North American Unitarian Association

A home for Liberal Religion with Freedom, Reason, and Tolerance

Monthly Worship

On the third Saturday of each month at 10 AM PT (1 PM ET), NAUA hosts an online worship service.

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We always have a lively breakout room discussion after the service, where you can meet both new and long time friends.  PLEASE JOIN US!

Upcoming service:

3rd Saturday Worship service

NAUA’s worship service takes place on the third Saturday of every month at 10 AM PT.
Apr 18, 2026 10:00 am11:30 am

  • Mar. 22, 2026. Pirates of the YouTube

    Join co-ministers Rev. Jerry & Rev. Lynn Kerr to learn of their adventures starting up their own YouTube channel for the UU Congregation of Flint, MI, USA. Recent Posts Archives

  • Feb. 17, 2026. How will AI affect your spiritual practices?

    AI (as large language models) is becoming increasingly woven into our daily lives. Our thoughts, longings, and our ways of making meaning are changing, with new questions arising around what it means to be human and to engage in “spiritual” matters. What trends are surfacing as our tools can seem to listen better than friends,…

  • Jan 17, 2026. Seven Principles and Six Sources of UUism

    Many of us have chosen to remain guided by what had until recently been the Seven Principles and Six Sources of UUism. The first of those Sources speaks of “that transcending mystery and wonder […] which moves us to a renewal of the spirit.” In this service Rev. Shear explores what those words might mean for us in…

  • Solstice 2025 Celebration Saturday Worship

    This moving video of the 2025 Holiday Reflections of the Season features greetings, best wishes, poems and readings from NAUA leaders across the continent. Not to be missed!! Recent Posts Archives

  • Nov. 15, 2025 – Freedom From Want by Rev. Twinkle Manning

    This service reviews our capacity to free each other from all kinds of want – and our innate need to do just so. Twinkle is the contract minister for the Universalist Unitarian Church of Waterville, Maine. She is an author, poet, retreat leader and liturgist, as well as a semi-retired television producer. She served for…

  • Oct. 18, 2025. Welcoming the Stranger

    Rev. Alex Holt, a longtime Unitarian minister, led the October 18th NAUA Service. His theme was It is said we are a hopelessly divided country and perhaps we should secede to make us more unified. Really? Can we as liberal religious communities continue to welcome the stranger rather than push them away? How can that…

  • Sept. 20, 2025. JD Stillwater: One Song – the Science of Oneness

    For millennia mystics and poets have told us that “All is one” and yet we feel ourselves surrounded by separation, antagonism, and isolation! With help from some intrepid dung beetles, science ambassador JD Stillwater takes us on a tour of findings from mainstream science that reveal an underlying wholism in everything, from human bodies to…

  • Aug. 16, 2025. Climate Consciousness – Monthly Service

    August’s worship service will explore our relationship with the environment and climate change as a moral and spiritual imperative. Gail Sandlin will lead the August NAUA Service. She will explore our relationship with the environment and climate change as a moral and spiritual imperative. We, in the NAUA, rely on pillars of science, justice, and faith to guide us…

  • Jun 21, 2025 – Two Views on Nature by Dr. Gary Nelson

    The June Sunday Service brings together the scientific view of nature, along with the mystical and spiritual view, with a sermon by Dr. Gary Nelson. Dr. Nelson’s training in electrical engineering and applied mathematics encouraged views of the cosmos as mindless, meaningless matter in motion. However, his great-grandmother was Native American, and he grew up…

  • May 3 2025. Todd Eklof NAUA NAUA – Where we are; where we are going.

    Todd Eklof, NAUA President, will discuss the NAUA’s past, present and future, then invite participants to reflect on his message and share their own thoughts. Todd Eklof, NAUA President, will be the main speaker for May’s service. He will discuss where we are, where we have come from, and where we might go. This will…

  • April 2025 Worship Service Recording

    Bob Simoni was the featured speaker for the April 19th service. The title was “Life After Death.” At its heart, religion must try to provide answers to the questions surrounding our existence. Perhaps the biggest questions of all, and ones we have all asked ourselves is “What happened before and what happens next?”. Bob Simoni…

  • Mar. 15, 2025 – Yours, Mine and Ours: The NAUA Going Forward

    This month’s worship service explores various perspectives (“Yours, Mine and Ours”) on the future of the NAUA. Join on the 3rd Saturday of the month to take a closer look at our purpose and direction, what the NAUA is, and where we would like to see it going. Recent Posts Archives

  • Feb. 2025 Saturday Worship with JD Stillwater

    NAUA 3rd Saturday Worship Service – Nature’s Scripture: the Interfaith Promise of Science. Underlying the human world of strife and separation is an oft-neglected landscape of commonality between faiths: the natural world. At precisely the time when our religious and political divisions threaten the existence of life on Earth, science offers a sweeping interfaith vista…

  • Jan. 2025. “The Enlightenment Values of Freedom, Reason, Tolerance”

    Enlightenment Values of Freedom, Reason and Tolerance. January’s monthly worship service focused on the Enlightenment Values of Freedom, Reason and Tolerance, the very same values that were adopted by the NAUA and that stand at the core of Western liberal tradition. The full service title is: “The Enlightenment Values of Freedom, Reason, Tolerance; Advancing the…

