Community Church Unitarian Universalist

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GNOUU is a local cluster of UU churches who are revitalizing their faith while rebuilding their city.

Rebuilding will take years- won't you support the UUs in New Orleans?

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Welcome to Community Church
Community Church's Sunday services and children's religious education are held weekly at 11:00 a.m.

We believe that we are all family and we all have value.
The purpose of Community Church is to form a community to practice and advance a free and responsible search for truth and meaning, the inherent worth and dignity of every person and a commitment to ethical living.
We invite you to visit us on Sunday mornings to explore our spirituality together. All are welcome.

Questions & Contacts
Minister's office hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm.

Our former mayor often told us we would soon see "cranes above New Orleans!" That mayor is now gone, long gone and few of his cranes arrived. But we have pile drivers on site at Community Church Unitarian Universalist.

CCUU signed a contract with TriMark Constructors last week. Set-up for the building project began immediately. A crew is now, on October 28, 2010, driving piles as the first step in building our new sanctuary.

November 14, Balancing the Feminine and Masculine Sides of our Personalities. We all have not only a gender but also the components of each gender within ourselves. Our minister will focus on finding the balance between the two and using both of them to help us promote equity and compassion in human relations.

November 21, Born in the Wrong Body. In a reflection based on the November 20th Transgender Day of Remembrance Rev. VanderWeele asks the question: How would you react if you were born in the wrong body? Is there a better way to address the problems faced by a transgendered person than to imagine their questions for yourself?

Unitarian Universalism began within the Christian Church as two separate heresies: belief in the oneness of God (Unitarianism) and belief in universal salvation (Universalism). These ideas, though preceding it, gained followers after the Protestant Reformation in the 1500's and were widely taught in the United States in the 1700's at Harvard College and within the congregationalism of the Pilgrim church.
In 1785 King's Chapel in Boston was the first American church to declare its Unitarianism. Through the years as they were affected by transcendentalism and the rationalist humanists, Unitarianism and Universalism grew further from traditional Christianity and closer to one another and officially merged in 1961.
From their founding both Unitarianism and Universalism were non-creedal, claiming freedom of belief as a basic value. The authority for our individual beliefs is the evidence of our local experience refined through reason and spirit and tested in community. Although those beliefs may range from liberal Christianity to naturalistic humanism, it is probably true that nearly all of us can agree to these four statements:

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to seek his or her own truth.

Our faith, although it may transcend reason may not be contrary to it.

We respect all people for their individual worth without regard to color, creed, gender, or sexual orientation.

We must focus on the needs and purposes of this life rather than an afterlife in which some of us may believe, but for which we have no evidence.

This only scratches the surface, there is a wealth of information about Unitarian Universalism available on the web site of the Unitarian Universalist Association.