The hashtag “love wins” has been a universal sensation. It was started by the Human Rights Campaign as a way to increase conversation around marriage equality. This Sunday, the Mississippi State Director of the HRC, Rob Hill, will speak about HRC’s ongoing efforts to bring equality to LGBTQ+ people throughout Mississippi. This week we will continue in our theme of embracing possibility. What does it look like when we truly embrace the possibilities of everyone? 

Rob Hill serves as state director of HRC Mississippi. As part of the Human Rights Campaign’s Project One America, Rob and his team lead the effort to bring equality to LGBTQ+ people throughout Mississippi. Using the resources of HRC and collaborating with local organizations, he works each day to help change hearts and minds, advance enduring legal protections and build more inclusive institutions in the Magnolia State.

UUCO is a welcoming congregation and invites you to join us online this Sunday morning at 11:00 am.  Unfortunately we are unable to publish the link due to security concerns.  However, you may contact Sandra Moss at uucostaffer@gmail.com and have the link sent to you.  Please request link before Sunday.

The UU Water Service celebrates our shared homecoming as a community after a summer season - whether of wandering, cultivation, or contemplation. All are encouraged to contribute a small amount of water to pour into our shared pool of experiences in this virtual multigenerational ceremony. Join us as we reflect, remember, and anticipate the renewed vigor of autumn. Water and a brief reflection may be dropped off at the UUCO building porch by 5 pm September 11th OR at Wendy and Andrew Pfrenger's residence at 825 Maplewood Dr. 

UUCO is a welcoming congregation and invite you to join us online for services this Sunday at 11 am.  Unfortunately, we are unable to publish the link to the service.  Please contact Sandra Moss at uucostaffer@gmail.com to have the link sent to you.  Please request link before Sunday.  ​

This week our guest speaker will be Prof. Joseph B. Atkins from the University of MS School of Journalism and New Media. Prof. Atkins is the author of "Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press" and also edited
an anthology on International Labor. He will share some insights of the current state and future possibilities of labor unions and why the issue is a spiritual one. Service Leader Rev. Gail Tapscott will also ask us to think about our own understanding of work in our individual lives through readings and meditation. 

UUCO is a welcoming congregation and invite you to join us online this Sunday for services at 11 am.  Unfortunately, due to security concerns we are unable to publish the link to the service.  Contact Sandra Moss at uucostaffer@gmail.com to have the link sent to you.  Please request the link before Sunday.  ​

We are now in month 17 of the global Covid pandemic and we are in the 4th major surge of the virus.  As we look to this next year, how do we literally and figuratively “take a breath” and find our way through this maze this thicket?   We will share a perspective from early in the summer and several perspectives from right now. One thing is sure: we need each other.  

And, we will take the first part of the service to have a musical offering from Morgan and Reynaldo to honor the memory of Amy Pearson.  They will sing Mystery of Love by Sufjan Stevnes.  

UUCO is a welcoming congregation and we invite you to join us online for services this Sunday morning at 11 am.  Unfortunately we are unable to publish the link to the service.  Please contact Sandra Moss at uucostaffer@gmail.com to have the link to the service sent to you.  Please request link before Sunday.

Transitions are hard, I remember when I was in marching band so many years ago, we would spend considerable time on the transitions in the songs. Later when I would begin to preach regularly it was noted that transitions can be hard. We struggle individually and corporately with change. And I don’t know if we as a people ever became good at it. We crave stability, and safety, which is why insurance is such a big business. We need to feel safe from the changes that take place in our own worlds, so we build a bulwark against illness, financial collapse, and even try against death. It is written in our code because evolution demands survival, so we try to control everything around us, before learning we can’t. Sometimes all we can do is manage and ride the wave in the wake of change. But there’s a secret in all of this, a secret that if we understood we may be able to sleep better at night. The secret is that we are always in transition, we are always in flux, and the most important thing we can do, is let go.

The Reverend Justin M. McCreary is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Jackson. http://www.uujackson.org/  He also speaks regularly for other congregations. In the Jackson area, Rev. McCreary is well known for standing up for immigrants, racial justice, marriage equality and more. https://www.uujackson.org/about-uus/our-minister/

UUCO is a welcoming congregation and invites you to join us online for services this Sunday morning at 11:00 am.  However, due to security concerns we are unable to publish the link to the service.  Contact Sandra Moss at uucostaffer@gmail.com to have the link sent to you.  Please request link before Sunday.  

