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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] to have the link sent to you.  Please request link before Sunday.