The brilliant writer and orator Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in 1838. In an oration he gave on July 5th, 1852 at the Corinthian Hall of Rochester, NY, he sharply criticized the attitude of religious people who kept silent about slavery, and he charged that ministers committed a “blasphemy” when they taught it as sanctioned … Continue reading What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Presenters Chris Jadallah and Laynie Gibson will tell the untold story of how Pensacola, Florida hosted one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ celebrations decades before Stonewall–and almost nobody knows about it. Come hear how the revival of the story of the Emma Jones Society is being activated in community. Donations to this project would be … Continue reading Emma Jones Society
UUCP Member Mark Swaney will present certain examples of Jesus’s humanity, using accounts from the New Testament. He will share why he wanted to reprise stories of Jesus that everyone knows, which are what is left of his childhood beliefs about Christianity.