Doorways can be shut to keep us safe, or keep others out. An open door can be an invitation to adventures both wonderful and dangerous. Janus, the Roman God of gates and doors and transitions, guards the liminal transition into the new year, and new worlds. He gave this month its’ name.   Stepping through … Continue reading Doorways

Join us, as you are, for a Christmas Eve Service of music and story. Come with your family, come with yourself, come to remember why we put our faith in joy. This is the joy that moves through the earth while you sleep, the joy that lightens the sky when you wake, the joy that … Continue reading Joy to the World! A Christmas Eve Service

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. 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. 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 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

Via Zoom – – For the Zoom link, please see our Weekly Update or contact the office at info@ufon.ca or 250-755-1215. The experts tell us that a successful relationship requires good communication skills. So simple! So challenging!  Healthy relationships require a foundation of commitment, respect and trust. Good communication skills require us to be generous … Continue reading Healthy Relationships

Via Zoom – For the Zoom link, please see our Weekly Update or contact the office at info@ufon.ca or 250-755-1215. Imagine this caring community in a circle together. The people that shape the circle can face into the centre or they can face toward the outside. We often name those in our circle as the … Continue reading Drawing the Circle

Via Zoom We return to the circle of being together in our annual water ritual that launches a new cycle of the fellowship year.  Water symbolizes the endless flow of life, the strength and power of commitment and refreshing source of our strength. Timelessness, strength, power and the source of life will be our guide … Continue reading Deeply Connected Once Again: An Ingathering Water Ceremony