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  • Thoughtful Thursday with Hristina Petrovska
    Cultivating Change In times of uncertainty, resilience is often framed as an individual trait—something we must summon on our own. But what if resilience is less about standing alone and more about growing together? At our January Thoughtful Thursday gathering, Cultivating Resilience through Cultivating Community, guest speaker Hristina Petrovska invites us to reimagine resilience as something that ...
  • Unlock the Power of Mindful Living
    Are you ready to bring more calm, compassion, and clarity into your daily life? This fall, mindfulness teacher Eric Nelson returns with Mindful Living, a free monthly Zoom series designed to help you nurture emotional resilience, practice self-compassion, and quiet the inner critic. Hosted by the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Southwest Michigan, this series is part of their Living from ...
  • Sailing Around the World
    Over the past few years, our Religious Exploration classes for kids have focused on Unitarian Universalist values and identity. This year, we’re ready to broaden our perspective and begin exploring other faith traditions, and identify how they are both similar to and different from our own. Tying in with UUCC’s spiritual theme of the year, Streams ...

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Sunday Services Committee Meeting
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3rd Saturday Breakfast Group
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02 Feb
Stewardship Committee Meeting
2 Feb 26
02 Feb
Mindful Living: Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind
2 Feb 26
04 Feb
Quilting for Community
4 Feb 26

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Catholic nuns don’t question their faith. So, what is a person like me to do when doubt rears its insistent head. If you ask your spiritual advisor, which I did, you are told to pray because the devil is tempting you. The problem was, I had stopped believing in the devil.

So what was I to do? I decided to join an interfaith discussion group, telling my superiors that the Catholic Faith needed to be represented at these sessions. Secretly, after years of hearing what the Catholic Church told me, I decided to see how the other half lived, just in case I had missed something. Lucky for me, that group of the faithful from other denominations included a couple who belonged to the Unitarian Universalists Church. Never heard of it? Neither had I back in 1969. This couple shared their faith with the rest of us. I was stunned!

What? You mean you can build your own theology? There are no dogmas? Wow!
What? You mean you can freely (and responsibly) seek the truth and what is meaningful to you in your life? You can question and explore and doubt? No judgement or blame? Wow!
What? You mean I will no longer be a square peg in a round hole? Where do I sign up?

And so began the rest of my life. The journey has not been easy. I will have to admit that it was much easier to be told what to believe than to doubt, wonder, examine, question, re-examine and continually challenge my own thinking and assumptions. But the journey has been absolutely rewarding and refreshing. I’ve learned to be open to new thoughts and ideas. I’ve learned to feel comfortable with not knowing the answers and loving the fact that life is a mystery. As a result, I’ve opened myself to meeting some wonderful people on this strange and glorious journey. The Unitarian Universalist Faith is where I’ve become grounded. It’s home where my family of other UU members support each other as we build our personal and meaningful theology. It’s where I belong.