What do you know about the Beloved Community? What does your child know? I’ll admit that what I thought I knew about the Beloved Community, and what I’d shared with my children, turned out to be woefully under-nuanced for the tasks of our times, and I’ve gratefully anticipated this theme’s...
Tomas Manto is a Charlottesville native artist currently studying painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. He works primarily with oil paint and photoshop. His work focuses on themes of love, friendship, and companionship, but they are also influenced by film, and there are references to this throughout his...
I invite you to imagine a time in your own life when you were willing and strong. A time when you felt ready and you had fortitude to do something you did not think you could do… As you ponder this, does something arise for you immediately—or is your mind...
Our UU community has been a vital part of IMPACT for years, and struggling local individuals and families need us more than ever now. Here’s an update on the two justice crises we’re tackling this year.
Active Minds: a group of warm-hearted Elders that meets by Zoom to share interests and stories from our lives and to discuss the issues of the day. We open with a poem, followed by personal check-ins, and then a discussion – often free-wheeling, sometimes with a topic to bring focus....
FOCUS: A New Day Rising January 20 this week felt like New Year’s Day to many of us giving thanks for the Inauguration. Now is the time for focusing anew on this congregation’s work for justice and healing. UUC’Ville leaders are resuming Racial Justice work, and to begin, all are...
KING CONFIDANT ANDREW J. YOUNG TO SPEAK IN CHARLOTTESVILLE Comments by the Honorable Andrew J. Young, former Ambassador to the United Nations, will be featured at the 36th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Event, a virtual celebration, on Sunday, January 24 at 4 pm on You Tube, “MLK Cville.” ...
The Charlottesville UU’s have provided holiday gifts to Greer Elementary School families for several years, even before I arrived at Greer three years ago. Each year, our Greer Family Support Team gathered information on 8-10 of our neediest families. And each December, our team arrived at Cville UU with vans...
Most of the growth, learning, work, and meaningful connections in a congregation take place in small groups – committees or book groups or Covenant Groups or support groups. Oftentimes, the quality of the experience felt by the participants depends on caring facilitation. If you are a small group facilitator or...