Upcoming Services
August 31, 2025: We Need One Another
Rev. Barbara Child
In times like these, when we are called more and more to live out our values in public places, what becomes of our own needs? In other words, in times like these, what's a congregation for? With music from special guest Carrie Newcomer.
Rev. Barbara Child is a retired Accredited Interim Minister who earlier served as Chair of the UU Interim Ministry Guild. She is the editor of The Spirit That Moves: Readings and Rituals for Times of Change and Transition. With Rev. Keith Kron, she edited In the Interim: Strategies for Interim Ministers and Congregations. Her memoir is titled Memories of a Vietnam Veteran: What I Have Remembered and What He Could Not Forget. In past years Rev. Barbara has served UUCB as Sabbatical Minister during three sabbatical periods. She currently serves as Ministerial Consultant to the Executive Team and facilitators of UUCB's Chalice Circles program.
Past Services
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August 24, 2025: Another World is Possible
What is the world we imagine for ourselves and our children? Naming it is part of creating it.
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August 23, 2025: Celebration of Life for Jessie Cook
A Celebration of Life for Jessie Cook will be held on Saturday, August 23, at 2 p.m. in the Meeting Room. A reception will follow in Fellowship Hall.
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August 17, 2025: Freedom Dreams and Possibility
Part of cultivating possibility in our lives and the future means defending freedom. Even dreaming is an act of freedom. How do we keep dreams alive in an unfree time?
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August 10, 2025: Opening Up to Possibility
Freeing ourselves from the limits we place on what we think is possible for ourselves and our world.
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August 3, 2025: Singing What is Possible
Let's experience the power of singing to open up possibility and strength in the human spirit and in our community.
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July 27, 2025: Practicing Spirituality
In the past church year, Linda Pickle and Daniel Reed led an Adult RE course called “Spirit in Practice.” The course consisted of ten one-hour introductions to various forms of/approaches to practicing spirituality. This service is a small survey of the course as experienced by several students and the facilitators. It offers the congregation insights into practicing spirituality alone and with others. Led by Linda Pickle and Daniel Reed.
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July 20, 2025: Death, Loss, and Other Disappointments
When we lose people through death, or experience decline or setbacks in our own lives, it’s hard. It sets us on a path with vulnerability and surprise emotions. And while it can feel so lonely to go through loss, it’s one of the most common human experiences. Today’s sermon draws from Five True Things by Buddhist writer and psychotherapist David Richo. Led by Rev. Dr. Roger Jones.
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July 13, 2025: I Put My Faith in Cicadas
Discerning a call to ministry amid the noisy, chaotic beauty of millions of cicadas, these buzzing, bumbling bugs remind us we’re always transforming, always part of something larger, always capable of emerging anew—together. Led by Madison Colquette.
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July 6, 2025: Advice in Uncertain Times
As we navigate an unpredictable age, how do we cope? How do we heal? How do we make a difference? Led by Rev. Forrest Gilmore.
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June 29, 2025: Reflections from the 2025 UUA General Assembly
The annual gathering of UUs from around the world happened in Baltimore last week. Our church’s delegates and staff who attended will share highlights and reflections from the event.
