Our service on Sunday, Nov 28, will be a potluck. This meal will be in gratitude for Thanksgiving and the upcoming holidays. We have missed this time together. We invite all to come and share a meal with your friends and perhaps meet and greet someone you haven’t met yet. To help decide what to … Continue reading A Thanksgiving Meal
As we approach the holidays, many of us may be anticipating gathering with family. Others may be contemplating how things will be different this year, because of changes to the traditional gathering. Regardless of how we celebrate the holidays, it is likely we will be visited by memories and thoughts of relationships from our growing … Continue reading Roots And Wings: The Life Long Process of Leaving Home
Rick Harper, Ph.D., economist and professor of economics at the University of West Florida, will talk with us about the state of labor in the Northwest Florida area. Join us in-person in the sanctuary for this enlightening service.
This week across the world people are remembering and honoring the lives of loved ones who have died. Particular rituals and traditions bring comfort, as people remember friends and family members who were important to them. For many, the magnitude of loss as a result of the Covid-19 virus, has made these observances especially meaningful … Continue reading A Time to Remember
Halloween is an ancient holiday where ghosts and goblins walk among us. This Sunday, October 31, we will celebrate together. All are welcome. Costumes encouraged but not required. Do not be afraid – Tricks and Treats for everyone. Come to learn and share the fun of this ancient celebration. Our own Nancy Hagman will share stories … Continue reading Halloween History
Our Soul Matters theme for October is Cultivating Relationship. Late October is traditionally a time when we remember our departed loved ones and honor those who came before us. Adapted from the “Ask Granny” program offered by the West Florida Genealogical Society, this service will offer tips on getting your children and grandchildren interested in … Continue reading How to Be a Good Ancestor
National Coming Out Day is celebrated each year on October 11. The first observation was in 1988, on the one-year anniversary of the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, in which 500,000 people participated. By 1990 it was being celebrated in all 50 states. The Human Rights Campaign reminds us “Coming out in … Continue reading Living Openly and Authentically
This service will premier on YouTube on October 10, 2021. Check back here and in your email for the link. This service was rescheduled from August due to Hurricane Ida, and was originally a Fifth Sunday, so a special collection will be taken to benefit the non-profit New World Believers Community Center. Located in a renovated … Continue reading Making a Difference in Under-Resourced Pensacola
October 4th is the Feast Day for St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and ecology. It is also World Day for Animals. On this Sunday we join Unitarian Universalists, as well as people of many other faiths around the world, in an affirmation of the interdependent web of all existence with a … Continue reading Feast of St. Francis: World Day for Animals
In keeping with our theme this month, Embracing Possibility, our service will center around a sermon from the Rev. Beth Dana of the First Unitarian Church of Dallas. With the constant changes we face these days, we do best if we can get comfortable with — embrace — the unexpected. Rev. Dana talks about this … Continue reading Courage and Improvisation
