“National Healing Forests Initiative: Rekindling hope and reconciliation” February 1, 2026
Patricia Stirbys & Peter Croal
“Discerning Truth” February 8, 2026
Rev. Wayne Walder
This service is part of the Meaning Making series. Please email the office for the link.
“Facing the Future Together” A Sharing Our Faith Service* February 15, 2026
Adela Reid, Nancy Rubenstein, Bob Ackland, & allison calvern
“Tending Our Roots” February 22, 2026
Casey Stainsby
*List of Books from Canadian Unitarian Universalists Read
This was a panel discussion that occurred in November of 2005, where each of ministers each pitched a book that would help us meet this moment, and setting the theme for the 2026 Sharing Our Faith Service.
- Rev. Arran Morton – How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You Are Going: Leading in a Liminal Season By Susan Beaumont (2019). Arran says, “Canadian UUs need this book as it makes the ‘not knowing’ a whole lot less scary, gives us a fresh way to intimately engage with our organizations as leaders, and calls us to approach all of our work in an engaged, spiritually grounded way.”
- Rev. Anne Barker – Imaginable: How to Create a Hopeful Future—in Your Own Life, Your Community, the World by Jane McGonigal (2023). “… we are called to create a hopeful, helpful future. Imaginable brings the tools.” – Rev. Anne.
- Rev. Debra Faulk – Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations by the late Richard Wagamese (2016). Rev. Debra says that Embers provides “inspiration, comfort and direction. It is filled with practical advice for responding to hard times.”
- Rev. Lynn Harrison – The Eloquence of Silence: Surprising Wisdom in Tales of Emptiness, by Thomas Moore (2023). Eloquence offers “a fresh and healing approach to wisdom.” It “speaks to the change in consciousness we may need in order to undo current systems of injustice.” – Rev. Lynn.
- Rev. Pat Trudeau – Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone (2022). The late Rev. Pat says she found “hope and direction” in this revised edition.
- Rev. Rosemary Morrison – Beyond Welcome: Building Communities of Love by Linnea Nelson (2022). Beyond Welcome “brings to life the lived experiences of those living on the margins.” – Rev. Rosemary.
- Rev. Samaya Oakley – North of Nowhere: Song of a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner by Marie Wilson (2024) Samaya chose this book because it shows the importance of seeing the world with new eyes.