Unitarian Universalist Church in Reston
@uureston.bsky.social
UU Reston is a progressive, vibrant, and active congregation where all are welcome!
https://www.uureston.org/
https://www.uureston.org/
Join us this Sunday at 10am!
Rev. Aileen will reflect on the meaning of Amazing Grace—those unexpected moments that remind us life isn’t always transactional, and sometimes all we can do is say “thank you” and pay it forward.
Plus: a special performance by our United Universe Band! 🎸🥁🎹🎶
Rev. Aileen will reflect on the meaning of Amazing Grace—those unexpected moments that remind us life isn’t always transactional, and sometimes all we can do is say “thank you” and pay it forward.
Plus: a special performance by our United Universe Band! 🎸🥁🎹🎶
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Join us this Sunday at 10am!
Rev. Aileen will reflect on the meaning of Amazing Grace—those unexpected moments that remind us life isn’t always transactional, and sometimes all we can do is say “thank you” and pay it forward.
Plus: a special performance by our United Universe Band! 🎸🥁🎹🎶
Rev. Aileen will reflect on the meaning of Amazing Grace—those unexpected moments that remind us life isn’t always transactional, and sometimes all we can do is say “thank you” and pay it forward.
Plus: a special performance by our United Universe Band! 🎸🥁🎹🎶
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady, Humanitarian, Educator, Activist, Writer, & Diplomat) 1884 - 1962.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady, Humanitarian, Educator, Activist, Writer, & Diplomat) 1884 - 1962.
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady, Humanitarian, Educator, Activist, Writer, & Diplomat) 1884 - 1962.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady, Humanitarian, Educator, Activist, Writer, & Diplomat) 1884 - 1962.
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UU President Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt joins faith leaders across traditions in proclaiming: transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people are holy, whole, and worthy of love. Together, we call out the misuse of religion to justify harm.
www.uuworld.org/articles/uua...
www.uuworld.org/articles/uua...
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
UU President Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt joins faith leaders across traditions in proclaiming: transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people are holy, whole, and worthy of love. Together, we call out the misuse of religion to justify harm.
www.uuworld.org/articles/uua...
www.uuworld.org/articles/uua...
“The faith of a free person is not merely belief in freedom, but the will to respond to its demands.”
- James Luther Adams (Unitarian Universalist, Unitarian Minister, Ethicist, Professor, Public Intellectual, & Writer) 1901 - 1994.
- James Luther Adams (Unitarian Universalist, Unitarian Minister, Ethicist, Professor, Public Intellectual, & Writer) 1901 - 1994.
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“The faith of a free person is not merely belief in freedom, but the will to respond to its demands.”
- James Luther Adams (Unitarian Universalist, Unitarian Minister, Ethicist, Professor, Public Intellectual, & Writer) 1901 - 1994.
- James Luther Adams (Unitarian Universalist, Unitarian Minister, Ethicist, Professor, Public Intellectual, & Writer) 1901 - 1994.
🎉 UUCR Annual Auction: Picnic in the Park — Nov 8, 6–9:30 PM in the Sanctuary!
Join us for food, fun, raffles, and live & silent auctions supporting UUCR’s mission. All proceeds go to our church’s operating funds. 🌟
Join us for food, fun, raffles, and live & silent auctions supporting UUCR’s mission. All proceeds go to our church’s operating funds. 🌟
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🎉 UUCR Annual Auction: Picnic in the Park — Nov 8, 6–9:30 PM in the Sanctuary!
Join us for food, fun, raffles, and live & silent auctions supporting UUCR’s mission. All proceeds go to our church’s operating funds. 🌟
Join us for food, fun, raffles, and live & silent auctions supporting UUCR’s mission. All proceeds go to our church’s operating funds. 🌟
Join us for a service this Sunday in which we show gratitude for the service of our Veterans.
We have four guest speakers: Linda Holloway, Tom Snider, Paul Cohen, and Doug Sedgwick who will be sharing their experiences about being in the military or as part of a military family.
We have four guest speakers: Linda Holloway, Tom Snider, Paul Cohen, and Doug Sedgwick who will be sharing their experiences about being in the military or as part of a military family.
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Join us for a service this Sunday in which we show gratitude for the service of our Veterans.
We have four guest speakers: Linda Holloway, Tom Snider, Paul Cohen, and Doug Sedgwick who will be sharing their experiences about being in the military or as part of a military family.
We have four guest speakers: Linda Holloway, Tom Snider, Paul Cohen, and Doug Sedgwick who will be sharing their experiences about being in the military or as part of a military family.
“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”
- Rumi (Sufi Mystic, Poet, Teacher, Theologian, & Founder of the Mevlevi Order) 1207 - 1273.
- Rumi (Sufi Mystic, Poet, Teacher, Theologian, & Founder of the Mevlevi Order) 1207 - 1273.
October 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”
- Rumi (Sufi Mystic, Poet, Teacher, Theologian, & Founder of the Mevlevi Order) 1207 - 1273.
