by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Apr 4, 2016 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister Several years ago the Quaker writer Parker Palmer spoke of the need for “healing the heart of democracy.” It was as if he looked ahead to the divisive and tumultuous election season we are living through now. Today we explore how people...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 31, 2016 | Weekly Message
“Liminal space” was the topic when Rev. Lisa Bovee-Kemper shared the pulpit with Rev. Mark Ward a couple of weeks ago. This term refers to the period when something is ending but the new thing is not quite starting. It’s like a threshold. When the entire UUCA staff...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 28, 2016 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister Every religious tradition has its foundational stories, tales that neatly sum up some central message at its heart that invites the hearer into the faith. Just so, is the story of John Murray that you heard Joy tell earlier. ...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 24, 2016 | Weekly Message
You may have seen the announcement in the Weekly eNews last week that I will soon be leaving on a three-month sabbatical. It is a pleasure and a privilege to have this opportunity to rest, recharge, and refill my cup of inspiration, and I am grateful that this...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 17, 2016 | Weekly Message
It may be that when we we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. ~Wendell Berry,...
