One of the best things about belonging to a religious community like ours is the way in which people offer their particular gifts and talents to the benefit of the whole. Today we celebrate the gift of music and the … read more.
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April 25, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. Online Only on YouTube
Twenty-five Unitarian Universalist congregations in IL, the UU Advocacy network, and UU Prison ministries are gathering to take a collective breath. As spring waits on the horizon, can we breathe? … read more.
Many of us are familiar with the works of great nature writers and how they inspire us to consider our relationship with the natural world. Poet Mary Oliver and naturalist Henry David Thoreau’s writings have guided our mindful explorations, especially in our Unitarian Universalist communities. … read more.
Disabled people have often been viewed as objects of charity or pity rather than human beings with worth and dignity. In recent history, disabled activists, using the slogan ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’, came together to fight for civil rights and for the ability to dictate their … read more.
According to Ruth Wilson Gilmore, abolition is about building presence and not absence. Join us for a meditation on incarceration, the prison industrial complex, and how our Unitarian Universalist understandings of human dignity and interconnectedness inform us as we work for just systems of accountability … read more.
How do we learn when to move forward and when to move back? Wrapping up our month-long series on consolation and desolation, join us in an exploration of the connections between tennis lessons, tidal waters, choir practice, and a progressive ethic of risk.
We have a very exciting Christmas Eve Program to share with you this year. We collaborated with the Unitarian Universalist Congregations in Columbus IN, Boise ID, and Davis CA to create a beautiful Christmas Eve service. Interns, ministers, lay leaders, and musicians from all four … read more.
Please join us for our annual solstice service this Sunday, December 20th. We will explore the different ways earth-centered spiritual practices inform our lives, and we will hear voices from many different traditions. Special guest speakers include members of the Rockford CUUPs organization. Come, celebrate … read more.
We move through difficulty by pulling from our well of resilience resources. How do we refill those wells when things are looking pretty bleak? Let us consider new ways of seeing kindness during the month of December, a month marked by short days and long … read more.
This Sunday, we celebrate our December Music Sunday once again. However, in this year when nothing is as it should be, our service of music will not feature a major work presented by the Unicantors. (However, the Unicantors will make a surprise appearance on Sunday … read more.
