Meet Reverend Latifah Griffin
This Sunday, we invite as our guest, our next minister, Reverend Latifah Griffin, along with our soon to be departing minister Reverend Ed Proulx.
This Sunday, we invite as our guest, our next minister, Reverend Latifah Griffin, along with our soon to be departing minister Reverend Ed Proulx.
Upon departing, each Interim Minister is supposed to address the congregation to let them know of the Minister’s observations. If you look at this Interim Ministry like a three-year long dress rehearsal, this service is sort of like “notes” at the end of the last rehearsal.
I (Reverend Ed) will admit that this service comes from a challenge. Two particular someones, beloved both by this congregation challenged me saying that I often talk about the “liberating, joyous and redemptive message of Unitarian Universalism”, but I never tell you what that message is. Today, on what is most probably my last Sunday … Continue reading The Liberating, Joyous, Redemptive Message of Unitarian Universalism
This Sunday, we celebrate this year’s recipients of our Harriette Glasner Social Justice Scholarship. Come, meet them, hear their stories and connect personally with this very important project in this congregation’s goal to live its mission fully in the world.
This Sunday, we celebrate Mother’s Day and we Celebrate our two participants in our Coming of Age Progam, Graeme Melcher and Bridget Moreno. Come, hear their Belief Statements as they take another step on their journeys.
Silence. There is good silence. There is unnerving silence. Sometimes, the silence can be deafening. So much of our spiritual awareness happens in silence.
We are pleased to have Reverend Kevin Jones back in our midst this week. His message is one of re-entry and will welcome us home. He will be referencing a text from Deuteronomy in the Jewish scriptures: Then Moses set aside three towns in the country on the east side of the Jordan to which … Continue reading Welcome Home
Paul will be sharing his thoughts on nonviolence as much more than the absence of violence, but more of a way of being.
Last November, our Governor Ron DeSantis secured his second term in office on defeating Democratic nominee Charlie Crist by a significant margin as Florida continued its shift from swing state to more reliably red. In his victory speech, DeSantis declared to a cheering crowd that “Florida is where woke goes to die.”
For Easter this year, we will celebrate a traditional Flower Communion. Originally created in 1923 by Unitarian minister Norbert Čapek of Prague, Czechoslovakia, the ceremony was introduced to the United States by Rev. Mája Čapek, Norbert’s widow and has been celebrated in Unitarian Universalist Churches throughout the world ever since. Everyone in the congregation is … Continue reading Celebrating Easter with the Flower Communion