June 27: LGBTQ Pride Sunday: Creating Positive Space
Speaker: Deborah “Debi” Inglehart and Nancy Sullivan
Service Leader: Lyla Miklos
Two of the co-founders of Hill Park Secondary School’s LGBTQ Positive Space Club share their story. Along with creating a safe space for LGBTQ students, this year Hill Park hosted a Rainbow Prom and held an International Day to End Homophobia event. .

July 4: A Priest, A Rabbi, And A Uu Minister Walk Into A Bar . . .
Speaker: Robert Nielsen
Service Leader/Storyteller: Valerie Nielsen
An exploration of humour as a spiritual practice. Using examples of humour from numerous sources, Robert will explore the nature of humour and its positive influences on the Unitarian Universalist community. More than other religious adherents, UUs exploit humour to enhance their well-being and spiritual development.

July 11: The Power Of The Vow
Speaker: Karen Trollope-Kumar
Service Leader: Michele Corbeil
Storyteller: Bert Wreford
Making a vow is an act of courage and commitment. We may choose to make a vow to affirm a choice of a life partner, to dedicate ourselves to a vocation, or to mark a transition to a new way of life. The power of the vow can help us live closely to values we hold dear. Karen makes a personal vow in this address and hopes that the congregation will hold her to it!

July 18: Liberalism And Its Discontents
Speaker: Leslie Kaye
Service Leader/Storyteller: Bill Johnston
A challenge to that highest value in Unitarianism—the idea of the individual. If Unitarianism remains rooted in the false idea of radical individualism, we will continue to be small, marginal and largely irrelevant in the face of the coming disasters that confront us.

July 25: From Inspiration To Ink: Telling The Stories Of Our Lives
Speakers: Anne Bokma, Catherine Schuler, and Debbie Sweet
Service Leader: Pat Dickinson
Storyteller: Catherine Schuler
What compels us to examine the past and write down our stories? Memoir writing gives us the opportunity to find the deeper meaning in our lives, to understand ourselves better, to connect with others through our shared experiences and to leave a written record of our memories for future generations.

August 1: A Legacy Or The Truth With Love
Speaker: Kathryn McIntyre
Service Leader: Julianna Beckett
Storyteller: Connie Bryce-Mckinlay
What is a fair thing to tell a child if they want to know how it will be like to be raised a Unitarian Universalist? Kathryn faced this issue with her three adult children and it is now being considered by the next generation.

August 8: Hiroshima Sunday
Speaker/Storyteller: Ginny Megin
Service Leader: Gail Rappolt
Recognizing the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, and the recent encouraging developments in stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Ginny will reflect on what this means to us as Unitarians and as citizens of Canada and the world.

August 15: Watching For The Signs: My Spiritual Journey So Far
Speaker: Don McFadyen
Service Leader: Margaret McFadyen
Storyteller: Patricia Oertel
Life sends us many experiences and opportunities for increased awareness. Some we lose track of, at least for awhile. Others make an immediate impact that moves our lives forward. Others come in a whirlwind that shouts ‘wake-up call.’ In our spiritual journey it pays to watch for the signs.

August 22: The Lord Of The Rings: Just Wars, Evil, And Other Myths
Speaker/Storyteller: Lyla Miklos
Service Leader: Allan Sharp
In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Barack Obama said, “Evil does exist in the world. To say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.” Are wars against Nazis, Sauron, or Taliban just? How do Tolkien’s depictions of evil in his epic fantasy trilogy influence us now?

August 29: Celebrating Our Senses
Speaker: Roy Dahl
Service Leader/Storyteller: Paul Hawkins
This experiential service will explore the senses we each possess and that inform us of what we know in our individual and collective lives.