On Sept. 25 from 2-4 p.m. Oxford will remember the 7 known victims to lynching in Lafayette Co., MS.  The event on the public square on Sept. 25 will include raising a marker on the lawn of the courthouse with the names of the seven African American men lynched by white mobs.  The public is invited to this historic event.  

The Sunday Service at UUCO on Aug. 15 will acknowledge the importance of truth telling in our public lives and will name the importance of public memorials as a step in telling the truth of our history.  We will tell some of what it has taken to get to this place.  Content warning:  we will be talking about the violence done to these men.   The Lafayette Count Remembrance Project has been partnering with the Equal Justice Initiative to create this memorialization.   


UUCO is a welcoming congregation and we invite you to join us online for services this Sunday at 11 am.  However, due to security concerns we are unable to publish the link to the service.  Contact Sandra Moss at uucostaffer@gmail.com to have the link sent to you.  Please request link before Sunday.

The General Assembly is the annual gathering of UUs, providing workshops, speakers, worship and opportunities to connect. We will provide perspective from two folks who attended this year, Eric Saulters Wood from the UU church in Jackson and from Rev. Gail Stratton of UUCO.   Who are we beyond our own congregations? What are the possibilities of connecting in ever broadening circles?  How can we grow in faith and in love by these connections? Eric Wood is the former president of the UU Church of Jackson. He is the proud father of a 1 year old! Rev. Gail Stratton is a community UU minister affiliated with UU Congregation of Oxford. She lives in Abbeville with her wife where they garden and study mycology. Rev. Stratton is part of the Lafayette Community Remembrance Project, an effort to remember parts of our history that some would rather forget. 
 
On this Sunday, we will be joined by the UU Church of Jackson as well as Our Home Universalist Unitarian Church and we hope the UU Congregation of Tupelo!

UUCO is a welcoming congregation and we invite you to join us online for services this Sunday.  However, due to security concerns we are unable to publish the link to the service.  Contact Sandra Moss at uucostaffer@gmail.com to have the link sent to you.  Please request link before Sunday.

Nadia Lexis. Creative Writing PhD Student and photographer at the University of Mississippi Nadia Alexis will discuss the intersections of her photography and poetry. Nadia is a poet and photographer born in Harlem, NYC to Haitian immigrants. Her poetry has been published in Indiana Review, MQR: Mixtape, Shenandoah, Texas Review, and others. Her photography has been published in Forgotten Lands, MQR: Mixtape, TORCH Journal, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, 2019 honorable mention poetry prize winner of Hurston/Wright College Writers Award, 2020 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award nominee, and 2020 semifinalist of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. She is also a poetry fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and The Watering Hole. Her photographs have been shown in several exhibitions in the U.S. and Cuba, and she was mentored by Carrie Mae Weems in an independent scholars fellowship program. She is currently at work on her first full-length hybrid manuscript of poems and photographs, while also building bodies of photographic works, and working on a young adult novel-in-verse. She is primarily a self-taught photographer who has been making photographs since 2014. In April 2019, her What Endures series was exhibited in the month-long 2019 Havana Biennial in Havana, Cuba as part of the multidisciplinary group exhibition titled The Spirit That Resides. Her work was also on view at the Motel Art Show in Oxford, MS in Fall 2019, in Detroit in the multidisciplinary group exhibition Beyond Space from 2019-2020, and in the Exploring Passages exhibition at the Photographic Center Northwest in the winter of 2020. From March 2019 to March 2021, works from her What Endures series were on view in the J.D. Williams Library of the University of Mississippi, and most recently, they are on view in the On Protest and Mourning virtual exhibition digital archive at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) in Harlem. https://www.nadiaalexis.com/. 

UUCO is a welcoming congregation and invite you to join us online for services this Sunday at 11:00 am.  Unfortunately, due to security concerns we are unable to publish the link to the service.  Please contact Sandra Moss at uucostaffer@gmail.com to have the link for the service sent to you.  Please request link before Sunday.
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