Welcome to North Shore Unitarian Church
Welcome to our website. Please explore our Visitors section, and come visit a worship service, held every Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
The mission of North Shore Unitarian Church is to empower people to live with greater depth, meaning and purpose. We welcome all to our caring community, foster spiritual growth free of dogma, and inspire actions in the service of life.
Good Relations
We the members of the North Shore Unitarian Church agree to treat ourselves and each other fairly and respectfully. We are committed to improving the quality of our lives by supporting one another’s self-development, spiritual growth and the use of our skills and talents in fulfilling and responsible ways.
Our Covenant
Our Minister and our lay chaplains conduct rites of passage including weddings, infant naming and dedication ceremonies, and celebration-of-life or memorial services.
Most Recent Service Video
Big Difficult Words: Salvation
May 6th
YouTube video
Having looked last month at whether sin is a concept that has a place in Unitarian Universalism, we have to follow that up with salvation! You might well have heard a UU talk about our ‘saving message.’ There are reasons for that, and lives and spirits that have been saved in more ways than one by our beliefs. Let’s look at this together.
Speaker: Rev. Stephen Atkinson
Upcoming Sunday Services
May 20th 10:30am
Joys and Journeys in Music Making
Come on a multi-generational journey in creativity and music with beloved children’s musician Kerry Burke and friends. Share stories of music's healing power, and share the love as Kerry and friends get children of all ages playing gongs, xylophones and strange instruments. Combined with irreverent puppets, such as the 'Teeny, Tiny Puppets of Doom" and "Mr. Monkey," this service will be something to experience and something to remember.
Service Leader: Kerry Burke
Co-ordinator: TBA
May 29th 10:30am
2012 Bridging Service
Today we hear from our senior youth about their lives, their plans and their experience, in particular, as young people who grew up through our Religious Education and Youth program. For many, this is one of the most inspiring services of the year
Speaker: Our Graduating Youth
Co-ordinator: Samaya Oakley
News and Upcoming Events
Job Opening – Youth Program Coordinator
May 27th - Grade 12 Bridging Service
June 3rd - Annual General Meeting
Please see the Newsletter for details on most of our events.Recent Sermons
Big Difficult Words: Salvation
May 6th
YouTube video
Having looked last month at whether sin is a concept that has a place in Unitarian Universalism, we have to follow that up with salvation! You might well have heard a UU talk about our ‘saving message.’ There are reasons for that, and lives and spirits that have been saved in more ways than one by our beliefs. Let’s look at this together.
Speaker: Rev. Stephen Atkinson
April 22nd
YouTube video MP3 audio
Saving our children from Nature Deficit Disorder - this is not a medical condition, it is a description of the human costs of alienation from nature - and other insights of Richard Louv.
Speaker: Graham Knell
Not Knowing Where & In the Middle
April 15th
YouTube video MP3 audio
Last in our series of services inspired by How to Begin (Changing Your Life) by the late Rev. Dr. Forrest Church of All Souls Church, Manhattan, today we’ll look at the last two steps: ‘Begin with little regard for where your path may lead,’ and ‘Begin in the middle.’
Speaker: Rev. Stephen Atkinson
Big Difficult Words: Sin
April 1st
YouTube video
Although this won’t be the last in our series of Big Difficult Word services, it may be the most challenging. Sin is such a loaded concept, often wielded like a weapon. Unitarian Universalists do not believe in the Christian idea of ‘original sin’ (which many contemporary Christians don’t anymore either). But does that mean we don’t believe in sin? Is there no act inhumane enough to warrant such a big difficult word?
Speaker: Rev. Stephen Atkinson
Clean Your Slate: New Questions
March 25th
MP3 audio
Fourth in our series of services inspired by How to Begin (Changing Your Life) by the late Rev. Dr. Forrest Church of All Souls Church, Manhattan, today we’ll look at the next two steps: ‘Begin by cleaning up your slate,’ and ‘Begin by looking for new questions.’
Speaker: Rev. Stephen Atkinson
