Sermon from January 20: Parting the Waters (text & audio)

Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister– As you approach Kelly Ingram Park on the outskirts of downtown in Birmingham, Alabama, there is nothing much to distinguish it. Filling a full city block, it’s planted with trees and crossed by meandering paths. It’s not until you enter...

Sermon from January 13: Beginning Again (text & audio)

Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister– Even today, many years later, there is something in me that resists going there. It was 1999, with all its cosmological portent – the coming of a new century, a new millennium. But I didn’t attend to much of it, stuck as I was in my own...

Singing Out the Old Year, Sing in the New

Music was the center of this single service at the year’s end. Together, we sang and learned about some of our favorite hymns, rounds, and chants. All voices were welcomed for this intergenerational service. (Audio of this service cannot be published on the website...