If you are a visitor who would like to learn more about Unitarian Universalism and UUCSS in particular or about the process for becoming a member, please join us at our monthly UUCSS 101 for an informal gathering with folks from the Membership Committee. We meet following the service in the Triangle Room, which is adjacent to the Community Hall where coffee…
Please contact ops@uucss.org for details, as meeting schedule and location are subject to change. The Operations Council is composed of representatives from the Administrative Operations Committee, Property Committee, AV Committee and IT Committee.
On this weekend of Indigenous People’s Day, we consider the truths, lies, and myths that we absorb about the origins of our land, our nation, and the communities to which we belong. What we think we know about where we come from has implications for how we treat one another, and for how we reconfigure a just community for the future.
As UU’s with awareness of our interdependence, we reflect on the ways we can either help create an environment for wellbeing and positive choices, or we can contribute to an environment of injury. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote: “…morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse…
As our Jewish neighbors, family, and members of UUCSS prepare for Rosh Hashanah beginning the evening of September 29, we reflect on the expectations we had for the year just past and our expectations for the year ahead. Honoring the broken places and yet lifting up possibilities, we make space for reconciliation and renewal. Please note that ASL interpretation will not be…
Save the Date: This year’s UUCSS Catoctin Mountain Fall Retreat, September 27-29, 2019. Church members and friends gather for games, hikes, shared meals, music, and fellowship. This tradition has continued since 1978!! If you are new to UUCSS, it’s a great way to get to know many members of our community. Everyone, young and old,…
Join us to celebrate the release of the Joshua Espinoza Trio’s debut CD, “Journey Into Night.”
As the hours of daylight and darkness hold each other in balance, we consider the balancing acts of holding each other in community through covenant. Covenant is less about laws and more about promises — about being bound together by something larger than ourselves and toward a greater purpose that we share. We might say we have expectations of each other, though…
Please contact ops@uucss.org for details, as meeting schedule and location are subject to change. The Operations Council is composed of representatives from the Administrative Operations Committee, Property Committee, AV Committee and IT Committee.
Looking back over the history of our nation and our faith, sometimes unexamined optimism has been co-opted by forces that turned out to have a destructive effect. The idea that people are perfectible, that growth is ever-onward, that we should expect a healthy business or institution to keep expanding forever … these ideas turned out to have environmental costs in a world…