by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Nov 14, 2016 | Sermons
Mark Ward, Lead Minister With Election Day now in the rearview mirror, we are left with the truth that life goes on. What story shall we tell to guide us? READINGS Matthew 13:1-9 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. Such great crowds...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Nov 7, 2016 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward As we look ahead to the coming Election Day, our topic today builds on a line from the poem that Elizabeth Stevens wrote for Barak Obama’s inaugural seven years ago. Speaking to our General Assembly in June, interviewer Krista Tippet seized on that line...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Nov 2, 2016 | Sermons
Joy Berry, Director of Lifespan Religious Education and Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister A beautiful story of a girl and her grandmother forms the center of our annual intergenerational Day of the Dead service. Please plan to bring pictures or memorabilia to place on our...
by uuasheville | Oct 20, 2016 | x_News 4 Leaders
Experiences of “the Holy” The Board of Trustees needs your help. Â Those good folks need for you to attend any one-hour session of workshops they are holding from now through November, and they need you to bring along your UUCA friends. We need as many of...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 17, 2016 | Sermons
whos-white-trash SERMON Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â J.D. Vance says he knew when he was growing up in the coal country of Kentucky and a city in southern Ohio that life was a struggle for the people he was raised among. Â In his recent book, Hillbilly Elegy, he tells of how...
