Calendar of events
Here you will find all of our congregation’s Sunday Services, Board and Committee meetings and other events. Use the calendar controls to see events for past or future dates. For a quick look at recent Sunday Services, click here!
We humans are good systems thinkers – until we unlearn the skill in school. As a formal discipline, systems thinking emerged in the early 20th century. It was prompted by a desire to correct and complement the approach of traditional science, the intent being to focus on the whole, rather than parts. Systems thinking has become indispensable in many disciplines like geography, biology or even psychology. Ben Dolf will talk about his experience with systems thinking in facilitation and social development.
Music: 173, 342, 1052
In his book “The Politics of Blindness – from Charity to Parity”, Graeme explains the reality of being a blind Canadian and solutions to promote people who are blind to full citizenship. Blind people should have R.E.A.L. meaning: R-respect, E-equal opportunity, A-assimilation and L-liberty .
Graeme was born in 1946, in Liverpool, England. Becoming blind at the age of 9 from glaucoma and unsuccessful surgery he attended residential schools for the blind and initially worked as a shorthand typist before going on to train as a physiotherapist. He moved to Canada in 1980 where he now lives with his wife, Christine and their three adult children. Graeme’s message has always been to promote blindness as just an inconvenience not a tragedy.
Music: 295, 121, 327
When someone we love is in emotional pain, we want to fix their hurt, to make it go away, so they don’t suffer. So we look for a solution, and among other things, we sympathize or we share stories of how we have suffered similarly.
There is another far more effective option. And what about people in our lives who might verbalize their disappointment regularly? Is there a way to support them that doesn’t leave us drained? Come listen to Michele outline how we might respond differently, providing the support we yearn to offer.
Music: 360, 134, 324
What does it mean to be a member of this congregation? This service includes a New Members’ Service.
We’ll kick off Canvass with “A Sermon on the Amount”. Rita will speak on how giving benefits the giver as much as the receivers. This talk is based on the work of Jamal & McKinnon as well as a sermon on giving, by Peter Friedrichs.
Our first and most challenging principle is; “The inherent worth and dignity of every person”. Is everyone inherently worthy? Where is dignity lost? How can we follow our first Principle in difficult times? The first in a series of seven homilies looking at our Unitarian Principles and Sources and our own spiritual practice.
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