Dear Companions,

Listed below are the items contained in this month’s District packet. We’ve moved totally to an electronic distribution model for this sharing of information. It is readily accessible in an Adobe Acrobat PDF format at the District’s website, http://www.floridadistrict.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/fld-september-2009-packet.pdf.  

The purpose of the packet is to distribute information about a variety of events happening around the District and the Unitarian Universalist world. We welcome you submissions, limited to two sheets formatted to be printed in 8 /12″ x 11″ size. If you need additional pages for registrations and the like, please include the link to your own website and post those there. The Florida District serves congregations, so materials appropriate to the packet are those items that directly connect with our congregations and your ministries. We will not post flyers for other organizations unless your congregation is a co-sponsor. The deadline for submission is the 15th of the month preceding the packet in which you would like your items included.

Our primary means of routine communication is the Continue Reading »

By Connie Goodbread

Life Saving Message

Does Unitarian Universalism have a life saving message?
Are we a group of refugees from other faiths – building walls around us for personal safety?
Do we think that finding our Unitarian Universalist congregation was an end instead of a beginning? Thinking now that we have found our safe home we can close and lock the door behind us?
Do we think that Unitarian Universalism is easy? Shallow?

“We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring from a common source; Universalism, that we share a common destiny.” – Forrest Church

Unitarian Universalism preaches/teaches that all paths that lead to love, truth and human wholeness are good and true. Unitarian Universalism teaches that individuals are never finished but always becoming. Unitarian Universalism leaves room for doubt. Unitarian Universalism is open Continue Reading »