Our annual fire ritual to mark the turning of the year. As we bid farewell to 2023 and turn to the year ahead, we contemplate what we wish to relinquish to the past and what we wish to carry with us into the future. Rev. Shawn’s sermon is titled: “Spending…
Rev. Shawn Gauthier In this strangely life-affirming service, we will look back on the lives of some of the famous and not-so-famous people who died in 2023, and whose lives changed our world in ways big and small. Download the Order of Service Weekly services Join us in person in…
Rev. Shawn Gauthier As the world around us becomes increasingly secularized, it’s fair to ask—and essential that we ask—what our congregation is really for. Download the Order of Service Weekly services Join us in person in our Sanctuary or watch the service live on this page, beginning each Sunday just…
In this service, Rev. Shawn will put our tradition under the proverbial microscope. In this exploration of the Unitarian genotype, we’ll seek to understand what’s in our DNA. Download the Order of Service Weekly services Join us in person in our Sanctuary or watch the service live on this page,…
Our Lay Chaplain team will lead us in a service honouring the Pagan tradition of Imbolc by reflecting on the meaning of spiritual growth. Download the Order of Service Weekly services Join us in person in our Sanctuary or watch the service live on this page, beginning each Sunday just…
Kathy Sayers It’s been said that we are living in a time of profound loneliness. Kathy Sayers, founding member of Vancouver's newest cohousing community, explores what happiness research says about how the communities we belong to impact our wellbeing. How does knowing your neighbours well enough to borrow a cup…
Rev. Shawn Gauthier Though Valentine’s is often thought of as a day to celebrate romantic love, we will mark this holiday as an invitation to bask in the splendour of love’s many forms. This Sunday’s service will involve a marvellous mix of music and powerful poems that speak to the…
Rev. Shawn Gauthier Most any effort to make sense of our own mortality leads on to questions about how we are living “in the meantime.” This Sunday, Rev. Shawn will invite us to reflect on the delicate dance through life, and through death. Download the Order of Service Weekly services…
Rev. Shawn Gauthier & the Worship Services Team This Sunday, we will explore the meaning of various elements in our weekly worship services. Rev. Shawn and the Worship Team hope to demystify aspects of worship in the Unitarian tradition, while also lifting up the complexities involved in creating worship in…
The City of Sisterly Love - Emilie K. Adin “All things being equal, we are not.” So begins the Manifesto of the Commonwealth Women in Planning Network. On March 3rd, we ask: where are women in the city, and do they feel safe, do they feel they belong? Why don't…
Rev. Shawn Gauthier Many years ago, there was a trend for Unitarians and Unitarian Universalists to develop their “elevator speech,” the brief explanation of our tradition that one might offer up to a fellow traveller as you ride from the lobby up to the 24th floor. As most people discovered, this…
Rev. Shawn Gauthier What are we to do we do when seeking an apology that never comes? How are we move to on if forgiveness isn’t forthcoming? This Sunday, Rev. Shawn will be reflecting on the many alternative paths we might take to undertake the work of forgiveness. Download the Order of…
