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Wondering Aloud
Our Sunday services explore insights from world religion, philosophy, and earth-based spiritual traditions. We are a warm and open, member-led community, whose small size fosters connectedness. We grow vegetables and imagination.

The First Unitarian Universalist Society of New Haven has provided a home for liberal religion since 1836. Our member-led services are held at our meetinghouse Sundays at 10:30 am. Our meetinghouse is located at 608 Whitney Avenue in the Whitney Avenue Historic District of New Haven, 1.3 miles north of the New Haven Green and about one-half mile south of the town of Hamden. You can also joint our services using Zoom web conferencing.
Please join us for coffee and refreshments after the service.
Our meetinghouse
Community Connections
  • The New Haven Bioregional group regularly holds meetings, skillshares, potlucks dinners, and presentations at our meeting house. New Haven Bioregional maintains a community garden on our property.
  • ANSWER CT, a chapter of the ANSWER Coalition, regularly holds meetings and events at our meeting house. The ANSWER coalitions mission is to stop war and racism.
  • The Childrens Preschool is a non-profit preschool for area children. The school has been located on our property since its founding in 1972, and we are represented on its board of directors.
  • The New Haven Compassionfest regularly holds  meetings and vegan potlucks at our meeting house.
  • The New Haven/Leon Sister City Project has their offices in our meeting house. They engage in sustainable economic, human, and community development projects in Nicaragua
     Social Justice and Charitable Giving

The congregations gives away its weekly collection to organizations pursuing social and environmental justice. We select a different recipient each quarter. This quarter's collection is going to the Haven's Harvest

Past Recipients


January  Services

Sundays 10:30 am
    You can join our services in person at the
    meetinghouse or via Zoom.

January 5 - "Open Poetry Service"

All are invited to choose their favorite poem(s) to read or recite. Elizabeth will be providing music—some of her favorite songs— with poems connected to the music. Bring your poems, or be creative!! A FUUS tradition to ring in the new year. Blessings for all of us!
Coordinated by Elizabeth Neuce.

January 12 - "The Book That Changed My Life: a participatory service (Part II)."
Back by popular demand! --Was there a book which led you down an unexpected path or helped change the course of your life? We'll be sharing with one another the books that left their marks on us. (Especially for those who didn't have a chance to share at December's service). Coordinated by Lynne Charles.

January 19 - "Institutional Memory and Social Action: Parallels Between Dwight Hall, Yale's Center for Public Service and Social Justice and FUUS."
Dwight Hall was founded by students in 1886 while FUUS New Haven was founded 50 years earlier in 1836. We'll talk about their parallels and also have some conversation about Dr. Martin Luther King's talk at Yale's Dwight Hall in 1962. Coordinated by Ben Ross

Jan. 26. "Wolf Research at the International Wolf Center"
We will be joined by a member of the Center based in Ely, Minnesota. The center focuses on the history of wolf-human ecology at the world-renowned research center, and the larger implications for human-nonhuman relationships in nature. Coordinated by Yann.

 

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