Unitarian Congregation of Guelph

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Zoom Link for Sunday Services (11AM): https://zoom.us/s/93438756604#success


Our Principles and Sources


Complaint-free Community Initiative:

Complaint Free Living Book Club and Discussion group will be starting Monday, November 2 at 7pm on Zoom. The reading will happen during the book club so no need to read ahead or try to purchase the book unless you want to.

Please contact Lorna : lwyllsun@gmail for more info.

 

Upcoming Services

Service Date Speaker Topic
November 8th Rev. Victoria Ingram
Remembrance Day
In the coming week, our nation honours its military members, present and past, and recalls our debt to those who protect and preserve us with their service. Today, we consider the impact of their actions on our quality of life and the lives of those they have aided and assisted.
November 15th  Jaya James
Building Resilient Communities: The Impact of Poverty Relief
Jaya James will explore how poverty relief efforts strengthen community resiliency, including their role in preventing child abuse and neglect. Drawing on her current work with the Family and Children’s Services Foundation of Waterloo, she will reflect on how it has deepened her understanding of the impact of Hope House’s work in Guelph.
Jaya James is the Executive Director of the Family and Children’s Services Foundation of Waterloo, a role she began after leaving Hope House Guelph in June 2026.
November 22nd

 Liz James

Cracking Up
What do you do when the life you’d imagined for yourself is stuck in committee? Join us for the story of the UU Hysterical Society…
The practical joke that accidentally turned into a three thousand person UU community on Facebook. It’s a story of feeling lost, finding yourself, and UUism-outside-the-box with with UUHS founder Liz James.
Liz James is the founder of a three hundred thousand person online UU community called the Unitarian Universalist Hysterical Society (UUHS); half of The Cracked Cup podcast; and is working on a book with Skinner House Press.
November 29th Stephen Scharper

Getting Our Bearings in the “Polycrisis”: 
Moving from Paralysis to Empowerment amid the Social, Ecological, and Technological Tumult of Our Times.

Stephen Scharper is Associate Professor at the School of the Environment, Department of Anthropology at University of Toronto, Mississauga, a Fellow at Trinity College, Associate Faculty member of Toronto School of Theology at U of T, a Senior Fellow at Massey College and a contributor with the Toronto Star.