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…
Reilly Yeo, Candidate for UU Ministry We’re called in this time of climate crisis not just to change our world, but to transform it. In the process, we will need to transform ourselves. Climate change is a wake-up call that heralds the urgency of our third principle as Unitarian Universalists…
Rev. Shawn Gauthier Theologically, Easter is one of those particularly complex days for Unitarians. But there is much to celebrate in this time of year, even if we don’t find personal resonance in the Christian story. Rev. Shawn’s sermon will explore the meaning that we, as Unitarians, might find in this…
Kiersten Moore, our Director of Lifespan Faith Development, will reflect on how we come to think of ourselves as Unitarian. Our journey at any age through stories, community, belonging, questioning, disillusionment, and commitment. This is how we grow whole and build a resilient community. Download the Order of Service Weekly…
Rev. Shawn Gauthier Over the past few years, the congregation has focussed a great deal on who it is and who it aspires to become. In this service, Rev. Shawn will invite us to consider how much of ourselves—through the work of our hearts and hands (and our resources)—we are…
