by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Aug 3, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister Experiencing the death of loved ones is universal, but how we live with those losses varies from culture to culture. This Sunday, at the request of UUCA member Michele Gregory, who offered the highest bid for the chance to name a sermon...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jul 20, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Julianne Lepp, Guest Minister This sermon explores how we can break away from well-worn patterns that no longer serve us. What does it mean to trust yourself to follow the road less traveled? In Patti Digh’s <i>Life Is A Verb: 37 Days To Wake Up, Be...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jul 13, 2015 | Sermons
Monika Gross, Guest Speaker Religions throughout time have included gesture and movement as important parts of liturgy. Can motion embody meaning for us as religious humanists, separate from specific religious dogma? What is the quality invoked by pressing my palms...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jul 6, 2015 | Sermons
This sermon/storytelling by Elizabeth Schell was shared in small pieces throughout the service. Elizabeth began the service with a giant backpack on her back that she eventually takes off and “unpacks” during her storytelling. PART 1: Some people do a lot of...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jun 29, 2015 | Sermons
Virginia Ramig, Guest Speaker The journey of aging begins at the moment of conception, so we all have expertise on the subject. I’ve asked some middle-aged and older UUCA members, and a few nonmembers, to share their concerns and discoveries about successful aging,...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jun 15, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister Early in my reading for this sermon I chanced on a recent book with a provocative title that intrigued me: “The End of Men and the Rise of Women.” It’s not that the male gender is in danger of disappearing, Hanna Rosen says. Instead, she...
