It seems at times as if America is a “twilight kingdom,” in the words of T. S. Eliot, in “this valley of dying stars.” Too many people are living fragmented lives: “Shape without form, shade without colour.”

What we lack, in a single word, is shalom. I think shalom is among the most beautiful words in the Bible. In the New Testament, which was written in Greek rather than Hebrew, the word used is eirene. Shalom is often translated into English as “peace,” which many people take to mean the absence of conflict. But its fuller meaning is something closer to human flourishing.

— Peter Wehner, “A Word for Our Troubled Times”, The Atlantic (March 8, 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, 29 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 “A Word for Our Troubled Times”, by Peter Wehner, The Atlantic (March 8, 2026).

The article, “A Word for Our Troubled Times”, by Peter Wehner, can be found here. This is a gift article — no subscription is needed.

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.

Map

Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302

There will be no in-person or Zoom service on Sunday, 22 March 2026. We are offering a reading suggestion for those who are interested

We, as progressives, rightly criticize the version of belonging that is being offered. But sometimes we forget that all the right ideas and plans won’t make you feel less alone. We need to build a culture and an experience that can and does.

People don’t want to be convinced, they want to feel claimed by a “we” that doesn’t dissolve who they are but magnifies it in a shared power.

— Sean Neil-Barron, “A Theology of Community Organizing”, UUWorld, 2/10/2026

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, 22 March, there will be no in-person or ZOOM service. Although we will not be meeting either in person or on Zoom this Sunday, we are offering this reading for those who would like to participate in our weekly readings.

The article, “A Theology of Community Organizing”, by Sean Neil-Barron, 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.

Map

Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302

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.

Map

Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302

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.

Map

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.

Map

Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302