Our Fed & Informed Potluck luncheon on Sunday was wonderful. Our Fellowship Hall was full, our tables were filled with delicious food, and I know that I was not the only person to feel a little emotional at the normalcy of it all. Committees, teams, and groups shared about what...
Some members have asked for some of the quotes and timeline points from this past Sunday’s service, about Unitarian Universalism’s evolution from two Christian denominations to the open, pluralist faith we are today. Here you go! 1777 Universalist George deBenneville writes: “As no church is pure in all things, so none...
The ability to be nimble should never take the place of careful planning and organization, but part of being a congregation is the role of “the unexpected.” It can be serious and unfortunate, such as when one of our pipes became uncoupled January 23rd, causing a flood in our education...
I heard an interesting footnote to the timeline of our recent “flood”: The Story of Four Coffee Cups Over the holiday, a teacher had taken four coffee cups home from the STEM School. She wanted to give them a good scrubbing because we all know how coffee cups need a...
As shared in the email that went out Christmas Eve, Live Oak had significant water damage after a pipe upstairs became uncoupled, flooding both the second and first floors. We currently have a Restoration company removing ruined wallboard and insulation, running fans, and doing all of the work necessary after...
First, a huge thank you to our Intern Minister, Carrie Holley-Hurt, for – with very little notice — delivering my sermon “How the UUs Saved Christmas” this past Sunday. Fabulous job! I am feeling better (it was a cold, not covid) and look forward to seeing everyone this Saturday night...
In 2017, when the stories began coming out about the Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance” immigration policy in which children were separated from their parents at the border, people began realizing that our horror was actually the desired outcome. The cruelty of children being torn away from their parents was something...
On Tuesday, Senator Raphael Warnock won re-election as senator from Georgia. In his victory speech, Senator Warnock referenced two Unitarian Universalists, Viola Liuzzo and Rev. James Reeb. What we call the “Sources” of our liberal religious faith include “Words and deeds of prophetic people which challenge us to confront powers...
One of the most surprising things to me since I began creating TikTok videos introducing people to Unitarian Universalism was how many people are completely intimidated at the idea of walking into a church. I mean, I knew there were some … but over and over, I receive comments that...
We hear often about the “War on Christmas,” but the Washington Post describes Thanksgiving as “the most politicized American holiday of the 19th century.” We can thank our Unitarian and Universalist forebears for some of that (sincerely). Many of them were abolitionists, and though there was not yet an agreed...
