by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jun 16, 2014 | Sermons
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jun 2, 2014 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister It was on an April morning 10 years ago that this congregation gathered to get its first look at this middle-aged seminary graduate who your search committee was proposing be called as your next settled minister. As I had prepared for...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | May 13, 2014 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward My own memory goes back some 30 years, but this time the genders in the scene that Sharon Olds holds up in her poem are switched. And it’s me and one or another of my daughters at one or another of the homes we occupied during that time…. ...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Apr 21, 2014 | Sermons
Our “Sense of Place” class had its April field trip last week to the North Carolina Arboretum. It couldn’t have been a prettier day for a tour of the gardens and a walk through the woods. We had an eye out especially for those ephemeral spring flowers, and here...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Apr 7, 2014 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister How do we learn what it is we must do with our lives? For the figure at the center of our service today it came to him while he was harvesting wheat on his family’s farm one bright autumn day. Only just returned from service in the Civil...
