It’s 10 years since we last celebrated an OUUC birthday! It’s time to commemorate our 70th anniversary! With your help, we can send a message of hope and love to the future OUUC! Reverend Gear’s installation ceremony as our settled minister will take place, on June 4. Right now, a team is working on adding […]
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Unitarian Universalist Efforts for Racial Justice
This past Sunday, I spoke about the history of Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists in the work for racial justice. You can access the service recording here. In the service, I mentioned two great resources about the “empowerment controversy” of 1968-1970, which divided the new denomination and caused many black UUs to leave.The first is […]
OUUC Agreement for Times of Pandemic
As we work our way through this time of transition – from pandemic lockdown through changing restrictions to whatever lies ahead – it is helpful to review our OUUC Agreement for Times of Pandemic in the OUUC Pandemic Manual. This document reminds us why and how we choose to be in this community and what […]
Re-Opening OUUC
With COVID cases coming down and vaccination rates going up, the Health & Safety Task Force decided to relax the OUUC guidance just a bit and begin gathering for services again. We continue to consider everyone in our community and how we can best care for each other. Starting this Sunday, February 27, we will […]
Sharing and Understanding Our Power
This month we have been exploring the spiritual theme of empower, one of six words in the OUUC mission statement to welcome and wonder, embrace and empower, bridge and become. To empower is simply to share our power. So, to empower we must understand our power. In the service on February 13, I spoke of […]
