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    Connections Column

    Excerpted from the [Florida] District Executive Message, November 2007:
    There is strong interest in growing our congregations and doing a better job of representing the Free Church to those seeking a genuine alternative to orthodoxy or nothing. I freely confess to being an evangelist for our faith. However, each time I address this issue, someone frets about "being like them," meaning, I suppose proselytizers of orthodoxy. To which I reply, I hope kindly, that we do not serve well those who do not know we exist. We need to show up for those seeking a spiritual home! We have a moral obligation to shine the beacon more brightly!

    Here's your factoid of the month: UUA research indicates only 1 in 20 have ever heard of Unitarian Universalism, let alone having any idea who and what we are. This ignorance and our failure to grow [2nd factoid: there are fewer enrolled Unitarian Universalists today than there were at the time of the 1961 merger!] are behind the UUA's recent marketing efforts, including our Tampa Bay campaign this coming February.

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Rev. Meredith's Blog

Liberal Religion from Gainesville, Florida
  • The Fourth and the Thirteenth
    It's the Fourth of July: "Independence Day" for this land of my birth, raising, and residence -- this country that...
  • Stage Coach II
    Let’s look at the word itself, “Stagecoach.” It’s a coach – that is, a conveyance for carrying us along –...
  • Stagecoach
    How are you feeling today? I ask because my job is to comfort the afflicted, and to afflict the comfortable. So...
  • Goo
    In spring the butterflies emerge from the cocoons into which they went, as caterpillars, about a week before. If you...
  • The Eco-Spiritual Imperative
    A sermon delivered at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville, Florida, Sunday (2010 April 25).


    Happy Earth Day!...

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