June 29, 2025Join Cheryl Simmonds as she discusses the history of the Sixties Scoop in Manitoba and the history of Project Opikihiwawin, a Winnipeg-based group of white parents who sought to connect their adopted Indigenous children to t...

June 22, 2025In her inspiring book Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote that she wished “to live ‘in grace’ as much of the time as possible,” which she was quick to differentiate from theological doctrines of grace. For her, gr...

June 8, 2025Among Hungarian Unitarians, Pentecost remains one of the key holidays of the liturgical calendar. While on a pilgrimage to Transylvania in 2003, I was given the honour of preaching in a historic village church at Pentecost. T...

May 25, 2025“Practice corporeal politics,” advises Timothy Snyder in his book On Tyranny. “Make new friends and march with them.” Instead of passively watching in horror, we must work together to resist the authoritarianism that masquera...

May 18, 2025Joan Goodwin wrote: “Spirit of the East, spirit of air, of morning and springtime: be with us as the sun rises, in times of beginning, times of planting.  Inspire us with the fresh breath of courage as we go forth into n...

May 11, 2025“It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary,” ponderedBeatrice Webb. “Possibly to some mysterious personification of one’s own identity.” I’ve always admired those who can maintain the discipl...

April 20, 2025On this day, most churches will celebrate the risen Christ, but even in the days when all Unitarians still identified as Christians, they emphasized the living Jesus and his teachings, over the mythical tales about him. So ...

April 13, 2025Both a parent and a child on the spectrum, join Octavia as she sheds light on the challenges of parenting autistic youth and the experience of being one as well.Service Coordinator: Jill Moats

April 27, 2025Austin Channing Brown wrote in June 2020, “I believe firmly that to practice love is to disrupt the status quo which is masquerading as peace.” This Sunday, Ashlyn will lead an exploration of ways to disrupt fascism with co...

March 2, 2025In acknowledging the land we are on, let’s journey back to the land and think about this terra firma we share with all living creatures. From the Land Back Movement to the healing properties land gives us, to hearing about a...

August 4, 2024Ash Burkowski, from Friends of the Living Prairie Museum, will provide an overview on why native plants are something to consider and pay attention to, including their environmental and horticultural benefits. They will dis...

April 6 2025What does it mean to flourish? What does a flourishing congregation look like?What are the pathways from stability to vitality, surviving to thriving? And what difference would it make for the world? Let’s take time to im...

January 19, 2025Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) didn’t quite write “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.” This ubiquitous quote is a Readers Digest summary of a few lines of dialogue from one of her short stories, yet ...

2025-03-23 SermonTheologians and philosophers spent the last century talking about the death of God, but today it’s reasonable to ask if society is living through the death of truth. In his book on tyranny, Timothy Snyder notes that “tru...

2024-03-16 SermonWhat does it mean to be a Unitarian Universalist in 2025? What are we actually choosing? Reverend Anne Barker will invite us into a reflective worship space –where we consider the emerging possibilities. Rev. Anne Barker...

2025-03-09 Sermon“Over the past two years, I have described the kinds of ministry available to this congregation in workshops, meetings, and individual conversations, but I have tried to keep the space open so that you could express what...

2024-12-22 “No one is outside the circle of love,” wrote Rev Susan Frederick-Gray in a 2017 pastoral message. Canada’s commitment to universal health care is rooted in the fundamental belief that every resident, regardless of their background, ...

2025-02-16 Like the proverbial olive, winter is an acquired taste for many. But if you do acquire a taste for it, “only in the winter,” says Ruth Stout, “can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savour yourself.” Amidst the...

2025-01-12In the beginning there is no desire to mark time, and in the end, there is no reason. But in between beginnings and endings, we mark time almost compulsively. Minutes lead to hours, hours to days, days to months, and months to ...

2025-02-23 “Do not obey in advance,” says Timothy Snyder in his book On Tyranny, warning that, “most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.” In England, Unitarians emerged within a religious movement that was dubbed Nonconformity, wh...

2025-02-02 Like all elements, love is essential for human survival. We need it to survive and thrive, so why aren’t we taught to hold unconditional love for ourselves? Join Octavia as she speaks to the true power of self-compassion.Servi...

2024-12-15 In ancient Rome, the state sought to pacify the people by feeding large groups of citizens and then distracting them with entertainment—such as feeding Christians to the lions and other such “sports.”  In his Satire, th...

2025-02-16 Since the dawn of human time, people have experienced a close, yet uneasy, relationship with fire. After countless millennia, we find that our efforts at controlling fire are limited at best. Yet fire in many forms continues to be em...

2024-12-08 A bend in the road is a recurring motif in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s stories about Anne of Green Gables. “Oh, there’s another bend in the road at their end,” she writes in Anne of the Island. “I’ve no idea what may be around it – I don’...

2024-11-24 David Morrison has worked most of his life caring for and helping people, and currently is a volunteer with Community Helpers Unite. David is a board member of several Indigenous organizations, a Pipe carrier and knowledge keeper. He...