by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 6, 2025 | Weekly Message
These are the days when the news is JUST TOO MUCH. I know, I know – I can’t count how many times someone has told me they can’t follow the news because….it’s too much. We also need to know and love ourselves and each other enough to know when the storm signals...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Feb 27, 2025 | Weekly Message
Dazed, devastated, demoralized…and that’s before my morning coffee. It’s going to be a long four years. As Rev. Audette noted in a recent sermon, UU Asheville can be our sanctuary, a place that reminds us we are not alone in our turmoil. For me, a sense of connection...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Feb 20, 2025 | Weekly Message
I’m sure a lot of you have been having some of the same feelings that I have since the new administration took over the White House a month ago. Horror and shock, even though they are doing exactly the things they said they would. Anger and helplessness, even as we...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Feb 13, 2025 | Weekly Message
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...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Feb 6, 2025 | Weekly Message
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...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jan 23, 2025 | Weekly Message
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...
