April 19 – To Get to the Other Side by Rev. Anna Tulou

I want to instill in my children, and what’s more, I want to instill in myself, the sense of vocation as endeavoring to get to the other side of impossible, where “impossible” simply falls away. All the challenges, all the obstacles – they are not blocking the path. They are the path…

April 26 – Beauty in the Heart of the Beholder by Rev. Brigitte Bechtold

It is often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But isn’t the beholder influenced by what is culturally acceptable and in vogue, by ideas about perfection? What if we look at the beauty in things that are so-called “imperfect”? What if we look into our hearts and allow for the beauty that is in the heart of the beholder? Then what we love is what is beautiful, and the more we love, the more beauty we see around us and the more we can embrace beautiful possibilities.

May 3 – What would happen if ….

Abolition begins with a question. What if the systems we have inherited—systems of punishment, incarceration, and exclusion—are not the only way? In this reflection, we explore how curiosity can become a spiritual practice: the courage to ask how harm might be addressed through healing rather than punishment, how safety might grow through connection rather than control, how community grows in accountable relationships. Rooted in Unitarian Universalist values of transformation and justice, we can approach abolition not simply as a political idea, but as a faithful curiosity about what more liberated possibilities might be waiting for us to imagine together.

May 10 – What If We Were All Mothers??

Two questions will be explored in this service: 1) How it might feel if we all pitched in to help mothers raise their children, and 2) what recent neuroscience says that would look like.

May 16 – UCF Installation Ceremony for Rev. Leslie Runnels

Please join together to welcome Rev Leslie as our called and settled minister! We will have UU ministers from the region and the country coming to participate in the ceremony, and we are inviting distinguished guests and leaders in our community to join us. Special guest minister Rev Julica Hermann de la Fuente will be delivering the sermon. (Please note this is on Sat at 5pm – come early for easy parking!)