  • Dec 22, 2024 Solstice Service

    I’ve been attending Unitarian Solstice services for as long as I can remember, but I have never enjoyed one as much as this Solstice. Maybe it was the music, the poems, Rev Manning’s talk or just being (virtually) with 50 old and new friends. From all of us at NAUA, warmest wishes for a thoughtful,…

  • Nov. 16, 2024 – Where Do We Go From Here? with Rev. Dr. Todd Eklof

    In this Nov 18, 2024 3rd Saturday Worship service NAUA President Rev.Dr. Todd Eklof addresses “Where do we go from here?“ Recent Posts Archives

  • Sept. 21, 2024. Healing the West

    This monthly service includes Chalice Lighting, Hymns, guest music and an very interesting guest speaker – Julian Adorney. Julian Adorney is the founder of Heal the West, a Substack movement dedicated to preserving and repairing our liberal social contract. https://healthewest.substack.com/ . He is also a contributor to Reality’s Last Stand. On his vision, he writes, “The North…

  • Aug. 17, 2024 – Are You Smarter than a Bullfrog by Bob Meyerson

    In this monthly service Bob Meyerson reminds us of the danger of constantly accommodating ourselves as our context gets more uncomfortable and learning when we need to change. Recent Posts Archives

  • July 20, 2024 – Reflections on the Loss of the 7 Principles & 6 Sources by Joyce Kinnear

    For July, the worship committee presents a service focused around a group discussion of the rift in the UUA, and particularly the article 2 vote; the grief associated with these events, and our path forward. The reading is to be the 6 sources and 7 principles. For the homily we ask 3 speakers (Joyce Kinnear,…

  • June 15, 2024 – Renewing Our Free and Responsible . Search for Truth & Meaning

    Odell Havsdotter examines what it means to renew and regenerate our commitment to our fourth principle. What does it mean to be free in our search, and what does it mean to be responsible in our search? There will be opportunities for attendees to share their perspectives on this topic with others.   Recent Posts Archives

  • June 18, 2024 – A Life Well Lived

    Bob Simoni lead May’s NAUA Community Worship service which is entitled “A Life Well Lived”, a phrase which you might hear used at a Memorial Service for someone who led an exemplary life. The sermon will discuss what are some of the significant events of a person’s life that would lead one to say it…

  • Feb. 17, 2024. Education, Women’s Rights, and the Abolition of Slavery.

    The Reverend Rick Davis talks about American Unitarian Rev. Samuel Joseph May who during the nineteenth century championed education, women’s rights, and abolition of slavery. Aligning the efforts and successes of past Unitarian leaders with our efforts today, provides inspiration and lessons for each of us. Recent Posts Archives

  • Jan. 20, 2024-Finding Our Way: Where Our Liberal Religion Must Go From Here

    In this evocative service Rev. Dr. Todd Eklof helps us find our way. Somehow, over the past few decades, Unitarians and Universalists have lost our way, often demonstrating the very opposite of our purposes and principles. Now, whatever we are about must include regaining our place as am influential liberal religious voice in the world.…

  • Dec. 16, 2023. Blue Christmas

    December’s NAUA worship service theme was: “Blue Christmas.” The holiday season, while filled with light, can create palpable darkness. This service offers a space to hold your grief sacred and to honor any loss or pain you are feeling. Join us for heartfelt music, sacred solace and reflection. This service includes Christmas, Solstice and Hanukah…

  • Nov. 18, 2023 – The “United” States

    NAUA Treasurer Bob Simoni shares his insights into the often united, United States Recent Posts Archives

  • October 23, 2023. Not Fallen Angels – Reconsidering fashionably cynical attitudes about humanity and civilization

    Our speaker this month is the  Rev. Mark Gallagher who was a UU parish minister for about 25 years, mostly in Vancouver, Washington, where he now carries on a private practice ministry of preaching, teaching, and spiritual growth work. In this sermon, he overviews the destructive result of cynical attitues and actions. Recent Posts Archives

  • Sept. 16, 2023. Thoughts are Free

    Topic: “Thoughts Are Free,” from a 500 year old German Folk Song. Bob will talk about how free thought and free expression can be instruments of positive change, whether for major political reasons or religious thought. Topic:  “Thoughts Are Free,” from a 500 year old German Folk Song. Bob talks about how free thought and free…

  • Aug. 19, 2023 . Credos and Connections

    Canadian, Mary Bennett  reflects on her own journey as a Unitarian and what it means to her currently to be a Unitarian during these times of challenge and change Recent Posts Archives

  • July 15, 2023. The Worth of Worship

    With ritual is even more important for religious liberals by Rev. Dr. Todd Eklof Recent Posts Archives

  • June 17, 2023 – Making Room for Mystery

    Rev. Terry Cummings picks up on Carl Sagan’s famous description of the mystery and wonder of life on our ”pale blue dot” in an unfathomably large universe. Recent Posts Archives

  • May 20, 2023. Letting Go, Letting Be, Letting Thrive – How Liberal Religion Can Survive and Thrive

    Rev. Dr. Todd Eklof overviews how by letting go, letting be and letting thrive our liberal religion will both grow and sustain us. Recent Posts Archives