Sunday Services 9:30 and 11:15*
*Beginning the 3rd Sunday in June until the Sunday following Labor day we have a single service at 10:30

For a map to the church click on How to Find Us.  When you arrive, look for the Visitors Table and make a nametag.  Please help yourself to a packet of information about BUC.
                 

What is Sunday Service like at BUC?
Sunday Services are different at the Birmingham Unitarian Church.   Unlike other churches, this church doesn't exist to tell you what you should believe.  Instead, our services and elsewhere we urge you to examine what you truly believe, honor and value in life, and then to ask the question, "How, then, shall I live?"  We'd love to count you as a fellow traveler.

We are not bound by any formal doctrine.  We trust each person, in his or her conscience, to be the final authority when it comes to religious truth.  We also believe that each of us changes and grows over time.  Therefore, we are a theologically diverse group.  If you ask a member of our congregation to put a label on her or his theology, you may get any of the following responses: liberal Christian, Jew, humanist, pagan, atheist, mystic, and any combination of the above. To cite an old Universalist maxim, "We do not need to think alike to love alike."

Our services have readings from secular and various sacred sources, meditations, singing, live vocal and instrumental music and they center on an address, or sermon.  In the service we explore life's deeper issues with compassion and, at times, bit of humor.  Click here to see a recent Order of Service.   

The lone religious symbol gracing our beautiful sanctuary is a Flaming Chalice.  For us it began during World War II when our Service Committee needed a symbol so that refugees would know that ours was a place to go for help regardless of race or religion.  We commissioned a young Austrian artist, himself a refugee, to come up with a symbol and he came up with the Flaming Chalice.  Since then it has been adopted by most Unitarian Universalist congregations and the Unitarian Universalist Association.  
Nursery, Child Care and Church School

We have a nursery, childcare and religious education classes for children and youth that meet simultaneously with the services.  Click on Religious Education for Children & Youth for more information about the schedule for these programs.  For parents who wish to sit with restless children there is a lounge just off the sanctuary. 

Accessibility
There is ample parking adjacent to the building, with several handicap designated spaces, as well as  ramped entrances to the buildings.  Devices for the hearing impaired as well as a large print Order of Service are also available.