December 24, 2019 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm – We will have Christmas Eve services at 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. The 5:00 p.m. service will have “lessons and carols,” and the 7:00 p.m. service will have contemporary readings and more carols. All choirs will be singing, and both services will end with a candlelit “Silent Night,” followed by refreshments in Fellowship Hall. You […]
December 24, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – We will have Christmas Eve services at 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. The 5:00 p.m. service will have “lessons and carols,” and the 7:00 p.m. service will have contemporary readings and more carols. All choirs will be singing, and both services will end with a candlelit “Silent Night,” followed by refreshments in Fellowship Hall. You […]
January 5, 2020 @ 11:45 am – 12:30 pm – Many Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign (UUCUC) groups and committees to organize its material and store documents using Google Drive and other computer applications. Computers and Google are often challenging to understand. This Sunday lab, offered the first and third Sunday following service, is designed for anyone working with a UUCUC committee or group who […]
January 11, 2020 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm – An excellent film for all of us as we wrestle with racial injustice and our role in the problem and solutions. The Hate U Give is based on the book by Angie Thomas. Storyline: Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds: the poor, mostly black, neighborhood where she lives and the rich, mostly white, […]
January 12, 2020 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – “They raised their voices in song against inequality and racism. They gave the civil rights movement its anthems and its soul. They were the singers and songwriters who fought for change and gave us songs like Blowin’ in the Wind, Oh Freedom, People Get Ready, Respect and Fight the Power. Those songs and many others […]
January 12, 2020 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm – Join the effort and answer the call from UUA President, Susan Frederick-Gray for a gathering of UU congregations to stand against the current threat to our democracy. UU the Vote will support congregations and UU organizations through 2020 in mobilizing voters, countering voter suppression, and engaging in spiritually grounded, values-based issue conversations with voters in […]
January 13, 2020 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Dates: Monday, January 13th, February 10th, March 9th Facilitators: Jenny Hunt and Andy Townsend The Unitarian Universalist Association is engaged in a common read of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Beacon Press, 2015) and An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People adapted by Jean Mendoza […]
January 16, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – We get to explore as a group both the forms and functions served by the miseducation of white people in the area of race and white supremacy. A good question for us to start with, then, is: What does the miseducation of white people look like? We can speak to this from what we have […]
January 19, 2020 @ 11:45 am – 12:45 pm – Bring in your books and magazines for exchange in Fellowship Hall after our service on Sunday, Jan 19. Books and magazines can be for children and adults. You can take home books or magazines without donating any and vice versa.