by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 22, 2015 | Weekly Message
For the past two days, Joy Berry and I have been in Morristown, NJ for a two-day module of Beloved Conversations, “an experiential curriculum that provides a space to re-form/fuse the brokenness of racism into new patterns of thought and behavior ushering in...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 22, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister It’s funny how some words can ignite great controversies. Some years ago, just as I was ending my training in seminary, reverence turned out to be one of those words for us Unitarian Universalists. The controversy was prompted by a 2003...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 15, 2015 | Weekly Message
Our youth program for senior high students has undergone a renovation as valuable and as transformative as our church construction project this year. After a decade of discernment and data analysis, the UUA has grouped youth ministry with young adult ministry at the...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 8, 2015 | Weekly Message
As the physical work on the Welcome Project nears completion, it’s time to turn our attention to the important work of becoming more welcoming as a Congregation. In last week’s eNews, our Lead Minister Rev. Mark Ward talked about the Ends Statements that the Board has...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 5, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister The voice is a familiar one, like that of relative who surprises us every once in a while with fascinating, chatty phone calls: updating us on the family gossip, relating some slightly scandalous old stories, and puzzling over all that we...
