ca or 250-755-1215. Many of us thought that the Covid pandemic would be the event that compelled the public to return to a respect for science and to a recognition of our interdependence. In reality, neither of these things has … Continue reading Church in the Era of Extreme Events: Reflections for our Fellowship from Resilience Thinking
Via Zoom – – For the Zoom link, please see our Weekly Update or contact the office at info@ufon.ca or 250-755-1215. Every life faces transitions with the passage of time; some are welcome and bring joy or celebration while others are uninvited and accompanied by loss. As Lay Chaplains we serve our First Unitarian Fellowship of Nanaimo by … Continue reading Celebrating Life: Meeting People Where They Are
This service will begin at 10am. Via Zoom – – For the Zoom link, please see our Weekly Update or contact the office at info@ufon.ca or 250-755-1215. From the light of days remembered, to the fire that burns within us, Canadian Unitarian Universalists gather from coast to coast. We bring the stories of our living and the dreams … Continue reading National Service: “Sustaining the Light”
Via Zoom – – For the Zoom link, please see our Weekly Update or contact the office at info@ufon.ca or 250-755-1215. Motivated by their religious values, Rev. Watsill Sharpe and his wife Martha, left their children in the hands of their Unitarian congregation and boldly committed to a life threatening mission in Europe. For over two dangerous years … Continue reading Love is on the Way
Via Zoom – – For the Zoom link, please see our Weekly Update or contact the office at info@ufon.ca or 250-755-1215. What better way to recognise All Saints Day than to meet some of the colourful and actively engaged men and women who contributed to making and sustaining our faith. Today you’ll hear from the colourful circus owner … Continue reading Meeting Our Ancestors
Via Zoom – – For the Zoom link, please see our Weekly Update or contact the office at info@ufon.ca or 250-755-1215. The emperor has no clothes – and we all agree he is wearing something – that is a collective lie. Why do we do it? Why do we agree that there is something there when our eyes and hearts … Continue reading Revealing the Invisible
Via Zoom – – For the Zoom link, please see our Weekly Update or contact the office at info@ufon.ca or 250-755-1215. Many of you may remember Jackie from her previous two FUFON presentations: (1) on Humpback Whales and the work of the Marine Education and Research Society and; (2) the biodiversity in the cold, dark, colourful waters off … Continue reading Sea Slugs and Why They Matter
Via Zoom – – For the Zoom link, please see our Weekly Update or contact the office at info@ufon.ca or 250-755-1215. Many of us hide a part of ourselves from the world. For some it is more dangerous than others. This Thanksgiving, we celebrate the courage of those who fought and won the inner battle to be true … Continue reading Over Coming, Coming Out
