


Racial Justice Book Club
3rd Tuesdays at 12:15 pm (April 20) Our April book is A Most Beautiful Thing by Arshay Cooper. It is the loving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago’s West Side who form the first all-Black high school rowing team in the nation and in doing so not... Read more...
Duwamish Tribe launches petition for Federal Recognition
As part of our commitment to learning about and building a relationship with the Duwamish people, Ken Workman spoke to over 60 of us on Sunday March 7 via Zoom. Ken is the 4th generation great grandson of Chief Seattle and a former Duwamish tribal council member as... Read more...
Special offering for April: Mwanzo—News and a Spring Celebration
The Mwanzo Educational Center was closed a year ago by Kenya’s Ministry of Education due to the pandemic. Mwanzo’s teachers and staff began outreach activities—downloading and copying lessons, assembling schoolwork packages, then delivering these along with food and... Read more...
Lent 2021 – Beloved Community
Often when we talk about Lent, we focus on the Gospel stories that tell of Jesus spending 40 days fasting in the wilderness. This focus can lead us on an inward journey focusing on our own individual faith. But this is a modern, post-humanist understanding of religion... Read more...
Tent City 3 coming in March
Tent City 3 has confirmed their move-in date of March 17 for our 3-month hosting of them in Lot C, across the alley from our church building. This will be UCUCC’s seventh encampment hosting. The camp closely follows Covid-19 protocols developed for them by... Read more...
A Long Winter in Kenya (Part 1)
This past week, partly to escape the negative cloud of current news, I re-watched the film version of C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I was struck by the parallel between Narnia’s 100 years of bitter, relentless winter and our recent years,... Read more...