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Meet the Minister (and Each Other!) Dear Beloved Community, It is such a joy and an honor to begin serving as your minister. I am
Countryside Church Unitarian Universalist – Palatine, IL
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Meet the Minister (and Each Other!) Dear Beloved Community, It is such a joy and an honor to begin serving as your minister. I am
Sometimes people leave you, halfway through the wood…1 We met for a moment, halfway through the wood; only temporarily walking together, brief traveling companions finding
You have a new minister! I can’t tell you how happy I am for CCUU and for the soon to be Rev Dr Emma Farrell
Life is changing every moment, but sometimes it’s more obvious than others. Sometimes it hardly seems to move at all. Like the clock is ticking,
I find myself thinking a lot about the meaning of life recently. The ‘why are we here?, Is there a point? What is mine to
It takes a lot of energy to dwell in a space of ambiguity. I imagine I am not the only one tired of not knowing
On January 25, service leader Emma Farrell asked the congregation to write down your hopes for the congregation. When I got back into my office,
We’ve rounded the final week of 2025 and I think many of us were happy to see it in the rearview mirror. Sadly, with the
The stories of this season are ones of unmet expectations. The Maccabees didn’t expect the oil to last eight days, but still the story became
When I was growing up, the hour after church on Sundays held almost as much fascination for me as our RE classes. The adults would