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2024 Services

November - repair

• November 24th: “Unexpected Gifts” with Kathryn Nicholson

• November 17th: “Moral Beauty” with Bruce Grierson

• November 10th: “Love, Sacrifice, and the Big Terrible Thing” with Bruce Grierson

• November 3rd: “We Are Alchemists: The Extraordinary Capacity of Humans to Manifest What Is Needed” with Alison Nixon

October - deep listening

• October 27th: “Scared Sacred” with Bruce Grierson

• October 20th: “Strengthening Our Golden Threads of ‘Seeing the Actual Other’ “ with Alison Nixon & Michelle Dodds

• October 13th: “Lost & Found” with Bruce Grierson

• October 6th: “Unitarians & The Four Agreements” with Leslie Whyte

september - Invitation

• September 29th: “Living in the Spirit of Reconciliation: Finding Inspiration Through Engagement with Indigenous Peoples” with Ken Coates, PhD and Sue Forbes

• September 22nd: “The Things We Do for Love” with Rev. Shawn Gauthier & Rebecca Lindley

• September 15th: “Hope: A Path Forwards… and a Shield” with Rebecca Lindley

• September 8th: “Half an Inch Deep and a Mile Wide” with Bruce Grierson

June - Renewal

• June 23rd: “Flower Communion & Thank Yous” with the Board of Trustees

• June 16th: “Father’s Day” with Kerry Burke & family

• June 9th: “Youth Protest 2.0” with Bruce Grierson

• June 2nd: “The Psychology of Self-Doubt” with Rebecca Lindley

May - PLURALISM

• May 26th: “What’s Really at the Core of our Liberal Religion? And Why Does It Matter?” with Sue Forbes

• May 19th: “Right Here, Right Now” with Rebecca Lindley (not recorded)

• May 12th: “The Gift of Non-Theism: True Compassion” with Alison Nixon

• May 5th: “Spirit of the Game” with Bruce Grierson

April - interdependence

• April 28th: “The Magic of Friendship” with Mary Bennett & Sue Forbes

• April 21st: “Celebrating Earth Day: Spotlight on Solutions” with Marcia Stephenson & Guests

• April 14th: “Extremity” with Bruce Grierson

• April 7th “Living With Purpose” with Sanford Osler & Sue Forbes

MARCH - transformation

• March 31st: “There’s Just Something In the Air” with Sue Forbes & Alison Nixon

• March 24th: “Mitch, Morrie & the Reb” with Rebecca Lindley

• March 17th: “Is This Better, or Is This Better?” with Bruce Grierson

• March 10th: “Mental Health Matters” with Dennis Cooper

• March 3rd: “Let’s Start with Hope… Seriously” with Sue Forbes and Kathryn Nicholson

FEBRUARY - justice and equity

• Febaruary 25th: “The Mind’s I” with Paul Sungaila & Leslie Gibbons

• February 18th: “Love at the Threshold” with Rev. Anne Barker & Rebecca Lindley.

• February 11th: “Four Questions to Help Us Catch the Light” with Leslie Gibbons and Rev. Barbara Gilday

• February 4th: “Dying with Dignity and Grace” with Leslie Gibbons and Alex Muir. (See a list of Dying with Dignity resources HERE).

January - liberating love

• January 28th: “Talkin’ ‘Bout Our G-G-Generations” with Bruce Grierson

• January 21st: “Being in the NOW with Yoga Nidra” with Alison Nixon and guest speaker Diviki Henderson

• January 14th: “Creativity” with Bruce Grierson

• January 7th: “Bittersweet” with Rebecca Lindley

2023 Services

December - mystery

• December 31st: New Years’ Eve potluck (no recording)

• December 24th: Christmas Eve Service

• December 17th: “An EnCHANTing Experience” with Dennis Cooper

• December 10th: “War and Peace and then . . . ?” with Leslie Gibbons

• December 3rd: “Christmas Choral Service: Angels with Feet” with Alison Nixon

November - generosity

• November 26th: “The First Follower” by Bruce Grierson (the link will be added a few days after the service)

• November 19th: “The Role of Conflict in the Evolution of Unitarian Universalism” with Alison Nixon

• November 12th: “An Act of Remembrance: Following Dad's Path Through WWII” with Sue Forbes

• November 5th: “The Spirit of the Pilgrimage” with Leslie Gibbons

OCTOBER - heritage

• October 29th: “Day of the Dead Versus Halloween” with Kerry Burke

• October 22: “The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Spirituality” with Dennis Cooper.

• October 15: “Oh So Beautiful” with Rebecca Lindley

• October 8: “A Cabin in the Woods” with Bruce Grierson

• October 1: “Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair” with Sue Forbes

SEPTEMBER - welcome

• September 24: “Grief is the Price We Pay for Love” with Sue Forbes & Kathryn Nicholson

• September 17: “The Road Less Travelled” with Leslie Gibbons

• September 10: “Stronger Together”

june - Delight

• June 25: “Sanctuary”

• June 18: “A View from Gen Z” by Adriana Schulte & Lila Grierson

• June 11: “The Power of Community” by Meenakshi Mannoe

• June 4: “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Delphi” by Bruce Grierson

may - Creativity

• May 28: “Fire Weather” by John Vaillant

• May 21: “CUC Service: Bringing Promises to Life”

• May 14: “Retrospective”

• May 7: “Last Sunday”

april - RESISTANCE

• April 30: “Widening the Circle of Community”

• April 23: Guest in pulpit: “The Influence of Faith on One's Life Journey” — Dr. John Guilfoyle

• April 16: “Magic Earth”

• April 9: “Easter and Flower Communion”

• April 2: “Mess Around to Find Out”

march - VULNERABILITY

• Mar 26: “Courage to Change”

