Unitarian Universalist Peace Fellowship - Raleigh

06/07/2026

John Pavlovitz Showing Your True Colors

Pride Month is here, and though much of the next few weeks will rightly be about celebration and visibility for those among us who are members of the LGBTQ community, they are critical days for those who aspire to be good allies and advocates, as well.
We are all facing the question, "Who am I?"
Pride at its heart is about identity; about fighting to ensure that everyone can live into their truest truths without fear or hindrance. It's important to remember that Pride began as a protest, and in days when simple equality is facing such fierce resistance, clearly declaring our opposition to bigotry and ignorance is more important than ever.
Pride is asking each of us who we will be, how we want to show up in the world, and the mark we want to leave on this place. May we let our true colors show.

https://youtu.be/pl3YPhOcTic?si=GPO45BuZkUPPdFfb Pride Month is here, and though much of the next few weeks will rightly be about celebration and visibility fo

06/02/2026

Reverends Rebecca Suzik and Robert Muns Four Loves, One Rule
Together let’s explore the many ways we experience Love through family, friendship, romance, compassion, and community, and the shared wisdom found across the world’s faiths and philosophies calling us to treat each other with dignity, empathy, and care. Beneath many traditions and differences, there may be one guiding principle capable of transforming both our relationships and our world: Love.

Together let’s explore the many ways we experience Love through family, friendship, romance, compassion, and community, and the shared wisdom found across the

05/30/2026

Well, we had a great time on our WILDFLOWER EXPRESS WALK in Durant Nature Preserve. Many thanks Liz, Shelley,Laurie and the incomparable four-legged Ginny who made it a great morning. We found wildflowers and the hidden homestead.

05/28/2026

A Walk in the Woods
This Saturday, May 30 @ 9:00 am NO RAIN DATE
Durant Nature Reserve – North Entrance
(Off Durant Road – next to Open Door Church)
8305 Camp Durant Rd
Raleigh, NC 27614
Sue Barnett will lead a walk in Durant Nature Preserve to search for wildflowers. The walk will be about a mile. We will follow a gravel trail and a narrow path around the lake. My son can help with an alternate route that is shorter and stays on the asphalt path. Wear comfy shoes and bring a water bottle. I’ll bring donut holes. Sue Barnett 919-389-0638

And to the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul. -- John Muir

05/03/2026

UUPF Choir Performs Bridge over Troubled Water

https://youtu.be/nduVNgQ6Ge4

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04/26/2026

John Pavlovitz The Good News Feed

When we look around right now, it seems like there is nothing but terrible disaster, endless suffering, perpetual injustice.

Our timelines, news shows, and our heads are filled with the cruelty and inhumanity around us, so much so that it can feel as though all is lost; that we are in a hopeless spiral downward with no way of recovering.

But that is only part of the story. There is a dissenting news feed that is filled with reasons to be hopeful, if we're able to pull ourselves away from the doom scrolling and disaster prophecies and see it.

Beauty is still here. Empathy is still doing its work. Love is still on the case.
Let's bring the good news.

https://youtu.be/tJCkd5voSrI When we look around right now, it seems like there is nothing but terrible disaster, endless suffering, perpetual injustice. Our

04/25/2026

When You Wore a Tulip
Words by Jackie Mahoney - Music By Percy Wenrich
Performed by the UUPF Choir

04/11/2026

Rev. Colleen Clark Build Your Own Personal Religion_ Putting Together the Pieces
Emerson said “Every church has a membership of one.” We UUs are encouraged to build our own theology. We give ourselves permission to do this, but how many of us take the time to consider the various theological elements and what we might put in place of—or re-insert with a different interpretation—those religious elements we perhaps rejected from our childhood or previous faiths, or just build completely new ones? We’ll reflect on this this morning.


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Emerson said "Every church has a membership of one." We UUs are encouraged to build our own theology. We give ourselves permission to do this, but how many of us take the time to consider the various theological elements and what we might put in place of—or re-insert with a different interpretation—those religious elements we perhaps rejected from our childhood or previous faiths, or just build completely new ones? We'll reflect on this this morning.

  https://youtu.be/qeojItynJyc?si=BmQq6Tjk8apcJEM3   Emerson said "Every church has a membership of one." We UUs are encouraged to build our ow

04/11/2026

Rev Rebecca Suzik Come to Your Senses
You are invited to come home to yourself through a full spectrum of our senses. Beyond sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell we each have human capacities for varying ways of experiencing life: our sense of balance, our awareness of movement, our innate knowing … subtle signals within our human experience.
https://youtu.be/SdN3oQhuOPc
You are invited to come home to yourself through a full spectrum of our senses. Beyond sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell we each have human capacities for varying ways of experiencing life: our sense of balance, our awareness of movement, our innate knowing … subtle signals within our human experience.

https://youtu.be/SdN3oQhuOPc You are invited to come home to yourself through a full spectrum of our senses. Beyond sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell we ea

03/08/2026

Memorial for Ed Obregon (1940 - 2025) on February 14, 2026