The Flower Ceremony is a multi-generational Unitarian Universalist ritual celebrating diversity and cooperation. Each person will bring a flower. Together, we’ll bless the flowers and admire their beauty. Each person will take a different flower home than the one they brought. We’ll also celebrate a Bridging Ceremony for those who are graduating from Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (YRUU) and becoming part of…
Practicing respect for our planet and for the living beings we share our world with is part of our UU faith. We’ll celebrate the wonder of the good, green earth and dedicate ourselves to stewardship of our natural resources.
Governor Hogan is trying to rush through a plan to widen the Beltway and 270 without doing an environmental impact or fiscal analysis study. With each mile of a new highway lane, it is estimated to produce 10,000 tons of CO2 emissions over 5 years. Pushing more car-based infrastructure is practically suicidal. We need smarter…
Rev. Lyn Cox with the Rainbow Alliance This congregation includes people who are cisgender, Transgender, nonbinary, agender, and gender non-conforming, among many other identities. We approach the blessings and challenges of building community having been trained with different models of human possibility, and with different assumptions about what it means to be welcoming. We gather…
Governor Hogan is trying to rush through a plan to widen the Beltway and 270 without doing an environmental impact or fiscal analysis study. With each mile of a new highway lane, it is estimated to produce 10,000 tons of CO2 emissions over 5 years. Pushing more car-based infrastructure is practically suicidal. We need smarter…
In this multigenerational service, we give thanks for the capacity to create, for the people who create and build families in all kinds of ways, and for the volunteers who create our Religious Education program. Bring your imagination for a shared celebration of the possibilities we can bring into the world together.
Around the Pagan holiday of Beltane is a good time to reflect on the goodness of embodiment and the physical world. Being at one with the world of earth and bone and stone, we can practice being at peace with what is, in the here and now, linked with beings who are both like us…
jazz@uucss is a collaboration between the UUCSS Music Committee and jazz scholar, Bertrand Uberall. Our vision is to create an affordable, listener-friendly performance venue for jazz in the DC area, create new audiences for outstanding young jazz musicians, and foster connections between UUCSS and the local jazz community. Shacara Rogers, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has…
Practicing respect for our planet and for the living beings we share our world with is part of our UU faith. We’ll celebrate the wonder of the good, green earth and dedicate ourselves to stewardship of our natural resources. Rev. Lyn Cox
Gather in Gratitude Please join us for the annual UUCSS Fellowship Dinner on Saturday April 27 at 6pm. Enjoy good company, good food (pot luck style), good music, and dancing! Please click here to sign up. Make sure you hit SUBMIT at the very end. Sign up closes April 14. See Dina Raley at nmo76@hotmail.com…