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Zen Temples and Gardens of Japan Slideshow

May 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Auction item/fundraiser from the 2019 Auction: Zen Temples of Japan: Talk and Slide Show, by Rev. Florence Caplow. Enjoy a Zoom slide show of exquisite Zen temples and Zen gardens of Japan, in Kyoto, Kamakura, and Nara. Learn about the history of Zen in Japan, and the purpose and aesthetic of Zen temples. If you bid on this […]

Online Fellowship Hour

May 31, 2020 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm – The online “Zoom” Fellowship Hour immediately follows the live streamed service each Sunday. All are welcome! Join Zoom Meeting https://uuma.zoom.us/j/5316767272 Meeting ID: 531 676 7272 Password is UUCUC One tap mobile +13126266799,,5316767272# US (Chicago) +16468769923,,5316767272# US (New York) Dial by your location +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) […]

Black Lives Matter: March For Peace, March For Justice

June 1, 2020 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm – This is peaceful protest in the name of justice for George Floyd, the latest victim of police brutality and racial injustice in America. George Floyd was an African-American man who died on May 25, 2020, after Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, knelt on Floyd’s neck for at least seven minutes while Floyd was […]

Worshipful Listening and Check In – Online and Call-In Access

June 1, 2020 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Hosted by Rev. Bill Breeden (Mondays) and Rev. Florence Caplow (Thursdays) Mondays and Thursdays, 5:30 pm On Monday and Thursday nights, we will offer an hour on Zoom for anyone to call in and find a moment of calm and renewal, with an opening reading, brief check in, sharing of joys and sorrows, and short […]

SHOW UP: Tell Urbana City Council to End Police Violence

June 1, 2020 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – We can focus our grief and rage around George Floyd’s murder into local action: We have a big opportunity to make change right now in local police policy and the citizen police review board. (Prior to recent nationa events, this push was being made in response to the Good Friday beating by Urbana Police of […]

Urbana Human Relations Commission

June 2, 2020 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm – This meeting includes an appeal to the determination that access to public services, such as the Citizen Police Review Board complaint process, is not protected under the Urbana Human Rights Ordinance. Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89314305979 The meeting agenda is posted here: https://www.urbanaillinois.us/node/8682

IJTF Informational Session For Hospitality Program

June 2, 2020 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Last July, the Immigration Task Force of the Social Action Committee (IJTF) agreed to respond to a call by Three Spinners to provide hospitality and emergency refuge for our immigrant friends and neighbors who feel threatened when the U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) is in town. To help ensure we would have the support of our […]

#WeCantBreathe – A UUA Virtual Prayer Vigil

June 2, 2020 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – JOIN US as we gather to uplift Black resistance…decry white supremacy…grieve the murder of Black lives and recommit to living our Unitarian Universalist values. #WeCantBreathe – A UUA Virtual Prayer Vigil RSVP for Zoom information. Speakers: UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray Rev. Carlton Elliott Smith, UUA Everette Thompson, Side with Love Paige Ingram, Black Lives of […]

How Do I Make Sure I’m Not Raising The Next Amy Cooper?

June 2, 2020 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – In our social media age, the figure of the “entitled White woman” who calls the police on people of color, especially Black people, simply for living their lives has become so common that she has become a meme. In a week also marked by the 100,000th official COVID-19 death in the United States and the […]

Board of Trustees General Information Session

June 3, 2020 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – The following Zoom Meetings are scheduled to give the congregation the opportunity to be heard. With the Annual Meeting scheduled for June 14th on-line, these are opportunities to discuss both the logistics of the meeting, as well as the items coming up for a vote. Note the time for the Annual Meeting: from 1 pm […]