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!
Rev. Samaya Oakley is the Development Minister at the First Unitarian Fellowship of Nanaimo. She received her Master of Divinity at the Vancouver School of Theology in the spring of 2013, the only Unitarian Universalist at the School of Theology. She won the award for best sermon at the school in 2012. Samaya’s vision of ministry is embodied in our living tradition. It is by standing on the side of love, of compassion, of generosity, and by taking the time to truly listen to the other to make sure that all points of view are taken into account, that we engage our living tradition.
While Unitarian Universalism has no creed, congregations agree to affirm and promote seven Principles that reflect a preference for freedom over dogma. This service will reflect on past and modern understandings of religious freedom while exploring the history and values behind our current Principles.
Many very damaging wrongs are the result of decisions made for, through and on behalf of a group. What responsibility do individuals have for their groups’ decisions and acts? What does it mean to say
something was done by the group? Examples include the Indian residential schools, systematic abuses of human rights for reasons of security, and corporations that abuse human rights to increase profits.
How do we reconcile the fact that we are all going to die with the intense social pressure to remain young? The ‘how to look and stay young’ industry is booming at the same time as the inevitability of death is constant. This service will explore the taboo subject of death and dying in a death denying society.
Why dream of castles in the air when the roof of our hut is leaking? This talk will give an introduction to the history of the Utopian imagination, its basic claims and motivations, and its continuing importance in shaping our communities and ourselves.
The concept of renewal is embedded in many faith traditions. How do Unitarians envision ‘renewal?’ How does renewal play out inter-religiously? Looking at renewal from different angles may help us understand ourselves and the need for renewal in our own lives.
We all know wisdom when we see it, but what is it? And how can we build in more of it into our lives?
Jim Kempling, a retired Canadian Army colonel, is now a PhD candidate in History at UVic. He is a principal author of the website, A City Goes to War: Canadian Cities in the Great War 1914-1918, a city goes to war.
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