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!
Please join us at 10am on Sunday December 29th for the film “Once Upon a Forest” This film is part of a series called “Something Beautiful for the World”
Maria was a romantic, animal-loving, dreamy child who, growing up, had a hard time conforming to the demands associated with the trajectory towards “a normal life”. As a young adult she became depressed, and was encouraged by her therapist to go for walks in the forest. The myriad of funny-looking twigs and sticks she found along the way immediately put her on a path to recovery. Now, 25 years later, she’s a celebrated “twig poet” whose art is shown in galleries throughout Sweden. When a climate related crisis strikes the forest where she lives and works, she’s forced into a new type of creativity in order to save the place that once upon a time saved her.
The films of the series “Something Beautiful for the World” explore how small acts of love and kindness have the potential to ripple out and change the world, touching hearts and minds in ways that we could never begin to imagine.
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 Professor of Biology and the Zen Buddhist
spiritual care provider at UVic Multifaith.
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!