NFUUF

Services

Our worship services draw from diverse sources including science, poetry, scripture, and personal experience
At this time we are meeting on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month

Recent past services

September 11, "Reversing the Pipeline" - Dr Kerry Spooner  Sound Justice Initiative

The goal is for incarcerated students to become excited about learning, so that upon release they are inspired to continue with their education.

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August 28, The Religious Case for Choice - Rev. Ben Bortin

A look at the ethical and religious argument for upholding a women's rights over her own pregnancy.

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August 14, "That was then, This is now"

Fellowship founding member Mary Ellen Tomaszewski presented a light-hearted look at personal and spiritual growth.

July 24, A Mid-Summer Look at Shakespeare - Rev. Ben Bortin

For uncommon insight into human behavior, for formidable perception about questions of life and death, perhaps nobody rivals the man widely considered to be the greatest person of English letters, William Shakespeare. A brief mid-summer look at the contribution of the man whom poet Louis Untermeyer called "a mirror to humankind."

July 10, Portrait - UU - Pete Seeger 

 Fellowship founding member, Mary Ellen Tomaszewski presented a service on “Pete Seeger - activist, song writer, Unitarian Universalist.”

 June 26 - “The Unitarian Universalist Adventure” – Rev. Ben Bortin

“Ours is a religious adventure, in my view. Where else is there a spiritual approach that so unabashedly celebrates the free and inquiring mind, in lieu of inflexible doctrine or unquestioned holy writ?"

June 12th- "The Wisdom of Rabbi Marc Gellman"  - NFUUF member Jim Cain

Subjects: Pillars of our Faiths, Nature and Miracles, Prayer for Uvalde

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May 22nd- "Worship Service of Celebration" - NFUUF founding member Mary Ellen Tomaszewski

Marking 26 years since the North Fork UU Fellowship became a church. We reflect on our past. We remember the diversity of speakers. We see reason to celebrate - both our past and our optimism about our future.

Announcing: Rev Ben Bortin will be joining us at least once a month!

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We hope you’ll join us for our worship services: 10:30 followed by coffee in the hospitality room.

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The Eight Principles

Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote eight Principles, which we hold as strong values and moral guides. We live out these Principles within a “living tradition” of wisdom and spirituality, drawn from sources as diverse as science, poetry, scripture, and personal experience.

As Rev. Barbara Wells ten Hove explains, “The Principles are not dogma or doctrine, but rather a guide for those of us who choose to join and participate in Unitarian Universalist religious communities.”

1. 1st Principle: The inherent worth and dignity of every person;

2. 2nd Principle: Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;

3. 3rd Principle: Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;

4. 4th Principle: A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;

5. 5th Principle: The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;

6. 6th Principle: The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;

7. 7th Principle: Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

8. *8th Principle: We covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.

The eight Principles and six Sources of the Unitarian Universalist Association grew out of the grassroots of our communities, were affirmed democratically, and are part of who we are.

About Us

In Unitarian Universalism, you can bring your whole self: your full identity, your questioning mind, your expansive heart.

Together, we create a force more powerful than one person or one belief system. As Unitarian Universalists, we do not have to check our personal background and beliefs at the door: we join together on a journey that honors everywhere we’ve been before.

Our beliefs are diverse and inclusive. We have no shared creed. Our shared covenant (our seven Principles) supports “the free and responsible search for truth and meaning.” Though Unitarianism and Universalism were both liberal Christian traditions, this responsible search has led us to embrace diverse teachings from Eastern and Western religions and philosophies.

Unitarian Universalists believe more than one thing. We think for ourselves, and reflect together, about important questions:

• The existence of a Higher Power

• Life and Death

• Sacred Texts

• Prayer and Spiritual Practices

We are united in our broad and inclusive outlook, and in our values, as expressed in our seven Principles. We are united in shared experience: our open and stirring worship services, religious education, and rites of passage; our work for social justice; our quest to include the marginalized; our expressions of love.

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