Please welcome Julia Cuneo, who joined us on March 26 as our child care provider. Julia will work 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM every Sunday. She is a local youth organizer and activist who works with “We the People of Detroit.” Julia has been babysitting … read more.

Our Office Administrator of 2-1/2 years, Alexis Mitchell, has resigned in order to focus on pursuit of her Masters in Social Work. We wish Alexis a bright future!

We are pleased to introduce Nancy Shattuck as our new Office Administrator.

Nancy retired from a 32-year career in … read more.

Our 2018 annual congregational meeting took place on May 20. The following slate was elected:

President – Dan Hale (2nd one-year term)
Vice President – Dan Wiest (1st one-year term)
Trustee-at-Large – Martha Bogner (1st two-year term)
Nominating Committee – Marsha Bruhn, Mary Lou Malone, Arne Johnston, Joel Batterman, … read more.

Pursuant to By-Laws Article IV, Section 2(A), the Annual Meeting of the Congregation of the First Unitarian-Universalist Church of Detroit has been called for Sunday, May 20, 2018, at 12:30 PM, in the Sanctuary. The voting membership will elect a President, Vice-President, delegates for General … read more.

At a special congregational meeting today, members of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Detroit voted unanimously to co-sponsor the ordination of Julie Brock.

We will co-ordain Julie with the Community Unitarian Universalist Church of Brighton, where Julie has served as consulting minister for the last … read more.

On July 27, our new UUA President, the Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, issued the following statement in response to Donald Trump’s plan to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military:

Yesterday’s announcement from President Trump that he is barring transgender individuals from serving in … read more.

The Unitarian Universalist Association affirms:

Every person has value as a member of the human family. The suffering caused by racism must be ended if we want to create fair and loving communities.

One way our denomination formally supports the Black Lives Matter movement is … read more.

Locally

On June 14, over 700 people gathered at Affirmations in an interfaith vigil to remember and to honor the LGBTQ victims of the Orlando massacre. The room was silent as one by one the name of each victim was read aloud.

We had gathered to stand … read more.

At its March 9 meeting your UU Detroit Board of Trustees voted unanimously to support a MidAmerica Regional Assembly Resolution on Muslim Solidarity. We were one of 11 congregations — from Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio — to sign the Resolution.

The Resolution was presented and approved … read more.