Welcome to our summer series! This summer’s theme is Celebrating and Sustaining the Earth. It’s a broad topic and our speakers reflect that. This Sunday UUCJ member Jeff Funderburk will start the series with “Reflections of an Aspiring Environmentalist.” Jeff and his wife Marcia have been members of UUCJ for quite a while, with their…

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Woody Winfree, the daughter of our longtime UU member, Ann Winfree, is an officiant, ritualist, ceremonialist, conscious dying educator and end-of-life doula. She credits these capacities for making her, above all, a keen observer. With that perceptive eye shaping her offering, Woody hopes you can join her for a Memorial Day service of remembering,…

Our speaker is Dawn Gillman, chief officer for Changing Homelessness. She presents the situation in Jacksonville, Florida and the progress we have made in obtaining services and housing for our homeless population.بقلم Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville

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Mari Kuraishi is the president of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, leading the Fund’s efforts to create communities of belonging for the places and institutions that Jessie Ball duPont knew and loved by fostering inclusive growth and reducing structural and systemic barriers to resources and opportunity. In Jacksonville, Mari serves on the boards of th…

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Our speaker, Isaiah Oliver, is the President of the Community Foundation of Northeast Florida.بقلم Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville

Special Collection: Women Writing for (a) Change Jacksonville is an intentional writing community founded by Jennifer Wolfe whose vision is to foster healthy, conscious communities where the words and creative expression of women, girls, and individuals—from all classes, races, ethnic backgrounds, and life circumstances—are nurtured, developed, and…

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Special Collection: READ USA READ USA is a Florida-founded organization with a national scope that develops grade-level readers, teen leaders, and transformational teachers with evidence-based, peer-to-peer tutoring and free book choice and ownership to end illiteracy, elevate the teaching profession, and equip and employ eager workforce talent. In…

Peter Racine highlights the significance of identifying and managing negative or toxic relationships to safeguard one’s spiritual and mental well-being. He underscores the challenges posed by political polarization and personal conflicts, advocating for maintaining integrity and empathy in navigating these situations.…

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When the beautiful diversity of our world is under attack, how should we respond? Sometimes we will need to fight for people’s dignity, sometimes we will need to build a beloved community, sometimes we will need to tend wounds, even our own, and sometimes all at once!بقلم Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville

Our guest speaker is the Rev. Paul Johnson, who was our Zoom minister during the Covid period. His topic is Congregational Polity and the balance between congregational independence and inter-church relationships. He holds Doctorates in both Ministry and Divinity from Meadville/Lombard Divinity School. He has served UU congregations in five states …

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The speaker for Sunday’s service is Tom Neilson. He’s also our mini-concert performer. Combining art with activism, Tom uses the power of folk music to advocate for human rights over the world, receiving two songs of the year awards as well as awards for his human rights work.بقلم Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville

This is the second part of our exploration of the fourth Unitarian Universalist Principle: A Free and Responsible Search for Truth and Meaning. We will look at nature and natural laws and a scientific basis for discerning truth.بقلم Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville

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Join us for our annual New Year’s retrospective with Donna Janesky!بقلم Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville

Award-winning writer Shutta Crum looks at why certain books (or other art) stay with us all our lives. What makes a particular book so special? She addresses what she calls the “4 Hs” of any book that matters. Those are “heart,” “hurt,” “hope,” and “humor.”بقلم Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville

Join Peter Racine in making gift-giving and receiving more meaningful as we explore our “spiritual or ethical cost of living” as Unitarian Universalists.بقلم Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville