UUCNH Youth Group Our youth group will tell the story of the, EVIL Eraser, the spirit of every perfectionist, who will learn to live with their mistakes.

  Rev. Lee Anne Washington What happens after we take our final breath? While we are fully aware of our own mortality, what awaits us remains a profound mystery. Throughout history, humanity has sought answers through religious texts, philosophical reasoning, and scientific inquiries like near-death experiences. This Sunday marks the first part of our final [...]

Rev. Lee Anne Washington When a friend receives a terminal diagnosis or a neighbor loses a loved one, even the most articulate among us can find ourselves speechless. In this service, we explore the ministry of presence and kind deeds that truly sustain us in times of catastrophe. Drawing on the wisdom of several different [...]

Rev. Lee Anne Washington What does it mean to truly walk someone home? In our final deep dive of this liturgical year, we move beyond the search for the right words and enter the practice of presence. Witnessing the end of a life or the weight of a Great Loss requires more than just sympathy. [...]

Sunday Services Team & Michael Mehrazar, Executive Director of UUJusticePA Consider the essential role advocacy plays in living out our Unitarian Universalist principles. By examining how our faith calls us to action, we will explore the transformative power of collective voices, the significance of storytelling in connecting with others, and practical ways to engage in [...]

Tony Palermo Of all the survival techniques Natural Selection has honed in us, the ability to laugh seems the most, well, superfluous. What good is it, how do we make it happen, and what are some – hopefully – fulfilling examples? Let’s look at Bugs Bunny, the Far Side, Opus the penguin, Abbott and Costello [...]

Rev. Lee Anne Washington  The transition from youth to young adulthood is both joyful and bittersweet: a time of letting go without becoming untethered, gaining independence without losing connection. As young adults move toward wider horizons, the people, places, values, and lessons that have shaped them can continue to guide them. This Sunday, as we [...]

Rev. Lee Anne Washington Here in Pittsburgh, we often speak of three rivers: the Allegheny, the Monongahela, and the Ohio. But older Indigenous naming traditions offer another way of seeing the same waters: whether the long river was called Ohio or Allegheny, the Monongahela was understood as a tributary flowing into something larger. Same water. [...]

Through the power of the arts, Dreams of Hope provides the region’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, asexual, and allied (LGBTQA+) youth a welcoming environment to grow in confidence, express themselves, and develop as leaders. We will have some of our youth participants perform excepts from our 2026 theatriQ production: OH MY GOD! a [...]

Rev. Lee Anne Wasthingon There’s a delicate balance between individual agency and our Seventh UU Principle: the interdependent web of existence. In celebrating Summer Solstice, we step out of the shadows of two persistent errors—a toxic empathy that minimizes human capability by viewing people as perpetual victims, and a rigid self-sufficiency that refuses the support [...]