Congregation News
Beginning on Sunday September 7th, 2025 we will hold Sunday 10:00 am worship services at Caffe Lena, 47 Phila Street in Saratoga Springs NY 12866.
- News from our Social Justice team February 7, 2025 February 7, 2025JOIN US FOR THESE IMPORTANT SOCIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVES! Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information 1. UU Common Read is here in March The 2024-25 UU Common Read is Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families (Skinner House, 2023). Discussion Series: March 2, 9, 16, and 30. 6:30-8pm in sanctuary 1. A bill is being introduced in Congress to make ...
- “BLACK & BANNED”: Refusing to Let Our History Be Whitewashed February 7, 2025WHEN: Sunday, February 23rd 2:00p to 4:00p WHERE: Frederick Allen Elks Lodge #609, 69 Beekman Street, Saratoga Springs, NY WHAT: I.B.P.O.E. of W.’s Frederick Allen Elks Lodge #609 and Mary A. Carter Temple #362, the two oldest black civic organizations in Saratoga Springs, NY, along with Our Lodge Foundation, are recognizing Black History Month with an opportunity ...
- Cecelia Hayes delivers an “old skool” word at BLUU’s next worship service Sunday, February 9. February 5, 2025BLUU is Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism Click here to register Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU) is committed to expanding the power and capacity of Black UUs within Unitarian Universalism; providing support, information, and resources for Black Unitarian Universalists; and justice-making and liberation for Black people through our faith. Learn more at https://blacklivesuu.org/
- BLACK to the FUTURE: A Community Reading Event January 31, 2025BLACK to the FUTURE: Science Fiction & Fantasy by Black Authors A Community Reading Event February 09, 2025 1:00p to 3:00p Frederick Allen Elks Lodge #609 69 Beekman Street, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Our Lodge Foundation’s *”Black to the Future” project is introducing our Saratoga Springs’ community to the thriving literary field of richly diverse worlds and alternate realities penned by Black ...
- News From Our Social Justice Team January 31, 2025 January 31, 2025JOIN US FOR THESE IMPORTANT SOCIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVES! Contact Lucy Manning at lucymnnng@gmail.com 1. UU Common Read is here in March with Kickoff Movie Night on Sunday, Feb 2! – Join us this Sunday from 6:30-8:30pm Will & Harper is a 2024 American documentary film directed by Saratoga Springs native Josh Greenbaum and following Will Ferrell and Harper Steele ...
- Thanking the Land and Trees of 400 Louden Road January 26, 2025A brief ceremony took place Thursday, January 23, 2025, to thank the land and the trees of 400 Louden before our contractor started cutting trees and clearing the land. A small group gathered at the driveway access and then walked back in through the trees to just about where the new meetinghouse will be sited on ...
- Award Winning Documentary Four Winters to be Shown at Skidmore on January 27, 6 pm Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day January 24, 2025The award-winning film Four Winters will be screened at Skidmore College on January 27 from 6-8 pm, followed by a Q&A discussion with director Julia Mintz. The powerful and inspiring documentary tells the story of courageous Jewish fighters who battled unimaginable odds to fight back against Hitler’s war machine as it raged across Eastern Europe. The ...
- Thanks, Witness, and Advocacy January 24, 2025Cup of Joe, January 24, 2025 Three things, dear friends: A call to advocate for a refugee family stranded by Trump. Giving our thanks to the land and the trees at the site our future home. Connecting with the Saratoga Interfaith Alliance. You’ll find info on those three things below and by following the links above. I am off this Sunday, ...
- The Saratoga Interfaith Alliance’s WhatsApp group January 24, 2025
- Advocate for Refugees Stranded by Trump January 24, 2025As you may have already heard, Trump put a ‘pause’ to the Refugee Resettlement Program through which the Saratoga Area Welcome Circle (SAWC) was sponsoring the young Afghan family. Although fully vetted and about to arrive in our country, their flight – and many others – is now cancelled. You may already know about this guide, ...