New Garden Community Church

Unitarian Universalist Faith Community

on Chicago's Near West Side

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."    - Rev. Theodore Parker, 1859

 

 

 

 

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What is the New Garden Community Church?

Our Church

We are a Near West Side faith community, in the Unitarian Universalist tradition, committed to the Chicago urban environment and dedicated to…

growing peace and justice through nonviolence;   

transforming lives through art and action;

and celebrating life together;

...and whose foundation and purpose is love.

New Garden Community is for you, if you…

long for a faith that doesn’t tell you what to believe, but encourages you in your own search.
trust in equality and democracy and want to belong to a community where you can live out those values.
find yourself on a spiritual journey, and want to share it with others.
enjoy reading and thinking about new ideas, and also want to put them into action.

To see our diagram of the idea of the church:  Mutual Aid image

      Jean at work      

 

Our Work

Because this church is about liberation - liberation from those internal bonds that keep us from being happy; And liberation in the world – creating a world, a Chicago, that does not oppress and coerce its members, but exists in justice and freedom – Therefore, we…
work with interfaith groups on worker rights education and pre-apprenticeship training for women and minorities, and
 support workers’ struggles for economic justice.

Because this church is about love – love for one another, that teaches us to treat each other with respect and dignity; and compassion for others, that encourages us to live gently in the world – Therefore, we…

practice and teach principles of nonviolence, and work for peace,
work for a vision of mutual aid in work, housing, banking, play, and other aspects of life, and
encourage children – the next generation – through tutoring and programs for spiritual growth.

Our strategic partners in this work include the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues (773-728-8400), and United for Peace - Faithful Citizenship, an interfaith peace group.

  Labor Day Sunday in Union Park

 

 

Our Vision 

To create a new world, alongside the old, in which people can live together in peace, can play and work together without fear of oppression or hate, can stretch our minds and our spiritual wings without fear of censorship or condemnation – this is our vision.

To achieve it means we not only treat one another with love and justice, but work to expose and to prevent injustice in the larger world, to encourage others to develop spiritually and creatively, and to nurture a larger climate of freedom and equality, sustained by our commitment to love, the first principle of life.

 

 

Jamie talks about her experiences working in a unionized auto factory in Milwaukee and how great is the need for the kind of health care coverage she had then.

 

 

 

 

 

Join Us

We meet at United Electrical Workers, UE Hall, 37 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago (Ashland, South of Ogden).

We are currently not meeting on a weekly schedule, but we are planning to celebrate the Winter Solstice on Sunday, December 23, at 6:00 PM!

 

as we stand in the light rain to listen...   

 

Other Services

Rev. Jean Darling will make your special service personal and meaningful:

Wedding and Services of Union
Baby Dedications
Memorial Services

Call her at 312.405.9470 for an appointment.

 

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