6301 River Road
Bethesda MD 20817
(entrance on Whittier Blvd.)
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RRUUC is an easy-access facility.

Resolution on Racial Justice
As individuals, we commit to a new level of engagement, to continually seek ways to use our voices, our privilege, our standing in the community to effect change.
As a congregation, we commit to turning a new page. We declare the obvious—that Black lives matter to our beloved community. We affirm the need for powerful words and collective action, both to call out injustice and to call in love.

RRUUC Land and Labor Acknowledgment
We acknowledge that the land on which we worship is the traditional land of the Nacotchtank and Piscataway people and the land through which other Indigenous Peoples traveled. We acknowledge that enslaved African people and their descendants likely labored and lived on this land. We recognize these and other people displaced, enslaved, or harmed by past injustices.

We pledge that we will follow our faith in love and work to make our congregation and our larger community more accessible, inclusive, and equitable. We pledge that we will be good stewards of the land by encouraging healthy ecosystems. We pledge to remember the past while building a more just and welcoming future for all.

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Fear in Small Doses

October 29, 2023, 10am Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd Senior Minister

Poets, tale-tellers, and philosophers have long known that scary stories touch something foundational in the developing mind. Some hold that fear in small doses is a necessary part of the experience of the sacred. What do scary stories teach us about ourselves? Are there certain darkened corridors that are exactly the right ones to venture down, even or especially in times of deep uncertainty or pain in this world?

All ages are invited to come to RRUUC in costume. Children will have Halloween activities to enjoy including a Haunted Forest created by our middle school class.

You can watch this service live on YouTube or join us in person.

River Road UU Congregation

River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation

Fear in Small Doses