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Learning from the Youngersters
| December 15, 2025
2025-1207—Learning from the Youngers UCM—Rev. Rita Capezzi I find the holiday season a time of challenge, I would say a time of risk. Along with all the levity, disappointment raises its ugly...
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UCM Welcomes New Ministry
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | October 07, 2025
2025-1005—UCM Welcomes New Ministry UCM—Rev. Rita Capezzi In the fall of 2017, I was in the second year of my ministerial internship. I was about to appear before the Ministerial Fellowship Committee...
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Message for Truth and Reconciliation Sunday
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | October 07, 2025
Message for Truth and Reconciliation Sunday—September 28, 2025 UCM—Organized by Rev. Rita Capezzi Centering Our Learning—Words of a Congregant My parents’ lives were irrevocably marred by tragedy and trauma. Their childhoods...
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Community and Connectedness
Speaker: Charlotte Ferworn | August 14, 2025
July 13, 2025— Community and Connectedness Service Leader: Charlotte Ferworn “Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands...
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Crossing Bridges
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | August 31, 2024
As Will said earlier, I crossed the Peace Bridge to be here today. After that, I crossed the Garden City Skyway. And then I crossed the Burlington Bridge. And uncounted highway overpasses...
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Hear Me? Then Do What I Say!
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | May 11, 2024
Today we are talking about democracy and while, I pondered this - my neurodiverse beautiful mind drew a connection to dreams and dreaming. Did anyone have a dream last night that is...
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Barriers and Boundaries
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | April 24, 2024
I tell this story with permission, with the names altered. It’s been 10 years, and it still matters. Shortly after 12-year-old Tamar Rice was murdered in Cleveland in 2014 by police, Kathleen...