First Unitarian Congregation Of Ottawa

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We ran out of Sundays and this one didn't make it in to Black Heritage Month. What can be said about White Male Privilege after the Me Too Movement?

Len and Liz will offer an animal blessing. Bring your pets. Cats and birds are better in a carrier. Horses, goats and lamas outside please. Leave the rattlesnakes at home.

Longtime member and current Lay Chaplain Alex Campbell will share the links to Jewish Shavuot and Christian Pentecost which fall on May 20th.

“I remember Mama" was a television show popular in early television in Canada as well as the U.S. Based on a book, the story went on to Broadway as well as TV. It featured a Norwegian immigrant family in the early portion of the last century.

Disney has dominated North American culture since the 1930's. What is it saying to us theologically and is that good?

Our religious tradition has been about covenanting between congregation and members since our inception. Let’s talk about it.

Sharing the pulpit with member at large Bill Van Iterson, Rev. Len De Roche will share his experiences with Plains First Nations Spiritual practices. This will follow the day's Sunday forum on Indigenous issues.

Sunday, April 8th, 2018 "Bart Simpson and the Nature of God" - The popular irreligious adult and youth cartoon offers insight into the discussion of models of the divine. Len leads this service.

Sunday, March 25th, 2018 - Righteousness is a concept in all religious traditions as well as one in Humanism. Len will explore this idea.

Sunday, March 18th, 2018 - With the celebration of St Patrick on Saturday, we will discuss the particularities of Celtic Spirituality.

Sunday, March 11th, 2018 - In the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp, a consortium of women of the congregation will delve into this topical issue.

Sunday, March 4th, 2018 - Sharing the faith is a CUC worship service that explores our common faith.

Sunday, February 25th, 2018 - Gnomes and Trolls play important parts in Norsk mythology. Len will tell stories about a Norwegian Gnomes and Trolls.

Sunday, February 18th, 2018 - Viola Desmond challenged to civil rights in Halifax about a 100 years ago. How are we doing?

Guest Sermon from Rev. Linda Goonewardene.

Sunday, January 28th, 2018 - What is radical hospitality and how do we live it in our day to day lives?

By the end of the eighteenth century there were two religions espousing Liberal Christianity on this side of the Atlantic – the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association. Over 150 years later, when these two religions consolidated in 1960, the statement of union was reached not without some contention around what was to become our fourth source: “Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God’s love by loving our neighbours as ourselves”. This morning we shall unpack some of the “stuff” that still causes some misunderstanding and confusion concerning this fourth source.

The First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa says goodbye to 2017 in the style of a traditional New Orleans Jazz funeral... complete with a coffin and a mournful saxophone.

A NYE Sunday reading of Dylan Thomas' classic tale "A Child's Christmas in Wales".