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!
Speaker: Peter Scales
Unitarian-Universalism is a “big tent” in that we welcome people of diverse beliefs about religion, belief, spirituality, the gods (if any), and also people with no fixed belief in anything metaphysical. At Capital UU Congregation you are welcome if you are single, married, divorced, or in a situationship. You are welcome here on Sunday mornings and in our many other gatherings if you are already a UU, if you are church-shopping, if you are unchurched and unsure, or if the online Belief-omatic quiz told you that you likely align with UU thought. You are welcome in our community!
Bio: Peter is a historian, lay chaplain (officiant), multi-uncle, and the Chairperson of the board of CUUC.
Speaker: Kikila Perrin
Climate change is impacting us all. This reality, and the reality that indigenous people are more acutely impacted by the impacts of climate change are drawing settler environmentalists into more frequent contact and relationships with indigenous land defenders, ecosystem stewards, and communities. Unfortunately, we settlers don’t always “get it right” when we show up, and sometimes we cause harm without intending to. How can the land guide our relationships while offering us an opportunity to show up in ways that are safe(r) for the indigenous people intriguing us to support their projects?
Bio: Kikila Perrin (they/he) is a settler of mostly Germanic (Bavarian, English, French, Norse) and Celtic (French, British) lineage, and was born on the traditional unceded territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation (Ottawa) before spending most of their life in Tiohtia:ke in unceded Kanein’keha:ka territory (Montreal). They are grateful and indebted to their Lekwenen and WSANEC hosts for their invitations, their calls to action, and their requests for settlers to re-evaluate the nature of our being on stolen land, which was also the nature of their doctoral research. Kikila’s work explores Indigenous-settler relationships, the nature of their PhD research. Kikila’s work explores Indigenous-settler relationships, the nature of worldview (how we understand Indigenous-settler relationships, the nature of worldview (how we understand the universe) and the nature of the knowledge and our relationship with the land as means of reproducing worldviews.
Speaker: Kim Dawson
This three question song lyric sticks with me. What do you believe – really believe deeply – is your purpose in life? Why are you here on this planet at this specific time? I want to explore the idea that we all have something to contribute – by choice or by force. We have something to “do” during this lifetime. I want to question two contradictory assumptions inherent in this idea. One is the backward-looking scientific, objective belief in a reality we hold in common. Another is the forward-looking, subjective belief in an uncertain, creative, and ever more complex, equally real sci-fi future. How do we manage this paradoxical journey through time? Bottom-line: Be they short or long, these lives will pass. As individuals who reckon with what our species has done, what are we? What is left of ourselves and what is right with us when these temporary bodies go?
Bio: I have always been inspired by trying to understand what’s going on, so I pushed education to the hilt earning a B.Sc. from UBC and an M.A. and Ph.D., all in neuroscience from the University of Waterloo. Since then, I have enjoyed trying to keep up with exciting new brain imaging studies and unified theories that pertain to understanding our place and time in this life and the role of psychotherapy in personal development. After a wedding and a two-year stint counselling young offenders with substance use, I started a career in clinical psychology that continues to this day. Valuing nature, I have taken two paths. As co-founder of the compassionate charity Warm Hearts Pet Safe Havens, I work with my wife Jan to help women and pets escape abuse. As a licensed psychologist, I offer integrative self-therapy through animal-assisted and transpersonal pathways.