Reverend Ed Proulx serves the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches as our Interim Minister from 2020 through 2023.
He comes to us after a 29 year career in pension services, working mostly for banks in CT, NY and most recently in SC.
He is married to Francine and has two college-aged daughters who both still reside in SC.
His call to ministry is to “walk with you as you experience the mysteries of being human.”
Humanity is gripped by a crisis of identity, as various groups enjoin a needless struggle to differentiate themselves, why they are here, and what they should do about it. The result is a mind-numbing array of “us-es” and “them-s” with self-definitions growing more and more narrow by the moment, weakening the cohesion of society itself. … Continue reading The Crisis of Identity
Hope is the ability to look into the future and see something beautiful.
We have seen the unspeakable become commonplace. It’s becoming more and more common and more and more unspeakable. How do we, as religious people address this dysfunction in our society?
This month, we celebrated our circle of belonging, we talked about widening it and deepening that circle. Today, we look at why. Why bother to celebrate, widen and deepen or circles of belonging?
When we value something deeply, we naturally want as many people as possible to share in it…we are ever seeking to widen our circle of belonging – to bring more and more people into our joy. That’s what Martin Luther King was all about and that’s why we honor him each year…becuase widening our circles … Continue reading Widening Our Circle of Belonging
With all we each have going in our days, it is so easy to slip into a sense of complacency with things that are going well in our lives. We forget to celebrate. Today, we celebrate and in so doing, we renew one of our circles that holds us: this congregation. More Info: Want to join … Continue reading Renewing Our Circle of Belonging
Today, we celebrate the Roman God Janus, the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings, for whom the month of January was named. More Info: Want to join us? Click the ‘Worship on Zoom or Facebook’ link at the top of our web page: www.1stuupb.org.
A morning service. A quiet time, a time of reflection on winter, slowing down and living with both intention and attention.
A traditional service of singing hymns. Prepare yourself for the season by singing along.
We are confronted with decisions on a nearly minute-by-minute basis. When we weigh these options, we tend to have a default…a most common way to make “safe” decisions for ourselves.
