A Church of Open Minds and Open Hearts

This Sunday @ UUFR (11:00 am)

Speaking in Tongues

Unitarian Univeralism draws from many sources, including a wealth of religious, spiritual, and secular wisdom from multiple traditions from all around the world and throughout history. What does it mean to be spiritually literate in such a context? Do UUs have a “language of reverence”? … read more.

Participate in the Music Program at UUFR!

Participate in the Music Program at UUFR!

Now is the perfect time to join the UUFR Adult Choir ! This is a non audition, all inclusive choir. We have non music readers and professionals all coming together to inspire this congregation through great music! This choir meets on Thursday nights at 7:15 in the sanctuary and sings approximately two Sundays a month. Currently, we are getting ready to participate in the 2020 UUFR choral festival.

And.......coming very soon ... The New UUFR Youth Choir! Rehearsals begin on January 19 following our church service, at 12:15 until 12:45 in the music room! This enthusiast choir is offered to youth, ages 5 and above will perform contemporary music with a strong message of peace, hope and building community. This is sure to be a great fun and learning experience for our young members!

UUFR Congregational Meeting: January 26

UUFR Congregational Meeting: January 26

UUFR's Mid-Year Congregational Meeting is scheduled for Sunday, January 26, after Sunday Service. Your Board and Rev. James have worked closely together these past months to both understand our past and imagine our future. The long-term goals we have established integrate the work of your Board with Rev. James’ developmental goals. Together they build on the strengths of our past and challenge us to realize our potential in living out our mission — “to build a Unitarian Universalist community that transforms lives and empowers people to serve the world.”

This is an informational meeting — an opportunity to share how we are growing forward in relation to the congregational goals we’ve identified. We will not be voting on anything, so no need to pick up paddles. Our updates will be brief, and we look forward to your comments and questions. Childcare and lunch for the kids will be available. Click below to review the agenda.

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Living the Pledge - Spring 2020 Sessions

Living the Pledge – Spring 2020 Sessions

Help implement our anti-racist values! Join the more than 150 UUFR congregants who have completed the Living the Pledge to End Racism workshop -- an eye-opening and emotionally affecting program. No matter how much you already understand about race, you will learn from and be moved by this powerful workshop.
• Explore your own experience with people of other races
• Examine the problems of micro-aggressions
• Learn how to speak up when you witness racist acts
• Examine your own implicit biases

Learn more and register

What’s Happening?

News

Our Stories. Our Voices.

I first came to UUFR in the summer of 1998. I’d just moved to Raleigh, didn’t know anyone here, except Don, my (now) husband. I was raised in a UU church in NY and, after a hiatus, felt ready to re-engage with a spiritual community. Read the full testimonial.

UUFR is the place where I nurture so much of what’s good in my life: my meditation practice at the Monday night mindfulness group, my desire to serve my community at LEAP and at our monthly Interfaith Food Shuttle project, my writing practice at the Wednesday night writing group, my social activism on the UUFR Acts! Facebook page. And last but not least, it’s in this sanctuary that I am often filled up with the knowledge that life can be hard and beautiful at once, and that I am not alone on this journey. Read the full testimonial.

UUFR is a place where I can raise my children in a faith that affirms the worth and dignity of every person regardless of skin color, religion or sexual orientation.

Read the full testimonial.

The Fellowship, or more accurately the caring people that make it up, have helped me travel from a place of loss, anger and loneliness to a place of happiness and belonging. I am eternally grateful that the Fellowship was there for me when I most needed it. Read the full testimonial.

Nancy and I started attending a UU church regularly in the Cleveland area after the birth of our first child. Exposing our children to a religious environment has always been important to us. Now we are bringing our granddaughter here to UUFR. Read the full testimonial.