by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 16, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister We are now only a few weeks past the latest round of national elections. And amid the tally of winners and losers is the ongoing rumination over the direction of our political life. I’ll admit to being among those feeling discouraged by...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 12, 2015 | Weekly Message
My finger pokes into the bread dough, and the resilient flour and yeast mixture springs back. It is ready for the next step. The instructions say “Punch down,” and, while I wish for a less violent command, I use my fist to deflate the dough. Then, reshaped, it rises...
by uuasheville | Mar 10, 2015 | x_News 4 Leaders
As you may recall, last spring the RE Committee announced a new way to offer Spirit Play to our kindergarten-5th graders. The Spirit Play curriculum is already an outstandingly interactive, age-appropriate, fun way to encourage faith development in our youngest UUs...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 5, 2015 | Weekly Message
On receiving an Academy Award for the song “Glory” that he wrote with John Legend for the film Selma, the rap singer Common told the audience in Hollywood that the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, that was a focus of the movie “was once a landmark of a divided...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 2, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister Fires set by mobs rousted Joseph Priestley from his home and laboratory, but weren’t enough stop him from sailing for America and spreading views dissenting from the state church that gave birth to one of the early threads of Unitarianism...
