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.
We Are Still Here
Dear ones - In a time of trauma and shock – and Asheville has been through almost unimaginable trauma and shock over the last month and a half - it’s important to focus on first principles: food. Water. Shelter. Securing the safety and wellbeing of those you love....
Pastoral Letter, October 17,2024 UUAvl
The past three weeks have been a time of unprecedented disaster in Asheville. But even as our beloved places and people have faced almost unimaginable upheaval and loss, we have seen an outpouring of love, support, and community care that speaks so deeply to our...
Other People Matter
Like many of you, I’ve been spending a good bit of time in recent months writing postcards, making phone calls, and participating in door-to-door canvassing. These are activities I had no time for before I retired a yearago. Yet, at every event, I spot other UUs. Each...
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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.
Welcome to our New Administrative Assistant, Lauren Kriel!
After Hurricane Helene, we had some staff reshuffling. Our wonderful Administrative Specialist, Aja Gaul (they/them), relocated back home to Tennessee, and began working remotely 30 hours, rather than FT with us. That left a gap of in-office work at UU Avl, which our...
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...
Repeating Collective Stories
My family is not a storytelling family. No, we are a story repeating family. We will tell the same stories over and over when we are together, often using the same words and the same inflection and the same jokes. I do this too. My wife Allison will roll her eyes and...