by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jan 9, 2018 | Sermons
READINGS Edict of Religious Toleration, decreed at the Diet of Torda, January 6, 1568: “His Majesty, our Lord, reaffirms that in every place the preachers shall preach and explain the Gospel, each according to his understanding of it. And if the congregation...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Dec 18, 2017 | Sermons
READING “The Legacy of Caring” by Thandeka Despair is my private pain Born from what I have failed to say failed to do failed to overcome. Be still my inner self let me rise to you let me reach down into your pain and soothe...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Dec 4, 2017 | Sermons
READINGS From “You Can’t Go Home Again” by Thomas Wolfe “Pain and death will always be the same. But under the pavements trembling like a pulse, under the buildings trembling like a cry, under the waste of time under the hoof of the beast above broken bones of...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Nov 14, 2017 | Sermons
READINGS Gitanjali 69 by Rabindranath Tagore The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the numberless blades of grass and breaks into...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 31, 2017 | Sermons
Some of the hardest work in our lives is deciding where we draw the circle of our concern. We begin with our family, sure, but how much wider? This season of turning reminds us that for people who were dear to us, even when they die they stay with us in important...
