Unitarian Universalist Peace Fellowship - Raleigh

10/04/2026

Rev. Patty Hanneman Everyday Acts of Courage
Courage is a willingness to acknowledge our own limitations, and the choice to risk being vulnerable in spite of them. This morning we will reflect on the everyday acts of courage that lead to a life well lived.

  https://youtu.be/Ayoxy5iLPHo?is=Rb4uAcE-e3X2v3a3 Courage is a willingness to acknowledge our own limitations, and the choice to risk being vulnerable

09/21/2026

Our very own Three Amigos played for service this week! We are a talented bunch!

09/20/2026

John Pavlovitz Remembering That You're Someone

"Won't someone do something?!"

That's the question we ask when we look at the world around us, when we see how much suffering and injustice there is, when we inventory the brokenness in our path.
We wonder why someone isn't taking up that cause, fighting for those people, doing that urgent work.

And we usually expect that someone to be somebody else; someone with more experience, someone younger, someone more talented. We discount our abilities, minimize what we're capable of, or forget the impact our lives have.

But if we step back and remember that we are someone: that we're here, that we're alive, that we can be the kind of person the world needs—that might change everything.

https://youtu.be/tn3Fo4rJ680 "Won't someone do something?!" That's the question we ask when we look at the world around us, when we see how much suffering and

09/04/2026

Rich Logis, founder of Leaving MAGA.org and author of One Betrayal Too Many: Why I Left MAGA, will speak at the Unitarian Universalist PEACE Fellowship on Wednesday, September 16 at 2pm.
Mr. Logis will share his seven-year journey deep into the MAGA movement and what it took for him to walk away. He has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, and major international outlets speaking about political polarization and disinformation.
Leaving MAGA, a non-profit, non-partisan organization, offers guidance for those who are questioning or considering leaving MAGA as well as providing helpful information for friends and relatives who have loved ones in MAGA. Mr. Logis believes that empathy and understanding, not personal attacks, are the keys to reducing political polarization. Leaving MAGA focuses on political deradicalization, accountability, and rebuilding democratic norms.
In addition to speaking engagements, Leaving MAGA offers a friends and family zoom support group for those affected by a loved one’s MAGA affiliation. This group is not about debating politics, venting outrage or trying to force anyone to change. It is about restoring clarity and self-possession and learning how to respond to MAGA-affected loved ones in a practical, disciplined and transformational way.
The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by UU PEACE Fellowship and Friends for Common Ground of Southern Pines, NC.
If you are unable to attend in person, you may attend by Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89152302799 and the meeting ID is: 8915 230 2799.

08/30/2026

Rev. Colleen Clark Mother of Exiles
There’s no denying ours is a nation of immigrants. Welcoming the stranger is a religious imperative. Our Unitarian Universalist faith is not focused on dogma, creeds, scripture or any deity, we leave all that up to each of us individually. We UUs are instead focused on our actions: “Deeds, not creeds.” The religious imperative to love the stranger translates to action to us UUs. To us, love is a verb. Treating others well, taking care of them.
https://youtu.be/kXYhfkFwDGA?is=WXd8ILUNEwHVBWGO
There’s no denying ours is a nation of immigrants. Welcoming the stranger is a religious imperative. Our Unitarian Universalist faith is not focused on dogma, creeds, scripture or any deity, we leave all that up to each of us individually. We UUs are instead focused on our actions: “Deeds, not creeds.”
The religious imperative to love the stranger translates to action to us UUs. To us, love is a verb. Treating others well, taking care of them. In her famous poem about the Statue of Liberty, Emma Lazarus describes Lady Liberty as the Mother of Exiles. Let us answer the call of love and help Lady Liberty remain our country’s Mother of Exiles

https://youtu.be/kXYhfkFwDGA?is=WXd8ILUNEwHVBWGO There’s no denying ours is a nation of immigrants. Welcoming the stranger is a religious imperative. Our Uni

08/16/2026

John Pavlovitz For Good

When we think about the difficult days we have been walking through, it's natural for us to lament the ways that we have been negatively altered: the irritability that seems constant, the loss of optimism about the future, the sense of dread always hovering in the periphery. We can easily inventory the changes within us that we are unhappy about.

Yet, it's important to realize that there is more going on here. We can, and we should, consider the ways we have been renovated that we are grateful for; for clarity that has come, for relationships we've built, for voices we've found.
With all there is to grieve over and all we've lost, we have also been changed for good.

https://youtu.be/dhXjVVfQiRA When we think about the difficult days we have been walking through, it's natural for us to lament the ways that we have been nega

08/09/2026

Some sounds don’t ask to be understood — just felt. 🌊 Bittersweetness moves like breath through static, holding grief and grace in the same pulse. A melancholy meditation, out now. Let it wash over you

08/02/2026

Rev Patty Hanneman In the Company of Strangers

Have you ever sacrificed your integrity to belong? Have you ever sacrificed belonging for integrity? How might engaging with strangers lead to stronger communities of resilience and flourishing? This morning we reflect on our need to “belong” and its effects on our communities and ourselves.

  https://youtu.be/-k5Nu3Eo7So   Have you ever sacrificed your integrity to belong? Have you ever sacrificed belonging for integrity? How might