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Welcome To UUC!

At University Unitarian Church (UUC) there are many ways to find yourself—and we can help you make the connections for finding others, too.

As a welcoming community, we have been working intentionally for years to make sure all people and families feel at ease here, regardless of sexual and gender orientation, race, class or religious experience. Being welcoming means striving for inclusion, and creating spaces that honor every part of our identities, cultures, and spirits.

Ease in slowly, or jump in from the start. You can attend a Sunday service, meet up with others to work for justice, join one of our choirs, or care for people in need. Try out our Sunday Welcoming Team, one of the best ways to meet the UUC community within a role that fits your personality. Maybe you are new to Seattle and need some pointers to social connections at UUC. Or perhaps you just need a listening ear and caring companionship for a while, if life has taken a turn. We'd be honored to help you find your way here.

Dozens of small groups offer space for your identity and interests. Maybe you're drawn to a quiet, contemplative experience or spiritual discovery. Or perhaps you'd love to join a lively conversation, try something creative, or explore a learning opportunity. You might be looking for mutual support in your experience as BIPOC, young adult, male, female or non-binary. Could be you'd like to find activists who share your passion and commitment to equity and anti-racism, climate action, or homelessness ministries. Like books? Party person? Take photographs as a hobby? We have ideas for you!

UUC embraces people at all ages and stages of life. Getting ready to graduate? Diving into a new career? Considering retirement or living into elderhood? Exploring some other life change? Want to deepen your personal, spiritual practice? Curious about how to support your child's spiritual growth or your teen's maturing identity? Maybe you're simply yearning for some "adult time" while your kids are engrossed in their own UUC programs? Let's talk!

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To learn more about UUC, Unitarian Universalism, and how to enter this large congregation, join one of our friendly and knowledgeable Connections volunteers at a UUC Info Session. Info Sessions are held each week after either Sunday service, in the Dix Room on the lower floor (parking lot level). Bring your coffee and your curiosity! In the meantime, click the buttons below to:

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Recent News

Wednesday Forum: Plate Tectonics and Thanksgiving Potluck

November 12, 2025

Wednesday, November 19, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. in Knatvold and via Zoom

Acting Locally: A Budget is a Moral Document

November 12, 2025

UUC at the November 6 Seattle City Council Budget Hearing The Seattle City Council’s early December deadline for adopting a final budget for 2026 looms. That means budget hearings. Last year’s 2025 budget crisis resulted in programs cuts and raiding the Jump Start payroll tax fund passed to support affordable housing, climate justice, and equitable economic development funding to underserved communities. The proposed 2026 budget reverses some, but by no mean all, of those cuts, in the face of insufficient revenue to meet needs. At the Social Justice Revival in October, your Social Justice Steering Committee heard interest from UUC members in having our congregation participate in advocacy at the city council level for Budgets as a Moral Document. On behalf of UUC’s Social Justice Steering Committee, Rev. Victoria, accompanied by current SJSC member Catherine Ruha and past member Debbie Maranville, attended the City Council’s November 6 budget hearing at 5 p.m. Their aim: support faith leaders speaking in favor of the Church Council of Greater Seattle’s vision of the budget as a moral document, a vision rooted in the obligation, foundational to so many faiths, to care for the pressing needs of all members of the community, especially the poor, choosing care and support over surveillance and punishment. Speakers represented a range of community groups, including Share/Wheel and Tent City 4. In addition to focusing heavily on Seattle’s perennial housing crisis, speakers advocated for community needs around mental health care and other social services. A particular criticism of the proposed budget was that it authorizes additional money to expand expensive mass surveillance tools currently being operated by the city (and in some cases shared with ICE): closed circuit TV cameras, Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPR’s) and more. In this challenging time, it is easy to focus on how to respond to our federal government, especially given the recent federal shutdown and pending federal budget cutbacks to social needs funding. However, what happens on the local level will take on increasing weight. As UUC considers the call for Social Justice Now! we will have an opportunity to consider whether and how we might also “Think Globally [Nationally], Act Locally”.