Weekly Message
Each week, a member of our staff or congregational leadership writes about a topic touching our community. Topics can range from upcoming events to issues facing our local community.
Pre-Sabbatical Musings
After seven years of ministry with UU Avl, I will be embarking on a three-monthsabbatical. I’ve been putting it off for a while. There was Rev. Ward’s retirement, thearrival of an interim minister, COVID, and welcoming a new minister. This year it couldhave been “the...
How to Put Love at the Center
Since Hurricane Helene, Rev. Claudia, congregational leaders and I have had many conversations about how our plans for the year have changed. This is, of course, only my second year here with you all as your Lead Minister. Last year was an “ok, so how do we do things...
Standing on the Side of Love
Dear Ones, I'm writing to you as a recently minted trustee for UUCA, on the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- the same day the chief justice will swear in the next president of the United States. It strikes me as a strange and dissonant moral coincidence, a day...
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Weekly Message
Each week, a member of our staff or congregational leadership writes about a topic touching our community. Topics can range from upcoming events to issues facing our local community.
The Work Continues
The theme among the Soul Matters groups, the Faith Formation classes, and our congregation this month is Trust, which I am having a hard time with these days. I’m having a hard time trusting elected representatives when they host town halls full of angry people and...
April Dinner & Vespers: April 2nd at 6pm
Join us for dinner and fellowship followed by a service with Ministerial Intern Matt Farris. Dinner at 6pm and Service at 7pm. RSVP HERE Vespers are held on the first Wednesday of every month, August - May.
Trust, and Keep Planting
This month our Soul Matters Theme is “living love through the practice of trust.” When reality and the news headlines seem surreal it is often difficult to trust that all will be well. And yet history reminds us that perseverance and hope (hope that fuels collective...