Capital Unitarian Universalist Congregation

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.

Join Rosemary as she explores life’s ups and downs through the lens of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. The characters and story are rich with redemption and forgiveness, reflection and new beginnings. We are all on a metaphorical journey, some like Harold are trying to save someone, others looking to figure out who they are, and some just trying to keep it together. It’s never too late or too early to embark on a new journey.

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.

In an inclusive and family-friendly sacred song circle, Barbara will teach us chants from around the world. Barbara has taught sacred song to the Vancouver Island Unitarian Church, The West Shore Unitarian Congregation and gives a service once a month at the Salt Spring Island Unitarian Fellowship.  She was in the first graduating class of the renowned Community Choir Leadership Training program, offered by the leaders of the Gettin’ Higher Choir. This will be a very uplifting and joyful service, don’t miss it!

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.

Where is the line that separates the biblical injunction against suicide from respecting a person’s integrity and rational choice? Discussions of capital punishment and physician-assisted suicide rarely mention the decision to self-deliver when life becomes unbearable.  Award-winning documentary “How to Die in Oregon” (available at the public library) deals directly with euthanasia.  In today’s homily, speaker Peter Scales hopes to illuminate the morality and legality of self-delivery.

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.

We will look at Tolerance and Acceptance as they relate to our Unitarian and world history. How do these concepts look in today’s world and what do you think about them?

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.

Someone recently told me that after reading the work of poet David Whyte they were convinced that rather than seeking balance in life, the goal should be to live in a way that feels whole. What are our lives committed to? To whom to give our time and energies? How can we have a full sense of who we are show up in every facet of our lives?

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.

There are valid reasons to avoid talking about religion. And times when the silence is uncomfortable. A look at uneasiness about admitting to religion.