by Faith Dev Team | Mar 17, 2021 | Vespers & Wednesday Program
?6:30 Vespers ?will ?be led by Joyce Hooley? Gingrich.?? March 24 will be the first Vespers after the First Day of Spring (The Spring Equinox, is on March 20 this year,) thus, we will be listening to selected readings from Aldo Leopold, and reflecting...
by Faith Dev Team | Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized, Vespers & Wednesday Program
Join Vespers leader Kelly Wedell in exploring our collective commitment to our messy humanity using a different interpretation of the starfish story. Our program will be “Aging as A Spiritual Practice: The Five Fears” facilitated by Jim Steffe. March 3...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 15, 2021 | Scoop
Susan Steffe and Rebecca Bringle led a book discussion group of Welcoming the Unwelcome by Pema Chodron, the acclaimed American Buddhist nun who for years has been the principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. There were fourteen members who met biweekly for 5...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 15, 2021 | Featured
Grief is a fact of our lives these days with all the losses we’ve suffered with the COVID-19 pandemic, but it doesn’t have to consume our lives. It can be the key to growth if we understand it as Francis Weller suggests as “a threshold emotion”...
by uuasheville | Mar 14, 2021 | Sermons
Sunday, March 14, 2021 Rev. Claudia Jimenez, Minister of Faith Development Sor Juana’s commitment to writing and learning during the 1600’s in Nueva España (modern Mexico) when women were expected to be “silent in church” invites us to consider...