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Join us for our annual water communion. This year we honor the anniversary of Hurricane Helene and the resilience of our communities in Western North Carolina. The water communion is a special UU service. Members bring a small amount of water from a place that is special to them. Duringthe service, people one by one … Continue reading Water Communion: Stronger than the Storm
Skye Cahoon, Outreach Director for Mainspring Conservation Trust, will speak on the intimate connection between native plants and native wildlife. This talk will feature local examples of Southern Appalachian wildlife, as well as action steps we can take towards a brighter environmental future.
Join us as we celebrate Earth Day with the UUA’s Climate Revival with this award-winning sermon on video. Some Zombies may join us !!
Exploring our relationship to pesticides, oppressive agricultural practices, Nature, and the Great Mother herself, Donna Glee and Lynn will be taking us on a walk through the The Night Field, the 2023 ecofantasy that won the Manly Wade Wellman Award for for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Join us for our annual Water Communion. This uniquely Unitarian Universalist service is our homecoming for the beginning of a new Fellowship year. We’ll celebrate our region with the Cherokee creation stories that include the Water Beetle and the Water Spider. Please bring along water from near by or far away to share in our … Continue reading Waters of the Smoky Mountains
Join us for our annual Flower Celebration. Rev. Tim Kutzmark from the UU Church of Fresno, California will share the history of this unique Unitarian Universalist service. Rev. Norbert Čapek created this ceremony in 1923 in Prague as a way to bring the beauty of the natural world into the church. Since that time, we … Continue reading Flower Celebration
All of life’s processes are driven and controlled by Microbes, the tiniest living creatures that live all around us, on us, and within us whose work keeps us all healthy, happy, and alive in this beautiful and diverse world. Hear a testament to the spirit of the small and mighty world of microbial life, and … Continue reading Microbes Rule: an Earth Day Celebration of the Small
In some Indigenous American cultures, trees are known as “the Standing Peoples,” our fellow citizens in the community of life. As maple sap begins to rise this year we’ll be looking at why the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) peoples call the maple the leader of trees, and what we can learn from the generosity of the maple.
This Sunday, we are between Black Friday, Buy Nothing Day, Buy Local Saturday, and Cyber Monday. As the holidays are upon us, it’s a good time to pause and consider Sustainability. In a video sermon, Rev. Michael Dowd will reflect on three topics: (1) Reality, (2) Language, and (3) cultures and how the interpretations of … Continue reading Sustainability 101: Ecology is Theology
At the suggestion of Sandi and Donn Erickson, our Fellowship book discussion group read and were captivated by Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Individually and collectively we were enriched by the author’s deep knowledge of modern botanical science interwoven with her profound indigenous wisdom and … Continue reading Braiding Sweetgrass
