It’s sure to be a lively service!
​(It is a UUCD tradition that the offering on this day is earmarked for R.E. and Youth Programming. Your donations are most appreciated.)

Join Tracey Szarka as she explores the crisis of mental health on university campuses through the lens of her experience working with students at five Ontario universities.

​The complete sermon can be read below:

Many Unitarians hold to a Canadian ethos on race that continues to characterize our nation as a meritorious society which is openly accepting of black people.  Within this ethos is the view that the lack of opportunities and reduced quality of life for blacks is due to individual failings or lack of compatibility with Canadian culture and tradition. That ethos makes historical omission and exclusion of blacks necessary in order to create the illusion of harmony for those who want to define Canada as a white, just, non-racist nation.  The ethos serves to under play our racialised past and stands in conflict with UUs’ Second Principle: justice, equity, and compassion in human relations.  This talk is based on early records of Canadian slavery and is
presented as an assault on the racial tenement of the Canadian ethos.

​Experiences of burnout, exhaustion and busyness abound in our society, and congregational life is often no exception.  Where do we find quiet, renewal and oasis from the hectic nature of contemporary life? What would it take to find and maintain balance?  We’ll explore together.

​​The complete sermon can be read below: