by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Feb 10, 2014 | Sermons
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Feb 3, 2014 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister The writer Eric Weiner tells of how one day he found himself doubled over with abdominal pain in a New York City emergency room. As he shivered in his paper gown waiting for the doctor, a nurse arrived to draw some blood. The woman, about...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jan 21, 2014 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister The figure of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the Civil War colonel who collected this beautiful spiritual you just heard the choir sing, evokes the kind of story that we Unitarian Universalists like to tell ourselves about our historical...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Jan 13, 2014 | Sermons
It usually comes at the end of a list. A list of bad things. Like this: Well, at least one of the kids has been sick since mid-December, I got in a fender bender yesterday, and I just found out that my company is outsourcing my whole department. But it’s all...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Dec 23, 2013 | Sermons
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Dec 16, 2013 | Sermons
READING Click here to read “Directions” by Billy Collins SERMON “Do you promise?” The question always catches our granddaughter for a second: then her reply, with a sober expression framing her big brown eyes: “Yes, I promise.” The request is never...
