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...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jun 18, 2025 | Weekly Message
Our youth group travelers are heading to GA this week! Fresh faced and mostly excited, ten of our high schoolers piled into vans with their four chaperone/sponsors Wednesday morning, headed to Baltimore, MD to attend UUA’s annual General Assembly (GA). We expect...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jun 12, 2025 | Weekly Message
Opportunities to practice activism abound these days. In fact, we probably wish there weren’t such a need for our activism in service to collective liberation. Couldn’t we just get a little break from the injustices, the wrongs, the hurt? Sadly, the call for our...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jun 5, 2025 | Weekly Message
My birthday is in May, and I am a Taurus. Horoscopes are complete nonsense, except for all the ways they seem to be true (this is humor). Regardless of the stars, I do tend to go at work and justice-side things long and hard and with a certain amount of push, but to...
