by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Apr 3, 2025 | Weekly Message
How is it with your spirit? As the incredible beauty of a Western North Carolina spring blooms around us and Easter approaches, it is a powerful spiritual tonic to look to the re-awakening world, bursting in beauty around us, and remember that there are hopeful signs...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 27, 2025 | Weekly Message
Vibrant Sunday services, lots of visitors and new members, a wealth of small groups to choose from, a bustling Faith Formation program. The positive energy around UU Asheville is palpable. Yet our congregation finds itself at a critical turning point in our...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 20, 2025 | Weekly Message
The theme among the Soul Matters groups, the Faith Formation classes, and our congregation this month is Trust, which I am having a hard time with these days. I’m having a hard time trusting elected representatives when they host town halls full of angry people and...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 13, 2025 | Weekly Message
This month our Soul Matters Theme is “living love through the practice of trust.” When reality and the news headlines seem surreal it is often difficult to trust that all will be well. And yet history reminds us that perseverance and hope (hope that fuels collective...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 6, 2025 | Weekly Message
These are the days when the news is JUST TOO MUCH. I know, I know – I can’t count how many times someone has told me they can’t follow the news because….it’s too much. We also need to know and love ourselves and each other enough to know when the storm signals...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Feb 27, 2025 | Weekly Message
Dazed, devastated, demoralized…and that’s before my morning coffee. It’s going to be a long four years. As Rev. Audette noted in a recent sermon, UU Asheville can be our sanctuary, a place that reminds us we are not alone in our turmoil. For me, a sense of connection...
