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| 05/20 | Polly Keene: Transitions: Living With the Changes That Come With Aging Polly Keene, a member of NCUU, will share with us her experience of transitioning from solitary, independent living to a group living environment, where many decisions have been made for her. Come prepared to express and share your own feelings about the aging process in America: how you feel aging has affected you, your children, your parents and your relationships with significant members of your life. |
| 05/27 | Rev. Dee Graham: What Purpose Does Violence Serve in the Goal of World Peace? Universal ethical principles agree that killing another person is wrong, yet liberty and justice frequently involve wars and the death penalty. Considering the recent brutal murder of a family member in the context of religious and moral principles to “do no harm,” the Rev. Dee Graham shares a personal take on the goal of world community. |
| 05/13 | Renee Zenaida: Romantizing Mary: the Wars on Women The Mary figure presented in the New Testament, interpreted and reinterpreted ever since, marks a critical turning point in the perception of women. The road from symbolizing fecundity and life to the Immaculate Conception and beyond is a long and complicated one. Misconceptions and missed interpretations have led to misogynistic wars on women through time; wars still waged and reignited in our time. Walking Mary's road leads us into reflection on each of our seven Unitarian Universalist principles. This will aid us with making the choices ahead, not only for the generations of women represented in our congregations, but for all generations of women, and men to come. |
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| On Mother's Day we had a special, short ceremony at the close of the service to go to our Memorial Garden. We each placed a flower somewhere in the garden to remember and honor our mother. It was a beautiful and touching ceremony. | |||
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| 05/06 | Art Jones: Saving Kings Bay Art Jones, a member of NCUU, will guide us on how to bring a community together for a positive common goal in order to respect the web of life and the inherent worth and dignity of all human beings. His project is associated with the Crystal River-Kings Bay Rotary Club. |
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| 04/29 | Bonnie Whitehurst: Living Well At
All Ages and Stages On this day we heard about music and strategies regarding health, well-being and living life to the fullest; how to acquire peace, happiness and satisfaction in everyday life. Bonnie Whitehurst has been playing music in UU churches since the 1970's. She is a fulltime music teacher and liturgical musician with several denominations. Ms. Whitehurst is the music director for the UU Church of Tarpon Springs. She has a master's degree in music theory and is working on the recording of her 10th CD, Irish music. |
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| 04/22 | Cantor Hazzan Mordecai Kamlot : The History of Judaism We were pleased to welcome Cantor Hazzan Mordecai Kamlot to our fellowship. He enlightened us as to how Judaism relates to our Unitarian Universalist principles. Cantor Kamlot has served as the Cantor/Spiritual Leader of the Congregation Beth Sholom of Citrus County since August, 2008. |
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| 04/15 | Articulating Your Faith and the NCUU Annual Meeting | ||
| 04/08 | Rev Mary Louise DeWolf : A Unitarian Universalist Easter Parade How do UUs celebrate Easter? The answer may be found in your own words, for UUs all have different ways of thinking about it, as they quite frequently do about any subject. You might try making up your answer before you come to the Sunday service. Christian and pre-Christian meanings will be considered as well as some other modern ideas. |
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| 04/01 | Dr Wendell Charles Beane: The Three Great Monotheisms and World Peace Dr. Beane will offer us a creative way to understand the presence of a baffling variety of religious conceptions and practices abroad in the world today. Moreover, he will stress the need to recognize and practice a universal core of spiritual values capable of fostering peace on earth and good will toward one another. |
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| 03/25 | Rev Leah Hart-Landsburg: A Great Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is more than just a trip or vacation. It’s a search of great moral significance, often a journey to a sacred place. Why go on a pilgrimage? What is there to be learned by stepping away from normal daily life? Does pilgrimage help us see our familiar home differently? Come explore the lessons of the annual UU Living Legacy Civil Rights Pilgrimage, a tour of the American South that seeks to re-imagine social possibility in the world today by experiencing the depth of human spirit in the Civil Rights Movement. Rev. Leah Hart-Landsberg is Minister of Lifespan Faith
Development at the UU Fellowship of Gainesville in North Central Florida.
