In the service, we will start a celebration of love for the month of June. June has many celebrations and commemorations but the essence is love. Let us come together and celebrate love.

Valentine’s Day is so often associated with romantic love, typically in a monogamous, often straight, relationship. In this service, we will expand our notion of love to include not only traditional romantic love, but queer love, love of pets, love of places, spiritual love, even culinary love. Come ready to share a story of something, … Continue reading Love Beyond Romance

All are welcome to an informal gathering to celebrate the Christmas holiday. Instead of a formal service, AUUF members and friends will enjoy a potluck meal, friendly conversation, and holiday music. Come enjoy one another’s fellowship on this special day!

Our annual bread communion service is an opportunity to not only share your special bread item, but also stories related to this sustenance.  Join together for this special and long enjoyed tradition.

It has been said that, “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.”   The Day of Remembrance service is an opportunity to share your treasures, tell your stories, and reflect on memories. We will honor those from our AUUF community, whose names adorn our plaque, and reflect on them and on others from our collective lives.

Over the course of our lives, we may find ourselves awakening to all kinds of experiences and knowledges. We may have a spiritual awakening. We may awaken to new realizations about loved ones, friends, or enemies. We may experience the “aha” moment of awakening to a new idea or concept. In this service, AUUF members … Continue reading Awakening to the World

Late August means a good number of folks in the Auburn-Opelika area are back to school again. For some, its a time of excitement, for others, angst. Come join AUUF as we share our memories of schooling–good, bad, and ugly–and reflect on how those memories have shaped the people we are today.

We are a congregation of philosophers, albeit many of us amateur. AUUF services rarely center around doctrine, but don’t you ever wonder about other’s beliefs, or what others think about the practice of believing? This is a chance to get up and tell everyone what your philosophy is, be it a philosophy of life, a … Continue reading Bring Your Own Philosophy

Aunt Katie’s sour cream coffee cake was a family favorite on holiday mornings. Mom always got the yellowed, perfectly-penned recipe card out of her box before she began cooking. Every now and then a drop of batter would get on the recipe card, leaving a small stain and an extra memory of the cake’s deliciousness … Continue reading Recipe Roundtable