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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.
Oct. 5, 2025
Speaker – Jean McCauley
Biography:
Jean McCauley is a charter member of NCUU, joining in 1998. Over the years she has been a board member, clerk, web master for six years, and currently serves as treasurer. She worked her dream job as the program director of the Physical Therapist Assistant Program at the College of Central Florida for 27 years, retiring in 2020, right before Covid hit. Since then, she has been relishing retirement by working in her butterfly garden, reading and enjoying the many trees in Citrus County.
Topic: The Hidden Life of Trees
Today’s presentation is based on the best-selling book, The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, who spent over twenty years working for the forestry commission in Germany. Wohlleben asks the question, “Are trees social beings?” Based on his experiences, Wohlleben describes how the forest is a social network, how trees do behave like human families. Jean will share some of Wohlleben’s observations about how trees communicate, support, nurture and warn each other of impending dangers.
Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025
Speaker – The Rev. Dr. Harry Coverston
Biography:
Harry Coverston is a sixth generation Floridian and a fourth-generation educator. He earned a law degree from the University of Florida, a Masters of Divinity from the Episcopal seminary in Berkeley, CA, and a Ph.D. in Religion, Law and Society from Florida State University. He has served Orange and Osceola Counties as a public defender representing juvenile clients, taught at both UCF and Valencia Colleges for 27 years and currently is a priest on staff at St. Richard’s Episcopal Church in Winter Park. This presentation is based in part on a recent pilgrimage to sites of Indian massacres at Sand Creek, CO and Wounded Knee, SD.
Topic: The Doctrine of Discovery
This presentation will examine the conquest of the Americas, the ideological rationales used to legitimate it, the impact that it has had on indigenous peoples and the natural world. It will examine why this is not mere ancient history, how these understandings and practices continue to impact our world and conclude with some possible suggestions on how to respond.
Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025
Speaker – Kimberly Belew
Biography:
Kim Belew is an award-winning songwriter, a national speaker, and an activist. A survivor of sex trafficking as a child, Kim has made it her purpose to educate and give voice to help eradicate this industry. She gave a TEDx Talk about this issue in 2021. Kim is the part-time spiritual leader of New Thought Unity in Cincinnati and travels the country sharing messages of inspiration and authentic living. She is also a 2025 recipient of a Positive Music Award for her song “Love From the Inside Out”. www.kimbelew.com
Topic: The Future is Not in the Past
In this talk Kimberly will discuss how to move into the future together with love and help lift stuck energy. We will explore how the past shaped us and also look at how it can be easy to look back in nostalgia and get stuck.
Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025
Speaker – UU Rev Carole Yorke
Biography:
Before attending Andover Newton theological school in Massachusetts in 1994 Reverend Carole had a variety of careers. After college she was an English teacher in high school in New Jersey. She went to work for IBM and spent 10 years repairing Selectric typewriters. After a series of part-time jobs, she found a position teaching basic skills to recovering drug addicts at Integrity House in Newark, New Jersey. From there, she went to seminary having experienced the call to ministry. She came to Florida in 1998, served several churches here and retired, but came out of retirement to do preaching gigs in various churches. Over the years the Covid pandemic put a dent in all that, but she has found several interesting places to do further work. She lives in Dunnellon with her two Pomeranians.
Topic: Blessing of the Animals
Today Rev Yorke will bless the pets who live with us – or who have lived with us in the past. Please bring pictures of those beloved pets who are no longer with us.
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