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...
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...
