“Morning Blessings” is a facilitated, reverent time before services to light a candle, share a joy or sorrow, and be in contemplative community together.

Please join us at 9:45 am in the sanctuary every Sunday. All ages are encouraged to participate; please help children to respect the quiet space at that time.

The Corner Forum is a lively discussion group that meets after service at 11:15 in the corner of the church.

Discussions are provocative, opinionated, sometimes-argumentative, always interesting. Often we start out sharing feelings about the just-completed service, then go to any topic anyone wants to discuss. Please join us!

From all that dwell below the skies
Let songs of hope and faith arise;
Let peace, goodwill on earth be sung
Through every land by every tongue.

All ages are invited to attend our worship service. Near the beginning of the service the younger children are invited to come to the front of the sanctuary to hear the children's story. After that, the congregation sings them to Children's Chapel. Middle School and High School students are encouraged to stay for the remainder of the service in sanctuary.

Anything said at our services is for your intellectual and spiritual stimulation; no one is asked to agree or acquiesce to any doctrine or creed. Instead, you are free to seek the truth for yourself according to the dictates of your own reason and conscience. All are encouraged to give input and suggestions for speakers as it is a vital part of our church's spiritual growth.

“Is Sexuality Education Religious Education”
Katy Carpman

From the day we are born to the day that we die, we are all sexual beings. Unitarian Universalists (partnered with the United Church of Christ) hold this to be true, and thus we provide fact-based, principle-based sexuality education for all ages. Come learn more about the Our Whole Lives (OWL) program and see human sexuality education as far more than plumbing lessons!

Katy is the Religious Education Director of the Unitarian Fellowship of Houston. The OWL program is offered in several versions for different age groups. An OWL class for adults was the subject of an article in the June 2009 issue of the magazine O, The Oprah Magazine, at http://www.oprah.com/relationships/Adult-Sex-Education.

“World Community and UU Faith”
Rev. Phil Schulman

UUs deeply value efforts to promote world community with liberty and justice for all. Is this religious concern or simply political? Religion has so often been the cause of division, oppression and strife. Yet the major traditions have also beckoned humanity to a compassionate awareness of its unity. In what ways does UU faith inform and challenge us to be members of a world community? What does it mean for us practically and personally?

Justice Sunday
"The Garden of Eden in Reverse:
Advancing Economic Justice"
Dana Fisher Ashrawi

With the economic crisis continuing to impact people, jeopardizing our well-being, now is a fitting time to do something about economic justice. Liberal Religion challenges the idea that all the world's evil resides in a supernatural being, or even that a person can be defined as an evil being. We see evil in the structures and systems that prevent people from actualizing their best selves and keep us out of right relation with all of creation. Our call as a Liberal Religious community is to work to transform these structures. Come learn how to help write the Garden of Eden story in reverse!

Justice Sunday, an event coordinated annually by the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, is an exciting opportunity to lift up an important human rights issue, learn more about it, and be inspired to act! By participating in Justice Sunday, our congregation is joining hands with other UU congregations across the country to promote justice.

Dana is a third generation UU who can claim the anti-slavery activist Unitarian minister Rev. Theodore Parker as part of her family tree, is Chair of NWCUUC Faith in Action, and was recently selected to join the national Board of UUs for Justice in the Middle East.