Past Services

Having a strong, sweeping concept of justice and a commitment to transformative liberation is essential to the calling of our faith. At the same time, there are many factors which lead us to significantly overestimate what we are reasonably able to achieve. The service will explore the connection between resilience and managing our expectations.

After service, join us in Pierce Hall for Coffee Hour, or stay on the Zoom link for a social hour. Then, in the evening, visit our social media to join in a discussion about the week’s #ASCProvocativeQuestion.

Join in community for nourishing music and word on the weekend before Thanksgiving!
We will gather food for our community partners in the first live collection in a few years. We will celebrate our Little Free Pantry, and a new children’s book which benefits No Child Goes Hungry. Ponder what food for body and spirit keeps you going in a time of resistance and resilience.

After service, join us in Pierce Hall for Coffee Hour and our Thanksgiving Collection Drive, or stay on the Zoom link for a social hour. Then, in the evening, visit our social media to join in a discussion about the week’s #ASCProvocativeQuestion.

We may be licking our wounds. We may be cheering our victories. We may be feeling relief that the results were not even worse. We will certainly be taking stock and asking how we move forward from wherever we are. Whether winners or losers, we still need to remember how we want to live, how we want to live in a world that insists on winners and losers.

Join us for this ASL interpreted worship service with music from Akoma @All Souls and the ASC Youth Choir! After service, join us in Pierce Hall for Coffee Hour, or stay on the Zoom link for a social hour. Then, in the evening, visit our social media to join in a discussion about the week’s #ASCProvocativeQuestion.

Please join us in-person or online for our Vespers service this month!

Our Vespers worship service is modeled after the traditional Taizé worship service, which uses silence, scripture, prayer, and repetitive singing of short chants and rounds to quiet the mind and promote deep meditation. The Taizé Community promotes peace and justice through prayer and meditation. Our Vespers service mirrors Taizé-style attention to silence, holy words, prayer, and singing, but has also evolved to include other meditative traditions such as yogic singing and Buddhist chanting. Followed by a time for community gathering. Every second Wednesday of the month.

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Freedom, we are told, resides in our ability to make choices. But choices are often constrained by circumstance and the pervasive operation of power. How do we navigate when our real choice would be not A or B but resistance, not R or D but hope.

Join us for this ASL interpreted worship service with a Story for All Ages from Dolores Miller and the youth of the CYRE program and music from Lenard Starks and the Jubilee Singers! After service, join us in Pierce Hall for Coffee Hour, or stay on the Zoom link for a social hour. Then, in the evening, visit our social media to join in a discussion about the week’s #ASCProvocativeQuestion.

It’s not the easiest thing to discuss the mortal transition each person faces eventually! After several years of COVID deaths, and many recent All Souls memorials, we will explore the many ways we carry loss. We ponder our own mortality and seek solace together.

On this annual All Souls Sunday we remember those members who have died since November 2021. We will also create ancestors’ tables with photos and mementos in our worship space together. The All Souls Choir and special guest will offer healing musical sanctuary, as celebrate all those departed who have contributed to our lives.

Join us in-person or online for this ASL interpreted service that will feature music from Jen Hayman and the All Souls Choir! After service, join us in Pierce Hall for socially distanced fellowship or online via the same link as worship. Then, in the afternoon, check Facebook for the day’s #ASCProvocativeQuestion and post your thoughts to start a discussion related to the sermon.

Diwali is the first of the many festivals of lights that religious communities celebrate as the darkness lengths in the fall. The Hindu stories tell of victory over the forces of darkness. If only good and evil were so easy to separate and to name. But it is complicated.

Join us in-person or online for this ASL interpreted service that will feature music from Rochelle Rice and Black American Musicians! After service, join us in Pierce Hall for socially distanced fellowship or online via the same link as worship. Then, in the afternoon, check Facebook for the day’s #ASCProvocativeQuestion and post your thoughts to start a discussion related to the sermon.

The act of learning is a central focus of Unitarian Universalist religious life, and rightly so. However, as awareness continues to grow about the impact of socialization and unconscious bias, it is increasingly clear that we must also take seriously the task of unlearning. Deeply ingrained patterns can be the hardest to recognize, and as such the hardest to change. Yet also among the most liberating for ourselves and our world! How can we support each other through this powerful and complex process?

Speakers: Jeryl Hayes and Rev. Rob Keithan

Join us in-person or online for this ASL interpreted service that will feature music from Jen Hayman and the All Souls Choir! After service, join us in Pierce Hall for socially distanced fellowship or online via the same link as worship. Then, in the afternoon, check Facebook for the day’s #ASCProvocativeQuestion and post your thoughts to start a discussion related to the sermon.

Please join us in-person or online for our Vespers service this month!

Our Vespers worship service is modeled after the traditional Taizé worship service, which uses silence, scripture, prayer, and repetitive singing of short chants and rounds to quiet the mind and promote deep meditation. The Taizé Community promotes peace and justice through prayer and meditation. Our Vespers service mirrors Taizé-style attention to silence, holy words, prayer, and singing, but has also evolved to include other meditative traditions such as yogic singing and Buddhist chanting. Followed by a time for community gathering. Every second Wednesday of the month.

Click here to log in to Zoom.
Dial in: 301.715.8592; meeting ID: 997 7201 2495; passcode: 927624

Rev. Christin Green identifies as a mixed race, queer, cis female, minister, daughter, friend, and drummer. But there’s even more once you begin digging. What does it mean to honor complex identities? What does it feel like to hold back our judgement and extend unconditional love for these complex identities?

Rev. Christin C. Green is the Assistant Minister for Congregational Life at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax in Oakton, VA. She is a scholar of language, identity politics, sound and energy healing, and liberation theology. She looks forward to sharing sacred time and good vibes together in beloved community.

Join us in-person or online for this ASL-interpreted service that will feature music from Lenard Starks and the Jubilee Singers! After service, come to Pierce Hall for coffee hour, or stay on the Zoom link for virtual coffee hour!

Then, in the evening, check Facebook for the day’s #ASCProvocativeQuestion and post your thoughts to start a discussion related to the sermon.

The Jewish High Holy Days call us to forgiveness each year. We are asked to forgive ourselves and one another and begin again in love. Forgiving others may be the easy part. Forgiving ourselves may be the real test that asks us whether what we are and what we offer can possibly be good enough.

Join us in-person or online for this ASL interpreted service that will feature a Story for All Ages by Dolores Miller and music from Jen Hayman and the All Souls Choir! After service, join us in Pierce Hall for socially distanced fellowship or online via the same link as worship. Then, in the afternoon, check Facebook for the day’s #ASCProvocativeQuestion and post your thoughts to start a discussion related to the sermon.

The dominant culture holds that we belong to families of origin, part of a blood ancestor lineage. Yet many have created a chosen family instead. This might be through LGBTQ+ identity, via adoption relationships, due to estrangement, or for those of us who can’t trace lineage at all. Our service celebrates connections in creative relationship-building and chosen bonds.

Join us for this ASL-interpreted service that will feature music from Lenard Starks and the Jubilee Singers! After service, join us in Pierce Hall for socially distanced fellowship or online via the same link as worship. Then, in the afternoon, check Facebook for the day’s #ASCProvocativeQuestion and post your thoughts to start a discussion related to the sermon.