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There will be no in-person or Zoom service on Sunday, 15 March 2026. We are offering a reading suggestion for those who are interested
Because the Bible isn’t ever just one thing. In the wrong hands, it has been – and continues to be – a weapon. But in hands committed to courageous love, it can become a transformative tool..
— Rev. Gretchen Haley, “Swords into Plowshares, Weapons into Tools”, Another Possibility: A Unitarian Universalist Blog, Posted on February 9, 2026
We currently conduct a full worship service on the first Sunday of each month, and discuss a different short reading each of the remaining Sundays.
Although we will not be meeting either in person or on Zoom on Sunday, 15 March 2026, we are offering this reading for those who would like to participate in our weekly readings. This week’s reading is “Swords into Plowshares, Weapons into Tools”, by Rev. Gretchen Haley, Another Possibility: A Unitarian Universalist Blog, February 9, 2026
The article, “Swords into Plowshares, Weapons into Tools”, by Rev. Gretchen Haley, can be found here.
Please Join us for Worship.
Our services are Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time on ZOOM and in person at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse. A coffee hour, a time for discussion and socializing (including ZOOM participants), follows from the end of the service until 12:00 noon. More about us.
If you prefer not to be seen, video is optional. If you would like to participate online, please email westforkuu@gmail.com for details and a link, or for help with using ZOOM.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Children are welcome.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom. You may park on the south side of the building, which is marked reserved for the PWA, or the north, where the reserved spaces are available on Sundays.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Daylight Saving Time BEGINS (in those parts of the United States where it is celebrated) on Sunday, March 8, 2026, when 2:00 a.m. is magically revealed to be 3:00 a.m., leaving an hour-long hole in the night, an hour of sleep lost, and tired eyes and slight disorientation among the population for weeks to come.
Please remember to set your clocks forward one hour Saturday evening so you will be on time for all your important appointments on Sunday and during the coming weeks. But if you forgot to set your clock, you might as well waste a bit more time listening to Pink Floyd, because you’re already late.
In case you’re curious about Daylight Saving Time and its effect on our lives, here are a couple of recent articles:
“Why Daylight Saving Time Messes With Your Brain” (Beth Ann Malow)
“Who Benefits from Daylight Saving Time?” (Lane Wendell Fischer)
Many of the common rhymes and verses beloved by children were found by the Opies to have originated, much like “67,” in the lyrics of popular music. But unlike the novelty of “67,” one of the most fascinating qualities of this oral tradition was its historical nature. Songs perceived by children to be the hot new thing on the playground actually had their origins in popular songs or poems of decades if not centuries before.
— Allegra Rosenberg, “What ‘67’ Reveals About Childhood Creativity”, Atlas Obscura (November 21, 2025).
We currently conduct a full worship service on the first Sunday of each month, and discuss a different short reading each of the remaining Sundays.
On Sunday, 8 March, we will open with a very brief service and chalice lighting, followed by our discussion. Robert Helfer will lead the service and discussion. This week’s reading is “What ‘67’ Reveals About Childhood Creativity”, by Allegra Rosenberg, Atlas Obscura (November 21, 2025),
The article, “What ‘67’ Reveals About Childhood Creativity”, by Allegra Rosenberg, can be found here.
Please Join us for Worship.
Our services are Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time on ZOOM and in person at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse. A coffee hour, a time for discussion and socializing (including ZOOM participants), follows from the end of the service until 12:00 noon. More about us.
If you prefer not to be seen, video is optional. If you would like to participate online, please email westforkuu@gmail.com for details and a link, or for help with using ZOOM.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Children are welcome.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom. You may park on the south side of the building, which is marked reserved for the PWA, or the north, where the reserved spaces are available on Sundays.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Most often the people in Berlevaag during the course of a good meal would come to feel a little heavy. Tonight it was not so. The convives grew lighter in weight and lighter of heart the more they ate and drank. They no longer needed to remind themselves of their vow. It was, they realized, when man has not only altogether forgotten but has firmly renounced all ideas of food and drink that he eats and drinks in the right spirit.
— Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), “Babette’s Feast”
We’ve all got to eat, if only for our bodies’ sake. But can eating nourish our spirits as well as our bodies? Do we need rules? What rules? This Sunday Robert Helfer will ponder how eating can feed our spirits.
Please Join us for Worship.
Our services are Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time on ZOOM and in person at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse. A coffee hour, a time for discussion and socializing (including ZOOM participants), follows from the end of the service until 12:00 noon. More about us.
