It has been a long, grueling Presidential campaign. I often think of how much worse it is for the candidates who are running than for those of us in the bleachers watching. This time, though, I gotta say that it’s been pretty hard on us in the stands, too. And...
Join us in calling on Sheriff Smith and PVCC President Friedman to cease fanning the flames of the anti-Muslim rhetoric/actions we are already seeing locally and nationally. Linda Dukes has been organizing this with help from Christina Rivera and Rev. Wik. Hope you can come—if you have a Standing On...
Our congregation welcomes anyone from the community to this free workshop, provided by the Alzheimer’s Association. Come learn facts about detection, stages, and treatment. Details: 10 am – 11:30 am, Saturday, November 5
There have been both contentious and contentious elections before. U.S. history is full of very nasty campaigns. During the campaign of 1870, a prominent supporter of the incumbent, John Adams, said that if Thomas Jefferson were to be elected, “we would see our wives and daughters the victims of legal...
The Work of Healing This month we’re asking ourselves what it means that we, as Unitarian Universalists, are “a people of healing.” The verb “to heal” has an interesting etymology. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, “heal” comes from the Old English hælan which means, “cure; save; make whole, sound and well.” ...
October is a month of abundance. It marks the end of the growing season—the time to gather and store the last fruits of the harvest and to celebrate. It also brings the first nips of cold and reminds us that winter and its hardships are coming. Living in central Virginia...
A Hug Remembered – One of the great gifts of serving a congregation is the opportunity to hear people’s stories. Because I am, “a minister,” people share things with me — often things that are very personal, and very profound.
Last night I attended a public forum hosted by the Blue Ribbon Commission the Charlottesville City Council called into being for the purpose of deciding what to do about the large and prominent statues of Generals “Stonewall” Jackson and Robert E. Lee. Earlier this year a high school student started a petition to have the statue...
Driving in to work following the first Presidential debate, I heard a commentator describing the different views of the United States that he’d heard the night before. Of Donald Trump’s he said that it was “negative” and “dystopian,” and that it was as if he saw the US as “the...
This morning I submitted the following letter to my local paper The Daily Progress. In July I wrote a post which expanded on this theme.
