Our UU Heritage: Ralph Waldo Emerson
This month, UU St. Pete explores our heritage, beginning with noted transcendentalist and Unitarian minister Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Upcoming Worship Services
Olympia Brown was a suffragist and the first woman to be ordained as a minister with the consent of her denomination: Unitarians! Our “Gift of Heritage” theme continues, and our worship service will be followed by a fire drill – feel free to return … read more. Our “Gift of Heritage” theme continues with one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was also an abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker…and Unitarian. “The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence,” wrote Trappist monk and peace activist Thomas Merton. “The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. . . . It destroys the fruitfulness of … read more.
Our UU Heritage: Olympia Brown
Our UU Heritage: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
“The Peace of Trees” with Rev. Fred Small