"Faith Matters" Blog

Community, even from a distance, feels so precious right now. I find the time I spend with my wife is so valuable. Seeing rows of faces on a Zoom screen reminds me how much I appreciate the people who make up my life. With today’s dangers and uncertainty, we need community to care for us […]

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go. Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water; stand by at the river bank to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake. Say to […]

By the UUCF Membership Committee “Would you like to answer the Question of the Month?” Last September, the Membership Committee began asking a question each month to encourage congregants to think more deeply about the UU principles and their personal experiences with the hope that their answers (posted the following month in the Commons) would […]

I am very excited to join UUCF as the new social justice coordinator, and always delighted to talk about what social justice is. It is mission-driven work. For UUCF that means “transforming ourselves, our community and the world through acts of love and justice.” Social justice ministry calls us to apply that mission to a […]

It is hard to imagine that in a few months’ time the earth will awaken from its wintry slumber. Though we have not experienced much of the season’s bite in the forms of snow and ice, we have felt shivers brought on by the cold air and bristling wind as it has swept across our […]

In 1938, the Harvard Study of Adult Development (the Grant Study) embarked on a longitudinal study of 724 males to find out what factors are most important in long-term health. Eighty-two years later the study is still going on; some of the original study subjects are still living. What researchers found above all is that […]

“I am always tripping over the ones who are gone, banging my shin on an absence, catching my toe on a place where someone used to be.” – Anne Benvenuti, 2011 I love that Anne Benvenuti added the year to this poem, as if marking time on the continuum of grief. She seems to say, […]

As we move from January to February, one can’t help but think of the approaching holiday of the month, Valentine’s Day. There are many things about Valentine’s Day I have loved. I loved the little candy hearts and the Valentine’s cards we gave in elementary school. It seemed simple when I was young: There were […]

Not long ago I heard a radio commercial for “essence water.” The ad made the product seem like it offered the essence of water rather than the essential benefits plain water provides. I remember thinking how ridiculous it sounded to be offered the essence of water, as if it were something I could breathe in […]

There is no way of knowing what this next year and the next decade will bring. There will be amazing medical advances. We will be able to communicate in ways we have never dreamed. Literacy and clean water are being brought to places never imagined not that long ago. So many amazing advances in the […]