UPDATE: Aimee K. Bryant will be leading this evening’s Wednesday Meditation.

We invite you into a simple space of meditation, silence, poetry, song, and shared company. Come, tend to your spirit each Wednesday evening by joining us for this brief (~15–30 minute) midweek time of meditation and connection. All are welcome, and no experience is needed. Wednesday meditation is offered online only.

Connect to the livestream here – 7 p.m.

Webinar ID: 117-312-320.
Dial in: 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

The first humanists in the United States were people of African descent. They brought with them a philosophy that is rooted in every attempt America has made to envision a more perfect union. This Sunday, we will explore two moments where explicit and implicit humanist constructs informed the movement of human dignity.

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Offering: Give here or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

Wendesday evening February 23, Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout will continue his Black History Month meditation series, leading meditative reflections inspired by Black art.

Join him online tomorrow evening for a short (~15–30 minute) midweek time of meditation and connection.

Connect to the livestream here – 7 p.m.

Webinar ID: 117-312-320.
Dial in: 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

BlackLivesMatter. Self-care. Intersectionality. The Underground Railroad. Fractal world change–the power in communities of communities. “We are the ones we have been waiting for.” pleasure activism. Warrior poetry. Stonewall, and the countless other times a drag queen gets her life, and saves another.

Women are powerful and dangerous, Audre Lorde writes.

Thank goodness.

Join us in the sanctuary; or help us build community from wherever you are. We’re conjuring a joyful celebration of the million ways black female and trans pioneers make justice and love more real, every day and night.

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Offering: Give here or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

First Step – in person, immediately after each service 
Facilitated by one of our members, First Step is a brief, casual orientation to Unitarian Universalism and First Universalist Church. During this 40-minute class, participants will learn about the foundations of our faith tradition and opportunities to get involved. If you attend First Step, please fill out the Visitor Connect form so we can follow up with you! Thank you!

First Step meets in person every first and third Sunday of the month after each service- roughly 10:05 a.m. and 12:05 p.m. On the first Sunday of the month, there’s an option to join via zoom after the second service- roughly 12:05 p.m. If you join us in person, look for the facilitator holding a “First Step Meets Here” sign at the front of the sanctuary after the worship services. We look forward to welcoming you!

We invite you into a simple space of meditation, silence, poetry, song, and shared company. Come, tend to your spirit each Wednesday evening by joining us for this brief (~15–30 minute) midweek time of meditation and connection. All are welcome, and no experience is needed. Wednesday meditation is offered online only.

Connect to the livestream here – 7 p.m.

Webinar ID: 117-312-320.
Dial in: 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

In Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown invites us to imagine a future in which we humans have gained the ability to move akin to a flock of starlings, each of us attuned to those around us, able to shift and move in concert with the community(ies) of which we are a part. This Sunday, February 13, we’ll gather to wonder about the wisdom of starlings and how they might inform our lives, and we’ll celebrate and lift up those in the community who volunteer their time and energy in the multidimensional dance of church, making this community the vibrant and radiant place that it is.

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Offering: Give here or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

“Over My Head”

The best dreams won’t give up until they’re real. The dreams we draw, the ones that give us over to dance, verses that call us back to imagine beyond even imagined barriers—that’s art.

This week, we journey with drag, painting, words, and music brought alive by legendary Black artists. We’ll spend purposeful breaths, pause the tumble into what’s next of life, and remind our bodies free—and honor the audacious claim to freedom alive in centuries of Black dreams.

Join Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout for this short (~15–30 minute) midweek time of meditation and connection! Launch the Wednesday Meditation Zoom here (Webinar ID: 117 312 320) between 6:55 and 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 9 and we’ll get started at 7 p.m.

Connect to the livestream here – 7 p.m.

Webinar ID: 117-312-320.
Dial in: 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

Join us this Sunday for a service of prayer and renewal led by Rev. Jen Crow, Rev. Arif Mamdani, Rev. Karen Hutt, Lauren Wyeth, and Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout. For those who would feel safe and sustained singing together, we will close each service with 10 minutes of in person community singing. We will offer the opportunity for those who would feel more comfortable not singing together to exit the sanctuary before community singing begins.

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Offering: Give here or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

First Step – in person, immediately after each service  with option to zoom in after second service
Facilitated by one of our members, First Step is a brief, casual orientation to Unitarian Universalism and First Universalist Church. During this 40-minute class, participants will learn about the foundations of our faith tradition and opportunities to get involved. If you attend First Step, please fill out the Visitor Connect form so we can follow up with you! Thank you!

First Sunday Meditation- 12:15 p.m. on zoom and in person
Join this monthly congregant-led group for silent meditation. We meet on zoom and in the Meditation Room just off of the sanctuary. We will begin our gathering at 12:15 p.m. to provide time to share our lives with one another. Meditation will start at 12:30 p.m. After 20 minutes of sitting together in silence, we will share experiences from our spiritual practices.

Each Wednesday evening, we invite you into a space of meditation, silence, poetry, song, and shared company.

During the month of February, Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout will be leading meditative reflections inspired by Black art. This week includes work by the poet Maya Angelou and painter/presidential portraitist Kehinde Wiley.

Join us online for this brief (~15–30 minute) midweek time of meditation and connection. All are welcome, and no experience is needed.

Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m.
Connect to the livestream here

Webinar ID: 117-312-320.
Dial in: 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

At First Universalist, we embrace the reality that in the course of our lives, it is likely that all of us will experience some challenge with our own mental health or that of a loved one.

This Sunday, Jan. 30, please join us for our annual Mental Health Sunday worship service. Guest speaker Vicki Elliott, Executive Director of Mental Health Connect, joins our team of worship leaders this week to talk about her own journey with mental health, how it’s impacted her family, and why it matters that faith communities work to destigmatize mental illness and ensure that everyone has access to the mental health care resources they need.

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Offering: (give here) or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

This week’s offering will support Mental Health Connect. First Universalist Church is a member of the Mental Health Connect Collaborative.