2024-01-28 - “Sometimes he went to church – preferably to the Unitarian Meeting House, where ideas, not emotions, were exploited,” wrote novelist Laura Goodman Salverson about her father, Larus. Our congregation is distinctive among Unitarian Universalist congregations, but not quite unique, in having been first established among immigrants – in our case, Winnipeg’s Icelandic community.

This Heritage Sunday, we will look at religion through the eyes of Laura Goodman Salverson, who twice won the Governor General’s Literary Award. “It is as natural to the Icelandic heart to turn to poetry in times of stress as for another to search his Bible,” she asserted, which explains a lot about our congregation’s story.