Category: The Meridian

The UUCT newsletter, The Meridian, is digital and is emailed to subscribed congregation members, guests, and friends.

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All the articles and announcements contained in the newsletters are below.

Message from the Minister

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Click here to view a video excerpt from Rev. Holly Brown’s November 27, 2022 sermon highlighting proposed changes to our UU Principles and Purposes. To learn more about the Article II Study Commission visit https://www.uua.org/…/commi…/article-ii-study-commission. The full draft of Article can be viewed here: https://drive.google.com/…/1TCDcmIXgbqxUQ1ShpQx…/view…

Message from the Minister

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Season’s Greetings Beloveds, It’s the holidays already! There are several opportunities coming up for celebrating the many winter holidays in addition to the ongoing ministries of the church. I am eternally grateful for the hard work and dedication of the staff and volunteers that help make our ministries possible. On Sunday, December 18th, we will […]

Message from the Music Director

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‘Tis the Season to be Jolly As winter nears, we embrace the season with hope, as tradition mandates. Deep down our ancestors left us a biased legacy, beneath the surplus of religious text, that is most loyal to the northern hemisphere experience of the seasons. Are we perhaps able to feel what this season means […]

Board Notes

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Exciting news! After much research, thought, and deliberation, UUCT is progressing quickly toward the long-awaited sound system update. Installation of the new equipment will greatly improve the quality of our Sunday services (and other group meetings), both online and in-person. UUCT is contracting with a company that has prior experiences with church installations; those congregations […]

Seeking Your Ideas for the Uses of the Endowment

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As a community we’ve begun talking about how we should proceed to live out our values in many arenas of congregational life, not the least of which is our relationship to UUCT’s endowment. During the last budget building cycle in the spring some people were surprised by a few things. Some heard, perhaps for the […]

What Difference Can the 8th Principle Make at UUCT?

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There is no simple formula on how a congregation should begin living into the 8th Principle. There is no one right way to work at building a diverse multicultural Beloved Community, no simple answer as to how to dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions. It is up to us as individuals […]

Update from the Nominating Committee:  Engagement Sunday

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There is a new initiative here at UUCT that we are excited about and hope you will get involved with! One Sunday a month, a different ministry team from UUCT, whether a committee or social group, will give a brief two- to three-minute update during the service. The update could be a description of the group’s […]

Freethinkers Forum Gets a Third Co-director

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Freethinkers Forum (FF) is pleased to announce the addition of a third Co-Director, Carrie Renwick.  She joins the Forum’s management team this month and brings a wealth of experience to the role.  Carrie has been involved in the leadership of the First Coast Freethought Society (FCFS), based in Jacksonville, since its inception in 1998.  The […]

Centering BIPOC Voices: December and January Book Discussions

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For our December 10th meeting, the Centering BIPOC Voices Book Group chose Just Us, An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press, 2020). This insightful collection of essays, poetry, and photographs recounts Rankine’s experiences engaging strangers in conversations about white privilege and systemic racism. As an example, she flies first class and remembers a white man cutting in front […]