If you prefer not to be seen, video is optional. If you would like to participate online, please email westforkuu@gmail.com for details and a link, or for help with using ZOOM.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Children are welcome.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom. You may park on the south side of the building, which is marked reserved for the PWA, or the north, where the reserved spaces are available on Sundays.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
It is one of our harmless fancies that we are a humorous people constantly sustained by our ability to laugh at ourselves in merry understanding at each endearing and cherished fault. Such frailties as we recognize, we willingly admit in a magnanimous gesture born of security and the freedom we feel therein.
All of this involved talk merely means that we are a pack of myopic bums. We have faults which we have hardly used yet.
But we are getting around to them.
— Walt Kelly, “The Right Freedom for the Right People, in the Right Place, at the Right Time”, 1955.
We currently conduct a full worship service on the first Sunday of each month, and discuss a different short reading each of the remaining Sundays.
On Sunday, 22 February, we will open with a very brief service and chalice lighting, followed by our discussion. Robert Helfer will lead the service and discussion. This week’s reading is “The Right Freedom for the Right People, in the Right Place, at the Right Time”, by Walt Kelly, Chicago Review (Vol. 9, No. 3; Fall 1955), reprinted in The Best of Pogo: Collected from the Okefenokee Star, edited by Mrs. Walt Kelly and Bill Crouch, Jr. (1982)
The article, “The Right Freedom for the Right People, in the Right Place, at the Right Time”, by Walt Kelly, can be found here.
Please Join us for Worship.
Our services are Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time on ZOOM and in person at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse. A coffee hour, a time for discussion and socializing (including ZOOM participants), follows from the end of the service until 12:00 noon. More about us.
If you prefer not to be seen, video is optional. If you would like to participate online, please email westforkuu@gmail.com for details and a link, or for help with using ZOOM.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Children are welcome.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom. You may park on the south side of the building, which is marked reserved for the PWA, or the north, where the reserved spaces are available on Sundays.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
I hadn’t fully grasped how much the idea of a better future sustained me – how it made life more livable, hardship more bearable and creativity possible. When I could readily imagine a world that was more just and healthy, it was easier to commit to long-term projects and to invest in the next generation. But in our current political and environmental context, that vision has grown hazier – and I, like many others, have found it much more difficult to be productive and plan for the future.
— Theresa MacPhail, “We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone”, The Guardian,14 January 2026
We currently conduct a full worship service on the first Sunday of each month, and discuss a different short reading each of the remaining Sundays.
On Sunday, 15 February, we will open with a very brief service and chalice lighting, followed by our discussion. Robert Helfer will lead the service and discussion. This week’s reading is “We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone”, by Theresa MacPhail, The Guardian, 14 January 2026.
The article, “We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone”, by Theresa MacPhail, can be found here.
Please Join us for Worship.
Our services are Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time on ZOOM and in person at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse. A coffee hour, a time for discussion and socializing (including ZOOM participants), follows from the end of the service until 12:00 noon. More about us.
If you prefer not to be seen, video is optional. If you would like to participate online, please email westforkuu@gmail.com for details and a link, or for help with using ZOOM.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Children are welcome.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom. You may park on the south side of the building, which is marked reserved for the PWA, or the north, where the reserved spaces are available on Sundays.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Because of current weather predictions and out of concern for likely road conditions, we are postponing this Sunday’s worship service until Sunday, 8 January 2026. Please join us on Sunday, 8 January 2026.
The human being, as we have seen, is born not only within nature but also, always and necessarily, within a culture. The first characteristic of one’s initial cultural identity is that it is imposed during childhood rather than being chosen. On coming into the world, the human child is plunged into the culture of its group, which precedes it.
— Tzvetan Todorov, The Fear of Barbarians: Beyond the Clash of Civilizations, translated by Andrew Brown
We currently conduct a full worship service on the first Sunday of each month, and discuss a different short reading each of the remaining Sundays.
On Sunday 1 February 2026, Lisa deGruyter will lead a service on genealogy as a spiritual practice.
Please Join us for Worship.
Our services are Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time on ZOOM and in person at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse. A coffee hour, a time for discussion and socializing (including ZOOM participants), follows from the end of the service until 12:00 noon. More about us.
If you prefer not to be seen, video is optional. If you would like to participate online, please email westforkuu@gmail.com for details and a link, or for help with using ZOOM.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Children are welcome.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom. You may park on the south side of the building, which is marked reserved for the PWA, or the north, where the reserved spaces are available on Sundays.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Because of current weather predictions and out of concern for likely road conditions, we are canceling this Sunday’s worship service. We expect to return next Sunday, 1 February 2026.
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