Chalica
The LRE youth will present a holiday pageant that will show the true meaning of the UU holiday, Chalica. Accompanist: Sydney Crisp
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Mary did you know?
A sermon for this season of births and rebirths, for #notallmen and #metoo.
Reverend Liz Teal specializes in eco-theology, the human-animal bond, and all their healing aspects. She is the Spiritual Director for The Ministry of Animals and the Educational Director for Giving Paws, specializing in animal assisted therapies and chaplaincies.
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Religion in Public Life
Dr. Parvez Ahmed is Associate Professor of Finance at the Coggin College of Business, University of North Florida (UNF). In addition, Dr. Ahmed writes editorials about Islam and the American Muslim experience. Dr. Ahmed also teaches a special 10-week course titled, “Islam-the faith, the people and their politics,” at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in UNF.
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Our Fifth Principle: The Right of Conscience and The Use of the Democratic Process within our Congregations and in Society at Large
We may understand why conscience is important to our religion, but what does Unitarian Universalism have to do with democracy?
Gratitude versus Thankfulness
How these two different stages of awareness impact our relationship with the Divine.
Assimilating the Value of Values – The Prerequisite of a Steady Mind
Since childhood we are told to follow certain moral and ethical values, such as non-injury, truthfulness, non-stealing, humility, charity etc. They represent certain Universal pragmatic attitudes that religious scriptures confirm.
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Water Communion
As is traditional in many UU churches across the country, BBUUC will hold our annual Water Sharing ritual. All are invited to bring a small container of water from (or representing) your travels, special places, moments or events from the summer or the year, and place the waters into the communal bowl.
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Celebration of the Ancestors: Samhain Sunday Service
Join BBUUC in honoring the Ancestors in this special Sunday service presented by Jacksonville CUUPS and members of the NE FL Pagan Leadership Coalition. Please bring a photo representing your departed loved ones to place in honor upon the memorial altar.
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From Pedestals of Privilege: Deconstructing Confederate Monuments
A majority of Americans believe the South waged Civil War to defend “states’ rights,” not slavery. Many argue that to remove or relocate Confederate monuments is to revise the past. Do these relics of reconstruction still stand for white privilege?
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Violence in the Time of Noah
Genesis Chapter 6, Verse 13 tells us that “God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” Of what kind of violence was God speakiing? More Info