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...

2024-11-17 “We live stitch to stitch,” writes Anne Lamott. “And maybe the stitching is crude, or it is unraveling, but if it were precise, we’d pretend that life was just fine and running like a Swiss watch.” When things unravel or are torn asu...

2024-11-10 The planned sermon blurb was this: William Henry Channing urged us to “await occasions, hurry never.” How often have we seen that, as the pace of life accelerates, the quality of life declines? At a time when calming zones and red-li...

2024-10-27 Sometimes we are so anaesthetized to the sounds around us that even the voices of those we love and respect the most become little more than background noise. At other times, we are so focused on formulating our response that we fail...

2024-09-29 In Part II, Steve continues to explore our relationships with trees in all their forms: as beautiful forests, as healthy environments, as lumber and paper, and as the main source of the oxygen we breathe daily.

2024-08-18 Steve explores our relationships with trees in all their forms: as beautiful forests, as carbon sinks, as lumber and paper, as fire, and as the main source of the oxygen we breathe daily.

2024-02-18 TalksOn December 7, 2023, four members of this congregation attended, in different capacities, the All Partner Gathering of signatories of the Winnipeg Indigenous Accord at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Our church is (as ...

2024-09-22 SermonUnfortunately the beginning of this sermon was lost due to a computer crash, but we wanted to share as much of it as we could.For most people, eulogies provide the longest biographical narrative ever written about t...

October 20, 2024What are the elements? Well, if you are talking modern science, you are talking about the chemical elements in the periodic tables! But if we look back in time, we see how the elements of earth, fire, air and water have play...

October 13, 2024Despite possessing an abundance of what truly matters, we often stumble through life as if we were deep in debt. Yet our lives often overflow with abundance when it comes to inspiration, good example, and the finer qualities...

October 6, 2024In recognition of World Food Day (Oct. 16), social justice activist guest speaker, Brandy Bobier, CEO of Community Helpers Unite, will share her recipe to end food insecurity in Winnipeg. Manitoba Volunteer of the Year for 20...

September 1, 2024We all struggle with fears, big and small, rational and irrational, but they’re something that we all share. Octavia invites all of us to take a moment and look inward and reflect on our fears, and find solidarity in that y...

September 15, 2024In 1969, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young galvanized generations with the song Teach Your Children. But teaching children well begins with teaching the adults. In working toward the 94 calls to action set by the Truth and Re...

September 15, 2024In 1969, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young galvanized generations with the song Teach Your Children. But teaching children well begins with teaching the adults. In working toward the 94 calls to action set by the Truth and Re...