by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Dec 10, 2025 | Featured, Weekly Message
Putting Our UU Values Into Action this Holiday Season As the holiday season unfolds, I’m delighted to share that our congregation has once again gathered around the warmth and symbolism of our annual UU Holiday Giving Tree. This year’s theme—sustaining a community...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Dec 4, 2025 | Featured, Weekly Message
We live in disorienting times. For many of us, our own day to day reality feels somewhat normal, and yet, we’re aware – acutely or dimly – that our neighbors and loved ones, our country itself, is in turmoil, at risk. It is hard to find our footing, as we try to...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Nov 26, 2025 | Featured, Weekly Message
Thanksgiving is a complicated holiday, given its history and the lore around it. There’s the most likely apocryphal story of the first Thanksgiving. There’s the history of pumpkin pie, which rose to prevalence as a symbol of abolitionism, given that pumpkins could be...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Nov 20, 2025 | Featured, Weekly Message
While the UU Congregation of Asheville is celebrating our 75th year, I’m reminded that such a venerable age—while deserving of rich celebration—comes with a set of challenges. Our campus buildings, for example, have reached a point where they require updates and...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Nov 13, 2025 | Featured, Vespers & Wednesday Program, Weekly Message
Last night, a small group joined in Sandburg Hall for our monthly potluck before Vespers. It was a joyful gathering with delicious food and hearty conversation. One of the joys of ministry is creating space for community building and spiritual deepening during a...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 30, 2025 | Featured, Green Tips, Weekly Message
As the light softens and the days grow shorter, the garden enters a quieter, more contemplative season. Fall invites both gardeners and landscapes to slow down, to shift from growth to renewal. Yet, even in this season of decline, the principles of sustainability are...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 16, 2025 | Featured, Weekly Message
Fall Faith Formation Update: We have some great stuff happening for families at UU Asheville! A couple of notes for this Sunday, 10/19: 7th-8th OWL begins at 10:30 am in room 3. 6th-8th Soul Matters will begin meeting in room 7 (next to the playground door on Edwin...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 8, 2025 | Featured, Weekly Message
Having compassion for yourself means that you honor and accept your humanness. – Kristin Neff This month, our Soul Matters theme is cultivating compassion. We are invited to explore what it means to have compassion for ourselves and others, and how that...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 2, 2025 | Featured, Weekly Message
“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.” Poet Emma Lazarus Rev. Claudia and I spend a lot of time thinking, individually and together, about the life of this congregation and the best ways we can serve. We meet each week, with Donald as senior staff and one on...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Sep 25, 2025 | Featured, Weekly Message
On behalf of your board of trustees, welcome to the new church year! This year’s board officers and members are: Mara Sprain, president (serving through June 2026); Will Jernigan, vice president (2028); Monica Youngman, clerk (2026); Jim Gamble (2026); Susan Andrew...
