We’re sorry we missed you, but if you’d like to know what we did in church today, August 12, 2018, the full service is up here.
Namaste,
Cricket
Author: CZ
Worship Invitation and Reminder
Worship Invitation and Reminder
The BLUU Ministerial Network’s Summer Online Worship Series, Black Being, will conclude with worship on Sunday, August 19th at 9pm EDT, and we hope Black UUs and UU-adjacent folks from far and wide will join us for the fourth and final installment of the series, Be a Witness! If you haven’t already, join our Facebook group here and/or join our email list by completing the form at http://www.blacklivesuu.com/mailing-list for more information about and access to worship.
Also, if you can’t make it on the 19th, we will resume offering two online worship services a month beginning in September. We will be together each month in explicitly black sacred space on the 1st Thursday at 9pm ET and the 3rd Sunday at 4pm ET via Zoom. So be on the lookout for these announcements!
Sunday, July 29, 2018
“Hope is not pretending that troubles don’t exist. It is the trust that they will not last forever, that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome. It is faith that a source of strength and renewal lies within to lead us through the dark into the sunshine.” – Elizabeth Chase
We would love to have you come worship with us.
This Sunday, John Hall will provide a lesson entitled “Glimmers of Hope”.
Our services are Sundays at 11 a.m. at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse. There are classes for children and adults 10 to 10:45 am, and a coffee gathering before the service. More about us.
Classes and worship are replaced by Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer, with brief worship, a potluck picnic, and outdoor activities. The schedule is in the sidebar.
Children are welcome. There is childcare and an activity for young children during the service.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom.
The schedule for the current adult religious education class is here.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Sunday, July 8, 2018
“We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology.”- James Luther Adams
We would love to have you come worship with us.
This Sunday, Cricket will give a lesson about James Luther Adams and the five smooth stones of liberal religion.
Our services are Sundays at 11 a.m. at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse. There are classes for children and adults 10 to 10:45 am, and a coffee gathering before the service. More about us.
Classes and worship are replaced by Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer, with brief worship, a potluck picnic, and outdoor activities. The schedule is in the sidebar.
Children are welcome. There is childcare and an activity for young children during the service.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom.
The schedule for the current adult religious education class is here.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Our Faith’s Complacency in Racism
“We have an absurd amount to learn, or unlearn, about race in this country. America allowed slavery to exist by seeking out personal and regional salvation at the expense of universal salvation. Our country felt better about itself because with the South as the identified patient, it never had to look at its own addiction.”
This reflection by Nathan Ryan is part of healing and of the work we need to be doing.
Photo Credit: UU World
Ware Lecture 2018
Since 1961, every year at the UUA General Assembly there is a special lecture called the Ware Lecture.
This year’s speaker is Brittany Packnett.
“Brittany Packnett is a leader at the intersection of culture and justice. Cited by President Barack Obama as a leader who’s “voice is going to be making a difference for years to come,” Brittany is an unapologetic educator, organizer, writer, and speaker.
Brittany is an alum of Washington University in St. Louis, American University in Washington, and is a current Aspen Institute Education fellow. She is a proud Advisory Board Member of Rise To Run, an organization committed to recruiting grassroots, diverse, progressive women to run for office, and Erase The Hate, NBC/Universal’s Emmy-Winning initiative to rid the world of discrimination.
Ultimately, Brittany is a proud Black woman who believes that freedom is within our grasp—as long as we unleash love, and build our power, because “power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice.” (MLK)” For more information read this article.
The lecture is tonight at 8:30pm and will be live streamed.
Namaste,
Cricket
Sunday June 24, 2018
“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.” – Richard Moss
This Sunday, Cricket will present “Principles, Schminciples: Dreaming big Within our Faith”.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Our services are Sundays at 11 a.m. at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse. There are classes for children and adults 10 to 10:45 am, and a coffee gathering before the service. More about us.
Classes and worship are replaced by Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer, with brief worship, a potluck picnic, and outdoor activities. The schedule is in the sidebar.
Children are welcome. There is childcare and an activity for young children during the service.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom.
The schedule for the current adult religious education class is here.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Image Credit: Ellen Rocket
The Unitarian Universalist Association Condemns Family Separation at the U.S./Mexico Border | Press Releases | UUA.org
“The policy of this administration to separate children from their parents at the border is immoral, inhumane and indefensible,” says UUA president, the Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray. “These families arrive desperate for safe-haven, seeking asylum having fled violence and disruption in their own homeland – and instead of safety, they are further traumatized, victimized and criminalized at the hands of the U.S. government.”
#familiesbelongtogether
Announcing Youth Summer One Acts
Mark your calendars!
Only 4 performances — June 21 – 24.
Th-F-Sa at 7:30pm; Sunday at 2:00pm.
Tickets at the door $8 for adults; $5 for children.
General seating.
318 Main Street Clarksburg, WV
For more information contact act2theatre@gmail.com
See what this is all about..
Sunday, June 17, 2018
“A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.” – Unknown
“Did you hear about the guy who invented Lifesavers?
…
They say he made a mint.”
We would love to have you come worship with us.
This Sunday, Cricket will present a lesson titled “The Wisdom of Dad Jokes”.
Our services are Sundays at 11 a.m. at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse. There are classes for children and adults 10 to 10:45 am, and a coffee gathering before the service. More about us.
Classes and worship are replaced by Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer, with brief worship, a potluck picnic, and outdoor activities. The schedule is in the sidebar.
Children are welcome. There is childcare and an activity for young children during the service.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom.
The schedule for the current adult religious education class is here.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
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