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Freedom to Celebrate

We are celebrating our freedom and right to be who we are and our mission to celebrate diversity. Join us Sunday morning, June 15th at Woodstock Pride Fest. We will meet next to the Tree of Life UU float as we line up for the parade for a short but meaningful service to remind us that … Continue reading Freedom to Celebrate

Inspired Gifts: A Celebration of Flower Communion and of our Community

Our Sunday worship service will include our annual celebration of Flower Communion, a practice in Unitarian Universalist Churches throughout the world, to embrace the beauty in our diversity and uniqueness. As part of the ceremony, each person is invited to bring a flower with them, whether it is a wildflower from a field, a flower … Continue reading Inspired Gifts: A Celebration of Flower Communion and of our Community

The Journey to Letting Go

Letting go doesn’t mean relying on the idea that life will just get better. Letting go requires deep insight into universal truths, and learning to keep those at the front of our understanding. Join us as Bhante Sujatha recounts tales from his own life experiences, and how these hard-won lessons when viewed with mindful awareness … Continue reading The Journey to Letting Go

Refusing to Abandon

Join Rev Allison Farnum and Keith Talley of UUPMI (Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois) as they invite us to organize ourselves to be a presence to those in IL jails and prisons, remembering our power as a humanizing, caring presence. Keith Talley (he/him/his) is the Prisoner Solidarity Specialist at the Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry … Continue reading Refusing to Abandon

This Ancient Love: A Celebration of Earthrise and Eastertide

In a confluence of holidays and holy days, April 2025 brings together Passover (April 12-April 20) Easter (April 20) and Earth Day (April 22) Each of these celebrations carry within them life lessons and messages of renewal and restoration, collective liberation and freedom, and of deep, abiding love. Join our Prairie Circle and Tree of … Continue reading This Ancient Love: A Celebration of Earthrise and Eastertide

Why Church, Why Liberal?

Does it matter where you spend your time? Are we impacted by the ways we engage with ourselves and our world? Taking care of the earth, our church community, and one another is one of the joys and responsibilities of living. How we wrestle to ensure our beliefs are lived out in our deep connection … Continue reading Why Church, Why Liberal?

Happiness Gardening

For some, the word virtue sounds a little too much like Protestant Puritanism – dour and strict. Rather, let’s consider a virtue as something more like a personal asset, a state of mind, an outlook and attitude where practicing a virtue is a special sort of ‘power’ enabling us to experience a deeper level of … Continue reading Happiness Gardening