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312 FILLMORE STREET, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10301 PHONE: 718-447-2204
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Services are listed in reverse chronological order, scroll down to the most current. Events are listed below services.

Sunday Services and Current Events

Sunday, February 22, 2026 • 10:50 am
Love Is All
With Reverend Daniel Lawlor in the Pulpit
In-person Service with Virtual Option
For over two hundred years, Unitarians & Universalists have been part of our City. This Sunday, we explore the struggle for racial justice in New York City, and the role of Unitarian & Universalist congregations from the Civil War through today.

The brilliant poet and inventor Lewis Latimer, a founder of the Flushing Unitarian Church and the son of escaped enslaved people, had a deep conviction that "Love is All." Latimer's deep conviction speaks across time to challenge us. Join us Sunday for song, meditation, and reflection on our spiritual struggle for racial justice in New York City.

Childcare will be provided. Leadership Council to follow service.

For Access to Video Online: A video of the sermon is subsequently posted on our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3xgePI3

Sunday, February 15, 2026 • 10:50 am
Pagan Origins: The Roots of Valentine’s Day
With poetry curated and read by Robin Locke Monda, with Members of the UCSI Congregation
In-person Service with Virtual Option
From pagan celebrations begun in ancient Rome, an annual holiday of hearts and flowers that harkens back to pagan origins, to the declaration of the First Feast Day of Saint Valentine in 496 A.D., to the popularization of Valentine’s Day greeting cards in the 19th century, the history and poetry written on behalf of love and Valentine’s Day in particular has become a near universal experience.

We will read and hear poems that celebrate the heart’s loves and losses to celebrate Valentine’s Day, 2026.

For Access to Video Online: A video of the sermon is subsequently posted on our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3xgePI3

Sunday, February 8, 2026 • 10:50 am
Revelation is Continuous
With Guest Speaker Garnett Losak
In-person Service with Virtual Option
In his 1976 essay, The Five Smooth Stones of Liberalism, the Unitarian Universalist theologian, James Luther Adams, provides us with a comprehensive definition of liberal faith that is still relevant today.
This week, we will explore the first stone, “religious liberalism depends on the principle that ‘revelation’ is continuous”. How has your religious faith evolved over time? Are our congregations able to adapt to changing ideas of god, gods, goddesses, no god, and the spiritual needs of younger or evolving Unitarian Universalists?

Garnett Losak (she/her) recently retired from her position as Director of Congregational Life at The First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn where she worked with an amazing staff and volunteers to develop a comprehensive path to membership.

Join us for joys and sorrows, meditation, song, a reflection, and a fun activity to help us explore our personal revelations.

For Access to Video Online: A video of the sermon is subsequently posted on our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3xgePI3

Sunday, February 1, 2026 • 10:50 am
Bodhichitta: How to Fortify Compassion
With Guest Speaker Thupten Phuntsok
In-person Service with Virtual Option
In Tibetan Buddhism, bodhichitta is understood as the aspiration to achieve full enlightenment for the sake of liberating all beings from suffering.

Please join us on February 1st to hear former Tibetan Buddhist monk Thupten Phuntsok explore the concept of bodhichitta, where he will touch on such questions as:
Can compassion be perfected?
What does it look like?
Is love worth anything, really?

For Access to Video Online: A video of the sermon is subsequently posted on our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3xgePI3

Current Events

Upcoming Events

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Get/Stay Connected with the UCSI Women's Online Gatherings
Every Tuesday at 7:30pm
Through weekly meetings of the Women's Group on Zoom, we enjoy catching up with each other and getting to know one another better. You can either video call or phone call in to these gatherings. Please contact Kathy Santo at [email protected] for more details.

Children and Youth Programming
Religious Exploration and Childcare
UCSI will have childcare and religious exploration during one Sunday Service each month. After a Story for All Ages, led by our minister, children 10 years old and younger will be invited to attend a religious exploration class. Older children and teens are invited to remain in the Sanctuary and participate in the Service.

We’ll explore tenets of Judaic and Christian teachings, other world religions and cultural traditions, and examine the words and deeds of prophetic people both past and present to strengthen understanding of how we can live faith into action on matters of social and environmental justice.

THE CHURCH IS LOCATED 1 BLOCK FROM SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER, ON THE NORTH SHORE OF STATEN ISLAND. A 15 MINUTE BUS/TAXI RIDE FROM THE SI FERRY TERMINAL IN ST. GEORGE.

DIRECTIONS:
BY TAXI: Drive to 312 FILLMORE ST, corner of CLINTON AVE—a 10 minute drive from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.

BY BUS: From the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, take the S40 BUS towards GOETHALS RD via RICHMOND TERRACE. Get off at corner of CLINTON AVE and RICHMOND TERRACE. Walk one block to 312 FILLMORE ST.

BY CAR: From the VERRAZANO BRIDGE, OUTERBRIDGE or GOETHALS BRIDGE, take the CLOVE ROAD EXIT on RT278. Turn onto Clove Road going toward and crossing VICTORY BLVD. Continue on CLOVE ROAD until you can make a RIGHT on BARD AVE and continue to RICHMOND TERRACE. Turn RIGHT on Richmond Terrace and proceed 4 BLOCKS to CLINTON AVE. TURN RIGHT onto CLINTON AVE and proceed 1 block to FILLMORE ST.

From the BAYONNE BRIDGE, take the first exit (EXIT 13) onto MORNINGSTAR RD. Turn right onto MORNINGSTAR and continue until the road ends at RICHMOND TERRACE. Turn right, going under the overpass, and continue on RICHMOND TERRACE for about 10 minutes, until you reach CLINTON AVE. Turn RIGHT onto CLINTON AVE. Go 1 block to FILLMORE ST. There is ample (and free) street parking.

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