What is Love? Presented by Rev. Ashley Burczak
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Welcome Rev. Ashley!
This Sunday, she offers her introductory sermon and tells us more about her background and what brought her to UFON.
National Worship Sunday Service: Turning Toward One Another
Hosted by the Canadian Unitarian Council. What will hold us together today? As an antidote to a world built around us/them, we’ll lean into this counter-story: that difference makes strength, and that our distinctive model as UUs – based not on sameness but on cultivating relationship and shared commitments across differences of belief – carries … Continue reading National Worship Sunday Service: Turning Toward One Another
Original Blessings
In UU child dedications, instead of saying the child has original sin, we say the child has original blessings. In this special service for Transgender Day of Remembrance, we’ll explore the role of spiritual communities in reminding us of our original blessings – calling us home to the wise and loving ancestors, both biological and … Continue reading Original Blessings
Joyful Patience
In this morning’s Reflection, we will explore cultivating joyful patience and positive anticipation as grounding spiritual practices. What benefits can patience and positive anticipation offer us as individuals and communities? How can we harness these practices to lay the groundwork for motivation, optimism and success?
Supermoon
Carl Sagan wrote “A religion that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.” How can we make Unitarian Universalism this religion? This week, in the presence of … Continue reading Supermoon
Samhain
Hallowe’en comes from the pagan holiday of Samhain – a time when the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead was unusually thin. In this service, we’ll think about how connecting to our own ancestral traditions and to community can help us better face the unknown future. Plan to … Continue reading Samhain
Loaves And Fishes: Bringing Food To The Needy Across Vancouver Island And Beyond
Loaves and Fishes’ highly successful Food 4U Food Recovery Program has dramatically increased the amount of healthy nutritious food available to people in need, while at the same time saving millions of pounds of food from ending up in the landfill every year. This morning we will learn how the abundance this program has created has … Continue reading Loaves And Fishes: Bringing Food To The Needy Across Vancouver Island And Beyond
Barn Swallow’s Journey: Hope In A Changing World
At this time of Thanksgiving, we invite you to hear a new, original story drawn from the natural world. Inspired by the family of barn swallows who appropriated her family’s patio this past summer, Debbie weaves a tale of hope, adaptation and resilience in our time of rapid and dramatic environmental change. Photo Credit: Bob … Continue reading Barn Swallow’s Journey: Hope In A Changing World
Change The Ever Constant
It is said that only death and taxes are certain. Add to the list, change. Change, sometimes invited and intentional, sometimes resisted and denied. We can engage it, resist it, deny, ignore or celebrate it and still change will occur. Our Unitarian Universalist faith invites us to embrace change.