News and Announcements

Dear Ones, This evening the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees made the very difficult decision to cancel church this coming Sunday, March 15. We have also canceled all church events, including the March 14 Concert for a Cause, until further notice. (Yes, we will refund ticket costs.) We hope to have a mechanism […]

Dear Ones, UUCB is a warm, loving community. We often greet one another with handshakes and hugs. But concerns about the corona virus and the resulting COVID-19 illness require us, like religious institutions all over the world, to modify our habits for the time being. Even though it may be hard to think of changing,

In honor of both Indigenous Peoples Day and National Coming Out Day, Rev. Stocker uses the story of the celebrated friendship of Owen the hippo and Mzee the tortoise to examine what it means to welcome all.

This year the Council has a new idea: to devote a period of time during the year to one “arm” of the Mission Statement. Our Mission Statement, as you may recall, is “to be a spiritual community, to welcome all, to nurture one another, to work for justice, and to care for the earth.”

Fifty years ago – in May 1963 – the Unitarian Universalist Association passed its first resolution on choice. Ours was the first religious tradition to officially endorse a woman’s right to reproductive choice.

Sharing some personal stories of how gun violence has affected her own life, Rev. Stocker addresses what a faithful Unitarian Universalist is to do in the American culture of violence.