A Season of Loss
Our guest speaker and musician Rob Lytle will discuss our very human emotional reactions to the loss of friends and loved ones and our struggle to find meaning.
Archives: Services
Waters of the Smoky Mountains
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 … read more.
Piano Player
Join us for our Labor Day serivce. “Player Piano”, Kurt Vonnegut’s 1952 novel, uses vividly imagined scenarios to portray the impact of automation on workers. What can we learn from “Player Piano” and past history as we consider the increasingly-deployed automation in today’s workplaces?
Kurt Vonnegut … read more.
Applying Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins to the Public School Classroom
As we return to a new school year, John deVille joins us to explore Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins as applied to the public school classroom: Wealth without work / Pleasure without conscience / Knowledge without character / Commerce without morality / Science without humanity / … read more.
Navigating Transformation: The Power of Community Support
Welcome to our Unitarian service on transformation, where we explore the profound changes that shape our lives and our world. Together, we’ll dive into stories of personal growth, collective evolution, and the power of change to inspire and uplift. Whether you’re seeking renewal, insight, or … read more.
Spirit of the Southern Appalachians
Join us as we celebrate the heritage of our Region — the Southern Appalachians and the Great Smoky Mountains — in song and story. We’ll watch two stories from The Appalachian Storyteller and Cira will join us to play mountain music on mandolin, banjo and … read more.
In Times Like These
Once again, America finds itself at a crossroads with nothing but the will of The People to guide her one way or the other. We are again reminded that freedom is, as the song goes, a constant struggle. As Frederick Douglass said, “it is not … read more.
Come Sing a Song with Us
Be prepared for a joyful morning as Tom Tyre and the Ubuntu choir join us to sing songs from around the world.
Here’s To the Ones Who Show Us How It’s Done
We all have had mentors in our lives who nudged us in the directions that shaped our lives. (Join us for the concert at 2:30.)
The Life of Mountains and Stars
First Nations and Indigenous communities world-wide have begun to raise objections to the building of astronomical facilities on their land questioning the impact and value of astronomical research to those communities and their environment. Reflecting on the impact of colonization and seeking a meaningful, … read more.