Looking Ahead to Find Our Center

We begin the new year, centering ourselves in community, purpose, and commitment to our values enacted. It is the call of our faith to consider the possibilities ahead and set our intentions with love. You may take a look at a resource called YearCompass as a tool for reflection before or after this service. Rev. Eileen leads this service.

We will host an in-person and virtual worship service on Sunday, January 8th at 10:30 am.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is the Midwest Access Coalition.

Fire Communion

On Fire Communion Sunday, we will pause to reflect on the past year and look forward to the new year. In-person participants will be invited to burn flash paper as we set an intention to let go of something we no longer need to be carrying. Online participants are invited to have 1 to 4 candles ready to use during the Fire Communion. We will then turn our attention to the new year. Bridging our first two Sundays of the new year together, you are invited to review last year and vision the new year using the YearCompass in anticipation of our January 8th service.

We will host an in-person and virtual worship service on Sunday, January 1st at 10:30 am.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is the Midwest Access Coalition.

Christmas Returns

Christmas Eve Service – 7:00pm

“Christmas returns, as it always does, with its assurance that life is good,” writes theologian Howard Thurman. We come together, once again, on this night filled with wonder, magic, and light, to honor the spirit of the holy born within each of us. Come and let your heart be filled with light and faith in life’s possibility.

We will host an in-person and virtual worship service on Saturday, December 24th at 7:00 pm.

This Saturday’s shared offering recipient is the Pastoral Care Fund

Simple Gifts

Christmas Day Service

If you are looking for a simple, wonder-filled, and probably intimate gathering, join us for this service of shared stories, songs, and readings.

We will host an in-person only service on Sunday, December 25th at 10:30 am.

This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is the Evanston Reparations Community Fund

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is the Evanston Reparations Community Fund

Our Annual Christmas Pageant

In honoring our Christian heritage, we celebrate the Christmas season by retelling the story of Jesus’ birth in an interactive and music-filled worship service. Kathy Underwood leads and Rev. Eileen will be the Worship Associate.

We will host an in-person and virtual worship service on Sunday, December 18th at 10:30 am.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is the Evanston Reparations Community Fund

The Wonders of the Season

A musical service for all ages featuring the UCE Choir, Gregory Shifrin and guest instrumentalists to get us into the spirit of this holiday season. After the service we’ll trim our Christmas Tree.

We will host an in-person and virtual worship service on Sunday, December 11th at 10:30 am.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is the Evanston Reparations Community Fund

Sharing Our Histories

History is not only the study of our past, but also the sharing of it. We each have a family history and a cultural history, which may involve the history of one or many nations. The collection of our personal histories shapes the story of how we came to be born in this moment in time. Our histories have beauty, tragedy, and gaps. Our histories might give us comfort, anger, pride, shame, or unanswerable questions. Sharing the stories of our histories helps us confront how our histories make us feel and gives us the ability to create a guide for how to accountably live our lives in the present moment in time, for we cannot change the past, but we can shape the history that will be told in the future.

We will host an in-person and virtual worship service on Sunday, November 27th at 10:30 am.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is the Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of Illinois

Honoring Tradition and Embracing Change

Traditions can be comforting or confining. In our progressive faith, we strive to hold traditions with a gentle touch, valuing the roots that hold us close while reaching with curiosity and courage toward what is possible when we embrace change. This is our annual bread communion service. Please bring a loaf of bread (or two) – pre-sliced, please, and in a basket or bowl if you can – from your family tradition, heritage, or simply a bread you enjoy. If you are participating from home, please have a bit of bread or snack with you for the service. 

We will host an in-person and virtual worship service on Sunday, November 20th at 10:30 am.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is the Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of Illinois

Knowing Our Purpose

The Article II Commission’s latest draft claims boldly, as part of our purpose statement, that “we will transform the world by our liberating love.” What would it mean for us to claim love as our central, unifying value and to fully live that with a sense of profound purpose? Rev. Eileen leads the service with Rev. Susan Frances as Worship Associate. We also welcome new members today!

We will host an in-person and virtual worship service on Sunday, November 13th at 10:30 am.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 9 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note there will only be one service time so that we can gather together as a whole community of faith. You can still give to the shared offering through “text to give,” mail a check to the office with “shared offering” in the memo line, or go to our website and hit “give” on the upper right or click here. This Sunday’s shared offering recipient is the Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of Illinois