Join us for a different take on the first holidays of the fall season. Rev. Gail Tapscott loves Halloween and is looking forward to sharing some new angles on the holiday with the UUCO community. We will look especially at the figure of the Witch in fact and fiction. We will also share a short ritual to honor our ancestors and other lost loved ones. In preparation, please plan to have a small picture or an object with you that reminds you of the person or people you especially want to remember as you join us on zoom.

We are a welcoming congregation and invite you to join us for services this Sunday at 11:00 am.  Unfortunately we are unable to publish the link to services due to security concerns.  Please contact Sandra Moss at [email protected] to have the link sent to you.  Please request link before Sunday.

Consistent throughout our UU Principles is a call for us to stand up and take actions against injustices. Whether we are directly affected or not, we are called to stand up angainst these injustices in whatever form they may take.

As we are all well aware, the State of Mississippi is a hotbed of civil rights issues for marginalized communities. To combat issues of discrimination, the ACLU of Mississippi has launched its newest full-time initiative, the LGBTQ Justice Project. Join us to meet their newest staff attorney, McKenna Raney-Gray, as she discusses key areas of focus for the ACLU of Mississippi overall, followed by a dive into the specific objectives for the program McKenna has been charged to lead, which is aimed at fighting against inequalities and access to justice issues throughout LGBTQ communities of Mississippi. Finally, McKenna will take questions about her role as a contemporary civil rights advocate and attorney in today's Mississippi. 

Bio: McKenna Raney-Gray joined the ACLU of Mississippi as the LGBTQ Justice Project Staff Attorney in August 2021, where she focuses on legal issues, advocacy, and outreach in the LGBTQ+ community. She graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Law, where she was a student in the MacArthur Justice Clinic for civil rights. She identifies as a member of the LGBTQ community. McKenna studied anthropology and gender studies at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. Upon graduating, she embarked on a postgraduate Thomas J. Watson fellowship to pursue a yearlong international project examining human-horse relationships in cross-cultural contexts including South Africa, Turkey, and Argentina.

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

It seems that everyone is talking about how divided Americans are. Social Media often gets a good share of the blame for fostering rifts among friends. We will explore the complexities of this issue, and consider the possibility that we may not be as divided as we seem when it comes to what really matters.

Rev. Peter House is a 2000 graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School. He has served as ministerial intern, and summer minister at the First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto, summer minister at First Unitarian Church in Rochester, NY, and has served since 2007 as the summer minister at the First Universalist Church of Rochester. During the year, Peter is a special education teacher working with 4th grade students. He and his husband Michael live in Rochester, NY with their dog Ollie.

UUCO is a welcoming congregation and invites you to join us online for services this Sunday at 11:00 am.  Unfortunately, we are unable to publish the link to the service due to security concerns.  Please contact Sandra Moss at [email protected] to have the link sent to you.  Please request link before Sunday.​

​UUCO will join the UU Church of Jackson along with other UU Congregations in Mississippi!  

Remembering the creation of LGBT History Month and the first March on Washington for gay and lesbian rights. We’ll honor the many who fought injustice and worked for equal treatment of the gay community.
*This is a joint service hosted by UUCJ.

Coffee Social: 10:30 -11:00 AM Sunday (Central Time Zone)
Sunday Service begins at 11:00 AM (Central Time Zone)

We are a welcoming congregation and invite you to join us online for services this Sunday.  However, we are unable to publish the link to the service due to security concerns.  Please contact Sandra Moss at [email protected] to have the link sent to you.  Please request the link before Sunday.