by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Dec 9, 2013 | Sermons
When it comes to spiritual guides, I have admitted to you before, I have a weakness for Ralph Waldo Emerson. Yes, his webs of prose can be enigmatic, even infuriating. “What on earth are you getting at here?” I want to shout at times. But at other times I am...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Dec 2, 2013 | Sermons
I have to say it’s been interesting hearing people’s reactions to this week’s sermon title. “Staying put, huh?” I wouldn’t say the response has been entirely positive. Viewed from one perspective, “staying put” sounds a bit like “being stuck,” a kind of...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Nov 18, 2013 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister I’ve been a gardener for as long as I can remember. It was a passion I picked up from my father, who, despite a busy career as a psychiatrist, always managed to be cultivating something. Digging in the dirt was a good antidote to the...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 21, 2013 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward We have spent some time in worship and our small group reflection this month playing with this interesting notion introduced by the novelist David Foster Wallace. Speaking to the graduating class at Kenyon College in 2005, he argued that there are...
