Welcome to “Faith Matters,” the Monday blog written by UUCF’s ministers and congregational lay leaders.
Service year-round
Shaping UUCF’s participation in the annual Weekend of Service takes lots of work. In this most unusual and turbulent year, it has been important to keep doing the things that draw us into community. It is also important to be adaptable. While in other years we would have had large numbers of people in the […]
Subverting the Counter-Narrative by Nurturing a Passion for Truth and Justice
For the past 2 months I’ve been participating in the multi-congregational Zoom class discussing NPR’s “White Lies” podcast. This is a podcast by two reporters who re-investigated the 1965 murder of UU minister Jim Reeb in Selma, AL. Three men stood trial for killing Reeb, but they were acquitted by an all-white jury. A technique […]
The 8th Principle
“We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.” Action begins with intention. Just as many of us take time at the […]