UUCA – Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta

Cutting Through Abstractification Rev. Anthony David August 30, 2009 I begin with a story about one of my cats, who was originally named Xena (as in “The Warrior Princess,” after a favorite TV show of the time) but we soon realized that the better name was Zeno (as in “we made a mistake about [...]

When the Student is Ready Rev. Anthony David August 23, 2009 Charles Dickens—famous author, Unitarian also—once said a curious thing: that “The absence of the soul is far more terrible in a living person than in a dead one.” In other words, you can be alive but zombie-like; you can be breathing but your [...]

I had a marvelous trip to Salt Lake City for the 2009 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. It was an honor to serve as a delegate from UUCA and experiencing this congregation’s strong presence in our denomination’s past and present. As President of UUCA, I was blessed to attend with expenses [...]

In his book “Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap,” Edward M. Hallowell writes about how he knew he had crossed over from busy to crazy busy when he got mad at a rotary phone because of the time it took to turn back. After calming himself, he timed how long the dialing actually [...]

Sunday mornings here are a whirlwind of activity, with our services, children and youth religious education, meetings and forums and adult programming. You can see the scope of what goes on by scanning the back of the weekly Cliffhanger, and even more of the energy and spirit by walking the corridors or circling the Social [...]