The Meridian
December’s Congregational Meeting
Check out the December 4th congregational meeting minutes! The agenda included a vote to hold the ordination for E.N. Hill, a review of the budget process and calendar for FY 2023-2024, and brief reports from the search committees for the next Director of Religious Exploration and the Developmental Minister. These draft minutes will become final…
Centering BIPOC Voices: January and February Book Discussions
For our January 14th meeting, the Centering BIPOC Voices Book Group will discuss South to America: A Journey South of the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry (HarperCollins Publishers, 2022). Perry, a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, recently won the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for the book. It is the story…
Food for Thought in the New Year
Let’s start the new year off to a good start and get healthy! Join Linda Oaksford, a certified Food for Life instructor, and other participants to learn about which foods and ingredients to prioritize for brain health. Drawing from the book Power Foods for the Brain by Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, the class will guide participants through the research supporting…
Talking About UUCT’s Endowment
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee is a congregation blessed with an endowment. We are currently making some demands on it to support the annual budget. That fact has encouraged a broader discussion about the possible uses of the endowment. In the fall and winter, two discussions brought more than thirty people together talk about…
Dinners for Eight—Fellowship is Great!
It’s B-a-a-a-ack! “Dinners for Eight” is planned for the months of January through March 2023 and we want you to participate! The dinners are a great way for new and seasoned members to share fellowship with each other. We have a few hosts who have offered their homes to guests, and a few others who…
Coming Soon: A UUCT Common Read on UU Congregations and Multiculturalism
UUCT members, friends, frequent visitors, and others interested, plan now to participate in a congregation-wide reading and discussion of the book: Mistakes and Miracles: Congregations on the Road to Multiculturalism. Small discussion groups will begin in late February or March and meet for four 90-minute sessions. The book, which is also the Unitarian Universalist Association 2022-2023…
Holiday Message from the UUCT Board
Click here to watch a special holiday message from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee Board.
Message from the Minister
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
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
‘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
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
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…