Additional Worship Services 

Our Sunday church services are 10:30am.
Childcare is provided on Sundays as well as religious education for youth. Coffee hour follows the service -- a perfect time to continue sharing!

Men's Circle - Friday at 7:30 pm
Men's Circle will reconvene in the fall. – Scott Harrigan
 

Religious Education; Adult

The New U.U. (Unitarian Universalist) a two-session orientation program for newcomers and any one else who might be interested. The purpose of the program is to help new people become part of our church community, intellectually, socially, and personally.
New UU addresses this purpose in three ways. Participants will:

• Create a time line of religious turning points in their lives and share these narratives with others in the New UU group. This is a great way to begin new friendships and see how much we have in common in our religious journeys.
  
• Explore Unitarian Universalism by looking at the local church and the larger movement.
  
• Identify and talk about important issues such as theological position, approach to tradition, the tension between intellect and feeling, and the importance of money, involvement and volunteering.

Please check our newsletter or monthly events calendar to confirm dates and do let us know your schedule preferences. Tim Ashton, Minister; Karen Kuhn, New Member Development Committee

VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY
“To live more simply is to live more purposefully and with a minimum of needless distraction” – Duane Elgin

   This fall a discussion course on “VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY" will be offered by the Green Sanctuary Committee. The course was developed by the Northwest Earth Institute and was successfully completed here at the Church last fall. We are offering it again for those who missed it last year. There is a cost for the notebook; it consists of 8 weekly sessions; one hour of reading is needed each week and there is shared facilitation each week. Please call me or E mail if you are interested and let me know what days and evenings are best for you. – Carol Wells

WOMEN'S CIRCLE
This discussion group meets each 1st, 4th and 5th Tuesday of the month, at 1:30 pm in the church living room. Here's what we will be doing:

August 31 - This is our Fifth Tuesday meeting with Rev. Tim Ashton. We will be able to catch up on his news from this summer!

September 7 - What better way to start out the new church year than with the latest edition of the UU World which you should be receiving in August. There are always very interesting, thought-provoking articles for us to discuss.

September 28 - We'll be discussing the novel The Help today as a follow-up to March.

October 5 - We'll watch the DVD "The Heretics" today about a group of women artists who had an impact on American culture in the 60s and what they are doing today.

- Marge Marcille

LAY WORSHIP COMMITTEE needs new Chairperson(s)!
Shortly after joining this church, we formed the Lay Worship Committee.
Basically, this committee is interested in creating spiritual or worshipful moments outside of Sunday morning church services. We feel that we would like to retire from heading this committee because our energies have become tied up with so many other church activities, mainly Religious Education.
If anybody is interested in joining or chairing this committee, please let us know. – Scott Harrigan & Hella Jacob

The CAMPUS MINISTRY COMMITTEE is looking for volunteers interested in working with this student ministry. We are looking for people who have daytime ability to sit at a table and talk to students 

about UU faith issues. If you are interested, please contact Scott Harrigan.- Scott Harrigan
 

Liberal Religious Hour - Podcast
For music and interviews on topics of interest to religious liberals, including peace, justice, interfaith communications, fair trade and labor practices, environmental concerns, etc., go to UURadio.org

Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF)
CLF brings Unitarian Universalism to religious liberals throughout the world. Looking to explore your own spirituality? The Church of the Larger Fellowship offers online classes and email discussions. Go to clf.uua.org (Click on Resources), or call 617-948-6166.

Welcome to Spiritual Life
     In the now classic book Everyday Spiritual Practice: Simple Pathways for Enriching Your Life, the Rev. Scott Alexander makes this seemingly simple statement:

"In our faith every individual is expected, with the help of clergy and community, to nurture and tend the garden of his or her own religious life each and every day."

     There's a lot in those thirty-one words—ideas of expectation, the involvement of others, and daily discipline, for example—that might surprise some Unitarian Universalists (UUs) and yet which others have greeted with gratitude. Certainly there is nothing there that is not recognized by the other great religious traditions we humans have developed to respond to, as Forrest Church put it, the challenges of being alive and having to die. The "spiritual life" takes work, and we cannot do it alone.
But just what is "the spiritual life?" What is "spirituality?" The Rev. Barbara Merritt once wrote, "Whether or not you believe in God, you need to realize that you yourself are not God." For some it takes a lifetime to achieve that realization; for others it's a daily discipline to remember it. This may be one way to understand what is meant by the term, "spirituality"— the task of discovering, and then remembering, that we are not god.
               – Excerpt from a page on Spiritual Life on the UUA website

This on-line publication will give you the big picture perspective:
UUA World

UU World on Tape
Our UU World magazine is available at free to people with
eyesight impairments.

Contact Identity-Based Ministries, 25 Beacon Street, Boston MA 02108-2803 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (617) 948-6475.

You can see UUCA activities listed in
our monthly events calendar.