• Mar 19: Guest in pulpit: “Building Cultural Bridges Through Music” Dr. Hussein Janmohamed

• Mar 12: “Mission to the Future”

• March 05: My Instruction: Reflections on a Psychedelic Inquiry

february - Love

• February 26: SNOW

• February 19: A Story Is a Compass

• February 12: Story Without a Story (watch LIVE on our YouTube Channel)

• February 5: (No recording)

january - finding our center

• January 29: There is a Love

• January 22: Retroactive: Looking Back to Find a Path

• January 15: Like Minded People

• January 8: Religion at the End of the World

• January 1: There is no recording from this informal service led by John Slattery

2022 Services

wonder

• December 24: Christmas Eve

• December 18: service cancelled due to snow

• December 11: Christmas Choral Service

• December 4: Salvation by Enchantment

CHANGE

• November 27: Closer to Fine by Rev. Christopher Wulf

• November 20: Soil Communion

• November 13: Trauma Tool Kit

• November 6: Navigating Collective Trauma

COURAGE

• October 30: All Souls Ceremony

• October 23: The Courage of Folk who Live with Mental Illness and/ or Addiction

• October 16: The Dream of Beloved Community

• October 9: Magic in our Midst

bELonging

• September 25: Where we are at. Where we're going

SUMMER SERVICES

• August 28: A Vision for our Future by Rev. Ron Phares

blessings

• June 26: Flower Communion & Volunteer Recognition

• June 19: Our Path to Now: Reflecting on Reflections

• June 12: Pride Sunday by Cynthia Becker

• June 5: Youth Service (No recording)

Beauty

• May 29: "Roots & Wings: Home in an Epoch of Terminal Transience" aka "Dandelion Christ"

• May 22: (not recorded, due to technical issues).

• May 15: What is Beauty? by Laura McNaughton

• May 8: 98 in the Shade, Sonia Mackrow in conversation with Bruce Grierson

• May 1: What a Wonderful World

Awakening

• April 24: Actually . . . We Can Handle the Truth by Guy Heywood & Chris

• April 17: Easter

• April 10: Home in the Midst of Change by Rev. Ron Phares

• April 3: Why Reconciliation Fails by Dr. Bruce McIvor

Renewing Faith

• March 27: The Fundamentals of Our Faith

• March 20: These Anxious Days (not available on YouTube)

• March 13: Let’s Get Dirty

• March 6: Between Two Chalices . . . with Coffee

Widening the Circle

• February 27: Making Sacred

• February 20: Yearn, Baby, Yearn

• February 13: Thoughts on Ceremony

• February 6: Return to the Oral

Living with INTENTION

• January 23: “Eco Location - Community as a Place”

• January 16: “Question Box Sunday”

• January 9: “Looking Back, Looking Forward”

• January 2: “The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Michael Servetus, a Unitarian Predecessor”

2021 services

Opening to Joy

• December 26: “Fall 2021 Retrospective with your SSAs”

• December 24: “Christmas Eve”

• December 19: “Winter Solstice”

• December 12: “Christmas Choral Service”

• December 5: “The Grail Quest”

Holding History

• November 28: “Soil Communion”

• November 21: “Covenant and Principle: What is a Principle”

• November 14: “The Rosetta Stone”

• November 7: “Free and Responsible”

Cultivating relationship

• October 31: “All Hallows Tide”

• October 24 “Grab Bag: Embodiment and Blessings”

• October 17 “Paths of Connection”

• October 10 “Gratitude as an Act of Resistance”

• October 3 '‘Heartbreak and Gratitude”

POSSIBILITY

• September 26 “Mercy and Grace”

• September 19 ““Practice Possibility”

• September 12 “Water Communion”

Play

• June 20 “Bridging”

• June 13 “Coming Out”

• June 6: “Flower Communion”

Story

• May 30: Coming of Age

• May 23 “Integration - Weaving the Semester Together”

• May 9 “Spellcasting: A Story for the Future (Mary Segal & Service Awards)”

• May 2 ”Spellcasting: We Are the Stories We Tell”

becoming

• April 25: “The Future of Our WEIRD Religion (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic)”

• April 18 “Beauty in the Breakdown: Finding New Meaning as the Old Meaning Dissolve”
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  Part II

• April 11 “Climate Crisis, Growing Inequality & the Overdose Epidemic: Solutions & Action” with Dr John Millar

• April 4 “Easter as Inoculation; the now and not yet”

Commitment

• March 28 “Seeking Forgiveness”

• March 21 “On Forgiving”

• March 14 “The Myth of Personal Responsibility” with Ryan Guenther

• March 7 ”Promises, Promises”

Beloved Community

• February 28 “Eco-location: Community as Place”

• February 21 “Way of the Covenant”

• February 14 “Sunday School reincarnate”

IMAGINATION

• January 24 "Reflections on the Death of Sunday School”

• January 17 “Toward the Beloved Community: Dismantling Racism”

• January 10 “Question Box Sunday”

• January 3 ”The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Michael Servetus” with John Slattery

2020 Services

STILLNESS

• December 27: “NSUC in 2020: in words and music”

• December 20: “Honouring The Solstice”

• December 13 “The Spirit of Christmas”(please contact the church for the link)

• December 6 “Beacons of Hope”

healing

• November 29 “Gratitude”

• November 22 “Soil”

• November 8 “Remembrance Day”

• November 1 “All Souls (Dia De Los Muertos)”

DEEP LISTENING

• October 25: “Anti-Racism @ NSUC”

• October 18: “Purpose - beyond”

• October 11: “Meaning - between”

• October 04: ““Depth - Within”

RENEWAL

• September 27: “The Spiral of Life”

• September 20: “Water Communion”

• September 13: “Homecoming”