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!
Meharoona will share her quest for hope, faith, and the Divine while living with a chronic illness and becoming disabled. Meharoona is a Muslim woman born and raised in a small Canadian town, currently living in Victoria. She is an accomplished writer, educator, and motivational public speaker with over 25 years of experience in the areas of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Her work appears in several prose and poetry collections. She also writes
for the Times Colonists’ Spiritually Speaking column. Learn more about her at:
https://www.mghaniconsulting.ca
A camping trip to the northwest coast of Vancouver Island at the end of October taught invaluable lessons about who I am as a person and a photographer. Going back to nature deepened my connection to the wilderness. This morning I’ll tell you a bit about my adventure and the wildlife I observed.
How are we working for a just and compassionate society?
This is one in the year long series “Roots of Resilience” presented by 8 different Canadian Unitarian Ministers. More details soon!
Globally, the outlook for 2025 is quite frightening. How can we live joyfully, or at least cheerfully, in a world full of other people’s suffering? I will argue that good cheer is a useful contribution to a disturbed world and suggest some ways to achieve it. This is a follow up to my January 2022 homily on the Discipline of Joy.
Learn how cancer-related research and clinical practice have advanced in recent years. Everyone of us has been touched by cancer. The ways that cancer is detected and treated is radically different than how it was done even 20 years ago.
Dr. Walter spent 23 years as staff scientist at Benioff Children's Hospital, Oakland, Calif., before
returning to Canada. Today he is an Adjunct Associate
People in all cultures sing, for many reasons: to connect in community, to revive memories, to tell their stories, to express emotion, to celebrate life events… and some people don’t sing — also for many reasons. Let’s explore this a little, with a lot of singing, and a welcome to join in.
Dick and Cathy are co-directors of Victoria’s Gettin’ Higher Choir, Outside Voices and the Wednesday
Evening Sing-In. Together with Denis Donnelly, they lead the Community Choir Leadership Training
program.
How are we working for a just and compassionate society?
This is one in the year-long series “Roots of Resilience” presented by 8 different Canadian Unitarian Ministers. More details soon!