Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church

The Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church is a gathering place for a freethinking religious community. Our faith is a spiritually alive and justice-centered religion that provides an open-hearted and open-minded path in the search for truth.  We strive to nurture a loving, inclusive spiritual community where all ages celebrate together.

With compassion and generosity, we witness for our liberal Unitarian Universalist faith, and we serve and inspire the local and global community through social action and the arts.

Our church is a place where individuals are free to explore life’s ultimate questions in a community of other seekers and are encouraged to find their own answers. We come from many religious backgrounds. Among them are Christianity, Judaism, Humanism, Agnosticism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Paganism, Taoism, Hinduism, Earth-Centered religions, and many other faith traditions.

Spring Concert Series

 
 
 
The Music Committee announces the Spring Concert Series - featuring organist Peter Sykes on March 14th at 2:00 pm; the Peterborough Chamber Choir on May 23rd at 7:00 pm; and pianist Eric Stumacher on June 6th at 7:00pm. Tickets are $10 for each concert or $25 for the three-concert series.  Please see a member of the music committee for more information or to purchase tickets. Tickets are also available at the Toadstool Bookstore or in the church office.
 

 

03/14/2010 - 2:00pm

PUUC Awards the Grange $3,500 to Supply Community Supper Food

The Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church on Main Street recently awarded the Grange a grant of $3,500 for the project to provide food for Peterborough’s three community suppers at the Unitarian Church, All Saints Episcopal Church and the Union Congregational Church.

“It really puts the power of spending in the hands of the service providers — the churches who are providing these meals,” Abby said.

The money goes to the farmer who is supplying the food. “That way we get a fair price for what we’ve produced.”

Read the full article in the Ledger.

 

Film: Food, Inc

 

The Social Justice and Green Sanctuary Committees of PUUC will sponsor a showing of the film, Food, Inc. at 7:00 PM on March 10, 2010 in the Parish Hall. A description of the film by PBS is as follows:
 
“American agriculture has in many respects been the envy of the world. U.S. agri-business consistently produces more food on less land and at cheaper cost than the farmers of any other nation. What could possibly be wrong with that? According to the growing ranks of organic farmers, “slow food” activists and concerned consumers cited in the new documentary Food, Inc., the answer is “plenty.” As recounted in this sweeping, shockingly informative documentary, sick animals, environmental degradation, tainted and unhealthy food and obesity, diabetes and other health issues are only the more obvious problems with a highly mechanized and centralized system that touts efficiency — and the low costs and high profits that result from it — as the supreme value in food production.
 
Less obvious, according to Food, Inc., is the entrenchment of a powerful group of food producers, that sets the conditions under which today’s farmers and food workers operate, in order to maximize profits....
 
In addition to graphically detailing animal cruelty, environmental despoliation and economic monopolization, the film Food, Inc. also questions whether the industrial system produces the nutritious, health- and life-sustaining stuff we call food.”
 
In addition Rev. David Robins will lead a discussion of the film and related issues in the Parish Hall at 12:00 NOON on Sunday, March 14. All are welcome.

UU Grant to Grange's Town Farm Project

The Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church is pleased to announce a grant from its Endowment Service Fund to the Town Farm Project of the Peterborough Grange.

Goyette Funds to Community Supper

The Goyette Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Monadnock Region, awarded a $5000 grant to the Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church Community Suppers.

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