Welcome to Unity Spiritual Center Westlake
Unity is a positive, practical, progressive approach to Christianity based on the teachings of Jesus and the power of prayer. Unity honors the universal truths in all religions and respects each individual's right to choose a spiritual path.
Our Sunday Service is at 11 a.m. Join us in person or via livestream. If you are joining us in person, please allow USC’s robust welcome teams to welcome you and yours through the Unity Hall entrance! Beginning June 15, 2025, the administrative wing doors will remain secured throughout the morning in our unwavering commitment to the safety of our youngest attendees and their amazing teachers.
You'll find us livestream on YouTube and Facebook. Learn More
Amplify your Sunday Spiritual Experience!
9:30 - 10:30 New Thought Café in the Spirit Room. Learn More
10:35 - 10:50 Group Meditation in the Chapel. Learn More
11:00 - 12:00 Sunday Service in Unity Hall.
11:00 - 12:00 Youth and Family Ministry in the Elementary School classroom. Learn More
12:00 - 12:30 Individual Prayer with a Prayer Chaplain in the Sanctuary.
12:10 - 12:30 Coffee and fellowship in the Community Room. Donations of baked goods or store-bought goodies are always welcome.
Queer Connect is held monthly, every first Sunday at 6 p.m. Learn More
Growing Through Grief is held monthly, every second Sunday, at 12:30 p.m. in Unity Hall. Learn More
Our Healing Circle is held monthly, every third Sunday, at 12:30 p.m. in Unity Hall. Learn More
Find out about all our ongoing and special social and spiritual activities. Learn More
When you share a gift with Unity Spiritual Center Westlake, whether in your regular giving practice or your long-term estate or financial plans, you will help ensure that we will be here to carry out our mission for years to come. To donate, please click on the Donate button in the upper-right-hand corner of this page.
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Aug. 3, 2025 The Four Agreements I
Aug. 10, 2025 The Four Agreements II, Musical Guest!
Aug. 17, 2025 Woodstock, Period dress encouraged!
Aug. 24, 2025 The Four Agreements III
Aug. 31, 2025 The Four Agreements IV
The Four Agreements
The Toltec were known throughout ancient southern Mexico as the “women and men of knowledge.” These scientists and artists formed a society at Teotihuacan, the ancient city of pyramids outside Mexico City known as the place where “Man Becomes God,” to practice and preserve their spiritual traditions. Please join us as we explore their
practical ways as set forth by Don Miguel Ruiz in his timeless classic by the same title.
Interested in more? The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) is available on Amazon.
August 10, Special Musical Guest
Join renowned cellist, Sascha Groschang on Sunday, August 10th as our special musical guest. Sascha has performed extensively across the United States, Europe and Asia. She has appeared at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall numerous times, and gave her solo debut recital at Carnegie Hall in 2009. She has shared the stage with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, The Eagles, Vince Gill, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Michael Bublé, Peter Gabriel, Josh Groban, Sarah Mclachlan, Idina Menzel, Amy Grant and her recording credits include NBC, Atlantic, and Rhino Records.
August 17, Woodstock 2025, Period dress encouraged!
Let’s don our tie-dyed t-shirts and bell bottom jeans for a music-rich exploration called Woodstock 2025 - a spiritual conversation held on the anniversary of that rich gathering. Woodstock was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969. It was expected to draw 50,000 people, but over 400,000 showed up.
Period dress is encouraged for this music-rich extravaganza! Woodstock Period dress was all about the free-spirited culture of the late 1960s. It included frayed bell-bottom jeans, tie-dyed shirts, flowy maxi dresses, fringe jackets and tops, headbands, peace sign necklaces, and love beads.
Coming September 7, "The Wisdom of You"
A message from Rev. Richard,
From its inception, Unity sought to be a demonstrable and universal teaching - a teaching suggesting that the results of spiritual practices should be measurable, quantifiable, or in some fashion real, in our everyday lives. Said more clearly, from its earliest days, Unity sought to be practical!
I have found this goal to be realized in my life. Have you? As I’ve actively deepened in my explorations of oneness, the powers of consciousness (whether within or without), the essential nature of being, the paradigm of an inherently supportive universe - as I’ve actively sought a God I could embrace as a reasoning, modern adult - I’ve changed. Have you?
Consider telling your story as one participant in a Sunday service entitled, “The Wisdom of You,” scheduled for Sunday, September 7, 2025.
How has Unity or Unity Spiritual Center made a difference in your life? Have you experienced a change in body through active practice? A healed relationship? A new beginning? A paradigm shift? Consider expressing interest by submitting your story in writing to revrichard@unityspiritualcenter.com. Spaces are limited. Thank you for your consideration and understanding. Consider 150 - 350 words as a general guide.
I hold this as a powerful truth: we are better together. Your story will reach someone my story will not. Your presence will lend a comfort not available through me for whatever reasons. Your example will inspire and uplift where mine might be beyond reach. We are better together, and this is as it must be. Indeed, the Wisdom of You is well-celebrated in this leader and I’m grateful even now, to see it loosed upon our world in this new way, next month.
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Meet our 2025 Prayer Chaplain team!
Pictured left to right: Botton Row: Donna Foote, Kathy Ginter, Peggy Ryel, Shannon Hoff-Smith, Kimberly Buehner, Smokie Stuver. Second row: Jan Bayne, Pam McCue, Ellen Severson, Vivian Baith. Top row: Susan Armstrong, Shannon Sabol, Karen Kazsmer, Joanne Gerhart, Deb Larsen, our Prayer Ministries Director Terri Buehner. Not pictured: Laurie Grimes, Cheri Polk, and Margie Samosky. Photo by Bonnie Chase.
Sunday Service Archives
If you would like to receive written transcripts of Rev. Richard's teachings following each Sunday service, simply write RevRichard@UnitySpiritualCenter.com and request inclusion.
You will find video archives of past Sunday Services on our main Facebook page, Unity Spiritual Center Westlake, and our YouTube page.
Our Sunday Service runs live on Facebook, starting at about 9:50. After that, it can be found by scrolling down to the date or entering "Sunday Service" In the search bar at the top of the page. Visit our Facebook page. Please note that starting in July 2025, Facebook is rolling out changes to its storage policy for Facebook Live videos. As part of this transition, Facebook Live videos older than 30 days will be deleted.
Our Sunday Service archives do not appear immediately on YouTube. The archives usually appear on our YouTube page on Monday and are in date order. Enter "Unity Spiritual Center Westlake" in the search bar at the top of YouTube.com. Visit our YouTube Page.
Photos by David Schwartz Photography
Please be advised that photographs and video footage may be taken during Services. These images may be used by Unity Spiritual Center Westlake for promotional purposes in various media, including social media, websites, and printed materials. By attending this event, you consent to being photographed and filmed and to the use of your image in these media. Thank you for your cooperation.