UUA EVENTS
30 Days of Love 2025 – January 20-February 14 – Join Side With Love for 30 Days of Love 2025! Beginning Monday, January 20th through Friday, February 14th, this annual event offers spiritual nourishment, political grounding, and shared practices of faith and justice over four weeks. These offerings are for individuals, families, religious professionals, partners, and communities who need soulful sustenance for the work of liberation and justice. Find everything on Side With Love.
Soul Matters Online Small Groups for Winter/Spring 2025 – Soul Matters is now offering SIX different online groups, with each of them being a unique alternative to our standard Soul Matters small groups. Details about all six can be found here.
UUPLIFT Transgender/Nonbinary+ Pastoral Care Small Group – Friday, February 7 at 8 pm ET – During our time together, our lead chaplain/facilitators will share opening and closing words, and in between, there is time for everyone to share what’s on their hearts, and receive what others are sharing about their own lives. It’s a supportive, judgment-free place to connect with other trans/nonbinary+ people. Register here.
Sacred Earth, Sacred Action: A Climate Science and Spirituality Conference – Saturday, February 8 3:00pm ET – From the Iliff School of Theology, explore how elemental wisdom can deepen our collective resilience in the face of the climate challenges we face and deepen our collective ability to take justice-driven and spiritually-rooted actions. Keynote is author and poet, Camille Dungy. Workshop by Rev. Kelly Dignan, UU Ministry for Earth. Register to attend in person at Iliff or live-stream here.
Taproot: A National BIPOC Gathering – Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST – BIPoC Leaders rooted in the Unitarian Universalist congregations are invited to take part in this monthly, virtual gathering as we explore these pillars in creating means by which to ground ourselves in resilient communities of care. Learn more here.
Wonders and Worries in Genetic Engineering – Saturday, February 22, 3 pm – Jeffery Kahn will offer this free, in-person at Cedar Lane UU Congregation in Bethesda, MD and online. Learn more here.
UPLIFT Transgender/Nonbinary+ Monthly Gathering, Tuesday, February 25, 8 pm ET– Join the UPLIFT monthly gatherings focused on trans, nonbinary, and other not (completely or at all) cis UUs. Join us to connect with other trans/nonbinary UUs and co-create support and community across our faith. This is a multi-generational space. Register today.
UU Climate Justice Revival Facilitator Training – Wednesday, February 26, 7 pm ET – Are you one of your congregation’s facilitators for the UU Climate Justice Revival? All facilitators need to join one of our 2-hour Facilitator Training Sessions. Register to join us.
Leading with Love at the Center – Four dates, five locations and one online option – 2025 is calling; how will Unitarian Universalists respond? In a world marked by political oppression and escalating crises, centering love is a radical and transformative act—one that calls for all of us to move into collective spiritual leadership. What grounding and skills do we need to practice Unitarian Universalism, offering this faith to ourselves, to one another, and to the world that needs us? Everyone is welcome to join us when and where they can do so. Board and committee leaders, parents, children, youth, young adults, staff members, religious professionals, ministers, and any committed and engaged folx who love Unitarian Universalism and might not have formal roles. Registration is open! Find out all the details at the CER website.
Register for General Assembly – June 18 – 22, 2025– The 64th UUA General Assembly will be a multi-platform event with the main stage at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Learn more and register here and make your housing reservations here.
Register for Summer Institute – July 6-12, 2025 – At Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH. The theme speaker will be Rev. Joanna Fontaine Crawford, speaking on the theme Live a Life on Fire: Change the World with Your Love. Learn more about SI and past activities at the website and the video (YouTube)
LOCAL EVENTS
Potsdam Pride Valentine Day Card Writing – Monday, February 3 5-7pm – Send a little love to incarcerated queer folks this Valentine season in the Potsdam Municipal Building Community Room.
Screening of “The Need to Grow” – Friday February 7, at 7:00 PM at the Canton United Methodist Church 41 Court Street. The Need To GROW takes you inside the hearts and innovations of three very different leaders. Sponsored by Waste Not Permaculture, Garden Share, Local Living Venture and EDF Renewables To Learn more and RSVP click here.
Potsdam Pride Board Game and Craft Night – Thursday, February 20 at 6:30pm – Bring a board game to share or a craft to work on to the Potsdam Municipal Building 3rd Floor Room. Park in the lot behind the municipal building.