UUCA – Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta

X-Files and You Rev. Anthony David October 31, 2010 I want to start out this morning by sharing a real-life X-File with you. Do you get that image, “X-File”? Comes from a hit television show of the same name, which aired in the 1990s and up till 2002. In the show, X-Files are unsolved [...]

Members & Friends, Stay in the loop with UUCA events, classes, groups and more by reading our November 2010 Newsletter, now available online, click here. If you’re signed up to get the print edition, it will arrive in your mailbox soon. If you’d like to be put on the list for the print edition, just [...]

One of the ways we live UUCA’ s mission is by supporting it financially through our annual pledges. Like many congregations, UUCA is self-sustaining, and is supported primarily by pledge dollars. All our many ministries of spiritual growth, caring, service, and action in the wider community are possible through people’ s financial gifts. As of [...]

The  Creative  Journey Last Tuesday I made a cross town pilgrimage to the Woodruff Physical Education Center—the gymnasium at Emory University—to what was called The Visit 2010, the Dalai Lama’s scheduled events on his very periodic public teaching schedule as a scholar in residence there. The session I chose was called “ The Creative [...]

Going the Distance Rev. Anthony David Oct. 17, 2010 “Welcome to the 7th grade—that hellish, shaky bridge you all must cross before you become members of the enviable high school elite.” That’s how Mr. Simonet greets his students, first day, first thing, in the movie, Pay It Forward. Was 7th grade like that for [...]

By Cyndi McFarland, UUCA Board Secretary I came across something very interesting about the word “faith” in a devotional by Martin B. Copenhaver, Sr. Pastor at Wellesley Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, Massachusetts. The title of the devotional was “Faithing in God,” and he said that the English language is the only European language [...]

Our Deepest Explosions, and Theodore Parker Rev. Anthony David October 10, 2010 A couple of days ago, I had the genuine pleasure of meeting the Rev. C. T. Vivian, a key leader in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, a colleague and close friend to Martin Luther King Jr. I shared with him [...]

UUCA is a leader congregation in our larger movement. Two of our staff will be in Auburn, AL in October 10th at the Mid-South District’s Healthy Congregations Conference. Chance Hunter, Director of Welcome Ministries, will be co-leading the membership and communications track entitled “Best Practices in Membership Communications.” Our Youth Programs Coordinator, Dana Poss, will [...]

Wisdom Sources: Buddhism Rev. Anthony David Oct. 3, 2010 The classic Buddhist tale, “The Nervous Little Rabbit,” is one of five hundred or so “Jataka Tales,” traditionally ascribed to the founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, as his way of describing his experience in former incarnations: mistakes made, lessons learned. It’s a tale, a fable—but, [...]

From this month forward, as we approach the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Unitarian Universalist Association in May 2011, I thought it would be fun to focus on the “UU Top Ten.” What are ten main things that all Unitarian Universalists need to know about their faith community? My vision is this: By [...]