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Services start at 10:30 a.m.
Our services are also available live via Zoom. Please send a request to [email protected] for the link.
Mar. 1, 2026
Speaker – Art Jones
Biography:
Art Jones has been cleaning up our water ways here along the Nature Coast since 2003. He started a movement that endures to this day and is continuing to grow and be copied in other areas of Florida. With his One Rake at a Time project, thousands of people have gotten involved in volunteering to help remove invasive weeds and algae from the fresh water springs.
Topic: When the Water Turned on Us
A reflection on water, calling, and stewardship.
Sunday, Mar. 8, 2026
Speaker – UU Rev Cynthia Snavely
Biography:
Rev. Cynthia Snavely currently serves the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Somerset Hills in Somerville, New Jersey. Rev. Snavely began her ministry as a United Methodist and moved into Unitarian Universalist ministry in the early 90’s. She has served congregations in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina, Florida and New Jersey. She has a daughter, four grandsons, and one granddaughter.
Topic: Education is Resistance
South African anti-apartheid activist and President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Both how we seek to educate ourselves and how we help to educate others can be the beginning of creating change in the world.
Sunday, Mar. 15, 2026
Speaker – Linda Starkweather
Biography:
After two years caring for her partner, Lynne Westmoreland (who is also a regular speaker here at NCUU) and who is recovering from a devastating brain infection, Linda is back in action delivering messages at UU congregations in both Western New York and Florida. Linda retired from teaching theatre arts and is still acting, designing and directing for theaters in New York. She and Lynne are now living half the year in Tallahassee and half in the sweet little town of Naples, NY, famous for grape pies, wineries and historical activists like Susan B. Anthony, and Frederick Douglas. An artist, activist and a generally ‘good trouble’ maker, she is happy to be back here with our welcoming congregation.
Topic: Beyond Either/Or: What Trans Wisdom Teaches Us About Becoming Whole
Unitarian Universalism has always been a tradition that asks not only what we believe, but how we believe. We are a people suspicious of certainty, wary of dogma, and deeply curious about the ways the world might be more whole than we have been taught to see it. So today our speaker wants to ask a question that may feel new, or even uncomfortable for some, but that she believes sits right at the heart of our faith: What if emerging knowledge of transsexuality is not just about gender—but about the evolution of human consciousness itself?
Sunday, Mar. 22, 2026
Speaker – Cathy DeWitt
Biography:
Cathy DeWitt, an award-winning songwriter, recently retired after nearly 30 years at Shands Hospital/UF Health Arts in Medicine program in Gainesville, Florida, where she created the renowned Music in Medicine program. From piano playing in the hospital lobby to elevator singalongs, from hallway concerts to bedside harp, Cathy transformed the hospital environment and the patient experience with music. Her own mother’s dementia in her later years led Cathy to explore the arts and aging aspect of Arts in Medicine. She is a sought-after guest speaker/musician at churches, arts events and conferences from coast to coast, and has sung professionally throughout Florida, New York, California, London, and Hawaii. Find out more at www.cathydewitt.com.
Topic: Music, Memory, and Aging—how Music and Art can Help
As a musician with Arts in Medicine for 30 years, Cathy DeWitt found herself getting more involved with the arts in aging movement. She discovered several methods to help us communicate with friends and family members who are losing their memories. We also know that music can often express feelings and spiritual thoughts that may be difficult to express in other ways. How can you help? What can you do? These are questions she hopes to answer.
Music, art and story are important tools we can use. Cathy will be using the book Timeslips by Anne Bastings as well as her own soon-to-be-published book, Creative Caring at the Bedside. We will also look at programs like NPR’s StoryCorp, and films like Alive Inside and The Forgetting. We will do some singing along to show how music brings us together in community. Hopefully you will discover that all communication doesn’t have to disappear along with the loss of memory.
Sunday, Mar. 29, 2026
Speaker – UU Rev. Dee Graham
Biography:
Currently affiliated as a retired community minister with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota, the Rev. Dee Graham earned her M.Div. at Starr King School for the Ministry. After ordination at the UU Church of Charlotte, NC, she returned to home in the Tampa Bay area, where she served as a professional chaplain and as a parish minister. A native Bradentonian, she is now primarily retired and working on books set in historic Florida. Her family includes three adult children and four grandchildren. Dee is currently finishing a new book about the family of her 4th great grandfather, Francisco Xavier Sanchez, Florida’s only Spanish DAR Patriot.
Topic: An American Revolution Fueled by Faith
As our nation grows more combative and stability is threatened, let’s look to our revolutionary past for clues on how to find faith in a new future.
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