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UU Church of Utica, Utica, NY
:The UU Church of Utica celebrates 200 years of Building Community and Advocating for Social Justice. Events are scheduled leading up to the November 2025 anniversaryΒ date.
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UU Church of Utica, Utica, NY
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Elaine McArdle
:First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches and its community partners are using new tactics to confront the red stateβs extremeΒ restrictions.
My son is 3y3m old and has been going to UU church since infancy. I was raised UU and my husband (he refers to himself as a βrecovering catholicβ lol) teaches Youth Group.
We have done our best to raise him in congruence with UU principles. We want him to have a strong moral foundation and community of acceptance, as well as feeling secure in his worth. Recently, my husband and I have had a lot of marital strain which has inevitably affected our kiddo. Itβs not ideal, but weβre working on it together. Still, itβs hard not to analyze every normal toddler/child behavior as somehow Your Fault, and I think Iβve projected these fears a lot on to him recently. Heβs just where he should be and doing great, but the parent guilt is real.
He moved from the nursery to RE last week. Today, his RE teacher let me know that he shared a joy and sorrow. His joy was that Monster (our very old and diabetic cat) died, but sheβs always in his heart because he loves her so much. I believe that because he is confident in his place with the fellowship, he was comfortable in sharing something that is complex and emotionally conflicting. When he goes to church he knows he matters there. (This was particularly surprising because he has recently been less interested in sharing his emotions with me, which caused me some anxiety for the reason I previously mentioned.)
Hearing this beautiful perspective made me so, so happy that this community exists. Thereβs a lot of beauty, community, and worth here. We are so grateful for his church family (micro and macro) that love and support him in growing into an incredible human. I know what the church did for me but to see it manifest for my child just fills my heart to the brim.
On Celebration Sunday we begin Unity's annual pledge drive with a reflection on joy. What does it mean to choose to be yoked to joy, to commit ourselves to institutions and ways of being in the world that call us to deeper meaning, rather than transient happiness?
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This podcast begins with a reflection by Worship Associate Ollie Stocker.
Hello I'm a fairly new UU ( about 6 months ) Ann's I've been going to my church's build your own theology classes. We've discussed many topics but the one I've found most intrestibg is the way we title ourselves as UUs ranging from christian to athiest to pagan to taoist and ao on... I've come to learn I'm an Agnostic Athiest Unitarian Universalist who practices Chaos Magic. What a mouthfull haha , using this same system how would you describe your standing in the universe? ( :
Peace & β‘ from Lubbock Tx
