by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Feb 20, 2025 | Weekly Message
I’m sure a lot of you have been having some of the same feelings that I have since the new administration took over the White House a month ago. Horror and shock, even though they are doing exactly the things they said they would. Anger and helplessness, even as we...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Feb 13, 2025 | Weekly Message
After seven years of ministry with UU Avl, I will be embarking on a three-monthsabbatical. I’ve been putting it off for a while. There was Rev. Ward’s retirement, thearrival of an interim minister, COVID, and welcoming a new minister. This year it couldhave been “the...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Feb 6, 2025 | Weekly Message
Since Hurricane Helene, Rev. Claudia, congregational leaders and I have had many conversations about how our plans for the year have changed. This is, of course, only my second year here with you all as your Lead Minister. Last year was an “ok, so how do we do things...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jan 23, 2025 | Weekly Message
Dear Ones, I’m writing to you as a recently minted trustee for UUCA, on the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day — the same day the chief justice will swear in the next president of the United States. It strikes me as a strange and dissonant moral...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jan 16, 2025 | Weekly Message
My family is not a storytelling family. No, we are a story repeating family. We will tell the same stories over and over when we are together, often using the same words and the same inflection and the same jokes. I do this too. My wife Allison will roll her eyes and...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jan 9, 2025 | Weekly Message
As we begin 2025 I hold deep gratitude for the gift of a week off that all our staff is given at the end of the year. It was a joyful and relaxing to be with family and friends in Florida where I moved from to serve this congregation. I recall during my interview one...
