by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jun 20, 2024 | Weekly Message
Recently I have been struggling to celebrate and find joy when it feels like the world is falling apart, when there is too much to mourn on this little blue speck. It seems I have lost some of my emotional elasticity. I can’t move from fear, and grief, and outrage to...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jun 16, 2024 | Featured, Weekly Message
David comes to UU Asheville with a lifelong love of reading, bookselling, classical music and great film, most notably CITIZEN KANE. Born in coastal Texas, he grew up among oil refineries and the Gulf of Mexico before attending college in Houston as a performance...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jun 12, 2024 | Weekly Message
Greetings Friends! I was invited by Rev. Claudia to write a blog about what the Environmental Action Team has been up to. And since I am chilling at home resting a wounded shoulder, I thought “Why not, it’ll keep me from getting bored and I can brag about this...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jun 6, 2024 | Weekly Message
Mars and I were walking down in Greenwich Village one sunny day a few years back, when I glanced casually aside at the wall we were passing. We were under one of the innumerable fabricated construction awnings, so the whole area felt hidden, but I suddenly tuned into...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | May 23, 2024 | Weekly Message
You probably know the parable of the blind men and the elephant: A group of blind men try to understand a strange new animal brought to their town – an elephant – each by feeling a part of it. Their descriptions were of course vastly different, but quite reasonably...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | May 15, 2024 | Weekly Message
As we come to the end of the 2023-24 Religious Exploration year, I’ve had time for a few moments of reflection between planning for the summer and for next year. When I think about the good work we do here, it always makes me think of some of the words that guide me:...
