UUCA – Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta

A Christmas Truce Rev. Anthony David Dec. 20, 2009 The longest night of the year fast approaches: the winter solstice. It comes quickly, and to the ancients, this was always a source of anxiety. Will the longest night move so fast that, like a bird of prey, it’ll sweep in, snatch up the light, swallow [...]

Planting Seeds of Soul: The Seed of Willpower Rev. Anthony David Dec. 13, 2009 “As soon as you trust yourself,” the great writer Goethe once said, “you will know how to live.” Again and again, we hear stories that testify to this truth. Consider this one, coming from William James, pioneering American psychologist and [...]

On any given weekday, a quick inventory of the contents of our food barrel reveals a variety of healthy, non-perishable canned and dry goods: oatmeal, organic tomato sauce and spaghetti noodles, corn muffin mix, and beef stew. All of these meet the needs of Project Take Charge, a program of Decatur Cooperative Ministry (DCM) which [...]

An Infinite Expectation of the Dawn Rev. Anthony David Dec. 6, 2009 Poet Katha Pollitt writes, When I was a child I understood everything about, for example, futility. Standing for hours on the hot asphalt outfield, trudging for balls I’d ask myself, how many times will I have to perform this pointless task, and all [...]

It’s funny how the holiday season rolls around without fail every year, and as you get older the faster it seems to come around. As a child my least favorite day of the year was the day after Christmas. I would think “I have to wait another whole year for Christmas again….bah humbug.” As a [...]

What Christmas used to be is very different from what it is now, and Unitarian Universalists had a lot to do with its transformation. This is a little-known story that begs to be told. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Christmas in America was a time of excess—more like Mardi Gras than anything else. It [...]