by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Sep 18, 2025 | Featured, Weekly Message
During the first weeks of my freshman year of college, there was the student organization fair. Do any of you remember those? Every student group had a table out to try to recruit new members. My college had the usual array of a cappella troupes, political...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Sep 11, 2025 | Weekly Message
Beloveds, as we continue to witness the assault on our rights and values in a country that has been trying, however imperfectly, to live into what it means to be a democracy, I invite you to take a few deep breaths. Close your eyes or lower your gaze, and think about...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Sep 4, 2025 | Weekly Message
September 25th is our wedding anniversary. Last year, Rob and I were ready to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary. You might recall, that was the night when the rain began, before the hurricane. We were at the church to take part in one of our social justice...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Aug 28, 2025 | Weekly Message
We’re back in action on Sunday, September 14th! Your Faith Formation team and our fabulous collaborators have been busy getting ready for another transformative year. We’ve been meeting, sharing, and learning together over the last month to prepare to welcome our...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Aug 20, 2025 | Weekly Message
“The earth has music for those who will listen.”* I’ll be honest: When it comes to nature, I was never much of a listener. Oh, I’ve always done my best to help preserve the earth, believing fervently in the critical importance of environmentalism – but in those hectic...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Aug 14, 2025 | Weekly Message
In these times when it is difficult to express the heaviness in so many of our hearts as we witness immoral leadership making decisions that impact our communities, this story shared recently in Piloting Faith reminds me that we are not in this alone. “They say that...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Aug 7, 2025 | Featured, Weekly Message
Beloveds, my Ministerial Internship is wrapping up. My farewell service is Sunday, August 31 st . In that service I will reflect on my time as your intern: what it has meant to me, the healing power of community, how I’ve learned, some challenges I’ve faced, and so...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jul 17, 2025 | Weekly Message
There’s a pithy saying that I heard a lot growing up: “If you want to make God laugh, make plans.” It’s supposed to be a silly little proverb but it has started to take on an unkind edge in the past five years. Last September, my wife and I were in the process of...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jul 10, 2025 | Weekly Message
As I prepared for my sabbatical adventures a few months ago, I shared that I was centering my Camino Portugues walk from Porto to Santiago de Compostela on the invitation by Francis Zanzaro in “Zen of the Wild” to focus not so much on what one can get out of the walk,...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jun 26, 2025 | Weekly Message
In 2023 the Board of Trustees developed the Four Pillars Strategy as a follow on to the successful Meet the Moment campaign. Confronted with another deficit budget the strategy was implemented with the goal of reaching a balanced budget and setting the stage for...
