“When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.” – Buddha

"Writer, lecturer, abolitionist and suffragist, Julia Ward Howe not only authored the Civil War anthem 'Battle Hymn of the Republic,' but she also co-founded the American Woman Suffrage Association." – Debra Michals, PhD

Sermon by lay leader Jessy Swinkford

Sermon by Dr. Marc Mullinax

Justice for the Earth

April is poetry month.

This Easter morning, we practice the art of embracing possibility. Service is for 10:30 and is followed by an Easter Egg hunt and brunch.

A small moment can be just long enough to fall in love with life all over again.

An embodied, liberative reflection on the sacred rhythm between illumination and shadow.

The occasion of St. Patrick's Day invites us to explore the interwoven traditions of pre-Christian Gaelic paganism and the Catholic faith. Our March theme of paying attention encourages us to embrace the subtle ways that cultures meet and merge.

Rather than claiming certainty about ultimate truths, Unitarian Universalism invites us to stand in awe of life’s depth and complexity, to approach existence with curiosity instead of rigid answers.

With the theme “Ways to Put Love into Action,” the World Café becomes a lived expression of UU theology—inviting participants to practice love through presence, curiosity, and connection, and to carry that love outward into the wider world.

Jim Scott will bring joy and music to UUFH as he speaks with passion on ecology, justice, and peace.

The Unitarian Universalist faith today proclaims love as its central value. But how did we arrive here?

Recommit to antiracism work as we learn about the ongoing needs of Hendersonville's Black community with City Council member Melinda Lowrance

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it." — Martin Luther King Jr.

Artists have shown us how to preserve our humanity in the face of persecution, protest injustice, and re-imagine new realities and new truths.

We will explore the connections between Dr. King's work and Unitarian Universalism.

We will consider how our choices, behaviors, and our daily actions, are aligned with personal values.

The coming of the new year is an opportunity release the bitterness, the anger, that keeps us stuck in the past.

It is important that our energies are in alignment to facilitate a powerful transformative year.

A special candlelight service celebrating the season of hope

A special worship service featuring our young musicians and the new UUFH Children's Choir

During the Hanukkah Festival of Lights each year, we're invited to nurture the flame of hope and resilience in our homes and in our hearts.

Are human beings hard-wired to be warlike? Or can we choose a liberating hope that overcomes our differences?

Listening is an act of gratitude—it honors the gift of another’s presence and story.

A fun, musical service featuring original music of singer/songwriter Tret Fure and a new cornbread communion ritual.

When democracy is crumbling, let us stay both woke and awake. We can combine outward action for justice with inner spiritual clarity.

Attention to the moral injury of war invites us into a deeper acknowledgement on Veteran's Day.

Let's grow compassion and change ourselves and everything.

In this season of growing darkness we'll honor our dearly departed ancestors, and express gratitude for the ways their lives still shine.

Inspired by the Jewish tradition, we will explore a climate-justice interpretation of the traditional Noah's Ark story.

The Trickster unsettles expectations and assumptions. What unorthodox wisdom does he have for you?

In honor of St. Francis, we will hold our annual pet blessing service

On the anniversary of Helene, we remember all that was lost while celebrating the resilience of the human spirit.

If we stop and listen carefully to what we’ve heard, felt or seen we have an opportunity grow into the people we’re meant to become.

Part of building belonging is learning that each of us has our own song, which sings to the universe who we are.

We will gather once again to open our fellowship year with a water service. Join us in this annual celebration of sacred belonging.

I want to stress that Universalism speaks with a particular eloquence to the challenge of our times.

A two part journey on the history and faith of Universalism. Its message of unconditional love sustains me and nourishes me.

A seven-year-old played chess against an AI Robot, programed to win at all costs. Most humans have a sense of morality. The AI did not. Let's explore.

Let joy keep us!

It is the concept of evil and its presence in the world today that I ask you to consider.

We'll discuss the hard, but rewarding road to loving the enemy we've been harboring within.

