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The Rappahannock Clergy Association invites you to: An Ecumenical Community Thanksgiving Service Thursday, November 23 10:00 a.m. Washington Baptist Church 180 Gay St. Washington, VA 22747 Everyone is invited!

Unitarian Universalists tend to be known as civil rights activists. Members of UUBRidge joined hundreds of people from UU and other Virginia congregations in the 2023 “Day for All People” advocacy day in Richmond, sponsored by the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP). The four 2023 advocacy priorities of VICPP will be shared, along […]

This is a re-reading of a meaningful sermon (by Ralph Stutzman) that Emery Lazar and his late wife Rita shared with our UU community a number of years ago.  He felt that it merited another hearing.

As our congregation and larger UU Association move into the New Year, there are winds of change in our local and our national spiritual community. What are we hoping for and aspiring to in the New Year? An overview of where we have been and where we choose to go pose many questions to explore.  […]

During the hustle and bustle all around us, we’ll take time during this service to honor the darkness and our own light in that darkness. We’ll walk the beautiful, wooded spiral created by Hearthstone School (inside), holding each other in community.

Happy New Year!

In the United States, we speak, usually negatively, of the welfare state. In the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, the same two words, ‘welfare state,’ capture the very purpose of national government: spreading welfare equally among all citizens. Can the U.S. take a page from the Nordics and begin to reverse […]

SANGO-Kenya has now been working in rural villages in Western Kenya for four years. The program has grown every year in response to the ever-increasing needs, many caused by climate change. They now have nearly 500 farmers in the program, 250 farmers just beginning. That translates to their direct impact extending to approximately 2,500 women, […]

**Based on the information received from Hearthstone and the low temperatures, we will host this Sunday’s service virtually in the interest of safety. Click here to join via Zoom, password: 077806. Sigmund Freud asked: “What Does Woman Want?” It was a question of a frustrated psychologist.  UU women and girls have asked that question, too.  Barbara […]

Mankind has been grappling with sexuality since the days of the cave men and women. It’s testosterone and hormones versus morals and taboos and laws. Probably every approach to it has been tried, with a wide variety of approaches. There are no universal answers. We don’t even have the right questions.

A divorce and career-oriented life left David Brooks feeling empty and alone. He realized he had fallen for lies our culture tells us about finding fulfilment, lies which have been largely responsible for a “social and relational crisis” in our country. In this TED Talk video, Brooks combines his own story of recovery from despair […]

Books are being taken off the shelves in libraries, and even rainbows are banned from a Virginia school system. We will address the question, “What’s Going On?” as it relates to our civic life, and we will explore the role of religion – the good and the bad – as we try to figure out […]