By Bobbie Schilling This time of the year brings us many winter holidays involving many cherished traditions: candles, music, special foods, decorations, and gift giving. One tradition that members and friends of the UUFP have upheld for many years is service to the PORT Winter Homeless Shelter which is organized
Continue readingFor all that is our life” by Rev. Andrew As part of my professional development this year, I am a Fellow with GreenFaith, an international interfaith environmental organization that was founded in 1992 and inspired in part by the Rio Earth Summit. About ten years ago, religious leaders approached GreenFaith
Continue readingPresented by Sandra Engelhardt, Judy Remsburg, & Pat Sloan September 9, 2018 The three UUFP Delegates to the 2018 General Assembly will give highlights and impressions of their week in Kansas City. General Assembly is the annual meeting of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Attendees worship, witness, learn, connect, and make
Continue readingThe wise man, or wise-guy, Stephen Colbert, once said: “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor
Continue readingBy Jim Sanderson, President, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Peninsula Grow in Wonder - Connect in Love - Engage in Service - Inspire Generosity These are the words we are considering recognizing as our Mission. As such they should embody not only who we are but who we intend to
Continue readingThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a book that retraces author Michelle Alexander's pioneering work concerning the tragic situation of African-American young men and women who have been systematically targeted for incarceration, disproportionately to the numbers of their color in the United States population.
Continue reading'“Diversity is generally divisive, and it has to be managed. There is some interesting research showing that when you celebrate diversity and point it out, you split people, but if you drown it in a sea of commonality, then it’s not a problem. So anything you can do to emphasize
Continue readingOn March 24, 2018, varying estimates of up to 800,000 March For Our Lives activists took to the streets of Washington D.C. to demand that thOn March 24, 2018, varying estimates of up to 800,000 March For Our Lives activists took to the streets of Washington D.C. to demand that
Continue reading“GERRYMANDERING is the deliberate manipulation of legislative district boundaries to advantage or benefit a particular party or group, or to cause disadvantage or harm to an opposing party or group. It distorts the electoral process, undermines democracy, and renders legislative elections a meaningless exercise.” – OneVirginia2021 ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE
Continue readingBy Kathryn Ozyurt Christine Woods, who has been a long time favorite Sunday Morning Forum moderator, helped forum participants (via the Socratic method) choose their own subject for discussion on March 18. A vote on topics such as, “why are people afraid of students speaking out,” and “how do we
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