Spirituality and nature are not separate. At the core of this movement is a new story of interconnected relationship with the sacred in all things.

Learning to forgive is the gift that keeps on giving, not only for the one needing forgiveness, but for the forgiver as well.

Hope is a practice, but not an easy one.

We are influenced by how we are conditioned.

Inspirational hymn singing.

To create meaningful change, a new constructed theology is needed—one that derives its authority from natural sources rather than supernatural ones.

To create meaningful change, a new constructed theology is needed—one that derives its authority from natural sources rather than supernatural ones.

To create meaningful change, a new constructed theology is needed—one that derives its authority from natural sources rather than supernatural ones.

Peace is not a natural human state, it is a human construct – and so is war.

To create meaningful change, a new constructed theology is needed—one that derives its authority from natural sources rather than supernatural ones.

Celebrate the indomitable feminine spirit that wants to escape earthly bonds of oppression and soar to her fullest potential.

Reflecting on how wounds from previous religious traditions limit the language we use to create shared understanding and meaning.

Imagine a world where love is at the center of our climate justice actions and all peoples needs are met.

Renew trust in our UU religious values, which give life in the face of death

A time to contemplate cycles of destruction and renewal, death and resurrection.

During this season of rebirth and Lent, perhaps we need to revisit the religious language of the season and to explore what language triggers us.

Through our body language we can understand ourselves and others a little more clearly.

Through the telling of our personal stories, our faith community becomes fertile ground for the emergence of radical, transformative love.

Out of lament emerges love and joy, and out of a people's collective lament emerges deep memory and healing.

We will celebrate the history of our Fellowship and the promises that we make to our community and to each other.

We'll look to ancient wisdom for insight into how to meet even our most troublesome emotions.

We will explore the theological origins of the UU 7th principle that celebrates the interconnected web of existence.

Join us for an exploration of how a UU liberation theology strengthens our commitment to justice.

Join us on this weekend before Valentine's Day to explore what this love is, and what it isn't.

Reggie Harris is an innovative guitarist, a fearlessly creative vocalist, and an engaging storyteller whose performances are infused with joy.

The transforming power of love shows us how to become the resistance without losing our sacred humanity.

We join Dr. King's call to altruism through conquering our fear of the other. What can "the other" teach us about wholeness and healing?

Hope for the future must begin with an entangling and transforming sense of kinship between human beings and the beings of the Earth.

Readers Theater: As we turn from waiting to new hope, let us nurture new love that is being born.

As we turn from waiting to new hope, let us nurture new love that is being born.

Let the season of Yule do its work. Bring your holly and ivy and celebrate the light returning to the earth.

The Christmas stories are parabolic stories of an alternative vision for peace on earth.

The darkest time of the year is a perfect time for dreaming.

Value of rest and making spaces for reflection

How do we and our allies work our way through the hate to participate in the healing and liberation of our communities

Honoring the tenacity of our Universalist forebears

Recover, reground, renew

Roots anchor us during the storms of life

We will be guided through what we know about the grieving process.

How can we ground ourselves in the truth, even know what it is, amid the chaos and destructiveness of election politics?

Before we can embrace transformative growth, we must begin by nourishing the soil we're planted in.

We will gather for a simplified multigenerational service to hold each other through the griefs and celebrate the joys from Helene

Let's move past extraction to usher in a new era with love and justice at the center of our climate actions.

Explore how our faith in the judicial system is tied to the obligation of impartiality.

Each of our lives is like a river with a unique set of twists, turns and changing landscapes that have made us who we are.

Water is life, and waters that flow together represent our common life

Getting beyond the pain if the unimaginable happens. In the Bhagavad Gita, it says "man is what he has faith in." Who are you in the face of adversity?

Getting beyond a personal idea of God. Dropping the idea of a personal God changes every everything.

What do you have in common with the X-Men? Join us to explore what it means to make use of our gifts in a complex world.

Winston Churchill's words should ring clear as a bell: “I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do… Behavior never lies”