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!

Mar
15
Sun
Brooke Taylor “Our British Unitarian Roots”
Mar 15 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

A look back from the IARF Congress 2015, held at Birmingham University,. The University was founded by Unitarian Mayor and MP Chamberlin (Neville’s father).

 

Mar
22
Sun
Jim Hackler “Bowling Alone: The Loss of Community and its consequences”
Mar 22 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Mar
29
Sun
Sunday Morning Discussion: “Spiritual, Religious, Neither, Both?”
Mar 29 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Apr
5
Sun
Michelle Brown  “A Thread from the Tapestry”
Apr 5 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

The story of our CUUC congregation can be told in many voices. Today’s talk looks at the role Capital has played in the life of one its member families.

 

Apr
12
Sun
Terry Dance-Bennink  “Dogwood Initiative”
Apr 12 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Terry is a volunteer regional organizer for Dogwood Initiative and has a long history of activism dating back to the 60s. After retiring as a VP academic of an Ontario college, she spent two weeks in the tar-sands in 2013 and came back a changed woman. As a cancer survivor and volunteer, she also feels a sense of urgency.  It’s not easy to be hopeful these days, but Terry draws on her Christian roots, Buddhist meditation practice, science/cosmology, and her relationships with people to sustain her.  She’ll share her personal story and why she loves to organize local citizens to take back decision-making power over their land, air, and water.

 

Apr
19
Sun
Leila Scannell “Place Attachment: How a Sense of Place Can Promote Sustainability and Personal Well-being.”
Apr 19 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Leila works and publishes on sustainability, attachment to place and how we think and feel about them. In this talk, she will examine how our well-being is linked to our sense of comfort with the place we are in. Leila has a PhD in Environmental Psychology from UVIC.

 

Apr
26
Sun
Dana L. Seaborn “The vine and the branches”
Apr 26 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

A Meditation On Liberal Religion and a Call to an Ecological Consciousness A sermon by UU minister James Ishmael Ford.

 

May
3
Sun
Jan Greenwood “Flower Communion”
May 3 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Join us in a unique Unitarian celebration of spring and community. (Please bring a flower, one found by the roadside or on a boulevard.)

 

May
10
Sun
Ben Dolf “Re-enchanting the Personal” 
May 10 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Our survival depends on integrating our feelings, intuition, and rational mind with love and respect of the natural world. This service lays out practical steps to deepen our personal connections with the world outside and within. In a later service, Re-enchanting the Collective, we plan to look at how our congregation and similar groups can provide the support the community needs as we approach more difficult times. The service will be offered by Ben Dolf, a member of the congregation.

 

May
17
Sun
Rabbi Shimon Moch “How Best to Count our Blessings”
May 17 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
May
24
Sun
Rosemary Morrison “The Mystics”
May 24 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Drawing on our first source – Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder… Rosemary will explore with us some of the teachings and writings of mystics through the ages. These could include Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Meister Eckhart, Etty Hillesum or Mary Oliver. The mystics have been a special area of interest and study for Rosemary this past semester at the Vancouver School of Theology.

 

May
31
Sun
Peter Scales “Aging and Spirituality”
May 31 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Aging and Spirituality – Does church attendance, or having a spiritual side without attending public services, contribute to longevity?  If a congregation of 40 people has two centenarians and half a dozen people aged 90+, would that prove anything?  Peter will describe recent published research, and give examples.  Today is Elsie Farr’s 100th birthday!