Upcoming Services
All services are multi-platform: in-person and Live on YouTube at 10:30 ET.
In-person service is held in our building at 25 Chalice Circle, Fredericksburg, VA 22405. Our Live Stream can be viewed On YouTube.
March 2, 2025
What Good Is Prayer?
Speaker: David Brown
Is anyone listening when we pray? Why do you pray? Who do you pray to? If God knows everything, what is the point of praying? Does it make sense for an agnostic or atheist to pray? Let’s talk about this potentially problematic idea of talking to God.
March 9, 2025
Death and Dying
Speaker: Steve Walk
The response of humans to death or dying is unlike that of other living things, as far as we can tell from their behavior. Today we’ll look closely at how the awareness of our mortality affects how we live, and some new ways to think about and appreciate death in light of some of the latest understandings in physics and evolution. This can inform our personal response to death and dying, and therefore our life itself, as we continue our search for truth and meaning as UUs.
March 16, 2025
How to Train Your Lizard
Speaker: David Brown
Like it or not, we are animals. We can talk about free will and responsible choices, but the fact remains that we are almost exclusively driven by our animal instincts. How do lizards improve themselves? Let’s talk about it.
March 23, 2025
Mindfulness and Poetry
Speaker: Lynda Allen
Reading and writing poetry can teach us a great deal about being mindful and living mindfully. Lynda will share her journey to discovering joy in writing poetry and some of the things that the process of deep listening has taught her along the way. She will share her own, and also Mary Oliver’s beautiful poems.
March 30, 2025
COFFEE HOUSE: The Journey of a Thousand Steps
Moderator: David Brown
Each of us has arrived here at the UUFF for different reasons and from different paths. Let’s talk about what brought you here.
