Harrisonburg UU We are a lay-led, religious community offering a unique spiritual and moral witness in the Shenandoah Valley.
We meet each Sunday in the historic Dale Enterprise School House. Most of our services have a community dialogue or "talk back" after the service. Each of our services is followed by coffee and refreshments in our "Community Cafe." Quite often the dialogue will carry over to the community cafe.

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Encountering Divinity Through Community (Or…. Is It The Other Way Around?)
January 10, 2010 by Rev Emma Chattin
Words of the Mystics - Thoughts for Reflection
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”~ Jalal ad-Din [...]
“The Certainty of Uncertainty: Do you welcome the uncertainties of life or do they just make you anxious?”Sunday Service January 17, 2009 by Merle Wenger
Chalice Lighting
by theologian, Paul Lakeland from Paul Rasor’s Faith Without Certainty.
The postmodern sensibility, let me suggest, is nonsequential, noneschatological, nonutopian, nonsystematic, nonfoundational and ultimately, nonpolitical. The postmodern human being wants a lot [...]
All Souls Day service
by Chris Edwards
Nov. 1, 2009:
These few days are observed as Halloween, Samhain, All Souls Day, All Saints’ Day, Dia De Los Muertos…days when nature slows down toward winter and legend says the veil between living and dead becomes most thin.
I took our title from Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse 5. The character [...]
October 11, 2009
21st Annual
National Coming Out Day
&
The National Equality March
On Washington DC
First Reading
~ from 1 Corinthians 13
The Gift of Love
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and [...]
Presented by Julie Caran
August 30, 2009
Adapted from a 2001 service by Rev. Enid Virago and Julie Goldman Caran presented at First Unitarian Church of Richmond.
Good morning. I’m Julie Caran, and I’ll be directing the Children’s Religious Education program at HUU this year. Those of you who are new to HUU and even some of the [...]
Dale Enterprise School
A talk presented to the Harrisonburg Unitarian-Universalist Church
on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Schoolhouse.
Dale MacAllister
July 19, 2009
Fifty-seven years ago last month, another centennial celebration was held in this very building. In June 1952 a large celebration was organized to mark 100 years since Walnut Grove [...]
Presented by Eric LaFreniere
6.21.09
Chalice Lighting: “Olympism [is] exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind, and will”
Good Morning! And Happy Father’s Day. Father’s Day. I hope that a service on the relationship between sports and religion makes good sense on today in particular. Actually, I was inspired by an associate who, [...]
Rev. Emma Chattin
May 10, 2009
First Reading ~ from John 19:25-27
Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, Mary, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Dear woman, here is your son,” and [...]
Responses to the Sermon on Evolution: Perpetual Easter. Looking for peoples’ responses to the sermon but also to the topic of Evolution. What does it mean to you?
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