Paula Montgomery Archives - Unitarian Universalist Church of Pensacola https://uupensacola.org/speaker/paula-montgomery/ Welcome to UUCP Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:41:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://uupensacola.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Chalice-new-uucp-2-150x150.png Paula Montgomery Archives - Unitarian Universalist Church of Pensacola https://uupensacola.org/speaker/paula-montgomery/ 32 32 Government by the People: Past, Present, and Maybe Future https://uupensacola.org/services/government-by-the-people-past-present-and-maybe-future/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:54:39 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=12656 Presented by Paula Montgomery, MD, UUCP Member.  Since Dr. Paula Montgomery retired from her medical practice, she has served on the board of the League of Women Voters for many years. Her interests are range from ecology to health to education and more. The main focus of the League of Women Voters has always been … Continue reading Government by the People: Past, Present, and Maybe Future

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]]> 12656 How America Got Mean https://uupensacola.org/services/how-america-got-mean/ Sat, 23 Mar 2024 00:58:26 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=12264 Dr. Paula Montgomery, member of UUCP, discusses “How America Got Mean” according to David Brooks. Is it anger? Is it fear?  Or just “ornery cussedness”? What makes us act so mean? And how did we get here? Watch this video on our YouTube Channel.

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]]> 12264 The Great Peacemakers Series https://uupensacola.org/services/the-great-peacemakers-part-x/ Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:21:18 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=11305 Paula Montgomery, M.D., long-time member of UUCP, will present the next installment in the Series of GREAT PEACEMAKERS, True Stories from Around the World. Workers for Peace: Thoreau and Gandhi. As UUs we are committed to the goal of a world community with peace, liberty and justice for all. Thoreau was a philosopher and poet … Continue reading The Great Peacemakers Series

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]]> 11305 Carrying Out Our Wishes: All the Wills https://uupensacola.org/services/carrying-out-our-wishes-all-the-wills/ Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:13:07 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=11042 Perhaps we all want our wishes carried out. Does a Will do that for us and which one does it? Presented by Dr. Paula Montgomery, a lifelong member of our congregation.  Last Will and Testament is an official document about your assets and possessions and how you want them distributed when you are gone.  A Living Will lets people … Continue reading Carrying Out Our Wishes: All the Wills

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]]> 11042 Famous Folks You Did Not Know Were UU https://uupensacola.org/services/famous-folks-you-did-not-know-were-uu/ Sat, 26 Feb 2022 20:37:28 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=9925 This service will be fun and surprising. Appropriate for all ages.  We will hear from our surprising UUs in skit format.

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]]> 9925 Virtual Service: Striving for Justice https://uupensacola.org/services/striving-for-justice/ Sun, 30 May 2021 13:58:12 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=9130 Paula Montgomery talks about “Striving for Justice” and the work of the JUST Pensacola initiative that we share with numerous Pensacola churches. She also tells three stories to illustrate the difference between “Justice” and “Equality.”

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]]> 9130 Virtual Service: Voting Our Values https://uupensacola.org/services/voting-our-values/ Sun, 11 Oct 2020 12:29:39 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=8539 As Unitarian Universalists, we covenant to affirm and promote the use of the democratic process. Having the right to vote is an essential element of our country’s democracy, as is educating ourselves on issues that affect our communities. This Sunday, Dr. Paula Montgomery will present a detailed description of the six amendments on the Florida … Continue reading Virtual Service: Voting Our Values

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]]> 8539 Virtual Service: Still We Persist https://uupensacola.org/services/still-we-persist/ Sun, 26 Jul 2020 13:47:47 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=8354 Still We Persist, a Sunday Service with message by Paula Montgomery, music by Bobby Van Deusen, Denise D’Angelo and others, and contributions from Rev. Alice Syltie, Marylee Donnelly, and Laura Keith King. Paula shares a story of the work that women and their allies have done to secure equal rights for women in the United States. … Continue reading Virtual Service: Still We Persist

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]]> 8354 The Democratic Process https://uupensacola.org/services/the-democratic-process/ Sun, 02 Sep 2018 22:06:39 +0000 https://uupensacola.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=5203 UU congregations affirm and promote the democratic process, and the democratic process is the responsibility of the people. This process depends on the people learning about the issues and being ready to act on them.  One of the issues going forward in our larger community right now is a vote on the amendments to the … Continue reading The Democratic Process

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