A Different Story

The story once told of Asheville was that heritage of slavery, so important across most of North Carolina, was never really much of an issue here. Compared with the plantations of the Piedmont, it was said, there was very little in the way of slavery in the mountains....

The Climate Reality Leadership Corps

Right now, this very second, UUCA has three recent graduates of Vice President Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Training.  Wink Zachritz, Ed Prestemon, and I will be receiving our Green Ring pins in the mail soon to indicate our accomplishments.  We join Sally...

Finding Hope: What Is Your Call?

Our seemingly endless physical distancing, the dilemma of how to provide safe schooling, federal interference with peaceful protests, political intransigence on all fronts – there are moments when hope eludes me. But I’m reminded daily that we live in a world of...

Living At the Speed of Change

So, welcome to our 2020-’21 church year! If you thought last year was crazy and disruptive, get ready for the one ahead, what with an escalating COVID pandemic, an epochal election season, extraordinary economic turmoil, and social upheaval as Americans begin to come...

A View On Change

The definition of change is: Make or become different; The act or instance of making or becoming different. Has change affected you and how you are doing things today compared to a month, six months, or even a year ago? Throughout our lives we have been faced with...

Living At the Speed of Change

So, welcome to our 2020-’21 church year! If you thought last year was crazy and disruptive, get ready for the one ahead, what with an escalating COVID pandemic, an epochal election season, extraordinary economic turmoil, and social upheaval as Americans begin to come...