by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 11, 2013 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister– Thin January sunlight filtered through leafless trees as about a half dozen people gathered a little self-consciously along a sidewalk in the hills of Berkeley, California. Facing them, along the doorway of a small, squat building that...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 4, 2013 | Sermons
Rev. Michael Carter, Guest Minister– Shortly after the attacks in New York on September 11th, a close friend of my wife Judy and I got together for a drink at our local watering hole. This friend was an educator and a very progressive thinker as well as a lot of fun...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Feb 18, 2013 | Sermons
MEDITATION– Sometimes we need to take a step away to see something we care about more clearly, to size it up in the larger context of our lives. So, today we gather in different space with a big screen, stage and theater seating, but none of this changes who we are:...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Feb 4, 2013 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister– So, let me begin with myself. All of my life I have identified with the male gender. Growing up I knew myself as a “boy,” placing myself in the same group as people who identified themselves or were identified to me as male, and...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jan 28, 2013 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister– I was taken a couple of weeks ago as I was standing with about 70 or 80 people in the basement of First Congregational Church downtown after one of the “We Do” actions by the Campaign for Southern Equality at Buncombe County’s Register...
