Upcoming Services
December 7, 2025: All Ages Service: Traditions of Resilience and Sanctuary
Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray and Dr. Stephanie Kimball
In this service, we reflect on the many traditions of this season and how they nurture resiliency, community and sanctuary. Special music from Carrie Newcomer.
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December 14, 2025: Creating Sanctuary in Community
This music service with Susan Swaney and the UUCB Choir will invite us deeper into the theme of sanctuary. Creating music together is one of the ways we deepen our connections, solidarity and community as a form of sanctuary.
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December 21, 2025: Cultivating Sanctuary Within
We often think about sanctuary as a place or an act of providing protection, but there is also power in being able to create a sense of peace, safety and sanctuary in our own spirits. How can this practice help us find rootedness and peace amid tumult and uncertainty?
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December 21, 2025 - 6pm: Winter Solstice
Winter is a time for slowing down and for resting, for taking stock and for envisioning what we want to bring to life when the wheel turns once more to springtime. We take time on the shortest day to notice the changing season and how it resonates in our bodies and in our lives. This special meditative service features candlelight, a contemplative spiral walk, and special music from Ray Fellman and Mary Craig.
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December 24, 2025 - 4pm: All Ages Service: The Nativity
This fun, slightly irreverent, and participatory no-rehearsal Nativity play invites people of all ages to play a part in the incredible story of Jesus’ birth.
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December 24, 2025 - 7pm: Lessons and Carols
Spend your Christmas Eve with music, community and candlelight at UUCB. This service features the choir and both traditional and contemporary readings and reflections on Christmas.
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December 28, 2025 - 10:30am: Finding Hope in Choppy Waters
We live in challenging times. Anyone who strives for a just and caring world — and engages the national news — is likely to sense a bitter taste of failure as we close out a tumultuous year. To keep up our resilience, might it help to look at success and failure in a different way? Rev. Dennis will look at success, failure, and some lessons of history as we sort out these trying times.
Past Services
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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.
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June 28, 2025: Celebration of Life for Jack Harlow
A Celebration of Life for Jack Harlow will be held on Saturday, June 28, at 10 a.m. in the Meeting Room. A reception will follow in Fellowship Hall.
