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...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 13, 2016 | x_News 4 Leaders
There is no power equal to a community discovering what it cares about . . . Margaret Wheatley EXPERIENCE OF THE HOLY During November the Board of Trustees will be holding a series of workshops asking – What timeless, transcendent qualities of our religious community...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 10, 2016 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward There are scripts that run unquestioned through our cultural memory, and one of those is discovery: the idea that Europeans had dispensation to murder, oppress and uproot peoples in North America and elsewhere for their own benefit. What might be the...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 6, 2016 | Weekly Message
One of the things that we celebrate as a congregation and as a religious movement is that we affirm no creed or doctrine that we believe encompasses religious truth. The living tradition in which we stand honors many sources of religious understanding, but we...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 4, 2016 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister Again and again, we return to the hard work of forgiveness that forces us to confront our errors and inadequacies: no fun, but what relief to be freed of that burden, as the hymn reminds us, to be born and reborn again. SERMON Is...
