Dr. Lauren Anzaldo Archives - Unitarian Universalist Church of Pensacola https://uupensacola.org/speaker/lauren-anzaldo/ Welcome to UUCP Thu, 28 May 2026 19:05:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://uupensacola.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Chalice-new-uucp-2-150x150.png Dr. Lauren Anzaldo Archives - Unitarian Universalist Church of Pensacola https://uupensacola.org/speaker/lauren-anzaldo/ 32 32 Community, Not Commodity https://uupensacola.org/services/community-not-commodity/ Thu, 28 May 2026 19:05:16 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=13998 Presenter: Dr. Lauren Anzaldo. “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces,” according to Rumi. Our lives have long been organized around bonds of love and mutuality. As a church, we have a unique opportunity and a critical responsibility to re-knit the social fabric of our nation through beloved community rather than toxic commodity.

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]]> 13998 Stirring Our Moral Imagination https://uupensacola.org/services/stirring-our-moral-imagination/ Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:47:26 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=13878 From our earliest days, Americans are led to believe that we are autonomous individuals, free of moral obligations or community attachments. Our UU faith, however, is rooted in covenant, which expresses our commitments to one another in an interconnected society. As this nation experiences a moral crisis of greed, hatred, and violence, we UUs are called to engage … Continue reading Stirring Our Moral Imagination

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]]> 13878 A Sustaining Faith https://uupensacola.org/services/a-sustaining-faith/ Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:06:29 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=13644 Presenter: Dr. Lauren Anzaldo, Member UUCP.  Although we are inundated with public proclamations of religiosity, we as a nation seem to have lost a shared moral order for determining right from wrong. Meanwhile, Unitarian Universalism provides a framework of shared values imbued with a living legacy of moral witness and prophetic voices. In this talk, Lauren … Continue reading A Sustaining Faith

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]]> 13644 Facing Freedom – Or Fascism? Part 2 of 2 https://uupensacola.org/services/facing-freedom-or-fascism-part-2-of-2/ Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:15:35 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=12926 Presenter: Lauren Anzaldo, EdD, LCSW, CAP and member of UUCP. This talk considers the continuing appeal of authoritarianism and how democratically minded people might respond, drawing on the tradition of prophetic voices of antifascists such as Simone Weil and Erich Fromm. This talk is the second Sunday Service in a two-part series. The first talk … Continue reading Facing Freedom – Or Fascism? Part 2 of 2

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]]> 12926 Facing Freedom – or Fascism? https://uupensacola.org/services/facing-freedom-or-fascism/ Sun, 19 Jan 2025 23:40:55 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=12866 Dr. Lauren Anzaldo considers the continuing appeal of authoritarianism and how democratically minded people might respond, drawing on the tradition of prophetic voices of antifascists such as Simone Weil and Erich Fromm. This talk on February 23 is the first Sunday Service in a two-part series.

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]]> 12866 Our Moral Compass https://uupensacola.org/services/our-moral-compass/ Sat, 23 Mar 2024 01:01:23 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=12268 Presenter: Dr. Lauren Anzaldo, Member of UUCP. In a complex world, how do we determine where we stand on important issues? Where do we find our moral compass? This talk will explore common social problems from a human rights perspective and will present a social justice model of decision-making based on the work of Paul Farmer, an … Continue reading Our Moral Compass

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]]> 12268 Our Solemn Promise https://uupensacola.org/services/our-solemn-promise/ Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:44:33 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=12200 Presenter: Lauren Anzaldo, EdE, LCSW, CAP and UUCP member. A covenant is a solemn promise that we make to one another. This service will address the meaning of covenants and their importance. Covenants appear within many religious traditions. Our Unitarian Universalist congregational covenant binds us together on our journey to be our best selves and … Continue reading Our Solemn Promise

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]]> 12200 Inspire Love https://uupensacola.org/services/inspire-love/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:35:23 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=11751 Sunday Service presented by Dr. Lauren Anzaldo, UUCP Member. Our UUCP mission is to Celebrate Diversity, Strive for Justice, and Inspire Love. With all of the stress and strain that so many of us have endured, this is an appropriate time to consider what it means for us as UUs to Inspire Love. Lauren will … Continue reading Inspire Love

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]]> 11751 Strive for Justice https://uupensacola.org/services/strive-for-justice/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 12:32:47 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=11677 Sunday Service presented by Dr. Lauren Anzaldo, UUCP Member. Our UUCP mission is to Celebrate Diversity, Strive for Justice, and Inspire Love. With so many social justice issues affecting our world right now, this is an appropriate time to consider what it means for us as UUs to Strive for Justice. Lauren will share ideas … Continue reading Strive for Justice

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]]> 11677 Celebrate Diversity https://uupensacola.org/services/celebrate-diversity/ Wed, 17 May 2023 13:31:37 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=11630 Our UUCP mission is to Celebrate Diversity, Strive for Justice, and Inspire Love. Pride month and the month of Juneteenth is an appropriate time for us to consider what it means for us as UUs to Celebrate Diversity. Lauren will share ideas and examples of celebrating diversity even as the value of diversity is being … Continue reading Celebrate Diversity

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