72425 Via Vail
Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
760-321-0694
Calling All Chili Chefs! Do YOU have what it takes to be the 2024 Grand Champion Chili Chef? Join us at UUCOD’s Chili Cook-Off. This will be an awesome beginning of our Annual Pledge Drive. It has been 3 years since we had a Chili Cook-Off and we're ready for a fun afternoon of sampling […]
Please join Rev. Ian and the UUCOD Safety Committee for an informative safety training meeting. We will introduce our new protocols for medical emergencies, earthquake response, and evacuation procedures so you will be prepared in the event of an emergency. This training is important for all members and friends. All are welcome and encouraged to […]
Worship Leaders: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate:
Ginger Hemingway
Researcher Brené Brown shares a message of the power of vulnerability and curiosity in our lives and our relationships. Join us as we explore openheartedness together.
Worship Leader: Jonathan Fast, PhD
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
Dr. Fast will talk about building community, and shame, the unspoken emotion that can ruin a life or rend a nation in two. He will talk about a recent personal shaming experience (regarding his writing) and how he dealt with it.
Join us for Women's Night Out at a different local restaurant on the 2nd Monday of each month.
All Member and Friends are Welcome! We have a special treat this month. The author will attend to join the discussion. A cautionary tale about the consequences of blind prejudice, SHE’S MY DAD tells the story of a transsexual woman named Nickie Farrell, who, returning to her Northern Virginia alma mater to teach English to […]
January 20 ,27
February 3,17
Join Rev. Ian and fellow congregants in this four session class. The class focuses on helping members who are interested in preaching a sermon or learning more about how sermons are created. It is designed to help people understand better what it is we do when we speak from the pulpit of our congregation, build some beginning skills in choosing topics and crafting sermons, and understand who we are speaking to and why.
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Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff
Sometimes we respond to the challenge of a new way of doing things with unconscious assumptions about how we are already acting in the world. How can the conversations about automobiles, marijuana, and other issues help us be more curious and imaginative?
Join us for a celebration of the life of our beloved member Gloria Kapp.
Founder’s Day is coming up in the tiny Kentucky town of Ledbetter Gap (Population 986), and retired assistant librarian Lucinda Miller has been doing good deeds all year in the hope of being recognized with the town’s highest honor–The Most Distinguished Citizen Award. Her efforts may be for naught, however, when an awards committee member […]
Worship Leader: Rev Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Ginger Hemingway
Every yarn is different. Cotton, wool, acrylic, silk all feel different as you knit or weave or crochet and each creates a different fabric with unique qualities. Our relationships, too, ask us to be attentive and intentional in unique ways with each individual and situation. Join us as we explore the fabric of relationship.
What's the plan for our Sacred Grounds for 2024 and beyond? Stay after the worship service on February 25 and find out the current ideas and offer your own. A few projects are likely, or already underway. For example, we will be adding benches in the Desert Canyon Habitat and to the Celebration Garden, and adding a […]
Worship Leaders: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate:
Bryna Blum
The value we’re focusing on this month is Equity. How can we continue to expand our practice of radical inclusion and joyous welcome.
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Julia Alberg-Burbank
Join us as Rev. Ian explores the ideas of two theologians: one an 11th century Sufi and one a 20th century Unitarian. What might these two thinkers separated by time and culture share with us about doing good in the world?
For the fifth year, we're having a Weed Pull Party! These are lots of fun including a chance to socialize, enjoy some music and refreshments, and tend our lovely grounds. In the first year or two we hauled out dead brush and construction debris, fought invasive Saharan mustard, fountain grass and bermuda grass, cleared undergrowth, […]
All Members and Friends are Welcome! Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if […]
Worship Leader: Michael Mullins
Worship Associate: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Join us as we welcome Michael Mullins, Deacon in Training at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Palm Desert. Michael is leading the creation of Laundry Love here in the valley, offering people offering people in need access to laundry services. Join us as Michael shares his story and the grounding of this needed work.
Worship Leader: Lauren N. Nile
Worship Associate: Bryna Blum
The concept of equity is as crucial today to our American society, to the world, and to our future, as it ever has been. But what is equity? Why is equity so critical to both our future as a nation, and as a species? What risks does continued inequity in economics, education and other important areas pose to our future? What are the unimaginable results of a world in which equity is valued and practiced? What are we, as moral, ethical people, called to do in humanity’s maturation toward greater global equity?
Join us for a casual full moon sound bath at our UUCOD Peace Labyrinth, just as the full moon is rising. Explore this beautiful desert space to connect with the offerings of the desery night sky, the moon, and the healing vibrations of singing bowls! This is an informal gathering and whether you decide to […]
Worship Leader: Rev. Ian W. Riddell
Worship Associate: Steven Toporoff
Join us as we celebrate the volunteers that help our community grow and thrive. We’ll also welcome new members to the congregation and celebrate the arrival of new life!
