Calendar of events

Here you will find all of our congregation’s Sunday Services, Board and Committee meetings and other events. Use the calendar controls to see events for past or future dates. For a quick look at recent Sunday Services, click here!

Jul
6
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Jul 6 @ 10:00 am – 11:20 am

Attention all Visitors, Members and Friends! Please come for ‘coffee’ and conversation in the alcove at James Bay Coffee and Books at 143 Menzies St. The coffee and topic are as you like it.

Jul
9
Sun
Arran Liddel “The Rainbow Connection”
Jul 9 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Arran Liddel "The Rainbow Connection"

Like any culture, queer culture changes over time. With these changes, we see ourselves and each other differently, both inside and outside of queer communities. We will share stories and reflections about how evolving queer identities offer a more nuanced understanding of love & inclusion… And, of course, some fabulous music! This service will be related to but separate from the pride service the Sunday before at First Victoria.

Jul
13
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Jul 13 @ 10:00 am – 11:20 am

Attention all Visitors, Members and Friends! Please come for ‘coffee’ and conversation in the alcove at James Bay Coffee and Books at 143 Menzies St. The coffee and topic are as you like it.

Jul
16
Sun
Oliver Belisle – Wisdom and the human connection
Jul 16 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Oliver Belisle - Wisdom and the human connection

Homo sapiens sapiens–wisest of the wise ones. This is the name we’ve given our species, and on the surface it seems well-deserved; but observe yourself carefully, or the people around you, or read the news, and you may begin to question whether we’ve earned this name at all. What does it mean to be wise, and if we are not yet wise ourselves, how can we become so?

 

Oliver Belisle is a father of 3, husband, blogger, writer, and spiritual explorer whose travels have led him along many different paths. He recently discovered the need for a structured and systemic approach to life and started building his own philosophy, which he describes as a blend of Stoicism, Taoism, Vedanta, and Zen. From the first time he set foot in a Unitarian Universalist church he knew that it was a perfect fit for him, and he has been a member of FUCV since 2014.

Jul
20
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Jul 20 @ 10:00 am – 11:20 am

Attention all Visitors, Members and Friends! Please come for ‘coffee’ and conversation in the alcove at James Bay Coffee and Books at 143 Menzies St. The coffee and topic are as you like it.

Jul
23
Sun
Mary Louise Meadow – Speaking of feminists in religion
Jul 23 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Mary Louise Meadow - Speaking of feminists in religion

Anyone hoping to understand women’s lives needs to attend to the extent to which religion has not only reflected basic cultural assumptions about gender but has also helped shape, alter and reinforce those assumptions. The study of women in religion gives us access to women’s interior lives and how women have understood themselves, their social context and their world. Religious institutions historically have been a major sphere of women’s activities, second perhaps only to the domestic sphere itself.

Jul
27
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Jul 27 @ 10:00 am – 11:20 am

Attention all Visitors, Members and Friends! Please come for ‘coffee’ and conversation in the alcove at James Bay Coffee and Books at 143 Menzies St. The coffee and topic are as you like it.

Jul
30
Sun
Dan Klimke “A Travelogue of Faith – How “stillness speaks” in our global cathedral of Spirit”
Jul 30 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Dan Klimke "A Travelogue of Faith - How “stillness speaks” in our global cathedral of Spirit"

In this presentation of images, sounds and spoken word, explore the world and visit places of worship for different faiths –  learn how “stillness speaks” in our global cathedral of spirit. Maybe one of these faith traditions speaks to your soul…

Aug
3
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Aug 3 @ 10:00 am – 11:20 am

Attention all Visitors, Members and Friends! Please come for ‘coffee’ and conversation in the alcove at James Bay Coffee and Books at 143 Menzies St. The coffee and topic are as you like it.

Aug
6
Sun
Peter Scales – Principles and Sources
Aug 6 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Peter Scales - Principles and Sources

A look at the principles and sources of Unitarian Universalism.

Aug
10
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Aug 10 @ 10:00 am – 11:20 am

Attention all Visitors, Members and Friends! Please come for ‘coffee’ and conversation in the alcove at James Bay Coffee and Books at 143 Menzies St. The coffee and topic are as you like it.

Aug
13
Sun
Michelle Brown – Religion as survival strategy
Aug 13 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Michelle Brown - Religion as survival strategy

Churches were language sanctuaries for Hungarians who came under Romanian authority in
1920. Even today, seminarians are charged with responsibility for the cultural survival of
Hungarian-speaking Transylvanians. Michelle Brown, recently returned from a three-month stay
in a Unitarian seminary, offers a look at the 21st century reality facing this child of the
Reformation.

Michelle Brown is currently a Community Fellow in the Centre for Studies for Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. A poet and essayist, she was long-listed in the 2015 PRISM international Creative non-fiction contest, receiving an honourable mention in the Victoria Authors Association 2016 Flash Fiction Contest and was recently nominated for the Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V(ery) Short Forms. She is Cree from the Metis Nation.