- Rumi (Sufi Mystic, Poet, Teacher, Theologian, & Founder of the Mevlevi Order) 1207 - 1273.
Join us this Sunday for our weekly service. It only takes a moment to be grateful. We can be grateful for the larger things, a new house, a dream job and we can also be grateful for the small things, a warm bed, food, clothing. As they say “Gratitude is an Attitude.”
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Join us this Sunday for our weekly service. It only takes a moment to be grateful. We can be grateful for the larger things, a new house, a dream job and we can also be grateful for the small things, a warm bed, food, clothing. As they say “Gratitude is an Attitude.”
“Each life, however humble, has its ministry. Each heart, however broken, has its message of strength.”
- Caroline A. Soule (Universalist Minister, Novelist, Poet, & Editor) 1824 - 1903.
- Caroline A. Soule (Universalist Minister, Novelist, Poet, & Editor) 1824 - 1903.
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“Each life, however humble, has its ministry. Each heart, however broken, has its message of strength.”
- Caroline A. Soule (Universalist Minister, Novelist, Poet, & Editor) 1824 - 1903.
- Caroline A. Soule (Universalist Minister, Novelist, Poet, & Editor) 1824 - 1903.
🎃 Join us this Sunday for a fun, intergenerational Halloween service! We’ll explore the many ways we and our neighbors show up in the world—costumes encouraged! 👻
🍬 Bring a food item (or more!) for our Trick-or-Treat collection supporting Cornerstones’ Thanksgiving Food Drive.
🍬 Bring a food item (or more!) for our Trick-or-Treat collection supporting Cornerstones’ Thanksgiving Food Drive.
October 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🎃 Join us this Sunday for a fun, intergenerational Halloween service! We’ll explore the many ways we and our neighbors show up in the world—costumes encouraged! 👻
🍬 Bring a food item (or more!) for our Trick-or-Treat collection supporting Cornerstones’ Thanksgiving Food Drive.
🍬 Bring a food item (or more!) for our Trick-or-Treat collection supporting Cornerstones’ Thanksgiving Food Drive.
“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.”
- Anne Lamott (Novelist, Essayist, Public Speaker, Political Activist, & Teacher) 1954 - Present.
- Anne Lamott (Novelist, Essayist, Public Speaker, Political Activist, & Teacher) 1954 - Present.
October 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.”
- Anne Lamott (Novelist, Essayist, Public Speaker, Political Activist, & Teacher) 1954 - Present.
- Anne Lamott (Novelist, Essayist, Public Speaker, Political Activist, & Teacher) 1954 - Present.
Join us this Sunday at 10am for our weekly service as guest minister, Cara Fortner, invites us to be in conversation with our genuine selves, in partnership with Wisdom and Grace, while we take measure of the realities of the moment.
October 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Join us this Sunday at 10am for our weekly service as guest minister, Cara Fortner, invites us to be in conversation with our genuine selves, in partnership with Wisdom and Grace, while we take measure of the realities of the moment.
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
- His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (Tibetan Buddhist Monk, Spiritual Leader, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, & Teacher) 1935 - Present.
- His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (Tibetan Buddhist Monk, Spiritual Leader, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, & Teacher) 1935 - Present.
October 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
- His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (Tibetan Buddhist Monk, Spiritual Leader, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, & Teacher) 1935 - Present.
- His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (Tibetan Buddhist Monk, Spiritual Leader, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, & Teacher) 1935 - Present.
Join us for our service on Sunday. Rev. Aileen will discuss the practice of compassion.
Compassion means literally “to suffer with.” What does that mean to us in our everyday lives? In times when cruelty seems to be the dominant response to multiple crises, what does it mean to practice compassion?
Compassion means literally “to suffer with.” What does that mean to us in our everyday lives? In times when cruelty seems to be the dominant response to multiple crises, what does it mean to practice compassion?
September 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Join us for our service on Sunday. Rev. Aileen will discuss the practice of compassion.
Compassion means literally “to suffer with.” What does that mean to us in our everyday lives? In times when cruelty seems to be the dominant response to multiple crises, what does it mean to practice compassion?
Compassion means literally “to suffer with.” What does that mean to us in our everyday lives? In times when cruelty seems to be the dominant response to multiple crises, what does it mean to practice compassion?
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Baptist Minister, Civil Right's Activist, Political Philosopher, & Writer) 1939 - 1968.
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Baptist Minister, Civil Right's Activist, Political Philosopher, & Writer) 1939 - 1968.
September 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Baptist Minister, Civil Right's Activist, Political Philosopher, & Writer) 1939 - 1968.
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Baptist Minister, Civil Right's Activist, Political Philosopher, & Writer) 1939 - 1968.
Join us this Sunday at 10am for our weekly service.
A church community is a place of belonging. And belonging takes not just showing up but contributing to the community in ways that are life giving. Each of us has a place in the life of this community.
A church community is a place of belonging. And belonging takes not just showing up but contributing to the community in ways that are life giving. Each of us has a place in the life of this community.
September 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Join us this Sunday at 10am for our weekly service.
