UUCA – Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta

By Pam Kilmer, UUCA Board Member Most people would agree that moderation and balance is a good thing. However, UUs, like other people, sometimes become very hard-line about the issues that they care the most about, whether it’s ethical eating, social justice or other good causes. An excess of zeal toward a good cause can [...]

Our congregation is once again working with a diversity of faith-based organizations and congregations to build a home for a needy family. This will be the 9th Interfaith Habitat for Humanity build, and UUCA has been involved in all of them. And this house build is pulling together the most variety of faiths we have [...]

It’s been an eventful summer! Laura and I celebrated our 20th anniversary on Aug. 18, and we also continued preparations for sending our daughter Sophia off to college at St. Andrews in Scotland. We’ll be accompanying her there in mid-September. And then begins a new chapter in our lives: empty-nesting! It was also an eventful [...]

Dana Poss, UUCA’s youth programs coordinator, along with 3 other UUCA members, attended a UUA training to become OWL facilitators for youth in 7th – 12th grades. OWL, or Our Whole Lives, is a lifespan series of sexuality education curricula that begins in kindergarten and goes through adulthood. It helps participants make informed and responsible decisions about their sexual [...]

You should have been there. That was what the buzz was among those UUCA members and staff who traveled to Minneapolis last month to attend the annual General Assembly (GA) of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (UUA). For some of us self-confessed GA junkies who have been going for quite a while, these gatherings [...]

By Eric Pohl, UUCA Board Member One of the major initiatives of your Board of Trustees in 2010-2011 is the creation of a new Long Range Plan for UUCA. While any organization can carry on for quite a while without a viable Long Range Plan, operating under a Long Range Plan provides distinct advantages: it [...]

By Beth Valentine, UUCA Board Member The recent election by the congregation of four new board members was an enlightening and humbling process. I knew UUCA had a board, but honestly I didn’t know very much about what the board does, who is on it, or what their responsibilities entailed. Having attended our first meeting [...]

Lately, people have been asking me about where we are with our congregation-wide Sustainable Living Initiative. Glad you asked! This past year saw wonderful achievements. The Initiative’s mission is for UUCA to become a leader in equipping people to lead more sustainable lives, and to that end, we saw the following efforts: The MLK Day [...]

By Pam Kilmer, UUCA Board Member In a recent UU World article, Janet H. Bowering started by saying, “A church is people. It is not a body of belief, a set of principles, or an impressive structure of stone, wood, and glass.” This statement resonated with me because that is what drew me to UUCA [...]

How long has it been since you looked at your high school yearbook? Inspired by our recent graduates (which we honored at the May 16th Bridging Service), I looked at mine. There I was— Anthony from 26 years ago—weird hairstyle and all. On one of the pages, a girl I secretly liked wrote, “Anthony, you [...]