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The BUC choir and others present the annual BUC music-oriented Advent service. This year the theme is Peace on Earth, highlighting holiday songs that have used the Christmas and Hanukkah stories to champion peace at times of war and threats of war.

Do we humans exhibit inherent depravity, manifested by selfishness and a bent towards evil? Or maybe, we are intrinsically good, with attitudes naturally rooted in compassion, caring and love. This is clearly important to the Christian religious tradition, as its primary goal and purpose was our salvation from the original sin we carried, and from all other sin we created. We are surrounded by good and evil in life. Is either the essential human state? Why should we care?

This is a Second Sunday.  All 2nd and 4th Sunday collections go towards the support of asylum seekers

Antisemitism                                                              Marcia Curtis

In the month after the horrible Hamas attack on Israeli citizens on October 7 and the retaliation by the Israeli government, anti-Semitic attacks in the U.S. went up 400%. Why are Jews hated so much by so many people?

Christmas Eve Service                 Rev. Allen Harden                                       

A holiday celebration, a festival of lights and song for the season, we honor our religious heritage, observations from many traditions, and the natural passing of the longest night of the year. After the service, all are invited to join a celebration in our second floor room.

Taize’ for the New Year                                 Ken and Adair Small

Prepare to welcome in the New Year reflectively with meditative singing using the style developed in Taizé, France.