A church community is a place of belonging. And belonging takes not just showing up but contributing to the community in ways that are life giving. Each of us has a place in the life of this community.
A church community is a place of belonging. And belonging takes not just showing up but contributing to the community in ways that are life giving. Each of us has a place in the life of this community.
This Sunday: Guest minister Rev. Kenneth Nixon Jr. explores the ‘inconvenience of grace’—how our discomfort with proximity tests hospitality, and how embracing it can transform our neighborhoods and our souls.
September 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This Sunday: Guest minister Rev. Kenneth Nixon Jr. explores the ‘inconvenience of grace’—how our discomfort with proximity tests hospitality, and how embracing it can transform our neighborhoods and our souls.
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Unitarian, Suffragist, Abolitionist, Poet, Teacher, & Writer) 1825 - 1911.
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Unitarian, Suffragist, Abolitionist, Poet, Teacher, & Writer) 1825 - 1911.
September 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Unitarian, Suffragist, Abolitionist, Poet, Teacher, & Writer) 1825 - 1911.
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Unitarian, Suffragist, Abolitionist, Poet, Teacher, & Writer) 1825 - 1911.
"There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there."
- Bill McKibben (Environmental Activist, Author, Scholar, & Organizer) 1960 - present.
- Bill McKibben (Environmental Activist, Author, Scholar, & Organizer) 1960 - present.
September 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there."
- Bill McKibben (Environmental Activist, Author, Scholar, & Organizer) 1960 - present.
- Bill McKibben (Environmental Activist, Author, Scholar, & Organizer) 1960 - present.
Building connections one block at a time! 🙌 Our new church board came together in late August for some Jenga fun during their orientation. Nothing like a little friendly competition to help new leaders get to know each other!
September 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Building connections one block at a time! 🙌 Our new church board came together in late August for some Jenga fun during their orientation. Nothing like a little friendly competition to help new leaders get to know each other!
Join us this Sunday at 10am as Rev. Aileen explores what it means to belong to our Earth.
We are interconnected with everything around us. We forget that we belong to the Earth rather than the earth belonging to us.
We are interconnected with everything around us. We forget that we belong to the Earth rather than the earth belonging to us.
September 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Join us this Sunday at 10am as Rev. Aileen explores what it means to belong to our Earth.
We are interconnected with everything around us. We forget that we belong to the Earth rather than the earth belonging to us.
We are interconnected with everything around us. We forget that we belong to the Earth rather than the earth belonging to us.
✨ In Spite of It All ✨
Join women’s vocal ensemble bēheld for an afternoon of song, storytelling & community. Fierce, free voices lifting joy, beauty & wonder amid grief and longing.
📅 September 27th at 4pm
📍 UU Reston
🔗 uureston.breezechms.com/form/beheld
Join women’s vocal ensemble bēheld for an afternoon of song, storytelling & community. Fierce, free voices lifting joy, beauty & wonder amid grief and longing.
📅 September 27th at 4pm
📍 UU Reston
🔗 uureston.breezechms.com/form/beheld
September 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
✨ In Spite of It All ✨
Join women’s vocal ensemble bēheld for an afternoon of song, storytelling & community. Fierce, free voices lifting joy, beauty & wonder amid grief and longing.
📅 September 27th at 4pm
📍 UU Reston
🔗 uureston.breezechms.com/form/beheld
Join women’s vocal ensemble bēheld for an afternoon of song, storytelling & community. Fierce, free voices lifting joy, beauty & wonder amid grief and longing.
📅 September 27th at 4pm
📍 UU Reston
🔗 uureston.breezechms.com/form/beheld
Join us for worship this Sunday at 10am as Rev. Aileen explores what it means to belong. What constitutes belonging? What is the difference between healthy solitude and loneliness? We are living in a culture that promotes loneliness even as we are more virtually connected than ever.
September 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Join us for worship this Sunday at 10am as Rev. Aileen explores what it means to belong. What constitutes belonging? What is the difference between healthy solitude and loneliness? We are living in a culture that promotes loneliness even as we are more virtually connected than ever.
“Democracy is not a gift which comes from the top down. It is the precious possession of those who fight for it and keep it alive.”
- Emily Taft Douglas (Unitarian Universalist, Congressperson, Author, & Activist) 1899 - 1994.
- Emily Taft Douglas (Unitarian Universalist, Congressperson, Author, & Activist) 1899 - 1994.
September 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“Democracy is not a gift which comes from the top down. It is the precious possession of those who fight for it and keep it alive.”
- Emily Taft Douglas (Unitarian Universalist, Congressperson, Author, & Activist) 1899 - 1994.
- Emily Taft Douglas (Unitarian Universalist, Congressperson, Author, & Activist) 1899 - 1994.
Little known fact - the @uua.org & @ukunitarian.bsky.social were founded on the same day 200 years ago - May 25, 1825.
Happy 200th Anniversary to British and American Unitarians!
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June 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Little known fact - the @uua.org & @ukunitarian.bsky.social were founded on the same day 200 years ago - May 25, 1825.