Upcoming Services
This Sunday, February 5:
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Service at 10:30 am:  Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
Millennial Culture and Spirituality
Sermon by Rev Pam McMillan (in person) Pam McMillan is a United Methodist minister, a trained hospice chaplain and member of "Interfaith United" here in Brevard County. |
Music 
Stephen Downen, choir director, keyboard, soloist, Amy Rosebush, keyboard.
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Children's Religious Education at 10:30 am:
With Christmas Day falling on a Sunday this year, and with a special musical Christmas program planned for that morning in Friendship Hall, the children will not have a separate lesson on December 25th. Instead, they will remain with their parents in Friendship Hall for a special “family service,” so they can celebrate the day with their families and the entire congregation. Read more about our Youth Religious Education program...
Coffee and conversations at 11:30 am:
Enjoy coffee and other refreshments as you converse with old friends and make new ones.
February 12
Speaker: Rev Linda Thomson (via zoom)
February 19
You are the Sky: The Path out of Suffering
Sermon by Rebecca Fisher (via Zoom)
“Every second I am on the path that leads out of suffering, suffering is there to guide me,” Thich Nhat Hanh has written. Practicing his teachings on mindfulness and interbeing has helped me thrive during difficult times. This practice is extremely practical and accessible to anyone who aspires to be compassionate both to themselves and others.
Rebecca Fisher has been a member of the First Unitarian Church of Wilmington, Delaware, since 1994. She began practicing mindfulness in Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition in 2007, and was ordained as a lay practitioner in the Plum Village Order of Interbeing in 2021.
February 26
Speaker: Dr Jeff Nall (in person)
"Critical Thinking and Courageous Conversation"
On December 15, 2021, the world lost one of the great public intellectual voices of our day: pioneering black feminist, Bell Hooks. In this talk, Jeffrey Nall shares insights from Hooks’ feminist and anti-racist writing. He also highlights Hooks’ timely advocacy of critical thinking, freedom of speech, and courageous dialogue. Against growing trends to ban books and “cancel” opposing views, hooks insisted that democracy required the maturity and courage to respectfully engage with precisely those views we find most mistaken. These commitments were bolstered by her uncommon humility and awareness of her own political and ethical inconsistencies. Above all, Hooks joined Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in grounding her intellectual and political projects in an explicit ethic of love.
Bio: Dr Jeff Nall teaches courses in philosophy and humanities at the University of Central Florida.
Speaker: Rev Linda Thomson (via zoom)
February 19
You are the Sky: The Path out of Suffering
Sermon by Rebecca Fisher (via Zoom)
“Every second I am on the path that leads out of suffering, suffering is there to guide me,” Thich Nhat Hanh has written. Practicing his teachings on mindfulness and interbeing has helped me thrive during difficult times. This practice is extremely practical and accessible to anyone who aspires to be compassionate both to themselves and others.
Rebecca Fisher has been a member of the First Unitarian Church of Wilmington, Delaware, since 1994. She began practicing mindfulness in Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition in 2007, and was ordained as a lay practitioner in the Plum Village Order of Interbeing in 2021.
February 26
Speaker: Dr Jeff Nall (in person)
"Critical Thinking and Courageous Conversation"
On December 15, 2021, the world lost one of the great public intellectual voices of our day: pioneering black feminist, Bell Hooks. In this talk, Jeffrey Nall shares insights from Hooks’ feminist and anti-racist writing. He also highlights Hooks’ timely advocacy of critical thinking, freedom of speech, and courageous dialogue. Against growing trends to ban books and “cancel” opposing views, hooks insisted that democracy required the maturity and courage to respectfully engage with precisely those views we find most mistaken. These commitments were bolstered by her uncommon humility and awareness of her own political and ethical inconsistencies. Above all, Hooks joined Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in grounding her intellectual and political projects in an explicit ethic of love.
Bio: Dr Jeff Nall teaches courses in philosophy and humanities at the University of Central Florida.
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to learn more. We hope this will increase accessibility and participation in Zoom meetings.
If closed captions would help you access our Zoom meetings, you can enable this feature for yourself. Anyone can have this feature, free. Just go to
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/207279736-Closed-captioning-and-live-transcription
to learn more. We hope this will increase accessibility and participation in Zoom meetings.