Raised in a UU and Jewish family in Portland, Oregon, she is President of UUs
for Jewish Awareness. She graduated from Starr King School for the Ministry in
2009. She lives with her partner Amy, their pet fish and a few stray cats who
seem to be attempting to adopt them. S.O.U.L. (Singers of United Lands) For more information click here
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| 03/18 |
Dr. Hal Sands: Love and Man's Search for Meaning One of the principles which Unitarians/Universalists affirm and promote is the free and responsible search for freedom. In his talk, Dr. Hal Sands concentrated on the role that love plays in that search. Dr. Sands currently serves as co-chairperson of the Sunday Service Committee of the UU of Marion County. He is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. |
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| 03/11 | Gordon "Nick" Nichols: Love Heals Nick Nichols, a very active member of NCUU, spoke on the importance of love in our lives and in our fellowship. |
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| 03/04 |
Singing Tree conducted our fellowship’s service with music with Lloyd Goldstein as the primary speaker. Lloyd spoke about his training as a Certified Music Practitioner and his work playing music for patients at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. At 2:30 pm Singing Tree with Ray Belanger on the Hammered Dulcimer and Lloyd Goldstein on the Double Bass gave a two-hour concert at NCUU. Singing Tree performs folk music from around the world with traditional, classical and contemporary approaches. |
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| 02/26 | Rev. LoraKim Joyner, DVM: Reverence for Life: Embracing Life Together Today we celebrated our relationships with nonhuman animals by considering the wonder of the interdependent web of existence. Becoming more aware of this interconnection brings us a greater sense of belonging, and also a growing sense of how we are connected to one another in beauty and in harm. So great is the tragedy around us, we can be overwhelmed and elect to turn away. Instead we may choose to embrace all this is life so that we may live lives of compassion, joy, and reverence for the individuals and species in our human and ecological communities. We ended the service with an animal blessing with nonhuman animal companions or pictures or mementos of their lives. |
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| 02/12 | Castlebay Castlebay has been musically weaving together the heritage of New England and the Celtic lands since 1987. Members Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee have loved and researched traditional music for most of their lives and blend history, legend and experience into their personable performance style. Their concerts feature poignant ballads sung in Lane's ethereal soprano and Gosbee's rich baritone interspersed with joyous dance tunes played on Celtic harp, guitar, fiddle and tin whistle. Castlebay treats the audience to a musical journey through time and across the Atlantic. |
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| 01/29 | Joan Lund: The Joy of Association Our UUA Florida District Trustee spoke about the role of the UUA Board of Trustees, changes to Board operation commencing in 2013 and the importance of "association". She has recently returned from one of the four annual Board meetings and will bring the latest news. |
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| 01/22 | Rev Brock Leach: A Not So Little Faith We may be small in numbers, but our UU faith is as big as the world. In fact, it is the world itself in which we place our faith. Unique among religions of the western tradition, ours dares to proclaim faith in this holy creation we inhabit and in the possibilities for humanity as instruments of it. We're called out into the larger world as a bold act of faith. Rev Leach is an ordained UU minister and vice president of mission, strategy and innovation at the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC). His ministry is centered on strengthening the agency’s impact and launching the UUSC’s College of Social Justice, a program designed to build the capacity of Unitarian Universalists to catalyze justice. |
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| 01/08 | Patricia Kittleman:The Meaning of the Mandala A mandela “represents the cosmos, helps discover the soul, is an ancient eastern tradition, especially Buddhist and Hindu”. Think of a kaleidoscope – a circle in a square, that is beautiful sacred art. A mandela is used to establish sacred space. Looking at it helps you to focus whenever you meditate and thus becomes your special teaching tool. No two are alike; think of a snowflake. |
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| 01/01 | Pat Kittleman on Soul Searching: Who am I really? |
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| 12/25 | Muriel
Chess, a long-standing member of NCUU, lead us in a traditional
Christmas service with carols and the story of the birth of Christ from
the Bible. |
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| 12/18 | Earth Centered Spirituality Group: Winter Solstice Service Following the fourth principle of Unitarian Universalism that we believe in a free and responsible search for truth and meaning, the Earth-Centered Spirituality Group will sponsor a service that sheds light on traditions different than our own. They will offer a Winter Solstice service based on perhaps one of the earliest representations of the shifting seasons, the pre-Christian Celtic battle between the Holly King and the Oak King. As the land turns back toward the light, the Holly King must be defeated, while the Oak King becomes victorious. On one level, this is a symbolic representation of the summer/winter battle of the fight to live through the long dark winter. On another level, it is the internal struggle to balance the light and dark aspects of the human psyche. The Battle of the Holly King and the Oak King, symbolizing the changing seasons, will be depicted in a light-hearted manner by the NCUU Players. The playful aspect was traditionally part of these community spectacles, teaching the underlying serious concept within a farce. Come and appreciate the changing of the seasons in a whole new way. |
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| 12/11 | Judy Siegal: What the Dreidle Teaches Us: A New Spin on the Chanukkah Story Judy will trace the history of the Chanukkah story and relate how if affected and influenced world history. She is the president of Congregation Beth Israel of Ocala, a liberal Jewish congregation she helped to form. |
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| 12/04 | Rev Mary Louise DeWolf: A Humanists Talks with Jesus There are many views of Jesus of Nazareth. Rev DeWolf will use writings from the Jesus Seminar to answer the question, "What did Jesus really say"? and the works of Bishop John Shelby Spong, a liberal Chrstian, who writes of a human Jesus and the new Christianity. Learn how a humanist explores a possible view of Jesus' teachings as a guide for living. |
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| 11/27 | Roy Bradley: Joy and Happiness Roy is a member of NCUU and will be speaking to us about greeting people and the value of saying great, joy and happiness, and the benefits the church has provided. | ||
| 11/13 | Rev. Amy Carol Webb (singer, song writer and UU minister): Breaking Light Take a musical journey opening an entirely different door to the coming holiday season with music from traditions the world over. Today's service heralds the unity within diversity as humanity celebrates the victory of light over darkness. You'll see (and hear) the holidays in a whole new way! | ||
| 11/06 | Rev. Janet Onnie: Believing is Seeing Not always do you need to see something to be convinced of its existence. Sometimes you need to believe such a thing is possible before you can see it. The creative act of visioning is played out in the arts and sciences and is a critical factor in meeting the challenges of a changing world. What’s your vision? |
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| 10/30 | Earth Spirituality Group of NCUU: Honoring Dia de los Muertos
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| 10/23 | Rodney
Cole: Living the Good Life introducing Scott and Helen Nearing. In the final half of their lives these two New Englanders pioneered the back to the land movement. What they said applies even today. |
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| 10/16 | Renee Zenaida: speaking on Behind the Veil: the Life of Muslim Women | ||
| 10/02 | Joan Burnett: UUA Association Sunday: Celebrating Excellence in Ministries | ||
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NCUU Earth Centered Spirituality Group's Flower Service to celebrate our sense of community. |
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