Our thanks to Joanne Dingus for these testimonials of the impact of Moral Mondays participation! July For the past few weeks, I’ve made a point of going to the Moral Mondays Witness events at the Fellowship. They have become a spiritual practice for me. I show up early to water
Continue readingThe event that was most meaningful to me at this 2020 UUA Virtual General Assembly (GA) was the remarks by the outgoing moderators, Elandria Williams and Rev. Barb Greve, in the last business session. I have known Elandria for over 20 years and enjoyed her active participation. In District meetings,
Continue readingBefore this year, I had never heard of Dr. Brené Brown, who has apparently enjoyed TED talk and author fame for a decade or two. Before this year, I had never heard of Dr. Ibram Kendi, now famous author of a number of books about anti-racism. In the last
Continue readingHer voice was raspy, and it was relentless; what’s more, her talk was not leavened with the slightest bit of humor. She looked to be somewhere in her 70s. She was speaking to us, in the time of COVID, from her tidy living room somewhere out in Oklahoma, I believed.
Continue readingMy name is Rachel Bevins and I have been attending the UUFP since before our oldest was born. Over the years I have served in a variety of small roles, such as teaching in RE, organizing holiday events, helping on various committees when I can, chairing some fund raisers, speaking
Continue readingApril Kelsey's sermon On Embracing the Joy of Response-Ability. Reflections on the meaning of Response-Ability.
Continue readingOn Sunday, February 10, I gave a sermon called: “The Garden Grows the Community.” The idea of creating a community garden was introduced in part as a response to what I saw happening in the Children’s Religious Education (RE) Program and in part as a way to live our mission:
Continue readingAND IT IS IMPORTANT FOR 10 YEARS AFTER THAT EVERYONE BE COUNTED. BE AWARE. DO YOUR PART. Sponsored by the UUFP Social Justice Committee The NAACP, Hampton Branch, and the United Way hosted a meeting with community leaders to kick-off awareness of the upcoming decennial census. Politicians led with the
Continue readingPresented by Joanne Dingus August 21, 2019 By the early 1900's there were three local Universalist Mission Schools--Norfolk, Suffolk and Ocean View, which were led by African American ministers. Two of them closed shortly thereafter but one, the Suffolk Mission, continued into the seventies, sometimes serving as many as 300
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