The Meridian
Website Invitation
Are you a coordinator or member of a group at UUCT? Have you looked at the information about your group posted on our website recently? Check it out! The website is often the first stop for potential visitors. It’s also used by members and friends wanting to check the date or time of an event
March 2025 Green Sanctuary Good News Corner
The District of Columbia’s Environmental Film Festival (DCEFF) This will be the 32nd year the District of Columbia has held its famous environmental film festival. Since 1993, DCEFF has been the premier showcase of environmental films. Each March, they’ve brought the world’s largest green film festival to museums, embassies, universities, and other cultural institutions across Washington DC.
Black History Month
From the slave ships of 1692To the civil Rights era of the 60sBlack history should be taughtLest it be forgotIda Wells, bless her soulEstablished the NAACPGeorge Washington Carver worked tirelesslyon the development of hundreds of applications for new plantsRuby Bridges at the age of 6Help to desegregate an Elementary schoolThurgood Marshall was a great lawyerAnd
Board Minutes: December 2024
Board-Member Attendees: Chase Den Beste, Marty Beech, Annette Pearce, Kim Ross, Sally Andersen, Alden HutchisonInvited Attendees: Rev. E.N. Hill & Greg De AngeloGuest: Gwendolyn Waldorf The minutes from the November 2024 meeting were approved unanimously. The November finance reports were then reviewed. The reports were also approved unanimously.The topic of signage was raised, and the
Treasurer’s December 2024 Report to the Congregation
December’s pledge income of $17,091 was considerably larger than each of the previous five months, but still fell short of our monthly budget by $3,721. Current year pledges received this FY were $17,031 in December and $63,574 fiscal year-to-date, or 25.5% of annual budget compared to our 50.0% target. With prepaid pledges included, current year
Message from the DRE: February 2025
Happy Imbolc, friends! We are at the midwinter point, out of the darkest days and entering the earliest signs of spring. May we continue to cultivate balances of rest and community engagement. Now more than ever, as always, may our connections with one another sustain us in these difficult times. Read on for lifespan RE
MLK Poem
In honor of the 30 days of love I feel compelled to share this poem with you. I have a dreamA dream of snow in FloridaNot just a dustingBut a full doustingBring out the hat scarves and glovesLet the creation of snowman commenceAnd snow angelsOh what fun!I have a dreamA dream of equality of the
CAJM Update: Gearing Up for Nehemiah Action
CAJM brought its people power to bear big time on Tuesday, January 28, when 155 of us took over the County Commission chambers to persuade commissioners to adopt our proposal for setting aside 20 percent of the county’s annual Blueprint revenues for an affordable rental housing program modelled after Pinellas County’s. We did not get
February 2025 Green Sanctuary Good News Corner
Solar and wind surpassed coal in 2024 According to new data from Ember, solar and wind power produced more electricity than coal in the United States for the bulk of 2024. From January to November of last year, solar and wind provided more than 17 percent of U.S. electricity. For the first time, wind and solar
A Labor of Love
Have you ever been blinded by the light streaming into a window that was too high to cover? That was my initial incentive for the stained glass window at UUCT. My intent was to filter the light on the high window on the west side of the building, but as I got closer to completing
How We Have Grown… Together
UUCT was there at the beginning of Manna 14 years ago and remains an active participant in a food ministry that includes five churches, most on Meridian Road. These churches celebrate spirituality in different ways but one ’theology’ they hold together is that people deserve to have food. Manna does not require verification of identification,
Resources from the Rest is Resistance Sunday Service 1-26-25
In 2022, theologian Tricia Hersey, co-founder of The Nap Ministry, published her best-seller Rest Is Resistance. The text sheds light on our complex relationship with rest and envisions a future where rest is revered. She challenges the notion that our value lies solely in productivity, especially within systems that exploit and dehumanize us. Instead, she