Speaker: Holley Ulbrich

Holley Ulbrich is a frequent pulpit guest at UUFF. She is a member of the Clemson Fellowship and a retired Clemson economics professor with a post-retirement master’s degree in Theological Studies from Emory University. She has been preaching in area congregations since 1975. Holley is the author of The Fellowship Movement, a history of the creation of small lay-led congregations between 1947 and 1967, published by Skinner House Books.

The Gifts of the Jews

The Jewish community ended its High Holy Days yesterday.  As a faith tradition that has more than a few Jewish members, and whose practices and values have been greatly influenced by our Jewish and Christian forebears, this is a good time for us to remember … read more.

The Curious Courtship of the Nerd and the Wallflower

A somewhat light-hearted version of how we came to be the Unitarian Universalists, the only faith tradition named for two wonderfully believable Christian heresies. A time to celebrate what we were, are, and are becoming as an inclusive and welcoming community.

Religion, Spirituality, and the Non-Binary Brain

The two halves of our brain can function independently or collaboratively. Organized religions is a product of left-brain thinking–verbal, calculating, planning, orderliness.  Spiritually finds its home in the right brain in creativity, art, music, poetry, and direct experience of awe, mystery, and wonder.  How do … read more.

Affirming Women in a Non-binary World

Maleness and femaleness lie on a spectrum along many dimensions.  The work of freeing ourselves from cultural definitions of how we as women–and by implication,men–should be in the world is ongoing. Women’s history month calls us to a greater awareness of our own complicity in … read more.