Upcoming Services
November 30, 2025 - 10:30 am: Bringing Each Voice to the Table
Angela Gabriel
All voices are welcome and celebrated at this service built around a Community Singing Circle. What a gift it is to sing our joys and sorrows together!
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December 7, 2025: All Ages Service: Traditions of Resilience and Sanctuary
In this service, we reflect on the many traditions of this season and how they nurture resiliency, community and sanctuary. Special music from Carrie Newcomer.
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December 14, 2025: Creating Sanctuary in Community
This music service with Susan Swaney and the UUCB Choir will invite us deeper into the theme of sanctuary. Creating music together is one of the ways we deepen our connections, solidarity and community as a form of sanctuary.
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December 21, 2025: Cultivating Sanctuary Within
We often think about sanctuary as a place or an act of providing protection, but there is also power in being able to create a sense of peace, safety and sanctuary in our own spirits. How can this practice help us find rootedness and peace amid tumult and uncertainty?
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December 21, 2025 - 6pm: Winter Solstice
Winter is a time for slowing down and for resting, for taking stock and for envisioning what we want to bring to life when the wheel turns once more to springtime. We take time on the shortest day to notice the changing season and how it resonates in our bodies and in our lives. This special meditative service features candlelight, a contemplative spiral walk, and special music from Ray Fellman and Mary Craig.
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December 24, 2025 - 4pm: All Ages Service: The Nativity
This fun, slightly irreverent, and participatory no-rehearsal Nativity play invites people of all ages to play a part in the incredible story of Jesus’ birth.
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December 24, 2025 - 7pm: Lessons and Carols
Spend your Christmas Eve with music, community and candlelight at UUCB. This service features the choir and both traditional and contemporary readings and reflections on Christmas.
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December 28, 2025 - 10:30am: Finding Hope in Choppy Waters
We live in challenging times. Anyone who strives for a just and caring world — and engages the national news — is likely to sense a bitter taste of failure as we close out a tumultuous year. To keep up our resilience, might it help to look at success and failure in a different way? Rev. Dennis will look at success, failure, and some lessons of history as we sort out these trying times.
Past Services
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November 23, 2025: All Ages Thanksgiving Bread Service: All Our Gifts are Needed
For this service, everyone is invited to bring a grain-based staple that is reflective of your family traditions to share as part of the service.
We will celebrate how everyone has a gift to share and all our gifts are needed to nurture communities of resilience and sanctuary.
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November 22, 2025: Celebration of Life for Cathy Larson
A Celebration of Life for Cathy Larson will be held on Saturday, November 22, at 11 a.m. in the Meeting Room. A reception will follow in Fellowship Hall.
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November 16, 2025: The Gist of Gratitude
Rev. Nic Cable
This time of year seems to always be filled with reflections on gratitude. Year after year, we are invited to live with gratitude, to practice gratitude, and to see gratitude as a gift. Who could say no to gratitude? Rev. Nic Cable will offer what he calls the gist of gratitude in hopes that as Unitarian Universalists we can Give Generously, Serve Selfishly, and Thrive Together.
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November 9, 2025: Reflections on Veterans Day and Armistice Day
Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray
This service will reflect on the origins of Armistice Day and the shift to Veterans Day. How do we honor those who answer the call to serve one’s country even as we remain dedicated to peace and non-violence? Special music from Voces Novae with gratitude for all of the support from UUCB.
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November 8, 2025: Celebration of Life for Thomas Gregory
A Celebration of Life for Thomas Gregory will be held on Saturday, November 8, at 2 p.m. in the Meeting Room. A reception will follow in Fellowship Hall.
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November 2, 2025: Orienting Toward Gratitude
Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray
So much of our society encourages us to orient toward want – to be consumers and takers. It also fosters greed and discontent. How can gratitude help us re-orient ourselves toward generosity and contentment? -
October 26, 2025: All Ages Service: El Día de los Muertos
Día de Muertos reminds us of the importance of living, singing and celebrating as we remember our ancestors. Everyone is invited to bring a photo or memento of a loved one or ancestor. Together we will build altars to remember our loved one. Children (and adults) are invited to dress in Halloween costumes for our parade.
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October 19, 2025: History as a Source of Resistance
The teaching of history is under attack because it is a source of power and resistance to authoritarianism. What is our role in protecting history and continuing to share it to inspire our own courage and action?
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October 12, 2025: Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day
UUCB’s Indigenous Studies Working Group, which formed last year to study more of the history and present of Indigenous people in Indiana, will share some of their learnings.
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October 11, 2025: Celebration of Life for Rev. Barbara Carlson
A Celebration of Life for Rev. Barbara Carlson will be held on Saturday, October 11, at 2 p.m. in the Meeting Room. A reception will follow in Fellowship Hall.
