January 2025 Soul Matters Theme: Story

Passage from Soul Matters January 2025 Theme: Welcome to the Practice of Story It’s dangerous to tell yourself stories are tame. To treat them as something that lives only between the covers of a book. As something that can be easily kept on a shelf, taken down and put back up as we see fit. […]

Caroling for All Ages

Ditzler Hall & Foyer

Enjoy singing familiar holiday carols with Johnna Ebanks and Terry Levitt leading and accompanying the singing on Tuesday, December 24 from 3:30 - 4:15 p.m. Cookies and hot cider available.

Christmas Eve Service for All Ages

Ditzler Hall & Zoom

Christmas Eve Service starting at 4:30 p.m. Our Christmas Eve service will be filled with music, story, time for reflection, and our traditional lighting of candles at the end of the service. The link to join the Zoom Meeting online service at 4:30 p.m. is here. https://bit.ly/wuucworship Meeting ID: 940 3686 1969 For audio only, […]

Office Closed

The WUUC office will be closed from Wednesday, December 25, 2024 to Tuesday, January 7, 2025. Building use and Weekly events will continue unless canceled by the group leader. If you are planning an event during this timeframe please plan ahead to coordinate with staff.

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Christmas Day

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

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Kwanzaa

Kwanzaa is an annual celebration of African-American culture from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu, usually on the sixth day. It was created by activist Maulana Karenga, based on African harvest festival traditions from various parts of West and Southeast Africa.

Burning Bowl

Ditzler Hall & Zoom

By Rachel Eddy The beginning of the calendar year is an opportunity to let go of the old and set one’s intentions for the new year. There will be four altars set for that purpose: a burning bowl to burn away the old, water to symbolically cleanse one’s self, oil to anoint oneself with intention, […]

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New Year’s Day

New Year's Day is a festival observed in most of the world on 1 January, the first day of the year in the modern Gregorian calendar.

Building the World We Dream About (BWWDA)

Ditzler Hall & Zoom

By Participants and Facilitators in BWWDA As UUs, we want to build the multicultural world of beloved community that we dream about. The Building the World We Dream About program offered this past fall at WUUC, sought to interrupt the workings of systemic racism and transform how people from different racial and ethnic groups understand […]

Hope? Really?

Ditzler Hall & Zoom

By Reverend Grace Simons Our culture leads us to be suspicious of other people and expect them to be uncaring and self-seeking. Several current authors say that’s off-base and harmful. What’s more, we can do some things to resist. Reverend Grace Simons Bio: Rev Grace Simons is Minister Emerita of the UU Fellowship of Stanislaus […]

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Circle Lunch (os)

Off Site

Circle Supper is turning into Circle Lunch! If you would like to attend Circle LUNCH, now is the time to sign up. We’ve switched to lunch for this month to try to accommodate people for whom night time driving is a problem or who just don’t want to stay up and/or eat late in the […]

The Infinite Story Part 2

Ditzler Hall & Zoom

By Chuck Fowler and Jane Flood What do we Believe and Why? Chuck Fowler and Jane Flood will invite the congregation to continue the discussion of our infinite stories that we began in August. If you'd like to listen to part 1 the link is here: https://on.soundcloud.com/TUwERypB5RhquRLT6 The link to join the Zoom Meeting online […]

Practice The Practice

Ditzler Hall & Zoom

By Reverend Deanna Vandiver Together we can learn to care and how to care, making the web of life and love tangible and well-tended as part of our spiritual practice and ever unfolding faith formation. Rev. Deanna Vandiver (she/they), lives with her partner on the land of the Coastal Salish people known as the Suquamish, […]

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Imbolc

Also called Imbolg, Candlemas, Brigantia, The Feast of the Waxing Light, and Oimelc. Imbolc celebrates the increasing strength of the God, given as the first and greatest gift of the Goddess. Many Wiccans honour the Goddess at this time as the source of fire, poetry, arts, crafts, agriculture and smith craft. It is a time […]