Sunday Worship Services
Sunday worship at Unity Church is a cornerstone of our religious community. It is where we envision and create a new reality for a better world and it allows us to come together for community and deepen our individual spirit. Multigenerational Sunday services are held in-person at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m., and via livestream at 9:00 a.m. only. Masks are required for those who wish to enter the building for worship.
After the 10:00 a.m. service you’re invited to participate in a virtual Zoom coffee hour, where we share a bit of our lives with each other and get to know one another more deeply.
On Sunday join us for Finding Yourself at Unity, a weekly way for newcomers to connect and learn about Unity Church and Unitarian Universalism.
Lost • Sunday, September 19
In-person services at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. • Masks are required upon entering the building.
Livestream at 9:00 a.m. only • Order of Service • This Week at Unity
The monthly theme of vocation invites reflection on what it means to be called, as an experience of being called often ushers one into a vocation. As we embark on a transitional year, how do we — as a church, as individuals emerging from the pandemic time, as people deepening our antiracist work, as a congregation in search of its next settled minister — understand our calling now: is it the same as it was a year or two or twenty years ago, is it changed, is it gone while we await a new calling? Rev. Kathy Hurt, Ahmed Anzaldúa, and worship associate Rebecca Flood lift up these questions which we may have to live with before finding answers. Make a donation to the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, this week's offering recipient.
The Story We Find Ourselves In • Sunday, September 26
In-person services at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. • Masks are required upon entering the building.
Livestream at 9:00 a.m. only • Order of Service
While each of us does the work of discerning a personal call to our own path, we are also ever part of a community of some kind that does the work of discerning a collective call. But what if I hear us being called to some path, while you hear us called to another path? Understanding a collective call is not a question simply answered by voting and endorsed by a majority. Rev. Kathy Hurt, Rev. Shay MacKay, and Ahmed Anzaldúa explore the voices calling us as a community, calls that often sound more like a challenge than an invitation. Make a donation to the Obama School Sunshine Fund, this week's offering recipient.
Down to the River to Pray • Sunday, September 12
In-person services at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. • Masks are required upon entering the building.
Livestream at 9:00 a.m. only • Order of Service • This Week at Unity
Our annual homecoming service with the Merging of the Waters, this Sunday celebrates our return to a reopened building, our return as a community to worship together more fully — and also notes all that has changed since we last gathered. This is a Family Sunday. Be sure to bring water from your summer adventures for our merging of waters ritual. On Family Sundays, children experience the entire worship together with their families in the Sanctuary. A children’s message and activity books related to the stories and sermon help children to engage in the experience of worship. The nursery is open for children under three years of age.
Back Pay for Stolen Labor • Sunday, September 5
Livestream only at 10:00 a.m. • Order of Service • This Week at Unity
An admission that back pay is due for previous exploitation has been implicit in the Labor Day idea ever since this holiday was created, more than 140 years ago, in response to demands from the all- white, all-male Knights of Labor. Since then, Black Americans and our other siblings of color have been systematically deprived of most of the equalizing benefits flowing from collective bargaining. The bold and allegedly radical idea of broad and expansive racial reparation fits perfectly with the Labor Day proposition. It's also not new, but deeply rooted in the world’s religious traditions, including Judeo-Christian. Worship leaders Dane Smith and Merrill Aldrich will review how our faith compels us to reparation and they will suggest specific ways we can push for equity in our own vocations and local communities.
Past services and sermons are available on our YouTube channel, in our podcast archive, and by contacting the church office at unity@unityunitarian.org.
