We will host an online worship service on Sunday, June 20th at 11:15 am.

“Good Enough Father” – Rev Karen Gustafson.
Like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day has a mixed history that has morphed into a more or less contrived cultural and commercial phenomenon. At best, perhaps, it offers a moment to pause amidst the chaos and ambiguity of this time of history in the making, to reflect with compassion on the relationships  of fathering and being fathered, over against its own cultural mythology. The fragile, imperfect, well intended people who enter into these relationships, on purpose and by accident, for better and for worse are inevitably shaped in the process. On this Father’s Day join with me in time of reflection on how to claim the blessings, small and great, of our paternal legacies.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note the 9:30 and 11:15 services are being rolled into 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 Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) (click here to learn more).

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, June 14th at 11:15 am.

“Standing with and standing strong” – Privileged people swim in safe spaces. We are often the ones shocked at the limits placed upon us. We tend to be accustomed that the world is a safe place to move about in. Those whose lives are already unsafe because of racism, sexism, & anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination and violence struggle to find places where they can be safe. This service is created in good faith that every time we gather, we lift up our siblings and cousins who have been seen or treated as “less than.”

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note the 9:30 and 11:15 services are being rolled into 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 Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) (click here to learn more).

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, June 7th at 11:15 am.

“Beauty and ugliness, as joy and woe, are woven fine” – Who owns the beauty and who has access to it? Who names the ugliness? Is it possible for thriving to emerge from rage and destruction? This will be a flower communion of a different kind.

Rev. Eileen leads the service, accompanied by Director of Lifespan Religious Education, Kathy Underwood, with several musical pieces directed by Vickie Hellyer.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note the 9:30 and 11:15 services are being rolled into 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 Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) (click here to learn more).

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, May 31st at 11:15 am.

“Tradition, Transition, and Transformation” – led by Rev. Karen Gustafson and Rev. Eileen Wiviott

The end of May has traditionally marked for many of us, a shift in the course of the year. School out. Gardens in. Coats off. Lawn mowers on. Predictable changes, these. Traditions that are holding their places, albeit in ways vastly changed from last year to this. Transition, the psychological response to change, unsettles and creates new pathways. In ways we are both aware and unaware, for better and for worse transformation is happening to individuals, institutions, and whole cultures. What are the questions being asked of us by our Unitarian Universalist faith? What are the traditions that hold us? How is transition challenging our best selves? What transformations are we prepared for?

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note the 9:30 and 11:15 services are being rolled into 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 Brennan Center (click here to learn more).

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, May 24th at 11:15 am.

“Re-Membering: A memorial day journey” – We know this don’t we, no one gets away in life just floating. All of us take our turn in the whirlpool something eventually brings us into a head long spin: health, work, family, the environment…life is out there and at some point it will be our turn to get sucked into a whirlpool of change that was not there a moment before. How we respond beyond the mayhem is what will define our lives.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note the 9:30 and 11:15 services are being rolled into 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 Poor People’s Campaign (click here to learn more).

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, May 17th at 11:15 am.

“An Adaptive Response to a VUCA World” –  In this increasingly V.U.C.A. World – Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous – we are called by our faith to adapt and respond with courage and resilience. This current reality invites us to more fully live our mission and to make the world whole, and serves as a powerful reminder that wholeness is co-created by our nurtured and nurturing spirits.

We will welcome new members in this service led by Rev. Eileen.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all! Note the 9:30 and 11:15 services are being rolled into 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 Poor People’s Campaign (click here to learn more).

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, May 10th at 11:15 am.

“The Good Enough Mother” – If you are or have a mother, you are probably aware of the mix of feelings that arise in the face of the cultural and commercial phenomenon known as “Mothers’ Day”. In these times of all-or- nothing contact between children and parents, let us take a moment to reflect on the cultural myths that color our expectations of these important relationships.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. We are finding some messages do not show up in the chat box during the service. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all!

Note the 9:30 and 11:15 services are being rolled into 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 Poor People’s Campaign (click here to learn more).

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, May 3rd at 11:15 am.

“All I Really Need to Know I’ve Learned with Unitarian Universalists”– We celebrate the faith formation, spiritual learning and growth of people of all ages. Join us for this special service honoring lifelong learning. Worship leaders are Rev. Eileen and Director of Lifespan Religious Education, Kathy Underwood.

Please submit your Joys and Sorrows through this online form. We are finding some messages do not show up in the chat box during the service. If you submit a message by 11 am, we will try to read it that Sunday. After 11 am you may still submit Joys and Sorrows through the chat, but if it is not read please email ewiviott@ucevanston.org or submit it through the online form for the following Sunday. Thank you for your patience as we are adapting to best serve you all!

Note the 9:30 and 11:15 services are being rolled into 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 Poor People’s Campaign (click here to learn more).

We will host an online worship service on Sunday, April 19th at 11:15 am.

“Earth, Our Teacher”

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we express our gratitude for earth’s lessons and consider our dependence, impact, and mutuality with the planet we call home. Before we join together at 11:15, we invite you to gather some items to include in a shared ritual of interconnection:

• a rock or some sand or dirt in a small cup or bowl;
• a small bowl of water;
• and a candle or chalice.

Rev. Eileen Wiviott leads the service with Rev. Karen Mooney and contributions by the UCE Green Team.

Note the 9:30 and 11:15 services are being rolled into 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 Faith in place (click here to learn more).