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Renewing the Covenant

The last line of our covenant exhorts us to “forgive ourselves and each other, and begin again in love.” As we look at a new year, brimming with new possibilities, let’s examine how we begin again in love.

A Time for Contemplation

Please join our worship committee to explore in poetry, the names and feelings and thoughts and those unsayable things that belong to what we call “mystery”.

Christmas Eve – 5:00 PM

Join us for our annual Christmas Eve service, where we celebrate the birth of hope in the darkness, revisit a familiar story from our Christian roots, and sing familiar songs.

The Longest Night

At this turning of the seasons, we examine our relationships with darkness and light and celebrate the return of the sun. What lessons have we learned from the darkness?

Not Made to be a Crumb

In a world where there’s so much regret about the past and so much anxiety about the future, how do we remain in the present? How do we seize joy, when we suddenly and unexpectedly come across it?

Waiting for Hope

As the nights grow long and we enter an inward season, let’s take time to reflect on hope—and also on hopelessness. After all, sometimes, hope feels very hard to find.

Getting What You Don’t Deserve

Grace as a theological, relational, and personal practice for Unitarian Universalists. Pastor Emma Peterson is the minister at the Cedar Valley Unitarian Universalist association in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She earned her Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and worked as a hospital chaplain before finally accepting the call to parish ministry. Pastor Emma grew … Continue reading Getting What You Don’t Deserve

A Story of Thanks Giving

In this special multigenerational service, all ages can join in celebrating and reflecting on a holiday that encourages us to give thanks, be grateful, and remember what is truly important to us…while also making room for the many complicated stories that surround this time of year.

Come, Come, Whoever You Are

We welcome our new members with a special recognition ceremony—and reflect on the challenges and blessings of being a welcoming and inclusive faith.

What Veterans Know

Due to weather conditions, Sunday’s service will be on Zoom only. We’ll hear from some of the many Veterans in our congregation what they learned from their service and how that has informed their experience of Unitarian Universalism.