 We welcome you to our Sunday Services at 10:00 a.m. throughout the year, services which express our values of inclusivity and radical hospitality.
We are a thinking and feeling congregation and our worship stretches our minds and touches our hearts. We are a congregation of all ages with growing numbers of young families. We are multicultural and multiracial and our worship life expresses the rich diversity of our congregation.
In our weekly Sunday morning worship we celebrate life, seek truth and meaning, build community, offer comfort in times of sorrow, and challenge each other to live our deepest, highest values in everyday life. With inspiring, sometimes meditative, sometimes joyful music, we fill our spirits and strengthen our courage.
Our Worship leaders include our senior minister, director of religious education, many guest ministers, our music director and choir, and may lay leaders spanning the ages from youth through young adults to older adults. Our worship leaders collaborate to create services that flow through words and music, rich sound and color, story, rituals and silence. Our choir’s music is very diverse, reflecting our multicultural sensibilities, and the music draws us into meditation or lifts us up in thanksgiving for life. Each service also includes times of meditation and prayer.
Our children are with us for the first part of every service before we sing them to the religious education programs, and we have from 6 to 8 completely multigenerational services throughout the year, including our Water Ceremony after Labor Day, United Nations Sunday with the Chicago Children’s Choir, Thanksgiving, Holiday Sunday in December, Kwanzaa, Easter, Religious Education Sunday and Flower Communion Sunday in June.
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Sunday Service - October 19 |
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Sunday Service - October 19
Rev. Dr. Nina D. Grey and
The Chicago Children’s Choir
Dignity and Justice for All People:
United Nations Sunday and the 52nd Birthday of the Chicago Children’s Choir
It is our joy to welcome the Chicago Children’s Choir as we celebrate their 52nd birthday and United Nations Sunday. The late Rev. Christopher Moore, Associate Minister of our church at that time, founded the choir in 1956 and established United Nations Sunday as the official birth date of the choir.
This year's theme of United Nations Sunday is "Dignity and Justice for all People", echoing our first UU principle, respect for the worth and dignity of all people, and our sixth principle, seeking world community, with liberty and justice for all.
The mission of the Chicago Children’s Choir echoes that of our church and the United Nations, for the choir continues its lifelong commitment to building bridges of understanding across differences that often divide. All three of these institutions, the church, the UN, and the choir seek a similar vision of one world of harmony and peace and justice for all. We are fortunate this Sunday once again to host and hear the wonderful Chicago Children’s concert choir. We will take a special offering for the choir and our Social Hour will be in honor of the choir.
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Sunday Service - October 26 |
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Sunday Service - October 26
Rev. Dr. Stan Sears
Paying Attention in a World of Distractions
Maggie Jackson (a Boston Globe writer) wrote a recent book on this. Her thesis is that with all our multi-tasking and with all the distractions that we face, we are losing the capacity for the type of attention spans necessary for critical thinking.
The Rev. Dr. Stan Sears holds degrees from the U. of South Carolina in Journalism, U of Chicago Divinity School, and Meadville/Lombard Theological School. He lives in Ithaca, New York and serves congregations in Auburn, NY and Wilkes Barre, PA. He has served congregations in Illinois, California, British Columbia, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. When he is not working with congregations, Stan runs, does triathlons, and plays the guitar and bagpipes in his kilt of Clergy tartan. He is a widower (Linda Urban Sears) and has two sons: a senior at Carleton College in Northfield, MN and a freshman at the University of Chicago.
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